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Carl Davidson : Bumpy Road Ahead: Obama and the Left
This is a time of great opportunity for progressives in America. The big question facing us is where to go next, and how to get there. It is a question we plan to devote much attention to here on The … Continue reading
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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Mr. Ayers’ Neighborbood : Hanging With Bill on Election Day
‘Ayers seemed curiously calm and cheerful about the way he had been made an issue in the campaign.’ By David Remnick / November 4, 2008 Early this morning, the Obama family voted at the Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School, in Hyde … Continue reading
Dr. William H. Schubert : The Bill Ayers I Know
Bill Ayers Those of us who care about education and what’s been done to it in the cruel, foolish, and profligate class war from above over the quarter-century that has been my entire adult life are likely to know Bill … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Ayers, Campaign Tactics, Education, Educational Reform, Obama, Obama Smear Campaign, Scholars, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, William Ayers
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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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Obama and the ‘Weatherman Connection’ : In Defense of Bill Ayers
William Ayers, left, in 1980 with wife, Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Knoblock, via Associated Press.‘The Bill Ayers I knew in the late 1960’s was a very thoughtful and serious person.’By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / October 6, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Campaign Tactics, Keating Five, Obama, Obama Smear Campaign, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, William Ayers
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Orlando Homeless Win Big Victory in Federal Court
City ordinance that limited size of homeless feedings linked to gentrification effortsBy Jay D. Jurie / The Rag Blog / September 27, 2008 ORLANDO — The City of Orlando, in keeping with corporate dominance by theme park and other business … Continue reading
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Tagged Federal Courts, Homeless, Human Rights, MDS, Orlando, Poverty, SDS
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Denton, 9/11 : SDS Rallies Students to End War
Denton: Jason Netek, far left, and a U.S. Marine Corps Reservist identified as ‘Chad’ argue about the war in Iraq as members of the Denton chapter of Students for a Democratic Society prepare for an anti-war march starting at the … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Anti-War Demonstration, Denton, Peace Movement, SDS, Social Action, Texas, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Tom Hayden : Same Social Expectations Amid a Very Different War
‘The similarities between the movements for RFK and Barack Obama (the fervor and the interracial character) have been often noted. If anything, the Obama constituency is larger because of the mobilization of so many more young people’By Tom Hayden / … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold War, Iraq War, Obama, Peace Movement, Robert Kennedy, SDS, Sixties, Social Change, Tom Hayden, Vietnam
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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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