This is my natal chart, done around 1975 by astrologist Ray Couture. In the back room of a bookstore in Berkeley, he explained to me that I was a Grand Trine, a rare configuration of three or more planets forming an equilateral triangle, a pattern believed to foster...
Download the Free PDF Memories of Drop CityDownload Buy the paperback on Amazon.com Memories of Drop City follows a group of people and their radical movement, in the Southwest and on both coasts, in a decade that shaped the rest of the century. "John Curl's...
Download the Free PDF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAYDownload Buy the paperback on Amazon.com In 1992 Berkeley, California became the first city in the world to officially celebrate October 12 as Indigenous Peoples Day. This book is for people everywhere who want to know more...
Two articles about the 1960s Counterculture, art, and social revolution, published in The Drop City Newsletter and Inner Space magazine under my Dropper name, Ishmael. (1967) Drop-City-two-articlesDownload
The conundrum of work and survival for creative people. Published in Toward Revolutionary Art (TRA) magazine. (1974) Art, Work & Class - TRA_1974 compDownload
Two articles published by the Bay Area Directory of Collectives in 1977 and 1980. The first discusses how the structural innovation of the collective led to a resurgence of the cooperative movement in the 1970s. The other article examines the history of Heartwood...
At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn’t working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves...
In the 1970s and ‘80s, the Berkeley Co-op was the largest and most successful consumer cooperative in the US. The ranks of people who were active in the Co-op and went on to make other important contributions to the community, reads like a who’s who of the Berkeley...
This is a pamphlet I put out in connection with the publication of my book, For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America. (2009) CO-OP MOVEMENT CENTURY 21Download
The revolution in the food movement of the 1970s in San Francisco and Minneapolis: the rise and fall of the People’s Food System and the People’s Warehouse. This investigative article was included in the 2nd edition of For All The People, Uncovering the Hidden History...
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