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INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : Steven Halliwell, To Russia With Love

To Russia with love:A Rag Blog interview with Steven Halliwell What Russia shows us is that there’s no easy fix. Getting to a common global discussion is the biggest challenge of the 21st century. By Jonah Raskin / The Rag … Continue reading

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Jonah Raskin : Protest 101 at Sonoma State

Front page of the Sonoma State Star, May 14, 2012. Image from Shame on Sonoma State..Protest 101: A textbook case of campus unrest, 2012 Everyone in the crowd seemed relieved that no one had shouted, thrown a pie in Weill’s … Continue reading

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INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : Gerald Nicosia on Kerouac and the Beats

Visions of Kerouac: Gerald Nicosia. Photo illustration by James Retherford / The Rag Blog.Beats are back bigger than before: A Rag Blog interview withKerouac scholar Gerald Nicosia By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | April 16, 2012 For decades, … Continue reading

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INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : Judy Gumbo Albert, Yippie Girl

Judy Gumbo Albert. Photo illustrations by James Retherford / The Rag Blog.Yippie Girl:A Rag Blog interviewwith Judy Gumbo Albert By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | April 17, 2012 After all these years, she still calls herself “Yippie Girl.” … Continue reading

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BOOKS / Mariann G. Wizard : Jonah Raskin’s ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Women’

Portraits of a Generation:Jonah Raskin’s Rock ‘n Roll WomenBy Mariann G. Wizard | The Rag Blog | March 14, 2012 [Rock ‘n’ Roll Women: Portraits of a Generation, by Jonah Raskin (Santa Rosa, CA: McCaa Books, 2012); Paperback, 40 pp.] … Continue reading

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Jonah Raskin : Maverick Judge Reichbach Offers Verdict on Cuba

Judge Gustin Reichbach on the bench. Image from AP.Rag Blog interview: Maverick U.S. Judge Gustin Reichbachoffers verdict on Cuba today By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 19, 2012 For nearly 14 years, the Honorable Gustin Reichbach has … Continue reading

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THEATER / Jonah Raskin : Zayd Dohrn’s ‘Outside People’

Cast of Outside People at the Vineyard theater in New York. Inset photo: playwright Zayd Dohrn.We’re all outsiders now:Zayd Dohrn’s new play, Outside People The play — which is part situation comedy, part soap opera, and part prophecy — plays … Continue reading

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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

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FILM / Jonah Raskin : Eastwood’s Biopic of Kinky Hoover

Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the subject of Clint Eastwood’s new biopic, is shown here in a still from a 1936 documentary, You Can’t Get Away With It.Kinky Hoover:Clint Eastwood’s biopic of the FBI director Eastwood presents Hoover as … Continue reading

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Jonah Raskin : A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn

Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Never the ‘good girl,’ not then, not now:A Rag Blog interview with Bernardine Dohrn By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 20, 2011 Bernardine Dohrn will be Thorne Dreyer‘s … Continue reading

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Rag Radio : Activist/Journalist Jonah Raskin, Author of ‘Marijuanaland’

Jonah Raskin, photographed at a Rag Blog Happy Hour at Maria’s Taco Xpress in Austin, Texas, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, after appearing on Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Photos (above and below) by James Retherford / The Rag Blog.Activist/journalist Jonah … Continue reading

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Jonah Raskin : Occupy Austin: This is Just the Beginning

Occupy Austin, Friday, Oct. 6, 2011. Photo from Occupy Austin.Occupy Austin:This is just the beginning By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 10, 2011 See photo gallery below. [West Coast writer, activist, and Rag Blog contributor Jonah Raskin … Continue reading

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