(Here’s an update on this post with a couple of audio links from the Institute for Policy Changes)
John Ross has crossed another border, his final one.
Poet, beatnik, activist, journalist John Ross had been living in Mexico City.
He reported from Mexico, on the politics and people and made more sense out of it all than most. One of our contributors at Writers Of The Rio Grande sent some of his blogs to us. With his passing more of the living history of the beatniks and activists that began
their work in the 1950’s and 60’s has passed with him. He saw first hand what went on in Mexico, and analyzed the interactions of the world power brokers and the U.S establishment vis-à-vis Mexico. He grew up in New York City, and filtered his observations through a left perspective, but many times he was spot on. If you read his bio in the following link you’ll see why. He was a contemporary and knew the great beat poets, and like many of them he stopped in Mexico City on his way from Greenwich Village to San Francisco.
John ended up staying.
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Here’s a video from YouTube titled “To the Lovely Memory of John Ross”
