Marcus Pegasus

Marcus (Blaise Collonge) Pegasus is a radio producer for KCBPradio.org in Modesto, California, a project of the Peace/Life Center of Stanislaus County). Pegasus joined the secular anarchist movement of micro-power (low-power) FM civilly disobedient community radio activists defying FCC rules in the late 1990s, shaming the FCC into resuming acceptance of impoverished people's ownership of radio stations. His work with Free Radio Fresno and Katholic Worker Community Radio presaged Pegasus' involvement with the Poor People's Campaign, 20 years later. Pegasus continues diligent works of mercy and service in the social teaching mode promoted by Roman Catholicism starting in the late 19th century. His life-long mission is pursuing the "lovarchist" solution to the problems of nuclearism, militarism, racism and elitism, in the tradition of Ammon Hennacy (1893-1970) and Dorothy Day (1897-1980). He started his journey of humanity just nine miles from Disneyland, at Saint Jude's Hospital on Harbor Blvd. in Fullerton, but he spent most of his youth in a mystical daze. Waking up when he was 19, Pegasus moved to Northern California to finish his schooling within the California State University system, achieving a Minor in Film Studies in 1990. Discovering that the "only solution is love," according to Dorothy Day, Pegasus joined her catholic anarchist movement in the 1990s and volunteered on the set of the most expensive biopic about Day's early years, despite that script's ignorance of the post-WWII life of the anti-nuclear Dorothy Day. Recently transplanted to Utah (http://CatholicWorker.biz/achorusamorphous), he continues folk media work in video and audio. Mr. Pegasus still visits Earth Abides CW Farm to direct retreats for San Francisco's HIV+ community willing to travel to the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, in Calaveras County, CA. Marcus Pegasus edited his first feature-length motion picture in 2004, in the hopes of inspiring others to do more theatrical productions of the amazing character (Ammon Hennacy) for the silver screen and as radio theater. This and other documentary works of Pegasus are meant to highlight the fleshy, radical spiritual activism of the 20th Century, as propaganda for goodness' sake amid the latest generation of faith-based activists.