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Marilyn Buck from the Greybar : Reflections on Liberation and Poetry
Portrait of Marilyn Buck by Tom Manning from Can’t Jail the Spirit: Art by Political Prisoner Tom Manning and others, 2006. The following is from former Austinite and Ragamuffin (contributor to our Sixties underground paper), long-time political prisoner and poet … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Poets, Political Prisoners, Sixties, The Rag, Women's Movement
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Our Correspondent : Germany’s Alternative ‘Rag’ Hopeful About Obama
Die Tageszeitung: ‘As Obama so often said: Change is not about me, it is about you. Europeans should feel addressed by that.’By David MacBryde / The Rag Blog / November 14, 2008 BERLIN — After the election, the headline of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008 Elections, Alternative Media, David MacBryde, Europe, Freak Brothers, Germany, Gilbert Shelton, Obama, Sixties, The Rag, The Rag Blog, The World, Underground Press
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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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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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makingpeace : Netroots in Fertile Ground
T-Shirt Humor.The Rag Blog’s Dreyer and Organic Consumers’ CumminsBy makingpeace / July 28, 2008 Following another computer crash and a friend’s valiant attempt to fix it, we headed out yesterday to buy a new machine. Now we’re getting used to … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Blogging, Blogosphere, Internet, Netroots Nation, Sixties, Social Action, Texas, The Rag, The Rag Blog
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