** Original copies of this rarity. Few copies available ** The first of several releases documenting John Giorno’s dial-a-poem project. The album was released at the height of protest against the Vietnam war and of confrontation between the US establishment and radical domestic organisations such as the Yippies and the Black Panthers. Running along the bottom of the front cover is the message: “At this point, with the war and the repression and everything, we thought this was a good way for the Movement to reach the people.” Along with Giorno, featured voices, most of them reading their own words, include Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Brion Gysin, Bobby Seale and Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panthers, and John Sinclair, manager of the MC5 and co-founder of the White Panthers.