I too was involved in FUB (Free University of Berkeley), though not "in
setting it up." But in 1968 when it was fresh and a fresh idea, I remember
giving a course for writers of every background/experience, which would flow
into chanting and singing too, and I remember taking a class where women
could really do hands-on photo darkroom work, another specifically set up for
women to learn (FORTRAN) programming--taught by Steve G-? who had been
involved too in the movement to legalize abortion; and in 1969 I began a
workshop "for working writers" that became the literary collective/magazine
The Open Cell--the first tabloid-size, photo-offset literary paper, as far as
we know--specifically created and priced to make literature by the people
available to the people. So--multiply this by how many persons' experience
to get some idea of the energy and innovations in the Free Universities. And
yet, and yet--how much of this was a sliding back "into normal life", a
pulling back from the intensity of the organizing and confrontation and
struggle against more militaristic or economic oppressions that gave the
Movement a cohesive momentum?
Paula
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