Interview w/Francis Fox Piven
DL: How did you come to be a radical?

FP: Like a lot of people in the New York area, my parents were Russian Jewish immigrants. They were intuitive radicals even though they didn't have formal educations. I think they certainly influenced me. My father--when I saw him, which wasn't very often because he worked very long hours -- always talked to me about world affairs. I remember him saying to me that you couldn't believe the capitalist press. So I asked him, "Then why do you read the newspaper all the time, Daddy?" And he said, "I read between the lines." Since I couldn't read at all yet -- I was only about three or four -- I studied between the lines to see what I could see, and I ...
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-467726441.html

NOTE THAT THE OMNIPRESENT JEWISH EDITORS OF WIKIPEDIA HAVE SANITIZED HER JEWISHNESS. IN BOTTOM RECTANGLE SHE IS ONLY LISTED AS "CANADIAN AMERICA". By the way, I wish someone would edit Podblanc's Wikipedia listing to state that I am Canadian America.

Frances Fox Piven, born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1932, is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fox_Piven