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: When I joined City Lights in 1971, and started working with Lawrence, it was clear that it had been very much a center of protest, for people with revolutionary ideas and people who wanted to change society.

And when I first began working at the little editorial office up on Filbert and Grant, people that Lawrence had known through the whole decade of the ' 60s were dropping in all the time, like Paul Krassner, Tim Leary, people who were working with underground presses and trying to provide an alternative to mainstream media.

This was a period of persecution, and FBI infiltration of those presses.