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Brigadoon, Lerner and Loew's musical with songs you'll find yourself whistling and wondering why. 11:30 p.m., March 25. Chan...
...goal is simply to put socialism on the agenda for the seventies. Michael Lerner at the NAM program conference, November...
...Davenport, Iowa, over Thanksgiving week-end. NAM--a growing organization with more than 25 chapters around the country--began on the west coast last spring. Community organizers--some with projects several years old--sensed that they needed some type of national coordination, and they responded favorably when Michael Lerner. Thierrie Cook and Chip Marshall, West Coast radicals, sent out a statement calling for NAM's formation...
...replaced nonsensical talk about seizing state power with a band of Yippies by seriously considering the best programs and organizing techniques with which to reach working people and make them consider socialism as a real alternative. NAM sees itself as performing an interim function for the seventies: co-founder Lerner summarizes its modest goal as putting "socialism on the national agenda...
Such general cultural oversight is mirrored by a lack of understanding in academic and administrative circles. Lerner's article, "Respectable Bigotry", shows how academic liberals serenely espouse a double standard; empathizing with blacks and proud of their own lack of racism, their understanding seems to disappear as they sneer at police and factory workers as 'fascist pigs' and 'ethnics'. Black dialect is 'cool', while white ethnics are inarticulate fools...