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BOOKS / Ivan Koop Kuper : Vicki Ayo’s ‘Boys From Houston’ Documents a Thriving ’60s Music Scene
Vicki Welch Ayo’s ‘Boys From Houston‘ describes a thriving ’60s music scene The book is a real eye-opener for those who would have never believed that the city once known as ‘Baghdad on the Bayou,’ referring to its oppressive climate … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Boys From Houston, Houston History, Houston Music Scene, Ivan Koop Kuper, Sixties, Sixties Music, Vicki Welch Ayo
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Thorne Dreyer : Houston Was an Unlikely ’60s Hotbed
The staff of Space City!, Houston’s late ’60s-early ’70s underground newspaper. Cover photo — from the paper’s June 8, 1971, issue — by Jerry Sebesta. Image from Wikimedia Commons. Boys From Houston:Bayou city was unlikely ’60s hotbed Houston may not … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Books, Boys From Houston, Houston History, KKK, Margaret Webb Dreyer, Montrose, Pacifica, Peace Movement, Sixties, Space City, Thorne Dreyer, Vicky Welch Ayo
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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Incarceration Complex: ‘Beyond Walls and Cages’
Incarceration complex:The desire to imprison Walls and Cages provides example after example of how central the business of incarceration is to the U.S. power elites in the twenty-first century. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | August 7, 2013 … Continue reading
BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Crary’s ’24/7′: Wake Up Little Susie!
Wake up little Susie:We’re in trouble deep Crary’s book provides a historical survey of capitalism’s growing encroachment on individual human life. By Ron Jacobs | The Rag Blog | July 30, 2013 [24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep … Continue reading
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Tagged 24/7, Books, Capitalism, Jonathan Crary, Philosophy, Political Economy, Ron Jacobs, Sleep
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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : ‘Fire and Flames’ is History of German Autonomist Movement
‘Fire and Flames’:Spontis, squats, and West Germany The squats served as living spaces and community meeting places. By 1973, they would become the site of some of the fiercest street battles ever seen in postwar Frankfurt. By Ron Jacobs | … Continue reading
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Tagged Autonomist Movement, Books, Fire and Flame, German New Left, Ron Jacobs, Squatters, West Germany, World History
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BOOKS / Alan Wieder : Thai Jones Draws ‘A Radical Line’
Generations in the struggle:A ‘retro-review’ of Thai Jones’ A Radical Line Throughout A Radical Line the progressive fights of Thai Jones’ extended families, Weather Underground and earlier, are connected to the collective struggle against class disparity, racism, and the Viet … Continue reading
BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Smith’s ‘Nuclear Roulette’ Makes the Case for ‘No Nukes’
Gar Smith makes the case: ‘No Nukes’ is still the right call The collection of facts, figures, and overall documentation of the industry’s lies, foibles, miscalculations, and just plain duplicity should insure the addition of more to the ranks of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Books, Environment, Gar Smith, No Nukes, NRC, Nuclear Industry, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Roulette
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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Albert Camus and the Liberal Dilemma
Algerian Chronicles: Albert Camus and the liberal dilemma These writings do much toward describing the plight of the Algerian people, but suffer from an inability to acknowledge, much less examine, the root cause for their situation. By Ron Jacobs | … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Algeria, Algerian Chronicles, Books, Existentialism, French Colonialism, Literature, Ron Jacobs, Self-Determination
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Blake Slonecker’s ‘New Dawn’ Tells the LNS Story
A New Dawn for the New Left: Blake Slonecker’s valuable history of LNS “By distributing a common news packet to underground outlets, LNS enabled local rags to cover national and international news to an unprecedented degree, curbing their isolation and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, American History, Blake Slonecker, Books, Jonah Raskin, LNS, New Left, Sixties, Underground Press
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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Wu Ming Does the Middle Ages
Masterful job by writers’ collective:Wu Ming does the Middle Ages The reader is propelled into a tale of spies for and against the Church; of bloody feuds between armies of the Church and peasant rebels; and of communities organized along … Continue reading
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Tagged Altai, Books, Fiction, Middle Ages, Q, Ron Jacobs, Wu Ming
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BOOKS / Bill Fletcher Jr. : Gar Alperovitz and Visions of a New World
What Then Must We Do?:Political economist Gar Alperovitzand visions of a new world The struggle for structural reforms is essential to changing the ‘common sense’ of the U.S. political arena. But it is not enough to wound the rabid beast; … Continue reading
BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : ‘Conversations on U.S. State Terrorism’
‘Weapon of the Strong’ Interviews from ‘State of Nature‘ Throughout the text is an underlying question of language and its meaning. Why is one act considered terrorism while another act that is essentially the same not considered so? By Ron … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Interviews, Noam Chomsky, Ron Jacobs, State of Nature, State Terrorism, Terrorism, U.S. Imperialism, Weapon of the Strong
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