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Ernest McMillan and Stoney Burns : Dallas 60s Activists Revisited
The Rag Blog was inspired by an underground newspaper we published in the 1960s in Austin. We called it The Rag. When Carol Neiman and I were editing The Rag — and many more whose bylines you see here from … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, Anne Lewis, Black Liberation Movement, Black Power, Counterculture, Dallas, New Left, Sixties, SNCC, Texas, Texas History, The Rag, The Rag Blog, Underground Press
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Austin Treasure : Vintage Video from Historic Protest Actions
Found Footage Reveals Bygone Era in AustinBy Amy Smith / October 31, 2008 See vintage Video of Austin protest activities in three parts, Below. Austin native Patrick McGarrigle has put together a treasure trove of Sixties-era video footage culled from … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, History, New Left, Peace Movement, Sixties, Texas, Vietnam
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Daniel Ellsberg, Kathleen Cleaver Headline Austin ‘1968’ Conference
History as prologue? 1968 A Global PerspectiveBy Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / October 7, 2008 See more about Daniel Ellsberg, Kathleen Cleaver and the SDS Comic Show Below. Daniel Ellsberg and Kathleen Cleaver headline an interdisciplinary conference being … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Austin, Black Panthers, Daniel Ellsberg, Graphic History, History, Kathleen Cleaver, MDS, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Texas, The Rag, The Rag Blog, UT-Austin, Vietnam
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The American Left : Do We Have a Progressive Movement Today?
Is there a new progressive movement? If so, it’s different from the last one: sixties anti-war demonstration was part of the New Left movement. Photo courtesy of Robert Altman.George Bush ‘has succeeded in bringing moderates, liberals, and progressives closer together … Continue reading
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Tagged Internet, Netroots, New Left, New Media, Peace Movement, Progressive Movement, Sixties
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Tom Hayden : Chicago 1968 / Denver 2008
Veteran activist and former California state Sen. Tom Hayden. Photo by Chris Schneider © The Rocky Mountain News The New Left leader from four decades ago thinks Denver should be skeptical of federal authorities’ warnings about violent protest.By M.E. Sprengelmeyer … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago 1968, Chicago 8, Democratic Convention, Direct Action, New Left, Protest, SDS, Sixties, Social Action, The Movement, Tom Hayden, Vietnam
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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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Tagged Authors, Books, Carl Oglesby, Memoir, New Left, SDS, Sixties, The Left, The Rag Blog, Writers
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Mariann Wizard : ‘I Have No Nostalgia for the 60s’
Updated July 30, 2008 Sixties anti-war demonstration in Austin.‘We glimpsed, briefly, the power people can wield when mutual interests are clarified by adversity’By Mariann Wizard / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2008 “When we attacked the Moncada, none of … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, New Left, Sixties, Social Action, Social Change, Texas, The Left, The Movement
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BOOKS : Dreams and Everyday Life by Penelope Rosemont
No revolution ever disappears…by Len Wallace / The Rag Blog / July 28, 2008 Penelope Rosemont, Dreams & Everyday Life: Andre Breton, Surrealism, sds & the Seven Cities of Cibola, Charles H. Kerr Publishing. Co., Chicago, 2008,ISBN 978-0-88286-234-2. Despite an … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Marxism, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Surrealism, The Left, The Movement
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David Zeiger : Did the GI Movement End the Vietnam War?
Updated July 26, 2008 G.I. dissenters in David Zeiger’s documentary “Sir! No Sir!”. Photo courtesy of Displaced Fillms.And What is the real legacy of the GI Coffeehouses?By David Zeiger / The Rag Blog / July 25, 2008 David Zeiger is … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War GIs, GI's, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Texas, The Movement, Vietnam
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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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