[3] During the summer of 1965, Bloom worked as a Montgomery, Alabama, correspondent for The Southern Courier, reporting on the Civil rights movement.
[4] Bloom was one of the 20 Amherst graduates who walked out during their own commencement to protest the awarding of an honorary degree to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.
At an organizational meeting in Minneapolis in August, however, Bloom was purged from the USSPA because of his radical politics,[6][7] which included a push to send student editors to Cuba and defy the U.S. travel ban.
[citation needed] For the next six months,[11] Bloom published the "LNS of the New Age,"[12] with subscribers receiving rival news packets from LNS-Montague and LNS-New York.
But Bloom's group was understaffed, underfunded, and isolated on a remote (and cold) country farm, and the project died when the ink froze in the mimeograph.
[8][6][12] Bloom's former political colleagues, Ray Mungo and Verandah Porche, were later among the founders of a similar rural commune in southern Vermont.