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Yearly Archives: 2013
Detroit By Norman Pagett / The Rag Blog / July 26, 2013 While numerous explanations and opinions are being bandied around concerning the demise of Detroit, few are prepared to accept the brutal truth that it represents the reality that … Continue reading
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Norman Pagett : Cheap Food, Our Grand Illusion
It takes oil, and lots of it, to move our food. Image from Center for a Liveable Future. Cheap food, our grand illusion We built an industrial civilization on cheap oil, but now we’ve burned it all. We only have … Continue reading
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Tagged End of More, Food Production, Fossil Fuels, Norman Pagett, Peak Oil, Scarcity, Sustainable Food
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Gary Bledsoe is president of the Texas NAACP, a position he has held since 1991. An Austin attorney who specializes in public interest law, employment and civil rights law, has been a member of the National Board of the NAACP … Continue reading
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Harvey Wasserman : Fukushima Continues to Spew its Darkness
House in Fukushima. Image from ABC News. Still on the brink:Fukushima continues to spew its darkness A pool containing many tons of highly radioactive used fuel is suspended 100 feet in the air… Should an earthquake or other trauma knock … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Fukushima, Harvey Wasserman, Japan, Nuclear Accidents, Nuclear Power
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>> Fukushima Continues to Spew Its Darkness >>>> By Harvey Wasserman >>>>>> Radiation leaks, steam releases, disease and death continue to spew from Fukushima and a disaster which is far from over. Its most profound threat to the global ecology—a … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Sociologist, Author, and New Left Pioneer and Critic, Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin. Photo by David Shankbone / Wikimedia Commons. Rag Radio podcast:Sociologist, media critic, author, and SDS pioneer Todd Gitlin Our discussion with the renowned scholar and author ranges from the legacy of the Port Huron Statement and Gitlin’s critical take … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Interview, Mass Media, New Left, Occupy Wall Street, Podcast, Port Huron Statement, Rag Radio, SDS, Sixties, Sociology, Thorne Dreyer, Todd Gitlin, Underground Press
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Michael James : Pledging Allegiance in 1961
Pledging allegiance, Westport, Connecticut, 1961. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James‘ Pictures from the Long Haul. Pictures from the Long Haul:Pledging allegiance inWestport, Connecticut in 1961 Westport is where I learned to love America, where … Continue reading
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Tagged Memoir, Michael James, nostalgia, Pictures from the Long Haul, Sixties
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Jean Trounstine : The Plight of California’s Prisons
Cruel and unusual: Overcrowded California prisons. Image from TheBusySignal.com. The plight of California’s prisons: Hunger strike, sterilization, and valley fever While we complain of 100 degree heat and take solace in our air-conditioned homes, prisoners across the country are suffering … Continue reading
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Lamar W. Hankins : Texas Sen. Donna Campbell’s Dishonesty on Abortion
Texas Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, speaks to an anti-abortion group outside the state capitol in Austin, Monday, July 1, 2013. Photo by Eric Gay / AP. Extremism trumps libertarian views: Donna Campbell’s dishonesty on abortion Campbell allows her extremist … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Trayvon Martin and the Super-Predator Myth
Photo by Joshua Trujillo / AP Images / SeattlePI.com The super-predator myth: Trayvon died for our sins The evidence of a violently divided America can be understood in the failure of the criminal justice system, where rationality and objectivity are … Continue reading
