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Yearly Archives: 2011

Lamar W. Hankins : Natural Gas and the Perils of Fracking

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Light my fire. Images from the documentary film, Gasland.The perils of fracking:Protecting our waterfrom natural gas production By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2011 Anyone who drinks water has a stake in the production of … Continue reading →

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Jordan Flaherty : Race and Politics in Rural Louisiana

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Image from The Louisiana Justice Center.Race and politics in rural Louisiana town The Black mayor of Waterproof, Louisiana has spent nearly a year behind bars without bail. By Jordan Flaherty / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2011 NEW ORLEANS … Continue reading →

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Ted McLaughlin : Lies, Damned Lies, and Republicans

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

You lie. Graffiti art by Banksy.Our ‘true and false’ test:Exposing more Republican liesBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2011 Since the heyday of the Reagan administration the Republican Party has been making the rules for the … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 28, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Five books about the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation based in Spain’s Basque Country provide a platform for Carl’s discussion of the vital experiment in socialist and working-class alternatives that has been steadily growing over the past 50 years. Mondragon, which was … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 25, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Conservative Republican Congressman Ted Poe from Houston has garnered some recent press for his dramatic speeches delivered each morning to a virtually empty House chamber. Lamar Hankins, who was then a defense attorney, remembers Poe when he was a DA … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 24, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Satirist Krassner, himself a legendary figure from the Sixties, was on a bill with the Grateful Dead in Pittsburgh — doing a stand-up routine — when he ran into Dead sound man Owsley “Bear” Stanley — whose Sixties LSD would … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : Ted Poe is the Bully with the Booming Voice

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

U.S. Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX). Photo from zimbio.Politico Ted Poe:The bully with the booming voice By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 24, 2011 The recent article in The New York Times (picked up this past Sunday … Continue reading →

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Paul Krassner : My Encounter with Owsley

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Owsley ‘Bear’ Stanley, left, with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia in 1969. Photo by Ho / Reuters. “Investigative satirist” and former Realist editor Paul Krassner will join Thorne Dreyer on Friday, April 1, for a Rag Radio April Fool’s Special. … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin : The Last Great California Hunter

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Wild boar photographed on Cottontail Creek Road in the hills behind Cayucos, California. Photo from goingslo’s photostream / Flickr.Tooch Colombo: The last great California hunter By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2011 Tooch Colombo isn’t like … Continue reading →

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BOOKS / Carl Davidson : The Mondragon Cooperatives and 21st Century Socialism

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Five books with radical critiques:The Mondragon Cooperatives and twenty-first century socialism By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2011 From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development by Greg MacLeod (UCCB Press, 1997) The Myth of … Continue reading →

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Corey Hill : A Cultural Revolution in Struggling Detroit?

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

D-Town Farm in Detroit. Image from Hello Ms.Detroit.Reimagining Detroit:Urban gardens and green economymark seismic cultural shift By Corey Hill / AlterNet / March 22, 2011 DETROIT — On February 16, Michigan’s Governor Rick Snyder signed into law a sweeping emergency … Continue reading →

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Rick Ayers : Letter to a Young Teacher

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Helping students to learn their own power. Image from Art Smart.The ritual of the pink slip:Letter to a young teacher By Rick Ayers / The Rag Blog / March 22, 2011 So my nephew Malik, a fabulous renaissance man who … Continue reading →

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