Tag Archives: LNS

THORNE DREYER : DOCUMENTARY FILM | Documentary about LNS wins prestigious national award

Film with Austin ties wins NETA award for Best Cultural Documentary. Watch the film here. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | February 4, 2022 Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service, an 80-minute documentary film produced … Continue reading

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JONAH RASKIN :
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

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THORNE DREYER :
FILM | Exciting documentary about Liberation News Service premieres January 11

‘Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service’ includes interviews with Austin-based underground veterans. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | January 9, 2021 NOTE: This article was updated at 10:20 a.m. (CT), January 12. We had originally … Continue reading

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Thorne Dreyer :
‘Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service’

Dorothy Dickie has documented a significant and nearly-forgotten chapter of our history.   By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | March 24, 2020 AUSTIN — Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Dorothy Dickie is completing production on an exciting 80-minute documentary film … Continue reading

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Jonah Raskin :
BOOKS | Katya Sabaroff Taylor: ‘Prison Wisdom: Writing with Inmates’

This jam-packed volume features several hundred poems, stories, sketches, and drawings by prisoners. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | October 23, 2017 In April 1968, shortly before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nina Sabaroff, a … Continue reading

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Allen Young :
My trip to the Rag Reunion

Tapping my ‘nest egg,’ I traveled from rural Massachusetts to trendy Austin… and into the past. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | January 11, 2017 Allen Young, our dear friend and colleague from the good old days, came … Continue reading

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Ken Wachsberger :
Ken Light’s photographic journey through
the chaos and the calm

In ‘What’s Going On? 1969-1974,’ Light captures the marches, the rallies, the protests, the guerrilla theatre performances, and the police riots. By Ken Wachsberger | The Rag Blog | January 18, 2016 Ken Light disscussed his experiences as a social … Continue reading

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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Blake Slonecker’s ‘New Dawn’ Tells the LNS Story

A New Dawn for the New Left: Blake Slonecker’s valuable history of LNS “By distributing a common news packet to underground outlets, LNS enabled local rags to cover national and international news to an unprecedented degree, curbing their isolation and … Continue reading

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Jonah Raskin : Interviewing Journalist and Gay Activist Allen Young

Allen Young, 2009. Photo by Diane Keijzer.In and out of the closets:An interview with journalist Allen Young By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / June 30, 2011 A week before Allen Young celebrated his 70th birthday, New York Governor … Continue reading

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Sue Katz : May Day in Vermont

Poet Verandah Porche (left) and author Sue Katz. Photos from Sue Katz, Barry Hock, and Consenting Adult.May Day in Vermont By Sue Katz / The Rag Blog / May 10, 2011 I think you’ll get some enjoyment from reading this … Continue reading

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Jonah Raskin : Yippie Jerry Rubin’s ‘Do It!’ Turns Forty

Image by rhpepsi1 / Amazon.com.Do It! does it:Jerry Rubin’s Yippie classic makes it to 40 By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 31, 2010 Jerry Rubin, the youthful Yippie who turned into a middle aged Yuppie, didn’t coin … Continue reading

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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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