A FINE BLOG POST, MOVEMENT HISTORY, GOOD PEOPLE AND GOOD STRUGGLE

"'Hunter Gray' [email protected] [marxist]" <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:27:19 +0000
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This of mine here could be, Isuppose, aptly described as an =E2=80=9Corgani=
zed mix=E2=80=9D-- sort of similar in diversity to a well known cowboy dish=
 in NorthernArizona, containing, among other things, some cattle innards.It=
=E2=80=99s known regionally as =E2=80=9Cs.o.b. stew=E2=80=9D.If you don=E2=
=80=99t think too much about some of thecontents, it is tasty.

I would be greatly remiss if I didn=E2=80=99texpress much sympathy for thos=
e in the East presently burdened by the veryheavy snow.It=E2=80=99s even pr=
oved challengingto Maine Indian kin of mine =E2=80=93 and that says a lot a=
bout it.A close Abenaki (Penobscot) relative wrote acouple of days ago from=
 the reservation setting:

"The snow is incredibly deep.Linda or I will venture with shovels quite soo=
n. The Island still plows out itselders; they just finished here at nearly =
12:00 noon. Truly amazing, cousin=E2=80=9D.-- George

The primary purpose of this is totender an extremely well done blog post fr=
om an old and good friend, Susan Klopfer, aquite able writer with a strong =
and consistent focus on human rightsissues.She likes a piece I recentlycirc=
ulated and has carried it out to the Four Directions.More on this further d=
own.

She also likes my book, JacksonMississippi, and the very first review of th=
e quite recent edition was done byher quite soon after its public appearanc=
e at the end of 2011. She gives it avery good plug in her blog post.Almosta=
ll people who have encountered my book like it much =E2=80=93 as most peopl=
e likeme.But, for what are obviously prettyself-serving reasons, there are =
those people and forces who don=E2=80=99t like eitherof us.

I am quite sympathetically interestedin the criticisms of the film, Selma.I=
was directly recruited into the Southern Civil Rights Movement, very early =
inthe fall term of 1961, at Tougaloo =E2=80=93 by the admirable activist, M=
s. ColiaLiddell (Colia Liddell Lafayette Clark), then a student of mine and=
 always afine friend right to the present.Nottoo long thereafter, Colia and=
 her husband, Bernard Lafayette, were in another =E2=80=9Cfrontier=E2=80=9D=
=E2=80=93 Selma, Dallas County =E2=80=93 where they did a great deal of the=
 initial organizing.Much of this indeed has been deliberately omitted from =
the film.

I do know something about garbledrevisionism of Movement history.In theJack=
son Mississippi situation, it=E2=80=99s now considered quite OK by the=E2=
=80=9Cestablishment forces=E2=80=9D to center narrowly on the violently att=
acked Woolworthsit-in =E2=80=93 blaming that on young people while ignoring=
 the roles of adult racistmentorsand the basic systemicorigins.It=E2=80=99s=
 considered OK to elevatethe very courageous Medgar Evers into sainthood =
=E2=80=93 an unrealistic status andsomething I think honest Medgar would ca=
tegorically reject =E2=80=93 and ignore thegreat courage of thousands of gr=
assroots African Americans and their too-fewnon-black allies who comprised =
the Jackson Movement and its many highlydramatic episodes -- and who were s=
ubjected to the most brutal and bloodyrepression found in any large urban a=
rea during the great Movement epoch.

The 50th Anniversary ofthe historic Jackson Movement, conducted and skillfu=
lly managed in 2013 andlimited to the foregoing two dimensions, was one of =
the most blatant examplesof sanitizing revisionism in contemporary depictio=
ns of civil rights history inthis country.

Although the primary organizer of theJackson Movement and, along with other=
s, the target of much violence by police andvigilantes, I was not invited t=
o come to Jackson to provide my thoroughlyinformed and very graphic awarene=
ss of that great struggle.=20

=E2=80=9CLate in the day,=E2=80=9D fast approaching the ostensible celebrat=
ionsof the Jackson Movement in June 2013, when only a tiny number of vetera=
nsof the Jackson Sit-In could be found, I wasoffered a chance to come and s=
tand on the sidewalk by Capitol Street, obviouslyas asymbol with no opportu=
nity to sayanything of length =E2=80=93 that chance was never proffered -- =
at the limitedcommemoration of the Woolworth event which =E2=80=9Drepresent=
ed=E2=80=9D the Jackson Movement.I declined politely on the grounds that my=
extremely limited role as a Woolworth prop would only serve to significantl=
yminimizethe nature and scope andhistoric importance of the great Jackson M=
ovement.

