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Rag Radio : Academic/Activist Bernardine Dohrn, Former Leader of Weather Underground
Academic/activist Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of WeatherUnderground, on Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio this Friday, October 28, 2011, 2-3 p.m. (Central) on KOOP 91-7-FM in Austin, will be singer/songwriter and … Continue reading
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Tagged Activists, Bernardine Dohrn, Eddy Awards, Leftists, Rag Radio, SDS, Sixties, Thorne Dreyer, Uranium Savages, Weather Underground
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Jonah Raskin : A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Never the ‘good girl,’ not then, not now:A Rag Blog interview with Bernardine Dohrn By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 20, 2011 Bernardine Dohrn will be Thorne Dreyer‘s … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Interview, Jonah Raskin, Radicals, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground
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THEATER / Jonah Raskin : The ‘Reborning’ of Zayd Dohrn
Scene from Zayd Dohrn’s Reborning at the San Francisco Playhouse.The Reborning of Zayd Dohrn: A fascinating piece of theater from the son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers that speaks to our time now and where we’ve come from as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Jonah Raskin, Theater, Weather Underground, Zayd Dohrn
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : The Psychedelic Revolutionaries
The psychedelic revolutionaries…‘White Hand Society:The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg’ By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 12, 2010 [White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg, by Peter Conners (City … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Books, Drugs, Jonah Raskin, LSD, Poets, Psychedelics, Timothy Leary, Weather Underground
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Bill Ayers : I’M SORRY!!! (I Think…)
Bill Ayers’ Sixties history — and his alleged relationship with Barack Obama — hit the top of the news during the 2008 presidential campaign. Image from webcastr.On notoriety, complexity, and contrition:I’M SORRY!!!! (I think…) By Bill Ayers / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, X 2008 Elections
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Bill Ayers : Doublespeak at the University of Wyoming
Doublespeak at the University of Wyoming “President Tom Buchanan’s self-satisfied bromides do nothing to disguise the fact that the principle of free and open intellectual exchange has suffered a defeat at the University of Wyoming. As the AAUP has argued … Continue reading
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn : Bringing the War Home, 1970
News photo taken March 6, 1970, of the New York Fire Department responding to an explosion at an upscale Greenwich Village townhouse. Image from Wikipedia.Bringing the war home: 1970-2010 Eventually we came to think that we could make a revolution, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Educators, New Left, Radicals, SDS, Vietnam, Weather Underground, Weathermen
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin on Mark Rudd : Underground, Again
Underground, AgainMark Rudd’s ‘Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen’ A charismatic individual with very little sustained radical organizing, he came out of nowhere at a crucial moment in the 1960s and was instantly catapulted into the national spotlight. … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Books, Mark Rudd, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, Weathermen
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Thomas Good : An Interview With Mark Rudd
Mark Rudd speaks at the West End Bar in New York last week. Photo by Thomas Good / NLN. Beneath the gray beard and the wrinkles I could clearly see the boyish face of the 20-year-old SDS leader. By Thomas … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Books, Interview, Mark Rudd, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, Weathermen
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Bill Ayers : Lawmaker Calls for His Ouster; Graphic Memoir to be Published
University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers talks to a reporter in 2008. Illinois State Sen. Larry Bomke wants Ayers removed from his university post under a proposal that says anyone who has committed an act of violence against … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Books, Educators, SDS, Weather Underground, William Ayers
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The Real Bill Ayers Stands Up
I was cast in the ‘unrepentant terrorist’ role; I felt at times like the enemy projected onto a large screen in the ‘Two Minutes Hate’ scene from George Orwell’s ‘1984,’ when the faithful gathered in a frenzy of fear and … Continue reading
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Tagged Colleges, Obama Campaign, Obama Smear Campaign, Peace Movement, SDS, Sixties, Vietnam, Weather Underground, William Ayers
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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
