Marshall Bloom (July 16, 1944 – November 1, 1969) is best known as the co-founder of the Liberation News Service (LNS) with Ray Mungo in 1967.
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The Liberation News Service was the "Associated Press" for more than 500 underground newspapers. The inaugural issue of the Liberation News Service, a mimeographed news packet, was sent in the summer of 1967.
In 1968, the LNS moved to New York, and in August, an internal split developed. Bloom left to contribute to the counterculture phenomenon of rural communes in the late 60s by buying a farm in Montague, Massachusetts and abandoning political activism in an urban setting and supplanting it with a Thoreauvian lifestyle. His former political colleagues, Ray Mungo and Verandah Porche were among the founders of a similar rural commune in southern Vermont.
For part of 1968, Bloom published the "LNS of the New Age" but the project died, when the ink froze in the mimeograph.