=E2=80=9CWhen I do come to Jackson,=E2=80=9D I toldseveral people at that t=
ime, =E2=80=9Cit will be do discuss the Jackson Movement, itsexternal and i=
nternal dimensions, in all of their glory and horror.=E2=80=9D

Not long ago, I conventionally posteda piece,

RICH MEMORIES OF SOME VERY GOOD PEOPLE AND WORTHY BATTLES.
Basically, it involves some selected personal reminiscence of significant a=
ctivist dimensions of mine and those close to me, spanning both my home sta=
te of Arizona ( or, as I Iike to put it, Northern Arizona), and northern Wi=
sconsin.The time is the late 1950s and the bare beginning of the 1960s.
Those who actually read the piece, liked it much.Family members also learne=
d a few things about the origin of Eldri=E2=80=99s and my now large and eve=
r growing Clan.
Oldest son, John, wrote succinctly:=E2=80=9CThanks for all this fascinating=
 information. Much of it is brand new to me. Cool stuff.=E2=80=9D
Youngest son, Peter, wrote: =E2=80=9CThis is a very excellent piece. I lear=
n more about you and our family whenever you write. And the timing was inte=
resting; I've been thinking a lot about you and mom and the early 1960s as =
I've been going through these newspaper archives, and finding stories and p=
hotos of you two that either I've never seen before, or it's been so long t=
hat I've forgotten.
I get what you mean about covert back-biting and hope your ostensible allie=
s get it, too.=E2=80=9D
Susan Klopfer has taken my piece and run it in her fine blog precisely as I=
 have written it =E2=80=93 but she has placed it in an extremely attractive=
 format with a photo of myself and one of Eldri.She has also changed the ti=
tle to reflect my explicit strain of optimism when it comes, despite the =
=E2=80=9Ctrials and tribulations=E2=80=9D, for humanity and all life forms =
everywhere and the meaning of it all.
I am not a pure materialist by any long shot.I see the Universe and the Cos=
mos as two dimensional =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9Cthings seen=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=
=9Cthings unseen=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 and I see it all as friendly with most =
people, for example, being Good (at least most of the time.) Sometimes, of =
course, you have to climb a ways up the mountain to feel the Sun, but it=E2=
=80=99s a trek always very well worth it.
Here is the Link to my piece in Susan=E2=80=99s blog =E2=80=93 a blog well =
worth exploring =E2=80=93 and sending on to others.
http://civilrightsnewsreleases.blogspot.com/
Hunter Bear

HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / St. Francis Abenaki / =
St. Regis Mohawk=20
Protected by Na=C2=B4shdo=C2=B4i=C2=B4ba=C2=B4i=C2=B4=20
and Ohkwari' . Check out our massive social justice website:=20
www.hunterbear.org
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO=20

Core dimensions of my Community Organizing course:
http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm


My expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"=20
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000=20
word introduction by me. Covers much of my=20
confrontational social justice organizing life to=20
date. Contains much how-to grassroots organizing=20
methodology: http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm

See this for mini-bio, efforts to prevent JM=E2=80=99s appearance in
Mississippi, a wide range of its many reviews, and some
photos: http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter/e/B001KMEHWY/ref=3Dntt_dp_epwb=
k_0


The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:=20
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm

