STILL RADICAL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Participant Backgrounds
Peter Gabel escaped from law school on graduation gasping for oxygen and miraculously began breathing more freely as the movements of the 1960s gradually created a parallel universe in which people began to see each other with a loving, embracing spirit. He threw himself into helping to create an alternative college and public-interest law school, New College of California, which arose like Atlantis out of the sea before sinking back into the sea 32 years later. He was a founder of the Critical Legal Studies Movement in legal scholarship and for 30 years has been Editor-at-Large of the progressive Jewish magazine Tikkun. Author of many books and articles on law, politics, and social change, he has tried to express whatever he’s learned up to this point in his new book The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self (Routledge Press 2018).
Stephen Mo Hanan woke to the call of the counterculture by founding a Haight-Ashbury commune that flourished for over seven years, during which he wrote his first play, “David Dances”. San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater produced it and sent the script to New York, whither Mo subsequently decamped. A career on and off Broadway soon followed, but his heart remains in San Francisco.
Christina Schlesinger, artist, feminist, activist and teacher. Co-founder, SPARCinLA, the Social and Public Art Resource Center, which empowers communities through participation in and production of collaborative public art pieces. Original member of the Guerrilla Girls, the “conscience of the art world”, who called out sexism and racism in the art world with posters challenging galleries, critics, museums and collectors for their lack of inclusion of women artists and artists of color, starting a dialogue in the mid-1980’s which is now part of mainstream culture. She has taught and lectured on art and history for many years. Most recent exhibitions include, “Tomboys” at the Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in NYC and mural commissions with students at schools in Denver and Boulder, CO. Christina is leading the collaborative Radcliffe community mural at UNDERGROUND 68 during this reunion.