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Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn : Bringing the War Home, 1970
News photo taken March 6, 1970, of the New York Fire Department responding to an explosion at an upscale Greenwich Village townhouse. Image from Wikipedia.Bringing the war home: 1970-2010 Eventually we came to think that we could make a revolution, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Educators, New Left, Radicals, SDS, Vietnam, Weather Underground, Weathermen
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Text and Subtext : The Media’s Tea Party
Framing the Tea Party movement: New Left redux? Photo from RaceWire.‘Wal-Mart Hippies?’Framing the Tea Party movement By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 10, 2010 Friday morning I was listening to my pseudo “fair and balanced” National Public … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Targ, Mainstream Media, New Left, Right Wing, Sixties, Tea Baggers
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Jonah Raskin : Yippie Jerry Rubin’s ‘Do It!’ Turns Forty
Image by rhpepsi1 / Amazon.com.Do It! does it:Jerry Rubin’s Yippie classic makes it to 40 By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 31, 2010 Jerry Rubin, the youthful Yippie who turned into a middle aged Yuppie, didn’t coin … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Jerry Rubin, Jonah Raskin, LNS, New Left, SDS, Seventies, Sixties, Yippies
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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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Stonewall Was a Riot : Gay Liberation and the Struggle for Social Change
The Stonewall Rebellion, June 28, 1969. Top photo © Fred McDarrah.The Stonewall Rebellion, the fight for gay liberation and the Sixties movement for social change By Michael Bronski / The Rag Blog / June 27, 2009[With a response by Allen … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Gay Liberation, Gay Movement, GLBT Rights, Homosexuality, New Left, Sixties, Social Change, Stonewall Riot
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Dick J. Reavis on Mark Rudd’s ‘Underground,’ and the 1969 SDS Split
Bernardine Dohrn, of the Radical Youth Movement faction of SDS — and later of Weatherman — addresses the SDS convention in Chicago in 1969, at which the Progressive Labor Party was “expelled.” Mark Rudd, author of Underground, is to Dohrn’s … Continue reading
The Radical Reconstruction of Society Itself
It is unfortunate that we wish so deeply for change and progress from the darkness of the past eight years, that we neglect to look at the facts objectively (see the comments to the post just below). There is unquestionable … Continue reading
Latin America’s Leftward Electoral Paradigm Shift
Leaders of Latin American nations. Photo: AP.Dirty Business, Dirty Wars: U.S.-Latin American Relations in the 21st CenturyBy Cyril Mychalejko / 27 January 2009 Much is being made across the political spectrum in the United States about Washington’s waning influence in … Continue reading
Legendary Artist of the New Left : Frank Cieciorka Dead at 69
Iconic image of the New Left: Woodcut by Frank Cieciorka. My year in Mississippi was certainly one the most profound experiences in my life and helped shape my political consciousness to this day. I’m saddened that this country hasn’t done … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, Art, Artists, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, Deaths, Graphics, New Left, Political Activists, Sixties, SNCC, Underground Press
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Hayden, Dohrn, Joseph : 1960s Radicals Predict Rebirth of Social Activism
1960s Radicals Predict Rebirth of Social Activism By Manny Fernandez | November 7, 2008 See ‘DAVID FENTON: Eye of the Revolution’ with vintage photo of Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, Below. Nothing is more non-nonconformist than a nearly two-hour panel … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, LNS, New Left, Photography, SDS, Sixties, Social Activism, The Left, Tom Hayden
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