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- Subject: BOOK: Brian Willson Autobiography
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- Topic 201 BRIAN WILLSON AUTOBIO
- wheimbach apc.labour 7:43 pm Aug 29, 1992
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- NEW FROM KERR PUBLISHING
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- Brian Willson
- ON THIRD WORLD LEGS
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- On September 1, 1987 Brian Willson sat down on the
- railroad tracks at California's Concord Naval Weapons Station as
- part of a nonviolent peace action campaign. 200,000 pounds of a
- munitions train ran him over, as trainmen followed orders not to
- stop.
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- The riveting story of Willson's life is told in his
- autobiography, On Third World Legs.
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- From the introduction by Staughton Lynd:
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- "Brian Willson's historical significance goes beyond his
- role in riviving the practice of nonviolence in the United
- States, and the fact is that he does so as a person of
- workingclass background...Life has provided him a unique
- opportunity to bridge the gap that had hitherto seemed
- unbridgeable: between the exploited workers of the imperialist
- United States and the super-exploited workers of the colonialized
- and neo-colonialized Third World. He invits us to join him in
- that adventure."
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- ON THIRD WORLD LEGS, 96 pages, paperback, over forty
- illustrations / $7.95 ($9.45 postpaid)
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-
- order from:
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- Charles H. Kerr Publishing
- 1740 W. Greenleaf Avenue
- Chicago, IL 60626
-