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ALICE EMBREE / APPEAL / Help Mariann Garner-Wizard Vasquez Heal
By Alice Embree/ The Rag Blog / March 12, 2025 Mariann Garner-Wizard Vasquez has been living in Central America for several years. I’ve known Mariann for sixty years. She was part of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), fighting segregation … Continue reading
ALICE EMBREE / THE RAG AND THE RETROGRADE / History Repeats Itself
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2025 This article was originally posted to Alice Embree’s Substack. “UT-Dallas students launch alternative newspaper after class with administration,” was the headline above a Texas Tribune article on February 7, … Continue reading
MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966
By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval cadets came for ROTC training at the Naval Air … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Mary Mantle, Obituary, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Sixties, The Rag, Tom Mantle
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ALICE EMBREE : ABORTION RIGHTS | Austin and Roe v. Wade’s backstory
This fight didn’t start in a courtroom and it will not end there. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | June 25, 2022 AUSTIN — The Supreme Court decision was telegraphed on May 1st and moved across the weeks … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion Rights, Alice Embree, Austin, Judy Smith, Rag Bloggers, Roe v. Wade, The Janes, The Rag
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ALICE EMBREE : LEFT HISTORY | The Rag v. Regents
The Board of Regents did not love ‘The Rag’ and Austin’s underground newspaper did not love the Board of Regents. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog |June 17, 2022 In 2016, former staffers held a reunion to commemorate the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, George Vizard, Texas Board of Regents, The Rag, U.S. Supreme Court, Underground Press
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Houston’s historic ‘Space City!’ to get
new life
’60s-’70s underground paper to be digitized, featured in NJP book. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | December 5, 2019 In 1969, Space City News, a newly minted underground newspaper, hit the streets and newsstands of Houston, Texas. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, New Journalism Project, Sixties Houston, Space City, The Rag, Underground Press
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Remembering Dennis Fitzgerald: Underground journalist and veteran activist
Fitzgerald was a founder of The Rag in Austin and Houston’s Space City! By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | December 17, 2018 Dennis Fitgerald passed away on December 9, 2018, in British Columbia, Canada, where he had lived … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Deaths, Dennis Fitzgerald, Obituary, Rag Bloggers, Space City, The Rag, Thorne Dreyer, Underground Journalist, Underground Press
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‘The Rag’ in Paris
By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | April 1, 2018 “The Rag in Paris,” was the subject line of an e-mail from Chilean doctoral student Manuel Suzarte. He is pictured at a table. Projected on a screen behind him … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Chilean Exchange, Manuel Suzarte, Metro Bloggers, Salvador Allende, The Rag
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INTERVIEW | Are those typewriters still smoking?
Jonah interviews John Campbell McMillan, author of ‘Smoking Typewriters,’ the definitive work on the ’60s underground press. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | February 5, 2018 An associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Interview, John McMillian, Jonah Raskin, Rag Blog, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, Smoking Typewriters, The Rag, Underground Press
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