[lbo-talk] Another obit of St. Ellen

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Thu Nov 16 14:16:00 PST 2006


OBITUARIES Ellen Willis, 64; radical critic targeted foibles wherever she saw them, on the left or right

By Jocelyn Y. Stewart Times Staff Writer

November 15, 2006

In the months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a chasm "the size of ground zero" opened between feminist author and cultural critic Ellen Willis and the burgeoning anti-war movement.

Willis was a radical, but she supported military action ( but that's ok - CB) and found herself taken aback by young protesters "looking and sounding like preserved specimens of the '60s anti-war counterculture, with the same songs and peace-and-love slogans."

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-willis15nov15,1,59 31964.story



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