[Oe List ...] 44 years ago today ...

[Isobel and Jim Bishop]

Thank you Ken, for this pertinent reminder .  Much appreciated, as we  
continue the journey towards full and abundant living with all of  
God's Creation, all living things.
Here in Australia there is still a long walk towards full humanness  
for our first peoples, the indigenous peoples.

Summer'68 was my first encounter with the west side and the aftermath  
of the riots. I well remember it.

Peace be yours,
Isobel Bishop.
On 06/04/2012, at 11:31 AM, Ken Fisher wrote:

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> Dear Colleagues,
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> On my fb page I wrote ...
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> 44 years today, the West Side and South Side were burning and  
> seething with rage. The shock of 'oblivion' or non-being catapulted  
> Joe Mathews and the Order: Ecumenical into the New Religious Mode  
> and the New Social Vehicle. I recall arriving on the West Side five  
> weeks later and being a part of the spirit rebirth of that  
> cataclysmic event. At that time, Gene Beasely and his gang moved  
> into an apartment of 3444 as protection.
>
> Ken
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> From Kathleen Hamm Jones
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> Wow, thanks, Ken. I remember so well where I was, in an apartment  
> on Blackstone St in Hyde Park. Unlike the West side of Chicago, the  
> Southside was kept from burning mostly by patrols by Jeff Fort and  
> the Blackstone Rangers, who went door to door of the businesses and  
> posted flyers signalling their protection of the establishments.  
> The back story was of course about Rev John Fry of 1st Presbyterian  
> Church who poured his whole life and at times, his sanity, into  
> making that gang into a precursor of the "guardians" which got  
> attention in NYC later. Somewhere I think I still have his book of  
> sermons from that time called "Fire and Blackstone." Since then I  
> think we have gone backward in institutional racism, as the USA  
> leads the world in incarceration of African-American males. And on  
> top of that fact, the pernicious reality that prison populations  
> are being "sold" as private corporations take over running the  
> prisons. It's a profitable biz if you contract out cheap captive  
> labor. It makes my head feel like exploding.
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