'Hunter Gray' hunterbadbear@hunterbear.org [marxist]
2014-05-09 13:13:33 UTC
After a few years of resistance to computers, I more or less embraced that faith on December 12 1998. I was partially influenced by Geronimo's taking the Winchester 1876 lever action for Apache purposes. I soon recognized the considerable value of computer tech for our purposes.
On February 14 2000, we launched the Lair of Hunterbear website. www.hunterbear.org The initial purpose was essentially self-defense. We were in Idaho, facing a slew of canards, almost all of these initiated and carried by covert cowards -- and we were also very obviously under some kind of "special" surveillance by "lawmen." All of this related to my status as a "known agitator" -- and, if I may, a very effective one. In time and in large measure thanks to the growing website, the canards essentially evaporated -- but the surveillance, Federally sponsored, still continues.
It wasn't long at all before we began adding pages on a number of key social justice topics and some on matters of interest with which I'm also quite familiar. Early on, I placed these lead sentences at the top of our basic cover page: "I was born from the Four Directions and things have always been interesting. This vast website is based on a long and continuing lifetime of direct, grassroots activist community organizing: Native rights, union labor, civil rights, civil liberties. There is also much on the American West. Almost all material is first hand primary in nature and much is contemporary."
The Hunterbear website is totally non-sectarian.
In its fourteen years of existence, Hunterbear has grown to about 600 pages. Its reach is global. Most of these pages are visited in the course of a month, a goodly number of them quite heavily. Over the span of three or four months, almost all of the pages are visited. Total monthly visitors usually range from 21,000 to 27,000 -- always more heavily during the academic year.
Hunterbear is totally non-profit. We have turned down all commercial advertising offers. We do have a Link to Civil Rights Movement Veterans. (Once, surreptitiously, several ads for Rolex watches and Romanian clothing were listed faintly at the bottom of a few website pages. We removed those and changed the password.)
I could describe Lair of Hunterbear two ways. One would be a Grizzly that just keeps going. Another would be "Old Man River." Given my background, I prefer the Grizzly analogy.
In Solidarity,
Hunter (Hunter Bear)
HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /
St. Francis Abenaki / St. Regis Mohawk
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO
Check out our massive social justice website
www.hunterbear.org The site is dedicated to our
one-half Bobcat, Cloudy Gray, and to Sky Gray:
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm
See my piece ON BEING A MILITANT AND RADICAL
ORGANIZER -- AND AN EFFECTIVE ONE (Mississippi et al.):
http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm
See our very full COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
page -- with a great deal of practical material:
http://hunterbear.org/my_combined_community_organizing.htm
See my new expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000 word
introduction by me. This page lists many reviews.
And this book is also an activist's how-to manual:
http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm
The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm:
(Photos)
On February 14 2000, we launched the Lair of Hunterbear website. www.hunterbear.org The initial purpose was essentially self-defense. We were in Idaho, facing a slew of canards, almost all of these initiated and carried by covert cowards -- and we were also very obviously under some kind of "special" surveillance by "lawmen." All of this related to my status as a "known agitator" -- and, if I may, a very effective one. In time and in large measure thanks to the growing website, the canards essentially evaporated -- but the surveillance, Federally sponsored, still continues.
It wasn't long at all before we began adding pages on a number of key social justice topics and some on matters of interest with which I'm also quite familiar. Early on, I placed these lead sentences at the top of our basic cover page: "I was born from the Four Directions and things have always been interesting. This vast website is based on a long and continuing lifetime of direct, grassroots activist community organizing: Native rights, union labor, civil rights, civil liberties. There is also much on the American West. Almost all material is first hand primary in nature and much is contemporary."
The Hunterbear website is totally non-sectarian.
In its fourteen years of existence, Hunterbear has grown to about 600 pages. Its reach is global. Most of these pages are visited in the course of a month, a goodly number of them quite heavily. Over the span of three or four months, almost all of the pages are visited. Total monthly visitors usually range from 21,000 to 27,000 -- always more heavily during the academic year.
Hunterbear is totally non-profit. We have turned down all commercial advertising offers. We do have a Link to Civil Rights Movement Veterans. (Once, surreptitiously, several ads for Rolex watches and Romanian clothing were listed faintly at the bottom of a few website pages. We removed those and changed the password.)
From the outset, Hunterbear has been attacked again and again. The attacks have been both external and occasionally internal. Generally, our various servers have provided good security. We, ourselves, have full scale Norton and Malware/Anti Malware -- and a couple of other things. The external attacks have not been successful; the internal ones have messed up a couple of procedural mechanisms but we've been able to work around those in OK fashion. (In the course of this, I have learned more computer tech than I would have once dreamed possible. I am also much indebted to the assistance of family members, especially my oldest daughter, Maria.)
The website draws a slim but consistent number of letters, mostly query in nature. Many are researchers. Favorite topics are Native Americans, community organizing, Civil Rights Movement, labor unionism. I answer them all.I could describe Lair of Hunterbear two ways. One would be a Grizzly that just keeps going. Another would be "Old Man River." Given my background, I prefer the Grizzly analogy.
In Solidarity,
Hunter (Hunter Bear)
HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /
St. Francis Abenaki / St. Regis Mohawk
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO
Check out our massive social justice website
www.hunterbear.org The site is dedicated to our
one-half Bobcat, Cloudy Gray, and to Sky Gray:
http://hunterbear.org/cloudy_gray.htm
See my piece ON BEING A MILITANT AND RADICAL
ORGANIZER -- AND AN EFFECTIVE ONE (Mississippi et al.):
http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm
See our very full COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
page -- with a great deal of practical material:
http://hunterbear.org/my_combined_community_organizing.htm
See my new expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000 word
introduction by me. This page lists many reviews.
And this book is also an activist's how-to manual:
http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm
The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm:
(Photos)