Curriculum Vitae

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Name: Wade Hudson

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1825, Boulder Creek, CA 95006

Email: whudson@igc.org

Phone/Fax: 408/354-2653

Date of Birth: July 26, 1944

Place of Birth: Little Rock, Arkansas

Gender: Male

Race: White

 

VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY WORK

 

University Students Cooperative Association (USCA), Berkeley. 1962-1967

Served in most leadership positions at Ridge House, a student co-op. Elected Co-Coordinator of the University’s experimental Residence College at the USCA’s Cloyne Court.

Political Activism, 1962-1969

Participated in protest against the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), Campus CORE and Bay Area civil rights demonstrations (1963-1964), Dallas CORE (1964-1965), Selma to Montgomery March (1965), anti-war demonstrations (1965-1969), Third World Students Strikes, San Francisco and Berkeley (1968-1969), Free Huey Newton demonstrations (1968-1969), People’s Park (1969).

New Seminary Movement, Berkeley. 1968-1969 

Co-founder of a project transform the educational philosophy and governance structure of the Pacific School of Religion that led to the replacement of the conservative school president with a progressive alternative. Served on the Religion Committee of the United Front Against War and Fascism Conference.

Alternative Futures Community, San Francisco. 1969-1971

Participated in the leadership of a residential community that began as an educational center for seminary students and continued as a social change network involved in conducting Urban Plunge educational events for the general public. Served on the organizing committee for the May Day, 1971 anti-war demonstration in San Francisco.

Regional Young Adult Project, San Francisco. 1970-1981

Served on the Board of Directors of this agency that provided fiscal sponsorship and technical assistance to grassroots, social-change organizations. Served on the initial organizing committee for the San Francisco Community Congress.

Madness Network News, San Francisco, 1971-1976

Served as co-editor of a monthly magazine that challenged traditional psychiatric methods and advocated humanistic alternatives.

Westside Community Mental Health Centers, 1973-1976

Served on the Board of Directors of this community-controlled mental health consortium. Served on the Board of Directors of Baker Places, a network of halfway houses.

Vanguard Public Foundation, San Francisco. 1975-1977

Served as charter member of its Community Board that distributed half of the foundation's grants to grassroots social change organizations.

Outer Sunset, San Francisco, 1976-1982

Founded the District Eleven Residents Association. Projects included door-to-door voter registration and canvassing for rent control, controlled-growth and district election initiatives, opposing the demolition of affordable housing, participating in city-wide Community Congresses, and throwing square dances at the local church.

Bay Area Committee for Alternatives to Psychiatry, San Francisco, 1981-1983

Co-founder of this organization that challenged forced electroshock treatment and pushed for the distribution of drug-information sheets to recipients of psychiatric drugs. Elected to the District Five Community Advisory Board. Appointed by the Board of Supervisors to the citywide Mental Health Advisory Board.

Tenderloin, San Francisco. 1983-2000

Lived in the Aarti Cooperative Hotel and participated in the leadership of its tenants association. Played a key role in the formation of a number of neighborhood projects, including the Tenderloin Self-Help Center, Tenderloin Jobs Coalition, and 509 Cultural Center. Organized the Solutions to Poverty Workshop, Campaign to Abolish Poverty, Economic Security Project, and San Francisco Progressive Challenge.

Alliance for Democracy, 1995-1997

Served on the national governing board, coordinated the Economic Insecurity Task Force, and coordinated the Internet presence of this national grassroots populist organization.              

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

Paperboy, 1956-1962 (part-time)

Dallas Morning News, Dallas

Short-order Cook, 1960-1962 (part-time)

South Loop Drive-in Theatre, Dallas

Delivery Boy, 1962/1963

Horn Blue Print, Dallas

Coat Room Clerk, 1963-1964 (part-time)

            Bancroft Library, Berkeley

Orderly, 1964-1965

            Parkland General and Woodlawn Psychiatric Hospitals, Dallas

Orderly, 1965-1967 (part-time)

            Cowell Hospital, Berkeley

Counselor, 1967-1968 (part-time)

Austin McCormick Halfway House, San Francisco

Youth Minister, 1968-1969 (part-time)

Lafayette Methodist Church, Lafayette

Intern Minister, 1969-1970

Glide Church, San Francisco

Worked with the multi-media light show at Sunday Celebrations, staffed the National Sex and Drug Forum, and worked with Alternative Futures in Ministry.

Mental Health Counselor, 1971-1972

Marin Crisis Center, Marin County

Served as a counselor in the county mental health crisis center at the county hospital.

Staff Organizer, 1972-76

Network Against Psychiatric Assault, San Francisco

Co-founded and staffed an organization of former psychiatric inmates, mental health professionals, and concerned citizens to oppose forced psychiatric treatment and promote self-help alternatives.

Campaign Against More Prisons, California

Organized and conducted a series of public forums throughout California in opposition to the construction of more prisons.

Staff Organizer, 1978-79

Muni Coalition, San Francisco

Organized an effort to prevent fare increases and improve public transit, including forming the Bay Area Transit Coalition.

Staff, 1977

Store Manager, 1980-1982

Other Avenues Community Food Store, San Francisco

Coordinated an otherwise all-volunteer staff in the operation of a neighborhood consumer cooperative.

Store Manager, 1982-1984

South of Market Food Co-op, San Francisco

Coordinated the planning, opening and operation of a State-supported retail food cooperative and job training program.

Associate Editor, 1984-1986

The Tenderloin Times, San Francisco

Participated in a three-person editorial team planning and writing stories, recruiting and supervising volunteer writers, editing copy, and doing design and paste-up for a quadra-lingual neighborhood newspaper.

Resident Manager, 1986-1987

Aarti Cooperative Hotel, San Francisco

Coordinated the management of a low-income residential hotel and provided staff support to the tenants' association.

Part-time Tele-fundraiser, 1988-89

SANE/FREEZE, Washington DC.

Telephoned members and solicited monthly pledges.

Part-time Research Assistant, 1988-1989

Center for the Study of Psychiatry, Bethesda, MD

Pursued articles and data at the National Library of Medicine, prepared research reports, and assisted with rewriting articles.

Part-time Taxi Driver, 1987-1988, 1989-2002

Yellow Cab Cooperative, San Francisco

Worked as an independent contractor providing transportation and tours.

 

EDUCATION

 

University of California at Berkeley, B.S., Social Science Field Major, 1967

Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. 1967-1969.

. 

PUBLICATIONS

 

"An Evaluation of the Residence College," The Daily Californian Weekly Magazine, November 14, 1967, 8/10.

Co-editor, Madness Network News Reader, Glide Publications, 1974.

“The Mental Health Profession As Advocate," Advocacy Now, March 1980, 12-15.

"Locked Up Or Left Out: The Sorry Catch-22 of San Francisco's Mental Health System," with Tim Redmond, San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 17-24, 1985, cover story.

"To Abolish Demoralizing Poverty," Christian Social Action, January 1989, 4-9.

"The Grass Roots Empire Strikes Back," Sequoia, August/September, 1993, 5.

"Jobs or Income Now," Street Sheet, February 1992, 3.  

Economic Security for All: How to End Poverty in the United States, Economic Security Project, 1996.

"Job Guarantees: A Human Right," San Francisco Examiner, September 7, 1997, A-17.

"The War Against Yugoslavia: Was It Worth It?”, North Coast Express, Fall 1999,  22-25.

"Stop Taking Sides: Petition for Peace in Palestine," Common Dreams, April 16, 2002.