Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut...(1922-2007)
In These Times
Kurt Vonnegut was a senior editor of Chicago based socialist journal In These Times.[1]
Over the years, socialist journal In These Times has published the work of a wide range of noted writers, including fiction by Alice Walker and Kurt Vonnegut; reporting by Clinton speechwriter David Kusnet, former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan, and current Salon Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh; and political commentary by former presidential candidate George McGovern, environmentalist Sandra Steingraber, the late Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Dorothy Allison, and a number of contemporary members of the House of Representatives who contribute to the magazine’s “House Call” column.
The late Sen. Paul Wellstone, one of the first subscribers to In These Times, put it this way: “Meaningful democracy cannot survive without the free flow of information, even (or especially) when that information threatens the privileged and the powerful. At a time of growing media concentration, In These Times is an invaluable source of news and information that the corporate media would too often prefer to ignore.”[2]
Socialist Debs award
Every year since the mid 1960s the Indiana based Eugene V. Debs Foundation holds Eugene Debs Award Banquet in Terre Haute, to honor an approved social or labor activist. The 1981 honoree, was Kurt Vonnegut.[3]
Veterans for Peace
Kurt Vonnegut was still a Veterans for Peace member at his death in 2011.[4]
References
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- ↑ In These Times website: About
- ↑ [1] In These times, About US, accessed May 27, 2010
- ↑ Eugene V. Debs Foundation homepage, accessed March 14, 2011
- ↑ VFP Board Call Meeting Minutes November 21, 2011