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One echo of 'Sixties Berkeley was Allen Ginsberg's attendance at a vigil meeting when he was in town in mid-October 1990 (with Ray Manzarek, formerly of The Doors) to do a poetry reading at the Backstage, a bar and performance venue in [[Ballard]] at the time. Ginsberg said of the vigil, with a sort of optimistic pessimism, that it "reminds me of a number of successful peace movements that were successful in being prophetic, and even could be considered somewhat successful in halting or delaying or diminishing a war." |
One echo of 'Sixties Berkeley was Allen Ginsberg's attendance at a vigil meeting when he was in town in mid-October 1990 (with Ray Manzarek, formerly of The Doors) to do a poetry reading at the Backstage, a bar and performance venue in [[Ballard]] at the time. Ginsberg said of the vigil, with a sort of optimistic pessimism, that it "reminds me of a number of successful peace movements that were successful in being prophetic, and even could be considered somewhat successful in halting or delaying or diminishing a war." |
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+ | Around the same time, vigil spokesperson Michael "Spiz" Bishop expressed an optimism almost as cautious. The ''Seattle Catalyst'' wrote of him that "he has no expectation that 'a bunch of ragtag hippies in Seattle are going to stop a war,' but hopes the vigil will help provide the education and media attention to build a movement to do just that." |
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== "Honor the Veteran. Oppose the War." == |
== "Honor the Veteran. Oppose the War." == |