Vietnam-era Underground Press Series volume 2 Released
Volume 2 of Ann Arbor author-editor Ken Wachsberger's 4-volume Voices from the Underground Series is now available for purchase.
- New York, NY (1888PressRelease) January 24, 2012 - Volume 2, My Odyssey through the Underground Press, is the riveting, at times chilling, ultimately inspirational, and always captivating story of Michael "Mica" Kindman, one of the legends of the Vietnam era underground press. Kindman was the founder of The Paper, the first underground paper in East Lansing, Michigan, as well as one of the first five members of Underground Press Syndicate, the first nationwide network of underground papers during the Vietnam era. The Paper was instrumental in helping Ramparts magazine to expose Michigan State University's role as the number one CIA front organization for our expanding war in Vietnam.
In early 1968, Kindman was drawn to a paper from Boston, Avatar, that spoke often in poetry, always in spiritual and mystical terms. He was welcomed by the staff, dug in as a member, and discovered too late that the commune that controlled Avatar was a charismatic cult centered on a former-musician-turned-guru named Mel Lyman, whose psychic hold over his followers was being strengthened and intensified by means of various confrontations and loyalty tests.
Five years later, Kindman fled the commune's rural outpost in Kansas and headed west, where he settled in San Francisco, came out as a gay man, and changed his name to Mica. When Kindman wrote this important journey into self-discovery, he was a key activist in the gay men's pagan spiritual network Radical Faeries, a student, and a person with AIDS. He died peacefully on November 22, 1991, two months after submitting the final draft of his story.
Forewords are by legendary sixties-era author and satirist Paul Krassner, who is often considered the father of the underground press; and Tommi Avicolli Mecca, author, gay activist, and long-time veteran of the gay press.
The underground press was the independent, antiwar press of the Vietnam era that told the true story, which the corporate papers suppressed, of what our government was doing behind our backs to the Vietnamese people. The Voices from the Underground Series is a collection of histories of underground papers from the period as told by key people on each of the papers. Stories represent the gay, lesbian, feminist, Black, Puerto Rican, Native American, military, prisoners' rights, socialist, new age, rank-and-file, Southern consciousness, psychedelic, and other independent antiwar voices of the era as never before told.
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