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ROBERT C. COTTRELL : PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE | Todd Gitlin, RIP
He was always fiercely independent and intelligent. By Robert C. Cottrell | The Rag Blog | March 24, 2022 Listen to Thorne Dreyer’s two classic Rag Radio interviews with Todd Gitlin from July 19, 2013, and August 16, 2013. Listen … Continue reading
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Tagged Deaths, New Left, New Left Critics, Obituary, Rag Bloggers, Robert C. Cottrell, SDS, Todd Gitlin
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THE RAG BLOG : BOOKS | ‘Exploring Space City!’ at Houston’s Printing Museum
Presentations from historian John Moretta and the book’s editors. By The Rag Blog | March 10, 2012 HOUSTON – Houston’s Printing Museum is presenting a panel discussion – with a pop-up exhibit – of the New Journalism Project’s new book, … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Exploring Space City!, Houston Events, Rag Bloggers, The Printing Museum
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HARRY TARG : WAR AND PEACE | Reflections on the War in Ukraine
By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | March 10, 2012 Many of us in the peace movement have had useful conversations (and debates) stimulated by the war on Ukraine. We are discussing the causes of the invasion of Ukraine … Continue reading
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Tagged CodePink, Harry Targ, NATO, Neo-fascism, Rag Bloggers, Russian Invasion, Ukraine
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BRUCE MELTON : CLIMATE | The Texice disaster, Valentine’s week, 2021
Stories of climate change survival, our current emergency, and new solutions to this existential crisis. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | February 10, 2022 AUSTIN — The Texas winter storm disaster was caused by both climate change and … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, blizzard, Bruce Melton, cascading feedbacks, catastrophe, causes, Climate Change, climate pollution treatment, climate tipping, disaster, emissions, Global Warming, ice storm, natural systems, Rag Bloggers, record snow, rolling blackouts, simultaneous catastrophes, solutions, uncertainity, winter storm
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THORNE DREYER : DOCUMENTARY FILM | Documentary about LNS wins prestigious national award
Film with Austin ties wins NETA award for Best Cultural Documentary. Watch the film here. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | February 4, 2022 Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service, an 80-minute documentary film produced … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary Film, Liberation News Service, LNS, Rag Bloggers, Thorne Dreyer, Under the Ground
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE | Can’t see past the blue
How prosecutors and judges let cops get away with murder, or at least with criminally negligent homicide. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | January 31, 2022 The two or three nationwide instances that we have seen recently … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Lamar W. Hankins, Police Accountability, Rag Bloggers
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INTERVIEW | Why do men keep making war?: An interview
with scholar Michael Klare
Michael Klare has had war on his mind for the past 60 years. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 20, 2022 Michael Klare has had war in all its many ignominious manifestations on his mind for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War Movement, History of War, Jonah Raskin, Michael Klare, New Cold War, Rag Bloggers
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BOOKS | ‘Making History Making Blintzes’
A memoir by New Left veterans Mickey Flacks and Dick Flacks. By Robert C. Cottrell | The Rag Blog | January 20, 2022 As a historian who has concentrated extensively on American radicalism, I attempt to keep abreast of newly … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Dick Flacks, Making History Making Blintzes, Memoir, Mickey Flacks, New Left, Rag Bloggers, Robert C. Cottrell
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BOOKS | Alice Walker’s ‘Gathering Blossoms Under Fire’:
Journals as autobiography
The book reads like a peremptory strike meant to deter future biographers. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 13, 2022 Before the advent of Black Lives Matter, Me Too, and the most recent generation of Black writers, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Walker, Autobiography, Books, Jonah Raskin, Rag Bloggers
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FILM | ‘Don’t Look Up’: Apocalypse, again
‘Don’t Look Up’ is apocalyptic science fiction, but it’s also biting satire. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 6, 2022 I had heard about Don’t Look Up (Netflix, 2 h 18 m) the new apocalyptic science fiction … Continue reading
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Tagged Don't Look Up, Film, Jonah Raskin, Rag Bloggers, Science Fiction
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VERSE | The Christmas Keys, a True Carol in Limericks
The Christmas Keys, a True Carol in Limericks On Christmas Eve I lost my keys then dreamt of a very high bridge that spans a river fast and wide that flows below a ridge and on that ridge a town … Continue reading
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BOOK REVIEW | Nick Licata: ‘Student Power, Democracy and Revolution in the Sixties’
In Licata’s book, social unrest percolated on multiple levels. By Patricia Vaccarino | The Rag Blog | December 19, 2021 Listen to Thorne Dreyer’s Rag Radio interview with Nick Licata, Friday, Dec. 24, 2-3 p.m. (CST) on KOOP-91.7 FM in … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, Memoir, Nick Licata, Patricia Vaccarino, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, Student Activism
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