About the NonPartisan League

Jack Dunn has spent a good part of his life as an activist. He lived in Costa Rica for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in the early days when B.A. generalists were still accepted. His job there was to assist the National Boy Scout office in rejuvenating the organization, which had fallen on hard times. This was a dream job. For a year, he lived in the Capital City between traveling from village to village with a 16mm movie projector and a movie showing the World Scout Jamboree (in Greece, IIRC), and telling the assembled Ticos (1) that they really would be better off if they had a Boy Scout troop in their village. The newly appointed head of the National Scout Office was quite competent and had already done the advance work of talking with the local church or school to find someone who would be willing to be the Scout Master, so the results were uniformly positive. Later, after buying a Volkswagen and driving from San Jose, Costa Rica to Madison, Wisconsin (1967), he embraced the nationwide student revolt against the Vietnam War, dropping out of grad school and taking about 10 years off. After relocating in 1988 to marry the Omaha woman he had met in one of the national Radical Therapy (2) conferences, he partnered with Nils Anders Erickson, Beth Moore and others to create a People's Film Festival (political and/or International films) which was held weekly in the late, lamented McFosters restaurant. When attendance got to the point of 80 people or more, the individuals who later created Film Streams decided that there was a market for "art movies". Working with a different set of people, he created Progressive Omaha, a monthly potluck and discussion group dealing with the lack of connection between Independent Liberals and the rest of the community. Guest speakers came from all over Omaha, including North and South O. This lasted several years until the venue (a private home) decided it was time to remodel.