William Alan “Bill” Callison, a perennial wack-job candidate associated with the Peace and Freedom Party’s “Berkeley Bolsheviks” (maybe that should Bullsheviks) has become the most recent victim of the FCOA’s curse on the unworthy and useless. Callison, a descendant of Virginia slaveowners, graduated from Central Kitsap High School in a wealthy Seattle suburb (some might wonder if his later patronage from John Thomas Condit had anything to do with a potential relationship being Big Boeing Phil Condit???).
Bill Callison gave me (he literally had to give it away because most people were not stupid enough to buy it) a copy of this lunatic fringe tract. I gave my copy away as it was only useful for entertainment, if one finds the ravings of an idiot sectarian to be amusing.
A self-published “author” of an insane tract he called “The Coming Revolution,” Callison holds the distinction of being the only person ever expelled from the California Peace & Freedom Party State Central Committee on charges of sexual harassment. He was accused of battering and sexually attacking then-state party chairperson Kayren Hudiburgh mid-70′s. In spite of his unabashed and perverse attack on Hudiburgh, Callison was welcomed back into the party by the insanely sectarian Akin-Feinland-Condit alliance who welcomed his utterly sectarian analysis of the world in his book.
The FCOA recently included Callison on its standing curse list. As a result, he was subjected to the usual cocktail of Roma (Gypsy) black magic, Black Path Wiccan magic, and Voodoo during an FCOA ritual.
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Very glad to see that someone has the courage to take on the take over artists who have seized control of the official state party appartus of California’s Peace and Freedom Party. I remember Callison from the Vietnam War days when he published a newspaper called “The Bond” which was supposed to organize armed forces personnel against the war – unfortunately Callison’s elitist and ruling class background (Stanford University, UC Berkeley graduate classes) talked down to GI’s and naval enlisted to the point that the paper had to be discontinued after a dozen or so issues.
As to John Thomas Condit, it’s ironic that Condit was one of those who voted to expel Bill Callison from Peace and Freedom Party over the Hudiburgh imbroglio, but later took Callison back so Bill could be used as a Contra Costa satellite for Condit’s sham “Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party and Movement” a misnomer if there ever was one. Condit also use to rent out a house on Grant Street in Berkeley which he then sublet (illegally) while his wife, Marsha Fineland served on the Berkeley Rent Control Board.
Condit of course is best known as the biggest redbaiter in Peace and Freedom Party – a problem which the party has never fully addressed.