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Ryan Holeywell : Meet Occupy Wall Street’s Favorite Banker
The Bank of North Dakota: The country’s only publicly-owned state bank.The Case for public state banks:Meet Occupy Wall Street’s favorite banker By Ryan Holeywell / SolidarityEconomy.Net / January 4, 2012 See clip from Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story, Below. … Continue reading
Danny Schechter : Occupy Wall Street Marks Anniversary With New York Street Actions
Bishop George Packard climbs a fence along with other protesters. Photo from Getty Images.Seeking ‘sanctuary’ at Trinity Church:Protests mark third anniversaryof Occupy Wall Street Trinity Church may be there to serve God, but the defense of their real estate portfolio … Continue reading
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Danny Schechter : The Media and Occupy Wall Street
Jon Stewart covers Wall Street coverage.But for how long?Occupy Wall Street is all over the media By Danny Schechter | The Rag Blog | November 28, 2011 One of the oldest patterns of media coverage can be summed up this … Continue reading
Steve Russell : Will Rogers on Occupy Wall Street
Get the point? Image of Will Rogers from the Will Rogers Museum.Will Rogers on Occupy Wall Street By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | November 23, 2011 “It’s all right to let Wall Street bet each other millions of … Continue reading
Steve Russell : Will Rogers on Occupy Wall Street
Get the point? Image of Will Rogers from the Will Rogers Museum.Will Rogers on Occupy Wall Street By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / November 23, 2011 It’s all right to let Wall Street bet each other millions of … Continue reading
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Tagged Banking, Occupy Wall Street, Steve Russell, Will Rogers
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David P. Hamilton : What Occupy Wall Street Has Accomplished
Eat the Rich: Occupy Wall Street is made for TV.What the Occupy Wall Streetmovement has accomplished so far By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / October 18, 2011 Plenty. 1. The implantation of the tactical innovation of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, David P. Hamilton, Direct Action, Occupy Wall Street, Progressive Movement, Social Protest
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Robert Creamer : Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Frightens the Right
Sign from Occupy Wall Street. Image from We Know Memes.Five reasons the Occupy Wall Streetmovement really frightens the right By Robert Creamer / Progressive America Rising / October 12, 2011 The Occupy Wall Street movement really frightens the Right Wing. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 Elections, Occupy Wall Street, Progressive Movement, Right Wing Politics, Robert Creamer, Tea Party
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Thousands of students protest gun violence
California students carried signs like, ‘I should be writing my term paper instead of my will.’ By Shepherd Bliss | The Rag Blog | March 15, 2018 SONOMA COUNTY, California — Driving through small-town Sebastopol on March 14 toward the … Continue reading
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Tagged Gun Laws, High School Walk-Outs, Rag Bloggers, School Shootings, Shepherd Bliss, Student Activism
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We interviewed Tom Hayden on Rag Radio as Port Huron turned 50
‘If we appear to seek the unattainable, as it has been said, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable.’ — Port Huron Statement By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | October 27, 2016 … Continue reading
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Tagged New Left, Podcasts, Port Huron Statement, Rag Bloggers, Rag Radio, SDS, Sixties, Thorne Dreyer, Tom Hayden, Tom Hayden Tribute
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THEATER | Brechtomania!
Why Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht is theater’s hottest old name By Moira Herbst | Portside | September 7, 2014 The playwright, theorist and poet Bertolt Brecht is known worldwide as a giant of modern theater. But until recently, few theaters … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Epic Theater, Marxist Art, Moira Herbst, Playwrights, Radical Theater, The Threepenny Opera, Theater
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Progressive Dems see opening for new politics
Elizabeth Warren and the populists say ‘No way!’ to ‘Third Way.’ Conditions ripe for a new politics: An opening for progressive Democrats The Democratic progressive base is making clear that Hillary Clinton must make an adjustment from her hawkish centrism … Continue reading
INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : Occupy’s Nathan Schneider on Anarchy and Radical Catholicism
Nathan Schneider, June 17, 2012. Photo from Occupy. Interview with Occupy’s Nathan Schneider: Anarchy, activism, and radical Catholicism By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | September 19, 2013 “It’s hard to pick a revolution about which one doesn’t have … Continue reading