E.D. Speaks: Opinions and Review Written for the Liberation News Service
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Authors
Deans, Emmett
Issue Date
1972
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Thesis
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en_US
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Work should be creative and fulfilling. One should work
in order to create, not in order to live. Men should do work
they like to do, but also be able to sustain themselves and
their families comfortably. In other words, a poet should not
be a dishwasher, a painter should not be a construction laborer,
an architect should not be a waiter nor a musician a trash
collector. Men who work at jobs they don't like or jobs where
they can't create become frustrated and stifled. They become
lousy at their jobs and any creative spark in them is squelched.
Creativity is suppressed. Painters and musicians are starving
because they work to create, not just to survive. My senior
independent project kills two birds with one stone--it is my
work and it is creative in a sense. I wrote for the Liberation
News Service. I am a free lance columnist for this agency
which services radical and underground newspapers throughout
the country. The Guardian, the Black Panther paper, the Berkeley
Tribe, and the Patriot in Kalamazoo are just a few of their
clients. I chose the LNS because I had a lot of stuff to say
and wanted to be able to say it freely. When I write, it is
with no holds barred. I pull no punches with anyone. If I
want to use profanity, I do. If I lash out against the government,
I do that, too. Only by working free lance with the Liberation
News Service could I write the way I must, without fear
of being fired from my job and/or having my work censored.
Working for "establishment" newspapers would have probably given
me the necessary journalistic tools I will need to run a paper.
But I feel that I can write, and
when shit comes to shit, isn't that what journalism is made of?
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