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[Isobel Bishop]

Thankyou for this wee gem ! Ken..
Cheers,
Isobel Bishop 


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> On 24 Mar 2018, at 1:35 pm, Ken Fisher via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> Colleagues 'in the way',
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> I have told this story a few times.
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> Following my cataclysmic RS1 in October of ’67 [David McCleskey - Dick & Linda Alton were POs (Participant Observers)], I attended an SDS (Students of a Democratic Society) conference in Chicago that December. I was a leader in the Canadian equivalent, SUPA (Student’s Union for Peace Action). After the conference, I visited 3444 Congress Parkway for a day. I was met by Tim Lush and taken on a tour. A significant part of that time occurred in the basement, where the trash got taken out. There, I met a very fashionable women by the name of Joyce Townley. She was obviously a suburbanite, covered with a smock, but with a colourful scarf and blouse. What a charming woman! And there she was, operating a hoist with oil barrels full of trash.
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> At that time, immersed in the 60s, as a committed socialist, agent of change and one engaged in many aspects of 60s politics and social change, I knew that part of the puzzle depended on the engagement of sophisticated middle class folks if real change were to occur. It wasn’t simply going to be a revolution of the oppressed.
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> And there she was! For me it was a sign. I returned May 29, 1968.
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> Here’s to Joyce Townley the grandmother.
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> With warmth and affection and…
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> Grace & Peace
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> Ken
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> On Mar 15, 2018, at 1:31 PM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> Growing Up in the Order
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> Growing Up in the Order
> Now all but forgotten, an obscure religious commune took over a building in Uptown and tried to change the world...
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> Jim Wiegel  
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