(Photos)=20



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<div><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2">&nbsp;<font face=3D"Times New Roman"=
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</font></font></div><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"><p style=3D"margin: 0=
in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style=3D"line=
-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">This of mine here c=
ould be, I
suppose, aptly described as an =E2=80=9Corganized mix=E2=80=9D<span style=
=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
</span>-- sort of similar in diversity to a well known cowboy dish in North=
ern
Arizona, containing, among other things, some cattle innards.<span style=3D=
"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>It=E2=80=99s known regionally as =E2=80=
=9Cs.o.b. stew=E2=80=9D.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>If=
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contents, it is tasty.</font></span></b></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Ro=
man" size=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">I would be greatly remiss if I didn=E2=80=99t
express much sympathy for those in the East presently burdened by the very
heavy snow.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>It=E2=80=99s ev=
en proved challenging
to Maine Indian kin of mine =E2=80=93 and that says a lot about it.<span st=
yle=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>A close Abenaki (Penobscot) relati=
ve wrote a
couple of days ago from the reservation setting:</font></span></b></p><div>=
<font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">"The snow is incredibly deep.
Linda or I will venture with shovels quite soon. The Island still plows out=
 its
elders; they just finished here at nearly 12:00 noon. Truly amazing, cousin=
=E2=80=9D.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>-- George</font>=
</span></b></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">The primary purpose of this is to
tender an extremely well done blog post <span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">=
&nbsp;</span>from an old and good friend, Susan Klopfer, a
quite able writer with a strong and consistent focus on human rights
issues.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>She likes a piece I=
 recently
circulated and has carried it out to the Four Directions.<span style=3D"mso=
-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>More on this further down.</font></span></b>=
</p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">She also likes my book, Jackson
Mississippi, and the very first review of the quite recent edition was done=
 by
her quite soon after its public appearance at the end of 2011. She gives it=
 a
very good plug in her blog post.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; <=
/span>Almost
all people who have encountered my book like it much =E2=80=93 as most peop=
le like
me.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>But, for what are obvio=
usly pretty
self-serving reasons, there are those people and forces who don=E2=80=99t l=
ike either
of us.</font></span></b></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">I am quite sympathetically interested
in the criticisms of the film, Selma.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nb=
sp; </span>I
was directly recruited into the Southern Civil Rights Movement, very early =
in
the fall term of 1961, at Tougaloo =E2=80=93 by the admirable activist, Ms.=
 Colia
Liddell (Colia Liddell Lafayette Clark), then a student of mine and always =
a
fine friend right to the present.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; =
</span>Not
too long thereafter, Colia and her <span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp=
;</span>husband, Bernard Lafayette, were in another =E2=80=9Cfrontier=E2=80=
=9D
=E2=80=93 Selma, Dallas County =E2=80=93 where they did a great deal of the=
 initial organizing.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Much o=
f this indeed <span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>has been deli=
berately omitted from the film.</font></span></b></p><div><font face=3D"Tim=
es New Roman" size=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">I do know something about garbled
revisionism of Movement history.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; <=
/span>In the
Jackson Mississippi situation, it=E2=80=99s now considered quite OK by the
=E2=80=9Cestablishment forces=E2=80=9D to center narrowly on the violently =
attacked Woolworth
sit-in =E2=80=93 blaming that on young people while ignoring the roles of a=
dult racist
mentors<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>and the basic syste=
mic
origins.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>It=E2=80=99s consi=
dered OK to elevate
the very courageous Medgar Evers into sainthood =E2=80=93 an unrealistic st=
atus and
something I think honest Medgar would categorically reject =E2=80=93 and ig=
nore the
great courage of thousands of grassroots African Americans and their too-fe=
w
non-black allies who comprised the Jackson Movement and its many highly
dramatic episodes -- and who were subjected to the most brutal and bloody
repression found in any large urban area during the great Movement epoch.</=
font></span></b></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">The 50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of
the historic Jackson Movement, conducted and skillfully managed in 2013 and
limited to the foregoing two dimensions, was one of the most blatant exampl=
es
of sanitizing revisionism in contemporary depictions of civil rights histor=
y in
this country.</font></span></b></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=
=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">Although the primary organizer of the
Jackson Movement and, along with others, <span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;"=
>&nbsp;</span>the target of much violence by police and
vigilantes, I was not invited to come to Jackson to provide my thoroughly
informed and very graphic awareness of that great struggle. </font></span><=
/b></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">=E2=80=9CLate in the day,=E2=80=9D <span style=3D"mso-spacer=
un: yes;">&nbsp;</span>fast approaching the ostensible celebrations
of the Jackson Movement in June 2013, when only a tiny number of veterans<s=
pan style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>of the Jackson Sit-In could =
be found, I was
offered a chance to come and stand on the sidewalk by Capitol Street, obvio=
usly
as a<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>symbol with no opportu=
nity to say
anything of length =E2=80=93 that chance was never proffered -- at the limi=
ted
commemoration of the Woolworth event which =E2=80=9Drepresented=E2=80=9D th=
e Jackson Movement.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I decli=
ned politely on the grounds that my
extremely limited role as a Woolworth prop would only serve to significantl=
y
minimize<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>the nature and sco=
pe and
historic importance of the great Jackson Movement.</font></span></b></p><di=
v><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">=E2=80=9CWhen I do come to Jackson,=E2=80=9D I told
several people at that time, =E2=80=9Cit will be do discuss the Jackson Mov=
ement, its
external and internal dimensions, in all of their glory and horror.=E2=80=
=9D</font></span></b></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">

</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-we=
ight: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font fa=
ce=3D"Calibri">Not long ago, I conventionally posted
a piece,<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></font></span></b>=
</p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">

