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Yearly Archives: 2011
Steve Russell : ‘Chief’ Was Born on Death Row
The North Block entrance to Condemned Row at San Quentin. Image from Strong as an Ox.‘Chief’ Stankewitz:Born on death row Chief has now spent 33 years of his life on California’s death row, but virtually all of his life before … Continue reading
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Ellen LaConte : Finding Democracy in Unexpected Places
Single-celled amoeba called dictyostelium gather together and turn themselves collectively into a new creature: slime mold. Image from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).Finding democracy in unexpected— and radically green — places What if nature — life as we know … Continue reading
Rag Radio : Activist/Journalist Jonah Raskin, Author of ‘Marijuanaland’
Jonah Raskin, photographed at a Rag Blog Happy Hour at Maria’s Taco Xpress in Austin, Texas, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, after appearing on Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Photos (above and below) by James Retherford / The Rag Blog.Activist/journalist Jonah … Continue reading
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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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Five Reasons the Occupy Wall StreetMovement Really Frightens the Right By Robert CreamerProgressive America Rising via HuffPost The Occupy Wall Street movement really frightens the Right Wing. It is not frightening to the Right because of Congressman Eric Cantor’s feigned … Continue reading
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Finding democracy in unexpected— and radically green — places By Ellen LaConte / The Rag Blog / October 12, 2011 [This post is adapted from Ellen LaConte’s article in the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of the international journal, Green Horizon.] “Our … Continue reading
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Lamar W. Hankins : Documenting Flawed Forensics and the Willingham Execution
Scene from Joe Bailey Jr. and Steve Mims’s Incendiary: The Willingham Case. Image from Truly Indie.Rick Perry and the Texasdeath penalty smokescreen Incendiary: The Willingham Case, a documentary film. It is both riveting and sickening to watch how, in Texas, … Continue reading
Born on Death Row By Steve Russell Capital punishment, the saying goes, means that those without the capital get the punishment, and over 35 years of labor in criminal law has yet to show me a case that disproves it. … Continue reading
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Finding Democracy in Unexpected—and Radically Green—Places by Ellen LaConte (This post is adapted from LaConte’s article in the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of the international journal Green Horizon. (www.green-horizon.org) ) Our capacity for democracy grows from our connection with nature. As … Continue reading
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Rick Perry and the Texasdeath penalty smokescreen By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / October 11, 2011 The new documentary Incendiary: The Willingham Case works at two levels. It focuses on what happens when supposedly expert witnesses in … Continue reading
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Harry Targ : Drones, Banks, and Multitudes
The multitudes: “Cry of the Masses” by Josef Vachal. Image from Express Tribune blogs.Sound bites:Drones, banks, and multitudes By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / October 11, 2011 In this age of tweets, sound bites, and shorthand references to … Continue reading
Born on Death Row By Steve Russell Capital punishment, the saying goes, means that those without the capital get the punishment, and over 35 years of labor in criminal law has yet to show me a case that disproves it. … Continue reading
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