[Dialogue] {Spam?} About the distant past

[frank bremner]

Interesting to read the story about Tom Hayden.  I was very influenced by 
some aspects of the Port Huron Statement and SDS way back when - it 
certainly influenced some of my approaches to student participation in 
schools, within the legal and other constraints, and connected with Friere's 
pedagogy etc.

I mentioned this to a visitor to one school I was at (about 1995 or so) - it 
was at a meeting between our school's student representative council (SRC) 
and the Minister of Education, Lynn Arnold.  Lynn and I met back when he was 
campaigning for relief funds for Red Cross etc during the Biafran War - I 
invited him to my local church to speak after worship on a Sunday night.  At 
the SRC gathering he mentioned that "we go back a long way".

Then he became active in the Campaign for Peace in Vietnam (CPV) and visited 
Indochina from time to time, writing arcticles for local Adelaide 
publications.  Later he became a high school teacher, and then a health 
education advisor.  He then became the local electorate secretary for the 
local Member for Salisbury in the SA Parliament, then won the seat for 
himself.  While he was electorate secretary he was a workshop leader at the 
Salisbury Community Meeting, although I have been told that he tried to 
steer the content somewhat.

In a very short time (his talent was easily spotted) he became Minister of 
Education, now "the boss" over many bureaucrats who had probably given 
teachers and advisors a hard time.  While in that role he supported various 
conferences in the International Year for Youth (IYY) - some of which 
formalised the gathering State Council of Students (SCofS), with which I was 
involved for a time.

Lynn was then moved to be Minister of Technical and Further Education, where 
he encouraged more school-industry-workplace links.  Premier John Bannon 
resigned after the State Bank fiasco, and Lynn inherited "the poison 
chalice" of being Premier.  The Liberal Party won the next election, and the 
Labor Party representation was dramatically reduced - in time they bebuilt 
and are now back in government.

He then did some Spanish study at Flinders University, and then went to work 
for CARE Australia in Australia, Jakarta, and now Bangkok.  Who knows when 
he and kevin Balm will get together?

Cheers

Frank Bremner


>From: James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: [Dialogue] {Spam?} About the distant past
>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:50:08 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Jim Wiegel here.  A question for memory.  I just ran across an article that 
>mentioned the Port Huron statement, written as a founding document by the 
>Students for a Democratic Society in 1962 (courtesy of Senator Tom Hayden's 
>office).  I heard mention that the EI or ICA or spirit movement or Mathews 
>had some involvement with that.  Does anyone know the story?
>
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