Portions, Chapter 7: Refusing The Draft

Portions, Chapter 7: Refusing The Draft

Every morning when Marge and I woke up in our furnished apartment in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood we would hear three things on the radio: An advertisement for Pan Am’s flight one to London, Karachi and around the world, the number of three alarm fires in the...

Portions, Chapter 8: Writing my Dissertation

NYU tried to take my NDEA title IV fellowship. They said since I was under induction order I wouldn’t be able to complete my graduate studies. I told them I wasn’t going. It was a rather tense time and I don’t know why the administration gave in. Maybe it was the way...
Portions, Chapter 9: Tenant Organizing

Portions, Chapter 9: Tenant Organizing

One of the main reasons I never went back was because I was already doing what I wanted to do. I was organizing people. It was a thrill to me then and it’s a thrill to me now. I also came to realize that a great deal of my graduate studies in organizational theory and...

Thys Van Cort

Dan and I are about the same age. In the 1970s when Dan lived in Ithaca, NY, we were very close and had good times and great adventures together.  I think we learned from each other as we went along, but I don’t have any specific teaching or incident that I can...