DBOA Radio Series 12

Chapter 12 of the "Don't Bank on Amerika" radio series takes place during the first week of February, 1970, when the demonstrations for an open hearing into the Bill Allen case were drawing to a close.

DBOA 12 - 0:59:05 (DBOA #11 lost)

Issues covered:

• Geoff Wallace interview
• Student leaders meet with UCSB administration
• KCSB-FM in-field reporting by Pete Koza, Suzi Burnette, Fred Gebhardt and Cy Godfrey
• Second string student leadership (Rick Thorngate, Rich Trussel, et. al)
• The Faculty Club Takeover
• The Smith Survey
• KCSB-FM in-field reporting by Phil Singer and Greg Sprankling
• The Serpentine March, February 4
• KCSB-SM in-field reporting by Greg Sprankling and Pete Koza
• Campus Strike proves ineffective
• Mick Kronman letter
• Rip-off of the UCSB student leadership
• The Trial of the Chicago 8
• Willam Kunstler at UCSB's campus stadium

Music featured:

• Quicksilver Messenger Service: "Who Do You Love?"
• Richie Havens:"Handsome Johnny"
• Arlo Guthrie: "Alice's Restaurant" (short version)
• Thunderclap Newman: "Something In The Air"
• Bob Dylan: "Masters of War"
• John Lennon: "Power to the People"
• Iron Butterfly: "In The Time of Our Lives"
• Beach Boys: "Student Demonstration Time"

I.V. Free Press #4, 1987

The University of California, Santa Barbara's Davidson Library Special Collections department has archived the special February 25, 1987 edition of Carmen Lodise's "Isla Vista Free Press." It contains a "Reader's Digest" version of my history on the riots, an analysis of the causes of the riots by professor Dick Flacks, and observations on I.V. community building by Carmen. An extra treat are the vignettes from the 1987 period, along with lotsa pictures. To read, go to:

ISLA VISTA FREE PRESS #4, February 25, 1987

To view a larger image of the IV FREE PRESS cover of 1989, click this image:

DBOA Radio Series 10

Chapter 10 (0:62:22) takes place January 29 and 30th, 1970.

Contents

• KCSB-FM in-field reporting by Pete Coza, Maxine Cass, Greg Sprankling
• Sleep-out, January 29/30
• Rich Underwood recalls the Dean Evans Bullhorn Incident
• Dean Evans Bullhorn Incident
• Mick Kronman
• Acting Chancellor Russell Buchanan approves Sheriff's forces on campus
• David Gardner meets with student leaders
• Chris Hall Incident
• Bill Allen Demonstrations at UCSB
• KCSB-FM in-field reporting by Cy Godfrey, Greg Sprankling, Pete Coza, Don French
• Bill Allen: "You people really voted today!"
• Post-riots interviews: local issues organizing
• "Peace Brigade"
• Greg Knell interview

Music

• Byrds: "8 Miles High" (live)
• Youngbloods: "Love One Another"
• Steve Miller Band: "Livin' In The USA"

KCSB-FM History

Colin Marshall has been writing a series of articles on "the history and modern times of KCSB 91.9FM," at the Santa Barbara INDEPENDENT:

The Santa Barbara Independent KCSBeat

DBOA Radio Series 09

Chapter 9 continues in January 1970, in the heat of the Bill Allen demonstrations on the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California:

In this episode:

• January 29, 1970
• Bill Allen at the demonstrations in front of the Admin Building: "Woodstock Nation People"
• 7,776 signatures calling for an open hearing into the Bill Allen case
• "Power to the People"
• Oil companies
• Wharf-in
• Dean Evans Bullhorn Incident
• KCSB-FM in-field reporting
• Greg Knell recaps the student side of the Dean Evans Bullhorn Incident
• Santana: "Go out and make it better"
• Off-campus police called in
• January 30, 1970
• KCSB in-field reporting - Maxine Cass and Pete Coza
• Dylan: "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
• Outro
• Iron Butterfly: "Soul Experience"

Additional Music:

• Moody Blues: "Om"
• Iron Butterfly: "In The Time of Our Lives"
• Yardbirds: "Shapes of Things to Come"

DBOA Radio Series 08

Chapter 8 (0:65:10) takes us back to January 1970. Listen with headphones...

(Bill Allen demonstrations infront of "The Ad Building")

In this episode:

• Bill Allen Demonstrations
• KCSB-FM in-field reporting ( Greg Sprankling )
• Geoff Wallace interview: chronology of beginning 1970
• Arrests of Black Activists (Banks and Gardner)
• First annual observance of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969
• "Desiderata" goof
• National vs. Local issues
• Mick Kronman - "Join The Conspiracy"
• Polls, surveys
• Bill Allen: violence towards people vs. things
• Becca Wilson interview

Music featured:

• Fleetwood Mac: "Oh, Well" and "Searching For Madge"
• Jefferson Airplane: "Volunteers"
• Mothers of Invention: "It Can't Happen Here"
• Quicksilver Messenger Service: "Gold and Silver"
• Electric Flag
  

Desiderata:

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952.

“William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe”

KCSB Presents S.B. Film Premiere of “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe” with Guest Filmmakers Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler, November 19th, 2009, 7:30 p.m., Campbell Hall, UCSB

DBOA Radio Series 07

Chapter 7 (0:55:56) takes place Winter 1969/1970.

Subjects covered:

• Geoff Wallace interview: student activist groups
• Greg Knell interview
• ASIA
• Chicago 8 Trial
• Drug arrests, laws
• Marijuana
• Bill Allen Case
• John Maybury: "B of A: A Piggy Bank"
• 7,776 signatures
• Call for open hearing into the Bill Allen Case
• "... no more bureaucratic tricks"
• KCSB in-field reporting
• Beginning of the Bill Allen Demonstations at UCSB

Notable musical excerpts:

• Firesign Theatre
• Joe Cocker: "With A Little Help From My Friends"
• Beatles: "With A Little Help From My Friends"
• Love: "Signed D.C.

DBOA Radio Series 06

Chapter 6 (0:56:25) of the "Don't Bank on Amerika" radio series takes place in Winter 1969/1970.

This episode contains the following:

• Becca Wilson interview on the nature of Isla Vista
• Greg Knell interview on chronology
• The Smith Survey
• The Goleta Sloughway
• Kunstler speech excerpt from campus stadium, 2/24/1970
• Fall 1969 chronology
• Greg Knell interview on the Bill Allen issue
• "Bank of America: A Second Check"
• Opposition to the Bank of America
• Tim Owens documentary excerpt

Musical excerpts:

• Jefferson Airplane: Eskimo Blue Day
• Quicksilver Messenger Service: What About Me?
• Beach Boys: Student Demonstration Time
• Mothers of Invention: American Way
• Jethro Tull: A New Day Yesterday

DBOA Radio Series 05

Chapter 5 of the "Don't Bank on Amerika" radio series (0:61:42), originally produced in the 1980s, takes place in the Fall of 1969, before the Bill Allen demonstrations and the later riots.

Contents include:

• Becca Wilson interview excerpt
• The local effect of the Vietnam War
• The Smith Survey
• Richard Nixon
• The Vietnam Moratorium
• ROTC on campus
• UCSB background history
• UCSB student body composition
• UCSB student action groups
• Vernon Cheadle's financial conflicts of interest
• The Goleta Sloughway
• Field Nigger vs. House Nigger
• Buffalo Springfield music to end

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