Lillian Pollak, Nydia Leaf, Lillian Rydell and I gave a presentation last Sunday, Oct. 26, at the SUNDAY WITH JASA series held at John Jay College. It was a rather small audience, but an enthusiastic one, and it was another opportunity to spread our message.
Lillian Rydell gave a fervent appeal to end the war as only Lillian can do in her characteristically convincing no-nonsense, straight talking (for real) way.
Lillian Pollak reminisced about her experiences with the WPA and her political interaction during the 30’s. Her articulateness combined with her age really wowed the audience.
Nydia gave a very concise talk about the work of the three Granny Peace Brigade committees — Legislative Campaign, Counter Recruitment and No Bases. She covered a lot of territory in a limited time frame and gave out literature relevant to her discussion.
I did my usual thing — talking about the grannies, the book, and singing a few songs. Because I had a bad cold at the time, I sounded like something between a foghorn and a grinding cement mixer. But, no matter — the message is the thing.
With all this activity — the three WBAI grannies; the story about Barbara Harris in the NY Times (and picked up widely by other publications and blogs); the counter recruitment actions on Parent-Teacher night; Vinie Burrows’ appearance on WBAI talking about the Teach-In and other GPB matters; the coming Teach-In itself; our Sunday lecture described above, and other events in the planning stage now — we are successfully keeping our message alive. The grannies just won’t fade away.
- Joan Wile
At some point, you might want to use your blog to publicize future actions, in addition to the informative reports on past actions.