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Bruce Goldberg : Carl Oglesby Occupies Heaven
Carl Oglesby. Photo by Jennifer Fels / AP / The Guardian.Occupy Heaven:The Memorial for Carl Oglesby By Bruce Goldberg / The Rag Blog / November 10, 2011 Born of a working class family in Akron, Ohio, Carl Oglesby grew to … Continue reading
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Mike Davis : The Eloquence of Carl Oglesby
Carl Oglesby. Image from Kngine.Eloquent orator of the New Left:Remembering Carl Oglesby Carl Oglesby sadly left this world Tuesday morning after a long bout with cancer. President of SDS from 1965-66, he was a passionate American radical and one of … Continue reading
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Jeff Shero Nightbyrd : Skipping Stones With Carl Oglesby
Carl Oglesby at an SDS conference in 1968. Photo by Neal Boenzi / The New York Times.Seismic shifts and skipping stones:Memories of Carl OglesbyBy Jeff Shero Nightbyrd / The Rag Blog / September 15, 2011 [Carl Oglesby, a former president … Continue reading
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BOOKS : Dick Reavis on Carl Oglesby
Another view of ‘Ravens in the Storm’By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / July 5, 2008 Comrades: A week or so ago I more or less promised a review of Oglesby’s Ravens in the Storm. I have read … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Carl Oglesby, New Left, SDS, Sixties, The Left, The Movement, Weather Underground
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Susan Klonsky on Carl Oglesby’s Memoir
Carl Oglesby, author of Ravens in the Storm, in 1989. On July 24 The Rag Blog ran what proved to be a very controversial review of former SDS leader Carl Oglesby’s memoir, Ravens in the Storm. The review, written by … Continue reading
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BOOKS : Carl Oglesby’s ‘Ravens in the Storm’
Last updated July 29, 2008 Former SDS president reflects on that organization’s stormy history at the leading edge of the sixties New LeftBy Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / July 24, 2008 When I joined UT Students for … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Authors, Books, Carl Oglesby, COINTELPRO, Education, Memoir, New Left, Peace Movement, SDS, Texas, The Left, UT-Austin, Weather Underground, Writers
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