Letters

I wanna commend you on the improvement apparent in AGENDA. When it first came out I thought "Oh no, not another ho-hum moderate-liberal newspaper," but the articles have gotten more in-depth and informative even if the political slant is generally the same.

In number 6 I was really impressed to see one of my favorite pieces by the late Gerry Reith, "The Roots of Modern Terror," and Steven L. Berg's "Drunks Make Poor Revolutionaries." Bob Black's "Left Rites" is another favorite of mine, but I don't understand why you stuck it in your letters page since it's been reprinted a number of times over the past few years.

Your Community Resources Directory is a great service, but for the most part the groups listed are mighty mainstream. Let's see more 'alternatives.' In your Poverty and Hunger section, besides informing folks on how to feed the world, maybe you'd wanna list the local Food Coalition project to feed Ann Arbor's hungry. I found it interesting that you listed two plainly political groups under Social Justice, but relegated Amnesty International and PIRGIM under "Other."

You could accuse me of self-serving motives on this one, but some reviewers around the country seem to think that Ann Arbor is the Marginal Press Capital of the U.S. Maybe you could do a list of locally published alternative papers and books in your Community Resources Directory.

To be critical for a moment, I found Bored for Peace boring. I suppose it's to be expected in a community as affluent as Ann Arbor, but Locke Anderson's belief that one must "shed your respectability" to communicate with people "with a minimal stake in the existing order" simply reveals his elitism. If he really has any pretense of talking politics with such he should contact me and I will give him a tour of a good number of public places where I'm sure he'll be quite amazed by the viewpoints of the disaffected.

I guess that's all the spewing I'll do for now. Keep improving. I look forward to each issue.

David Crowbar

Ann Arbor