[BearwWthoutBorders] FWD from Bill Mandel
Hunter Gray
hunterbadbear at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 14 14:01:43 EDT 2005
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: "You are old, Father William" wrote Lewis Carroll
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:01:45 -0700
From: William Mandel <wmmmandel at speakeasy.net>
Reply-To: wmmmandel at speakeasy.net
To: Roy Campanella II <generalmanager at kpfa.org>
CC: Amelia Gonzalez-G <ameliagg at yahoo.com>
People have written, in both positive and negative terms,
about the decades I've been on the air, but this is the
first time anyone has written about my age.
Two weeks ago, the Berkeley Daily Planet ran, as a top
of-the-page article with wide headline, a comment I had
written on Pacifica's KPFA. San Francisco Independent Media
re-posted it, apparently to the hundred or more similar free
media worldwide, with its normal provision for reader
comment. One of them reads:
"There is an old saying that applies to Bill Mandel, forever:
"'He who knows, and knows that he knows,
"'He is wise, follow him.'
"At age 88, the clarity of his writing above outdoes most
Americans, who can barely write a sentence at any age, much
less an essay on the various twists and turns of a crisis at
a non-profit listener-sponsored radical radio station.
"His website, http//www.billmandel.net has everything
connected with Bill Mandel and his book, Saying No To Power,
is a must read. He is certainly a cat who has lived 9 lives!
"At age 88, he is still physically able to be a host of a
radio program and still has sufficient knowledge and
memories to contribute to the discussion. That is
extraordinary. He is obviously quite enthusiastic about his
program, a positive sign, but he could hold back a little
and let the guest speak a little more. That is a minor
problem; all hosts of all ages are constantly trying to
balance the conversation time between host and guest.
"The least of us who have not reached the venerable age of
88 can do is to be humble and to respect Bill Mandel's
achievements and his continued contributions to the struggle."
To which I can only say, that is really nice.
--
William (Bill) Mandel
My autobiography, SAYING NO TO POWER (Introduction by Howard
Zinn), is a history of how the American people fought to
defend and expand its rights since the 1920s (I'm 88)
employing the form of the life of a 30s AND 60s activist,
one who was involved in most serious movements: student,
labor, 45 years of efforts to prevent war with the USSR,
civil rights South and North, women's liberation [my late
wife appears on 50 pages], 37 years on Pacifica Radio [where
I invented talk radio], civil liberties. You may hear/see my
testimony before different McCarthy-Cold-War-Era
witch-hunting committees [used in six films and a play]) on
my website, http://www.billmandel.net I am the author of
five books in my academic field. For an autographed copy of
SAYING NO TO POWER, send me $24 at 4466 View Pl.,#106,
Oakland, CA. 94611
--
William (Bill) Mandel
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