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I enjoyed Sorkin’s film and appreciate the background on Cason. I see she was a UT student who demonstrated to integrate movie theatres in Austin. Some years ago our local Cinema Club brought this film about those demonstrations to our public library: https://peopleshistoryintexas.org/documentaries/standins/ The demonstrators planned their strategy at the Faith and Life Community. JWM is mentioned in the documentary. I spoke to the film maker after the showing. She had never met anyone connected to the Faith and Life Community. We corresponded for a time and I sent the film to someone with the archives in Chicago. —Diann McCabe
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On Oct 19, 2020, at 2:06 PM, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Old guys rule the internet!!! Thanks, Ken!
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On Oct 19, 2020, at 9:51 AM, Ken Fisher <kenfisher1942@gmail.com> wrote:
For the Archives:
Joe Mathews married Tom Hayden to Sandra Cason in 1961.
"The similarity between certain ideas at work in the Community and those expressed at Port Huron."
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‘Casey’ Cason was a member of the Christian Faith and Life Community.
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In 1964 in Ottawa, I was a fundraiser for SNCC - the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. It went to voter registration support in Mississippi.
From ’66 to ’68, I was on the national executive of the SDS equivalent in Canada, the Student Union for Peace Action. In January of ’68, I attended the SDS conference in Chicago and visited 3444 West Congress Parkway.
In her bright coloured frock and apron, Joyce Townley took me on a tour. Her assignment was Property. She emptied the kitchen grease pit then took me to the basement where she used a hoist to get the garbage up to the street! I was sold.
Ken Fisher
On Oct 19, 2020, at 12:22 PM, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
We watched this Netflix movie about Chicago in 1968. Was good. Tom Hayden was one of the defendants — wasn’t he somewhat connected to the Christian Faith and Life Community in Austin? Also mention of the “Port Huron Statement” of the SDS — did Joe or someone help with writing that? Also several mentions of the “Cultural Revolution”. Police and protestor scenes were chilling ...Watched with daughter, son in law and grand daughter. I vaguely recall an evening going to Lincoln Park and sitting in on something about guerilla theater.
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