Gidra

[mr.negativity]

From Salon:

[quote="Michael Dooley"]

Remember those radical underground rags of the late 1960s? The East Village Other. The Berkeley Barb. The L.A. Free Press. Gidra. Wait … Gidra?

Wasn’t that a monster in those dumb Godzilla movies? Yes, but just because he tried to lay waste to Japan and the rest of civilization, Gidra wasn’t all bad. Which is how five UCLA students felt when they decided to name their newspaper after this three-headed winged dragon from outer space.

The ambitions of Gidra, which published monthly from 1969 to 1974, were more modest, and more noble. Its editors only wanted to destroy American imperialism in Southeast Asia and racism at home. As the “Voice of the Asian American Movement,â€