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Yearly Archives: 2011
Rag Radio : Singer/Songwriter and Community Activist Charlie Faye
Austin singer/songwriter Charlie Faye with Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer at the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio.Singer/songwriter and community activist Charlie Fayeon Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Listen to … Continue reading
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Bill Meacham : Simone de Beauvoir: A Philosophy of Liberation
Simone de Beauvoir. Image from Cultural and Critical Theory Library.Simone de Beauvoir:A philosophy of liberation Exercising our own freedom requires that others be free. By Bill Meacham / The Rag Blog / November 3, 2011 I was pleased recently to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Meacham, Existentialism, Free Will, Human Freedom, Philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir
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Danny Goldberg : Don’t Diss the Drum Circles
Drummer at Occupy Wall Street in Philadelphia. Image from PhillyNow.Don’t diss the drum circles:Why hippie culture is stillimportant to our protests By Danny Goldberg / AlterNet / November 2, 2011 Progressives and mainstream Democratic pundits disagree with each other about … Continue reading
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Tagged Drum Circles, Hippies, New Left, Occupy Wall Street, Sixties, Spirituality
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Wayne Grytting : Gandhi Meets Monty Python
We are all Guy Fawkes. Occupiers in Zuccotti Park in New York turn protest into theater. Photo by Andrew Burton / AP.Gandhi meets Monty Python:The comedic turn in nonviolent tactics By Wayne Grytting / Waging Nonviolence / November 1, 2011 … Continue reading
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southyrolean / flickr M. Python: And now for something completely different. Wall Street zombie. Image from IBTimes.Gandhi meets Monty Python:The comedic turn in nonviolent tactics By Wayne Grytting / Waging Nonviolence / November 1, 2011 On October 3rd, protesters at … Continue reading
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Beyond the Causal Veilby Bill Meacham Quantum indeterminacy operates inside your brain. What does that say about the nature of human will and decision-making?(1) We’ve taken a look at the world of quantum physics before, but a little recap is … Continue reading
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Gandhi meets Monty Python:The comedic turn in nonviolent tactics By Wayne Grytting / Waging Nonviolence / November 1, 2011 On October 3rd, protesters at Occupy Wall Street failed to march. Instead they clumsily lurched. With white painted faces, glazed looks … Continue reading
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Larry Ray : Cellular Civil Rights in Mississippi?
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Civil rights for diploid cells?Legal ‘personhood’ in Mississippi The draconian redefinition of abortion and commonly used methods of contraception as murder would do away with a woman’s right to make her own decisions … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion Rights, Birth Control, Larry Ray, Mississippi, Right Wing Politics
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Ted McLaughlin : The Occupy Movement is Changing the Conversation
It’s changing the conversation:The wealth gap and the Occupy MovementBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / October 31, 2011 The image above brings home a very disturbing fact about the United States — the vast inequality of wealth and … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Concentration of Wealth, Income Gap, Occupy Wall Street, Ted McLaughlin
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Greg Moses : It’s all Trick, no Treat, as Cops Bust Occupy Austin Protesters
Austin police confront demonstrators at City Hall, Oct. 29, 2011. Photo by Ann Harkness /Flickr.All trick no treat:Austin police take downfood table in midnight raid By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / October 31, 2011 Police in Austin, Texas, … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Police, Direct Action, Greg Moses, Occupy Austin, Occupy Wall Street, Social Protest
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Susan Van Haitsma : ‘Viva la Vida’ in Austin
CodePink at Viva la Vida. Photo by Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog.Viva la Vida…and remember the dead By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / October 28, 2011 See gallery of photos by Susan Van Haitsma, Below. … Continue reading
David Van Os : ‘Non-Lethal Projectiles’ in Oakland
Police officers with “non-lethal ordnance” after an early morning raid on Occupy Oakland’s tent city, Oakland, CA, Oct.25, 2011. Photo by Stephen Lam / Reuters.Military zone in Oakland:Riot cops use ‘non-lethal projectiles’to attack occupiers’ encampment Scott Olsen, who served two … Continue reading
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Tagged David Van Os, Iraq Veterans, Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, Police Brutality, Social Protest
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