User:Lindbrook/Michael N. Lindsey

Michael Lindsey, also known as Mike Lindsey, wrote poetry for "Rolling Stone", is the most awarded military journalist, is cited as one of the first environmental activist journalists, the first to write directly to children about toxic waste dangers and the first to teach a critical journalism course, with the help of William Worthy and Noam Chomsky.

Michael Lindsey is a highly decorated retired military journalist currently writing as TRB in New England. He was awarded the Keith L. Ware Award for best Army newspaper editor in 1977,  The Paul D. Savanck award for journalist of the year in 1979 and the Keith L. Ware Award for best writer in 1979. http://www.army.mil/klw/previous_winners.html After he retired from Stars and Stripes, he wrote a series of articles for the Boston Herald starting in March of 1983 about the toxic waste from Baird and McGuire in Holbrook MA which was killing teens in the town. These stories eventually resulted in the plant closing and a super incinerator being erected there to clean up the contamination. He also wrote the children's book and coloring book "Hidden Dangers" copyrighted 1985 http://www.bing.com/search?q=Michael+Lindsey+copyright+hidden+dangers&form=HNTD and published by Citizens Clearinghouse for Toxic Waste to warn children of danger signs of toxic waste where they played. He is cited as one of the first environmental activist journalist for his work. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-120142139711101/unrestricted/body_back.pdf

He went on to co-teach the first critical journalism class with a famous journalist,William Worthy. The class was taught at UMass Boston College of Public and Community Service with Noam Chomsky guest lecturing. He became interested in antiques and copyrighted a book “Child of Misfortunes” in 1999, a collection of letters written by a woman on St. Croix in the early 1800’s. Mr. Lindsey continues to write in the new medium, writing columns as TRB for an internet newspaper in New England.

He is a service connected disabled veteran and often says "First you fight the war for your country; then you have to fight your country for the war." about the way veterans are treated by the VA.