It makes me feel old to admit to a quarter-century anniversary for something that happened in my early thirties but 25 years ago today, New York Times published a profile of my work on Nonviolence.org. Thanks to a great archive section, you can still read it on their website.
While many orgs have public relations departments dedicated to planting stories, this one happened pretty organically. I followed Lisa Napoli’s work in what the Times then called its “Cybertimes” section (a precursor to the less cringey “Tech” section of today) and liked her articles. It was seven years after the first Gulf War and President Clinton was saber rattling in Iraq again. I wondered how the peace movement would organize differently now that the internet was becoming a real organizing tool and I suspected Napoli might be interested. I shot an email and she responded immediately and set up an interview. A photographer came to my house and took a lot of pictures (including a really cringey one of me playing a guitar that graced the Cybertimes front page but has not been archived, thank goodness.)
It’s especially funny to me to see how dated some of the language and references are.
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