GUEST: Not that getting into a resume swapping contest with you, which is counter productive, but in the fall of 1965, I co-founded the first leftest student group at what was Richmond Professional Institute (RPI0 which is now Virgibia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. The name of the organization was Students for Individyal Rights (SIR) and in the spring of 1966, long before it bacame fashionable to speak out against the Viet Nam war we organized the first anit-wae demonstration ever held in the city called the "Puppy Burn". Yep we ran off poster on a hand crank printer and had had over a 1000 folks show up incensed that we were going to burn a puppy. You guessed it. No puppy. But we were there with thousands of leaflets, and speakers and a couple of right thinking (not right wing) clergy folk to add creditbility.

Well, that was Chapter 1 and the beat goes on. I'm not going to bore you with SDS, SOC, M-LAP, R-CAP, SCLC, et al but to round out my activism you may research a memorial service that I organized from scratch less than 2 years ago for black laborers who were buried in the Churchill Tunnel collapse of 1925, after the white engineers bofy was recovered. Yes, 75 years later the racist government of the City of Richmond has never made any attempt to honor those men of color. If you have any interest in that story you'll find it if you find the Richmond Times Dispatch. It was covered by Mark Holmhberg.

With these things stated, GUEST, I'm going back to posting to the spirit of the thread. Again, if you have additional interests in the many chapters between 1965 and the civil rights memorial or what I am currnetly involved with then you'll have to PM me with an email address...

Peace

Bobert