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METRO | San Antonio art show takes on the South Texas ‘fracking frenzy’
Exhibit: Frackaso: Portraits of Extraction in Eagle Ford and Beyond Opening reception: Friday, April 18, 7 p.m. Place: Esperanza Peace & Justice Center Address: 922 San Pedro Avenue, San Antonio Dates of exhibit: Friday, April 18 – Sunday, August 31, 2014 … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Art Exhibit, Carlos Lowry, Esperanza, Fine Arts, Fracking, Metro, Political Arts, Rag Bloggers, San Antonio, Social Activists, Visual Arts
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METRO | Robust UT-Austin campus coalition fights corporatized ‘shared services’ plan
Event: Stop Shared Services Rally Sponsor: UT Save Our Community Coalition Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 Time: Noon Place: South Mall, University of Texas at Austin By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | April 14, 2014 AUSTIN — A … Continue reading
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Tagged Accenture, Alice Embree, Bill Powers, Campuses, Higher Education, Metro, Public Education, Rag Bloggers, UT Faculty, UT Save Our Community Coalition, UT-Austin
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METRO | GI coffeehouse, Iraq vets respond to latest Fort Hood tragedy
By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | April 7, 2014 KILLEEN — When Spec. Ivan A. Lopez opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood on April 2, he killed four people and wounded 16 more. He was one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Fort Hood, Ft. Hood Shootings, Gun Violence, Iraq, IVAW, Malachi Muncy, Mental Health, Metro Bloggers, PTSD, Rag Bloggers, U.S. Military, Under the Hood, Veterans
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Remembering Judy Smith
Judith Hart Smith, 1944-2013 Judy Smith was the face of feminism at The Rag for many years. Judy Smith, who had a great and lasting impact on all who knew and worked with her, died November 6, 2013, in Missoula, … Continue reading
Alice Embree : Chile and the Politics of Memory
Me gustan los estudiantes. This painting by Austin’s Carlos Lowry is the cover art on the Fall 2013 NACLA Report on the Americas. The contradictions of Chile and the politics of memory The elections in Chile take place as the … Continue reading
Alice Embree : Anne Lewis’ New Website Brings Austin Movement History to Life
Filmmaker Anne Lewis’ new website is called Austin Beloved Community. ‘Austin Beloved Community’: Anne Lewis’ new website brings movement history to life ‘This was designed as cooperative and experimental. It’s really a community organizing art project.’ By Alice Embree | … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Anne Lewis, Austin Beloved Community, Austin History, Filmmakers, Interview, Movement History, Rag Bloggers, Websites
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Allison Meier : Radical Archive Exhibits ‘Rebel Newsprint’ from the Sixties
Image from “Rebel Newsprint: The Underground Press” at Interference Archive. Photo by Allison Meier / Hyperallergic. One radical archive offers ahands-on approach to activist art The indie counterculture newspapers of the 1960s multiplied to over 500 around the country, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Allison Meier, Interference Archive, Radical Arts, Sean Stewart, Sixties, Space City, The Rag, Thorne Dreyer, Underground Press
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Alice Embree : Campaigning against Cuts at Corn Dog’s Office
From left, at Austin “fiscal Cliff” demonstration: Aron Duhoon, Harrison Hiner, Grover Norquist (Thorne Dreyer), Alice Embree, Les Cunningham, Paula Littles, and, in front, Sen. John (Corn Dog) Cornyn. Photo by Carlos Lowry / The Rag Blog. Austin protest against … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Austin Activists, Fiscal Cliff, John Cornyn, Labor Unions, Social Programs, Social Protest, Tax Cuts for Rich
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Alice Embree / Terry DuBose : Defend the Soldiers’ Right to Heal
Under the Hood contingent at Veterans Day Parade, Killeen, Texas, Saturday, November 10, 2012. Photo by Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog. Defend the right to heal: Veterans’ Day parade in Killeen As the deployments wind down from this … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Anti-War Vets, Fort Hood, IVAW, Malachi Muncy, Susan Van Haitsma, Terry DuBose, Under the Hood, Veterans Day
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Alice Embree : Women are ‘Seeing Red’ in Texas
“Seeing Red” organizer Marcia Ball, center, with Emily Haas, left, and novelist Sarah Bird at the Texas State Capitol. Photo by Susan Crews Bailey / Facebook. ‘Seeing Red’: The Texas Taliban’s war on women By Alice Embree | The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Marcia Ball, Seeing Red, Texas Legislature, Women's Health, Women's Movement
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Alice Embree : ‘Fierce Women’ March in San Antonio
Photo by Carlos Lowry / The Rag Blog.International Women’s Day:‘Fierce women’ keeping the faith By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2012 See gallery of photos by Carlos Lowry and Susan Van Haitsma, Below. SAN ANTONIO — … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Carlos Lowry, Feminism, International Women's Day, San Antonio, Social Action, Susan Van Haitsma
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Sean Stewart’s Spirited History of the Underground Press
Sean Stewart’s On the Ground is a livelyanecdotal history of the underground press Amply illustrated with art, cartoons, drawings, and covers from the colorful, eye-catching papers of the Sixties, it comes closer to the spirit of the in-your-face underground papers. … Continue reading
