  Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 1088 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.122.57 |
"Jeanie Wylie-Kellermann, a Detroit writer, filmmaker and peace activist, died at her Detroit home Dec. 31 after a seven-year struggle with brain tumors. She was 49. ... Ms. Wylie-Kellermann, who wrote occasionally for the Nation, Mother Jones and the Village Voice, became deeply involved in the 1980s in helping residents in Detroit's Poletown neighborhood who were resisting the clearing of land for a new General Motors Corp. factory. She wrote a book about the experience, "Poletown: Community Betrayed," and she helped make the documentary "Poletown Lives!"" http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20060107/NEW S08/601070363/1010 | ||
Dodgemain Member Username: Dodgemain Post Number: 75 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 68.41.191.58 |
That was excellent work for someone so young at the time. | ||
Psip Member Username: Psip Post Number: 795 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.246.13.131 |
Sad, and it was 25 years ago right now the demolition of the houses were taking place. Mothers Day, 1981 was the last mass at Immaculate Conception. | ||
Detourdetroit Member Username: Detourdetroit Post Number: 147 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.213.205.102 |
she was a great woman of great intelligence and a great, deep spirit. | ||
Jenniferl Member Username: Jenniferl Post Number: 227 Registered: 03-2004 Posted From: 4.229.156.121 |
Her Poletown book is outstanding, one of the few books I've ever read that actually made me cry. At the time I was reading about all those people losing their homes, Living Colour's "Message to a Landlord" came on the radio and I just lost it. |
