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METRO EVENT | DSA Presents: ‘It’s a Bailroom Blitz’ on Sunday, November 18
Javier Jara, Sacred Cowgirls, Bird Casino, and Maracatú Texas will perform. Event: DSA Presents: ‘It’s a Bailroom Blitz’ What: Concert and benefit When: Sunday, November 18, 2018, 6-11 p.m. Where: Spider House Ballroom Address: 2908 Fruth Street, Austin, TX 78705 … Continue reading
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Give us bread, but give us roses
Remembering Glenn Scott, Loreto Espinoza, and Susan Duncan, sisters in solidarity. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | September 17, 2018 AUSTIN — In a short span of time three women I greatly admired passed from this life to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Chile Committee, Glenn Scott, Loreto Espinoza, Obituary, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Renato Espinoza, Susan Duncan
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‘The Rag’ in Paris
By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | April 1, 2018 “The Rag in Paris,” was the subject line of an e-mail from Chilean doctoral student Manuel Suzarte. He is pictured at a table. Projected on a screen behind him … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Chilean Exchange, Manuel Suzarte, Metro Bloggers, Salvador Allende, The Rag
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METRO EVENT | DSA to screen ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ at the Alamo Mueller
By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | March 31, 2018 Event: Screening of ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ When: Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 7 p.m. Where: Alamo Drafthouse Mueller Address: 1911 Aldrich Street, Austin, TX 78723 Sponsor: Feminist Action … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Austin DSA, Feminist Action Committee, Film, Metro, Movie Screening, She's Beautiful When She's Angry
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METRO EVENT | International Women’s Day Music Fest in Austin
Event: International Women’s Day Music Fest What: Benefiting Lilith Fund Who: Music and Spoken Word When: Thursday, March 8, 2018, 6-10 p.m. Address: Inks Ave., Austin 78702 Suggested Donation: $10 Sponsors: Feminist Action Committee, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) AUSTIN … Continue reading
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METRO EVENT | DSA to screen ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ at the Alamo
By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | February 17, 2017 Event: Screening of ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ Dates: Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 7 p.m. Where: Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Address: 1120 South Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78704 AUSTIN … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Austin DSA, Film, Metro, Rag Bloggers, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Women's Movement
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METRO | Mourn, then organize
By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | January 8, 2017 AUSTIN — In 1915, when Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer Joe Hill was awaiting execution before a Utah firing squad, he wrote the following to his fellow … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Austin Activism, Metro, Notes from the Resistance, Rag Bloggers, Trump Inauguration
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Remembering Richard Jehn
Richard Jehn, 1950-2016, was the founding editor of ‘The Rag Blog’ in May 2006. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | November 28, 2016 Richard Jehn, founding editor of The Rag Blog, passed away on November 2, 2016, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Deaths, Environmental Activists, Obituaries, Rag Bloggers, Rag Reunion, Richard Jehn, The Rag Blog, Whatcom Watch
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METRO | It’s time for a ‘migra’ watch
By Elaine J. Cohen | The Rag Blog | November 27, 2016 AUSTIN — ICE out of Austin, an immigrant-led activist group, and the Austin Sanctuary Network met together for the first time at Wildflower Unitarian Church on November 22, … Continue reading
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Accessing history in the digital age
Three hundred issues of The Rag are now available in a digital format. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | May 8, 2016 Those of us who came of age in the ’60s remember library research as a visit … Continue reading
