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Paul Baker : Giant of Texas Theater Dies at 98
Paul Baker in front of Dallas Theater Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1960. Photo by Eliot Elisofon / Life Images.Giant of Texas theater Paul Baker:Director, educator, firebrand dies at 98 See ‘Paul Baker at Baylor: A student remembers,’ by … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, Baylor, Censorship, Dallas, Educators, Guerrilla Theater, Jim Simons, Texas
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FILM / William Kunstler : Disturbing the Universe
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe… Remarkable film tells story ofFamed civil rights attorney By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / October 28, 2009 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, a film by Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler, premiered as part … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Panthers, Chicago 8, Civil Rights, Documentary, Film, Movement Lawyers, New Left, Political Activists, Sixties, The Movement
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Serotonin Serenade – A Book Review
Jim Simons’ Molly Chronicles: Serotonin Serenade (Plain View Press, Austin, 2006) may be the sweetest memoir yet to come out of the radical movements of the 1960s and beyond. Spanning Simons’ 40 years as a self-created Movement lawyer, and written … Continue reading
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Molly Chronicles: Serotonin Serenade
Molly Chronicles: Serotonin Serenade, by Jim SimonsPlain View Press, ISBN: 978-1-891386-75-6 As we all wonder how to work out of the quagmire of Iraq, we can benefit from recalling American radical tradition, specifically the movement law commune born in the … Continue reading
A Little Austin History – D. Niemann, J. Jones, M. Wizard, H. Ellinger, A. Embree, D. Schweers
I’ve come to understand that “history” is important. It defines the context in which those who come after (and even those who were present) extract the “meaning” of events after they have passed. The phenomenological (what a word) process through … Continue reading
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SPORT / Chief Wahoo : The Curse of Cleveland
Image from Newspaper RockMost racist logo in sports:Has Chief Wahoo again cursed Cleveland? By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / July 13, 2010 CLEVELAND — Another tomahawk has sailed into the hearts of Cleveland sports fans. Is it the … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indians, Baseball, Cleveland, Harvey Wasserman, LeBron James, Native Americans, Racism, Sports, Sports Mascots
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