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Yearly Archives: 2011
PEACE GRANNY CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC AT IRAQ WAR’S ENDby Joan Wile, Author“Grandmothers Against the War: Getting Off Our Fannies and Standing Up for Peace” (Citadel Press) The news hit me like an electric shock. Was this for real? I stared at … Continue reading
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Harvey Wasserman : Occupy Nukes!
Occupy Wall Street image from eleven degrees north.Merge and win:Occupy Wall Street andthe ‘No Nukes’ movement By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / October 25, 2011 The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, American Society, Harvey Wasserman, No Nukes, Nuclear Power, Occupy Wall Street, Social Protest
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Texas’s Hidden History Revisited—Part 6: 1860-1865 In 1861, the slave-owning Anglo political leaders of Texas decided that the state should secede from the United States and join the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War. According to Alwyn Barr’s Black Texans … Continue reading
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Where Occupy & No Nukes merge & win By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / October 25, 2011 The global upheaval that is the Occupy Movement is hopefully in the process of changing — and saving — the world. … Continue reading
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Lamar W. Hankins : Free Speech and the Texas Confederate License Plate
Speciality license plate proposed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Image from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.Texas Confederate Battle Flag:License plates, racism, and free speech By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / October 25, 2011 At first … Continue reading
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Tagged Confederacy, Free Speech, Lamar W. Hankins, Racism, Slavery, Texas Politics
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Mike Davis sees prophesies of today’s Occupy Wall Street movement in John Carpenter’s classic “date-night terror” flick, They Live. “As Carpenter foresaw, force enough Americans out of their homes and/or careers… and something new and huge will begin to slouch … Continue reading
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An exclusive Rag Blog interview with Bernardine Dohrn — the leader of late Sixties SDS and the Weather Underground who now teaches law at Northwestern University and is an advocate for children and family justice — by an old colleague, … Continue reading
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Mike Davis : No More Bubblegum
Nada’s magic glasses in John Carpenter’s They Live.No more bubblegum:Occupy Wall Street’s magic glasses As [John] Carpenter foresaw, force enough Americans out of their homes and/or careers… and something new and huge will begin to slouch toward Goldman Sachs. By … Continue reading
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Tagged Horror Movies, Mike Davis, Occupy Wall Street, Progressive Movement, Radical Change
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Jonah Raskin : A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Never the ‘good girl,’ not then, not now:A Rag Blog interview with Bernardine Dohrn By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 20, 2011 Bernardine Dohrn will be Thorne Dreyer‘s … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Interview, Jonah Raskin, Radicals, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground
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Carl Davidson : Occupied Wall Street and the Emergence of a Popular Front
Photo by Emily Laermer / Crain’s.We shall not be moved!A report from occupied Wall Street: A new popular front against finance capital, encompassing a progressive majority of the country, is beginning to take shape. By Carl Davidson / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Davidson, Occupy Wall Street, Popular Front, Progressive Movement, Social Protest
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Alyssa Burgin : Cronyism, Corruption, and the Keystone XL Pipeline
Don’t mess with Texas. Photo by Jon McLaughlin / National Resources Defense Council.‘Regulatory capture’:Cronyism and corruption in the Keystone XL Pipeline approval process By Alyssa Burgin / The Rag Blog / October 19, 2011 AUSTIN — On November 6, 2011, … Continue reading
Bernardine Dorhn: Never the Good Girl, Not Then, not Now An Interview with The Rag Blog By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog Bernardine Dohrn will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio on KOOP 91.7-FM (and streamed live on … Continue reading
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