Bridget Meehan: What’s in your new book?
Michael: The Wind Cries Freedom reports on a future movement that works to win a new world. The book’s imagined future interviewer, Miguel Guevara elicits tales of the interviewees’ participation in the next American Revolution. Why did they join? What did they do? What did they feel? What did they learn?
Why does the book end when the movement wins the Presidency? Is the book ultimately about electoral politics? Is that the revolution? Is that the guiding theme and goal?
No. The book’s last chapter only marked the movement having attained state power. By that point the movement had also won massive gains throughout dwellings, neighborhoods, and institutions all over the country. The book’s closing electoral victory didn’t end the revolution much less define it, it only opened a new stage of future struggle.
Miguel Guevara: : Michael, you have written a book titled The Wind Cries Freedom. What kind of weird title is that?
Michael: Gotta be honest. I was having trouble coming up with a title. While mulling, I heard the Hendrix song, The Wind Cries Mary. I had also just read Arundhati Roy’s memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me.” I recommend both. I adapted them. Maybe I was hoping some of their talent would come my way with the title. Who knows?
The subtitle is An Oral History of the Next American Revolution. I of course kept the name Revolution for a Participatory Society for your political organization. After all, you published all this, or most of it, anyway, Miguel, in your time and place. You are the interviewer. I am only the channeler, messing about here and there with small changes to bring it to my times.
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