</font></div><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman">
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e; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0=
"><tbody><tr style=3D"height: 9pt; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes=
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; padding: 0.75pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: none; width: 92%; he=
ight: 9pt;"><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=
=3D"Calibri">RICH MEMORIES OF SOME VERY GOOD
  PEOPLE AND WORTHY BATTLES.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </spa=
n></font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=
=3D"Calibri">Basically, it involves some
  selected personal reminiscence of significant activist dimensions of mine=
 and
  those close to me, spanning both my home state of Arizona ( or, as I Iike=
 to
  put it, Northern Arizona), and northern Wisconsin.<span style=3D"mso-spac=
erun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The time is the late 1950s and the bare
  beginning of the 1960s.</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roma=
n" size=3D"3">
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=
=3D"Calibri">Those who actually read the piece,
  liked it much.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Family mem=
bers also
  learned a few things about the origin of Eldri=E2=80=99s and my now large=
 and ever
  growing Clan.</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D=
"3">
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=
=3D"Calibri">Oldest son, John, wrote
  succinctly:<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>=E2=80=9CThan=
ks for all this
  fascinating information. Much of it is brand new to me. Cool stuff.=E2=80=
=9D</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=
=3D"Calibri">Youngest son, Peter, wrote: =E2=80=9CThis
  is a very excellent piece. I learn more about you and our family whenever=
 you
  write. And the timing was interesting; I've been thinking a lot about you=
 and
  mom and the early 1960s as I've been going through these newspaper archiv=
es,
  and finding stories and photos of you two that either I've never seen bef=
ore,
  or it's been so long that I've forgotten.</font></span></b></p><font face=
=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=
=3D"Calibri">I get what you mean about covert
  back-biting and hope your ostensible allies get it, too.=E2=80=9D</font><=
/span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=
=3D"Calibri">Susan Klopfer has taken my piece
  and run it in her fine blog precisely as I have written it =E2=80=93 but =
she has
  placed it in an extremely attractive format with a photo of myself and on=
e of
  Eldri.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>She has also chang=
ed the title
  to reflect my explicit strain of optimism when it comes, despite the =E2=
=80=9Ctrials
  and tribulations=E2=80=9D, for humanity and all life forms everywhere and=
 the meaning
  of it all.</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3"=
>
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=
=3D"Calibri">I am not a pure materialist by any
  long shot.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I see the Univ=
erse and the
  Cosmos as two dimensional =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9Cthings seen=E2=80=9D and =E2=
=80=9Cthings unseen=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 and I see it
  all as friendly with most people, for example, being Good (at least most =
of
  the time.) Sometimes, of course, you have to climb a ways up the mountain=
 to
  feel the Sun, but it=E2=80=99s a trek always very well worth it.</font></=
span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=
=3D"Calibri">Here is the Link to my piece in
  Susan=E2=80=99s blog =E2=80=93 a blog well worth exploring =E2=80=93 and =
sending on to others.</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" s=
ize=3D"3">
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><a href=3D"h=
ttp://civilrightsnewsreleases.blogspot.com/" mce_href=3D"http://civilrights=
newsreleases.blogspot.com/"><font color=3D"#0563c1" face=3D"Calibri">http:/=
/civilrightsnewsreleases.blogspot.com/</font></a></span></b></p><font face=
=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
  </font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight=
: normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face=
=3D"Calibri">Hunter Bear</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman=
" size=3D"3">
&nbsp; </font><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
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</font></font>HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / St. Fran=
cis Abenaki / St. Regis Mohawk=20
<br>
Protected by Na=C2=B4shdo=C2=B4i=C2=B4ba=C2=B4i=C2=B4=20
<br>
and Ohkwari' . Check out our massive social justice website:=20
<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.hunterbear.org" mce_href=3D"http://www.hunterbear.org=
">www.hunterbear.org</a>&nbsp;=20
<br>
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO=20
<br>

<br>
Core dimensions of my Community Organizing course:
<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm" mce_href=3D"http://=
www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm">http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbe=
ar.htm</a></div><div>
<br>
<br>
My expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"=20
<br>
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000=20
<br>
word introduction by me. Covers much of my=20
<br>
confrontational social justice organizing life to=20
<br>
date. Contains much how-to grassroots organizing=20
<br>
methodology: <a href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm" mce_href=3D"http=
://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm">http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm</a>
<br>

<br>
See this for mini-bio, efforts to prevent JM=E2=80=99s appearance in
<br>
Mississippi,  a wide range of its many reviews, and some
<br>
photos:   <a href=3D"http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter/e/B001KMEHWY/ref=
=3Dntt_dp_epwbk_0" mce_href=3D"http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter/e/B001K=
MEHWY/ref=3Dntt_dp_epwbk_0">http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter/e/B001KMEH=
WY/ref=3Dntt_dp_epwbk_0</a></div><div>
<br>

<br>
The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:=20
<br>
<a href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm" mce_=
href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm">http://=
hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm</a></div><div>&nbsp;=20
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(Photos)=20
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