The Importance of Formal Politics

In 1965, when you were a high school student in the U.S., what was your first introduction to formal politics as politics? You read Edgar Snow Red Star over China and wrote a letter to the Chinese government asking about what's going on there. So that's where it all began. And I still have them on the shelf. It became one of the two pillars of my organizing through his life,. The other was sexism and misogyny. He fought those both at university and later for 13 years in the factory.