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Yearly Archives: 2011
West Coast-based journalist/activist Jonah Raskin reports on the first day of Occupy Austin, where “1,500 youthful demonstrators, aging protesters, and ageless rabble-rousers” gathered outside Austin City Hall to voice their anger about Wall Street greed and a variety of social … Continue reading
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Jonah Raskin : Occupy Austin: This is Just the Beginning
Occupy Austin, Friday, Oct. 6, 2011. Photo from Occupy Austin.Occupy Austin:This is just the beginning By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 10, 2011 See photo gallery below. [West Coast writer, activist, and Rag Blog contributor Jonah Raskin … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Corporate Profits, Jonah Raskin, Occupy Austin, Occupy Wall Street, Social Protest
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he New Anti-Corporate Movement Comes to Austin, Texas By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 8, 2011 AUSTIN — Occupy Austin attracted the young who found it new and wonderful, and the old who found it familiar and … Continue reading
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he New Anti-Corporate Movement Comes to Austin, Texas By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 8, 2011 [West Coast author, journalist, and Rag Blog contributor Jonah Raskin attended the first day of Occupy Austin, held outside Austin City … Continue reading
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Bill Meacham : Mondragon: Reinventing Humanity
The Mondragon Corporation. “The present, however splendid it may be, bears the seeds of its own ruin if it becomes separated from the future.” — José María Arizmendiarrieta.Mondragon: Reinventing humanity It is a striking vision, and a welcome alternative to … Continue reading
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Tagged Basque Country, Bill Meacham, Existentialism, Labor, Mondragon, Philosophy, Workers Cooperatives
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Mark Naison : Wall Street and the Making of a Global Counterculture
Photo by Robert Johnson / Business Insider.The Wall Street occupations and themaking of a global counterculture The emergence of a global youth counterculture should be seen as a powerful complement to a global movement for freedom, democracy, and economic justice. … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Power, Counterculture, Direct Action, Mark Naison, Occupy Wall Street, Sixties, Social Protest
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Rag Radio : Progressive Texas State Legislator Elliott Naishtat
Texas State. Rep. Elliott Naishtat (D-Austin) on Rag Radio at the KOOP studios in Austin, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Photos by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog.Progressive Texas legislator Elliott Naishtat on Rag Radiowith Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here:Progressive … Continue reading
Bill Meacham : Mondragon: Reinventing Humanity
The Mondragon Corporation. “The present, however splendid it may be, bears the seeds of its own ruin if it becomes separated from the future.” — José María Arizmendiarrieta.Mondragon: Reinventing Humanity By Bill Meacham / The Rag Blog / October 6, … Continue reading
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Tagged Basque Country, Bill Meacham, Existentialism, Labor, Mondragon, Philosophy, Workers Cooperatives
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Mark Naison : Wall Street and the Making of a Global Counterculture
Photo by Robert Johnson / Business Insider.The Wall Street occupations and themaking of a global counterculture The emergence of a global youth counterculture should be seen as a powerful complement to a global movement for freedom, democracy, and economic justice. … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Power, Counterculture, Direct Action, Mark Naison, Occupy Wall Street, Sixties, Social Protest
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Bill Meacham : Mondragon: Reinventing Humanity
The Mondragon Corporation. “The present, however splendid it may be, bears the seeds of its own ruin if it becomes separated from the future.” — José María Arizmendiarrieta.Mondragon: Reinventing humanity It is a striking vision, and a welcome alternative to … Continue reading
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Tagged Basque Country, Bill Meacham, Existentialism, Labor, Mondragon, Philosophy, Workers Cooperatives
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Mark Naison : Wall Street and the Making of a Global Counterculture
Photo by Robert Johnson / Business Insider.The Wall Street occupations and themaking of a global counterculture By Mark Naison / The Rag Blog / October 6, 2011 NEW YORK — On Monday, October 3, I spent about an hour in … Continue reading
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Bob Feldman : The Slave State of Texas, 1846-1860
Newspaper notice of runaway slave jailed in Bastrop County, Texas, 1855. Image from AfroTexan.com.The hidden history of Texas Part V: The Slave State of Texas, 1846-1860 By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / October 5, 2011 [This is Part … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Austin History, Bob Feldman, Slavery, Texas History
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