Thorne Webb Dreyer, Editor
RECENT POSTS
Tag Archives: Jonah Raskin
:
OBITUARY | Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)
He was an insurgent poet, feisty publisher, lover of the written and spoken word. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | February 23, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif — He was a poet, a painter, a publisher, and a bookstore … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Beat Movement, City Lights Bookstore, Jonah Raskin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Obituary, Poets, Rag Bloggers
7 Comments
:
OBITUARY | Rennie Davis (1940-2021): Not the boy next door
He was a man with a deep moral consciousness who followed the dictates of his heart and his head no matter where they took him. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | February 9, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. — … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Divine Light Mission, Guru Maharaj Ji, Jonah Raskin, Obituary, Rag Bloggers, Rennie Davis, SDS, Sixties Radicals
4 Comments
:
FILM | ‘The War at Home’
A review of Glenn Silber’s and Barry Brown’s timeless documentary. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 27, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, California — As Austinites and their friends and comrades all across Texas know, the coasts, east and … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Criticism, Documentary Film, Film, Jonah Raskin, Rag Bloggers, The War at Home
2 Comments
:
FILM | Watch this movie: Dorothy Dickie’s LNS
‘Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service’ is definitely worth seeing. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 12, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, California — Let’s cut to the chase. Under the Ground, the new 80-minute documentary … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Documentary Film, Dorothy Dickie, Jonah Raskin, Liberation News Service, LNS, Rhode Island PBS, Under the Ground
2 Comments
:
OPINION | Top 12 heroes of 2020
In alphabetical order for your convenience. Compiled by Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog |December 9, 2020 [Also see Jonah Raskin’s “Top 11 criminals of 2020” on The Rag Blog.] 2020 has been the year of the collective, often unheralded, … Continue reading
:
OPINION | Top 11 criminals of 2020
In alphabetical order for your convenience. Compiled by Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog |November 26, 2020 [Also see Jonah Raskin’s”Top 12 heroes of 2020″ on The Rag Blog.] If you don’t like this list, make up one of your … Continue reading
:
POLITICS | Eat the 2020 election
“Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are.” — French writer, Jean Anthelme Brilliant-Savarin, 1825 By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | November 12, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, California — Voters were definitely on edge … Continue reading
:
FILM | See the movie on the 8: Vote and protest
I wish the movie had been more historically accurate. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | October 22, 2020 I would feel a whole lot better about Aaron Sorkin’s movie if he had titled it The Trial of the … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Seale, Jonah Raskin, Rag Bloggers, Trial of the Chicago 7
2 Comments
:
HISTORY | ‘Up Against the Wall’
Peter Laufer has observed and written about borders and walls all around the world. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | October 1, 2020 [Up Against the Wall: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border by Peter Laufer, PhD; … Continue reading
:
PROTEST | Writers against Trump
Texans rally during memorable 90-minute webinar. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | September 24, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, California — “Texas can be California,” author Laura Moser said during a 90-minute Zoom Webinar hosted by Writers Against Trump, a … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Jonah Raskin, Rag Bloggers, Texas Writers, Trump Protest, Webinar
Leave a comment
:
ACTIVISM | Thank you, Kenosha: A cry for civil disobedience
We weren’t in a revolutionary moment in 1969 and we aren’t in a revolutionary moment now. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | September 8, 2020 Watching the TV news from Kenosha has given me the opportunity to look … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged antifa, Civil Disobedience, Jonah Raskin, Kenosha, Nonviolence, Rag Bloggers
1 Comment
:
BOOKS | Jonah Raskin’s ‘Dark Past, Dark Future’ reflects cruel reality
This novel demonstrates that readers are in the able hands of a noir master. By C.E. McAuley | The Rag Blog | September 3, 2020 In Jonah Raskin’s new murder mystery Dark Past, Dark Future (2020, McCaa Books) Detective Tioga … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged Books, C.E. McAuley, Dark Past Dark Future, Jonah Raskin, Mysteries, Rag Bloggers
Leave a comment
