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MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966
By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval cadets came for ROTC training at the Naval Air … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Mary Mantle, Obituary, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Sixties, The Rag, Tom Mantle
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CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS AMERICA / SCIENCE / Bruce Melton
East Coast Filming 2024 Forest kill from salt water intrusion, Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | July 26, 2024 [Listen to Bruce Melton discuss the issues raised in this article on … Continue reading
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THORNE DREYER / REMEMBRANCE / Kinky Friedman 1944 – 2024
Kinky Friedman. Image from Wikipedia. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | July 4, 2024 Kinky Friedman, a singer, songwriter, humorist and sometime politician who with his band, the Texas Jewboys, developed an ardent following among alt-country music fans … Continue reading
LAMAR HANKINS | REFLECTIONS | An old lawyer’s thoughts on Trump’s 34 New York convictions
By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | June 13, 2024 [Listen to Thorne Dreyer’s interview with Lamar Hankins on Rag Radio, Friday, June 14, 2024, 2-3 p.m., on KOOP 91.7-FM in Austin, and streamed at KOOP.org.] I followed Trump’s … Continue reading
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ROBERT COTTRELL | ALTERNATIVE MEDIA | Looking Back at ‘The Village Voice’: ‘The Freaks Came Out to Write’
By Robert Cottrell | The Rag Blog | May 8, 2024 [Robert Cottrell will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio, Friday, May 10, 2-3 p.m. on KOOP-FM 91.7-FM in Austin, and streamed on KOOP.org, where they will discuss the … Continue reading
JONAH RASKIN | STUDENT PROTEST | Columbia protests now and in 1968
Demonstration on University of Texas campus, April 27, 2024. Creative Commons image. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | May 3, 2024 This article was originally published at CounterPunch and was cross-posted to The Rag Blog by the author. … Continue reading
MICHAEL MEEROPOL | REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | First, they came for abortion, now they’ve come for in vitro fertilization
Alabama Supreme Court. Photo by Jeffrey Reed / Creative Commons By Michael Meeropol | The Rag Blog | April 22, 2024 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, in vitro fertilization, Michael Meeropol, Rag Bloggers, Right to Life, The Rag Blog
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LAMAR HANKINS | POLICE AUDITORS | How police deny us our rights: A view from YouTube
By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 20, 2023 In 40 years as an attorney, I have encountered the police in many contexts. I have received three warnings and two tickets for speeding or car malfunctions; I have … Continue reading
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Tagged First Amendment, Lamar Hankins, Police Abuse, Police Auditors, YouTube
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IVAN KOOP KUPER | NOSTALGIA | The Summer of ’72: A look back after more than 50 years.
Coming of age in Houston, Texas, with The Rolling Stones Photo by John M. Lomax (John Lomax III), first published in underground newspaper Space City!, June 29, 1972, and later in the book Exploring Space City! published by the New Journalism … Continue reading
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Tagged Houston History, Ivan Koop Kuper, Ivan Kuper, Montrose, nostalgia, Rolling Stones
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JONAH RASKIN | BOOKS | ‘Material Wealth : Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg’
By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | December 27, 2023 [Compiled and annotated by Pat Thomas; PowerHouse Books; 256 pages.] Pat Thomas has written and published colorful books about the Black Panthers — the defiant organization that rocked the … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, American Poets, Books, Jonah Raskin, Material Wealth, Pat Thomas, Poets, Sixties
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NORMAN SOLOMON | DEATHS | For media elites, war criminal Henry Kissinger was a great man
Can a war criminal really be a “noted statesman”? By Norman Solomon | The Rag Blog | December 13, 2023 For U.S. mass media, Henry Kissinger’s quip that “power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” rang true. Influential reporters and pundits often … Continue reading
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Tagged American Journalists, Diplomats, Henry Kissinger, Norman Solomon, Rag Bloggers, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnam, War Criminals
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LAMAR HANKINS | MIDDLE EAST | Hamas, Israel, and the Palestinians
To criticize Israel’s government and policies is not antisemitic. By Lamar Hankins | The Rag Blog | December 5, 2023 I am reluctant to write about Israel at this politically- and emotionally-charged time because there is little respect for free … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Semitism, Free Speech, Hamas, Israel, Lamar Hankins, Middle East, Palestine
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