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REPORT | ‘Space City!’ lives online,
survives quarantine
Houston’s underground paper is now digitized; soon to be a book. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | June 18, 2020 AUSTIN — On March 11, 2020, I shipped a near-complete collection of Space City! newspapers to Indiana to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Internet Archive, New Journalism Project, Rag Bloggers, Space City!
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ANALYSIS |The crime of dark skin
There is little justice in the ‘criminal legal system’ for black people. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | June 18, 2020 SAN MARCOS, TX — I lived in Vidor, Texas, until I was four years old, with … Continue reading
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FILM | Two new films about Roy Cohn
review his decades of villainy
Roy Cohn is best known for being the right-hand man to Sen. Joseph McCarthy. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | June 11, 2020 NEW YORK, N.Y. — On June 19, Home Box Office (HBO) will release an informative … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Young, Documentary Film, Film, Ivy Meeropol, Matt Tyrnauer, Rag Bloggers, Roy Cohn
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FEATURE | American teens and the
insurrection of 2020
Caught between passion and cool. “People don’t ask us what we think about stuff.”— Gabriel (Gabe) Gutierrez, 18-year-old Californian and member of Generation Z By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | June 10, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif — I … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 Demonstrations, American Teens, Generation Z, George Floyd, Jonah Raskin, Rag Bloggers
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BOOKS | The doctor is sick
A review of Susan Reverby’s new book about former leftist fugitive Dr. Alan Bergman. Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Bergman by Susan M. Reverby (2020: University of North Carolina Press; $30) By Jonah Raskin | The … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Liberation Army, Books, Brinks Robbery, Dr. Alan Berkman, Jonah Raskin, Marilyn Buck, Rag Bloggers
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ANALYSIS | Vote by mail in Texas: Do it!
In the courts, the issue continues to be a roller coaster ride. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | June 5, 2020 AUSTIN — In this ongoing pandemic and national uprising over the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, … Continue reading
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ANALYSIS | Rioting reflections, again
‘A riot is the language of the unheard.’ — Martin Luther King By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | June 1, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif — I have not actually been in the streets protesting over the past week … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 Riots, Analysis, George Floyd, Jonah Raskin, Police Brutality, Rag Bloggers
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FEATURE | New Left leader continued idealistic path with worker-owned company
SDS veteran Paul Millman retires after decades leading Vermont cooperative. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | May 25, 2020 BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — “So what are you going to do when you grow up?” That’s a question asked, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Young, Cooperative Movement, Paul Millman, Rag Bloggers, SDS, Sixties Radicals, Workers Cooperatives
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BOOKS | ‘Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties’
A new book by two stellar ex-SDS members, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | May 20, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, Cal. — To really get the most from this huge history about the City … Continue reading
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Tagged Jon Wiener, Jonah Raskin, Los Angeles, Mike Davis, Movement History, Rag Bloggers, Set the Night on Fire
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OPINION |We have a binary choice in November
A second Trump administration would be an existential crisis for democracy, the planet. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | May 19, 2020 I signed a letter with Rag Blog editor Thorne Dreyer and 75 other founders and early … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 Elections, Alice Embree, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Rag Bloggers, SDS
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OPINION | Why I won’t vote for Joe Biden
Principally, there is the matter of Biden’s record, consistently in service to the rich. By David P. Hamilton | The Rag Blog | May 16, 2020 UPDATE: We have received substantial feedback about this opinion piece. We stand by our … Continue reading
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ECONOMICS | The economy of the pandemic
What was unbalanced before can’t be restored to the previous exponential growth state. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | May 17, 2020 The whole global system of finance capital is so loaded down with unrepayable fiat currency debt … Continue reading
