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...Charlie Burlingham-Peasant Stock Jamaica Way-Inn Square...
...premier February/March issue on nuclear power plants by Paul Jacobs turns up some interesting material on the problems in nuclear power plant engineering, in foreign countries that U.S. construction firms suppress. There's also a two-part series on so-called "radical activism" in America by Bo Burlingham that not only outlines some of the strong points of the kind of journalism Mother Jones proffers, but underlines its weaknesses as well...
...Burlingham's article, "They've All Gone to Look for America," attempts to find out what activists are doing today. Burlingham's thesis is stated between the lines: "I had heard from other friends that changes were taking place in America." He then goes on to document some of these changes in a somewhat thorough manner. He shows how Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), for instance, is working on a community basis to get utility rates lowered. But Burlingham's emphasis is strange. "Politics as if people mattered" turns out to be how picking the utility rates issue...
...Radical" in fact simply means being concerned about ecology, day care systems, more public transit and all of the other issues of reform that should've been dealt with five years ago. Ideology, according to Burlingham is no longer as important as a "shift from a politics of protest to a creative--and increasingly effective--brand of positive action...
Paul Solman, the Boston organizer for the Davis petitioners and an editor of Boston After Dark, described the three letters as part of an "all-out blitz" on the part of the university to persuade alumni to vote against Davis. Bo Burlingham, a BAD colleague of Solman, accused the BUAA Nominating Committee of 'running scared" in his BAD column, "Bottom of the News" on April...