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Rising Up: Class Warfare from the Streets to the Airwaves

by Sarah Olson (solson75 [at] yahoo.com)
Review of Rising Up: Class Warfare from the Streets to the Airwaves, new book published by San Francisco Liberation Radio co-founder, Richard Edmundson.
From the Center of the Struggle (book review)by Robert Norse
RISING UP Is A Tasty Tale of Free Soup and Hot Radio in S.F.
How did a relative handful of Food Not Bombs cooks successfully hold off the
entire San Francisco Police Department, City Attorney\'s office, and Mayor
for twelve years and get hot free food out to hundreds of hungry homeless
people each day? How did a homeless idealist living in a van put together a
renegade radio station that held off the Federal Communications Commission
for nearly a decade and broadcast stories that no one else would touch over
the airwaves? Read Richard Edmondson\'s new book \"Rising Up: Class Warfare
in America from the Streets to the Airwaves\" and find out.
Edmondson is the 48-year old founder of San Francisco Liberation Radio
(SFLR), a 40-watt \"pirate\" station operating at 93.7 FM since 1993. It
covers a radius of 5-10 miles and tens of thousands of potential listeners.
He was also an \"illegal\" soupslinger with the San Francisco chapter of Food
Not Bombs (FNB).
He, along with nearly 1000 fellow \"criminals\", went to jail defying the
City\'s campaign to shut down the group that insisted on \"making poverty
visible.\" Edmondson and his vegetarian vigilantes fed the homeless and the
hungry in front of City Hall and at the entrance to Golden Gate Park week
after week year after year, transforming left-over veggies and day-old
bagels into healthy vegan cuisine.
Last year, after traditionally \"leftie\" publishers turned him down,
Edmondson self-published a 360 page quality paperback Rising Up: Class
Warfare in America from the Streets to the Airwaves (Librad Press). Rising
Up chronicles the food felons, the radio renegades, the heroic homeless
struggle, and the grim San Francisco class and corporate landscape that
produced these movements. It is also a moving and expressive personal
journal of his involvement with FNB and SFLR.
Here you will learn about the death of Marcelino Corniel, a homeless
African-American man, at the hands of the Washington police (p.39) , a handy
list of components to start your own micropower radio (p. 110), the homeless
version of O Sole Mio (p. 147), and much of the text of the \"FCC Klutzes vs.
Grandma Denney\" comedy classic (p. 141)
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