Tag Archives: Radicals

FILM / Jonah Raskin : Robert Redford ‘Keeps Company’ with the Sixties Underground

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Thorne Dreyer

‘The Company You Keep’:Robert Redford’s overambitioustake on the Sixties underground He clearly wanted to make an epic about then and now, about Sixties radicals and their kids, and he couldn’t pull it off. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : The American Values of Saul Alinsky

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Community organizer Saul Alinksy. Image from Addicting Info.Saul Alinsky’s American values ‘The Radical… is that person to whom the common good is the greatest personal value. He is that person who genuinely and completely believes in mankind.’ — Saul Alinsky … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin : A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

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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BOOKS / Harry Targ : Teach Your Children Well

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Raising kids to be radical:‘Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers’ Strike’ By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / October 8, 2010 Teach, your children wellTheir father’s hellDid slowly go byAnd feed them on your dreamsThe one they pickedThe one … Continue reading →

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Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn : Bringing the War Home, 1970

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

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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Robert Jensen : Getting Radicalized, Slow and Painful

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Portrait of Robert Jensen by Robert Shetterly.Becoming a radical:The grief and the joy Becoming radicalized politically allowed me to see that I was suffering because I didn’t want to fit into a world shaped by unjust systems; the problem wasn’t … Continue reading →

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