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Pete Seeger: ‘To Everything, There Is a Season’
Asked by HUAC if he had sung for Communists, Pete replied: ‘I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.’ By Steve Russell … Continue reading
Robert Jensen : Will Potter and ‘Green is the New Red’
Image from TreeHugger.Green is the New Red:An interview with Will Potter By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / July 27, 2011 For centuries, the arbitrary use of power by the state against dissidents has been a key threat to … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Books, Environmental Activists, Governmental Repression, Interview, Red-Baiting, Robert Jensen, The Left, Will Potter
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The Afrikaner Party : GOP vs. Van Jones & Team Obama
Van Jones (top) “should sue the living shit out of Glenn Beck.”The Afrikaner Party draws first blood:Van Jones, Obama and the audacity of capitulation By Tim Wise / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2009 Van Jones, special advisor to … Continue reading
The New McCarthyism : Van Jones Fed to King CONG
Portrait of Van Jones by Robert Shetterly / Americans Who Tell the Truth.Obama has fed his green Jones to King CONG With clarity and verve [Van] Jones finally brought to the mainstream the critical message that what’s good for the … Continue reading
Paul Robeson : Sixty Years After Peekskill
Paul Robeson. Photo from Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives.Remembering Paul Robeson:Sixty years after the Peekskill Riots By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / September 4, 2009 On September 4, 1949, an angry crowd surrounded the 20,000 friends of … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, American History, Entertainers, Pete Seeger, Progressives, Red-Baiting, The Left
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Texan Creekmore Fath : He Paddled His Own Canoe
Creekmore Fath with former law partner — and U.S. Congressman — Bob Eckhardt. Photo by Alan Pogue.So Long to the ‘Communist Threat’:Creekmore Fath, last of a generation of progressive activists I met Fath during… future U.S. Sen. Ralph Yarborough’s losing … Continue reading
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Tagged LBJ, Progressive Democrats, Red-Baiting, Texas, Texas Observer, Texas Politics, UT-Austin
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Red-Baiting and Racism : Socialism as the New Black Bogeyman
Obama as Joker: Poster currently being distributed in Los Angeles.Red-baiting and racism:When ‘socialism’ isn’t really about socialism This noise is about race. It is about ‘othering’ a President who is seen as a symbol of white dispossession: dispossession of white … Continue reading
Dana Cloud : Identifying the Real David Horowitz
David Horowitz, a prominent neo-conservative writer, activist and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, claims that UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union supports terrorism against Jews. Photo: Sandra Lee.The McCarthyism That Horowitz Built: The Cases of Margo Ramlal Nankoe, William … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Freedom, Conservatives, Neocons, Red-Baiting, Texas, UT-Austin
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Keith Olbermann : Special Comment: Divide and Conquer, Again?
Keith Olbermann offered a “Special Comment” tonight on his show Countdown, criticizing the McCain campaign and other Republicans, like Michele Bachmann, for their use of divisive politics during the campaign. The full text follows. ‘A Special Comment tonight about the … Continue reading
