Category: Confessions of an Unrepentant Maoist
CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT MAOIST: Hundred Flowers, 1970 (continued): Epilogue
CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT MAOIST: The murder of Mark Salzer, winter, 1971
BY ED FELIEN Later that winter we heard about the murder of Mark Salzer by an undercover narcotics officer of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). James Decowski befriended Mark and then busted him. He was in his apartment with his girlfriend. The cop pulled a gun. Mark knocked over a lamp. The cop shot and…
CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT MAOIST: Mo Burton and the Black Panthers, 1971, spring
CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT MAOIST: Experimental College, 1971 to 1973
CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT MAOIST: The DFL Endorsing Convention
CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT MAOIST: Taking Power
BY ED FELIEN Before the Open Meeting Law, politicians decided destinies in smoke-filled rooms. Of course, that was also before the laws against smoking indoors. After the election, I was invited by Louis DeMars to a meeting at the Leamington Hotel to organize city government: free food, free booze, lots…
CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREPENTANT MAOIST: Downzoning
BY ED FELIEN In 1970 I was publishing Hundred Flowers, a weekly underground newspaper, an anti-war, anti-racist, early feminist, psychedelic fun rag that sold for a quarter. Some people were having a demonstration somewhere on Harriet Avenue protesting the demolition of houses to make room for a two-and-a-half story walk-up…