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Monthly Archives: September 2010
FILM / Rick Ayers : An Inconvenient Superman
An Inconvenient Superman:Davis Guggenheim’s new filmhijacks school reformBy Rick Ayers / The Rag Blog / September 20, 2010 Davis Guggenheim’s 2010 film Waiting for Superman is a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions. The film suggests the problems … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Educational Reform, Film, Labor Unions, Public Schools, Rick Ayers
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Sonny Carl Davis is an actor (“I’ve had little roles in big films and big roles in little films, and continue to act when they let me”), a musician, and a screenwriter. He played a red neck entrepreneur in Texas … Continue reading
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Ted McLaughlin : Fingering Corruption in Afghanistan
President Hamid Karzai votes: Supposedly indelible ink used to mark voters’ fingers in the Afghanistan election to prevent fraud may have been easily washed off. Photo by Reuters.Ink hardly dry on electoral farce:American opinion and the Afghan fiascoBy Ted McLaughlin … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Corruption, Foreign Policy, Imperialism, Public Opinion, Ted McLaughlin
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Marc Estrin: Don’t Tase Me, Bro…
Killer Klowns. Image from Out of the Grave.Don’t Tase me, bro… By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / September 18, 2010 Another Taser-related death this past week, this time, not of an ancient great-grandmother in a wheelchair, but of … Continue reading
Anarchist organizer scott crow — one of the founders of New Orleans’ Common Ground Collective — tells a remarkable and very personal tale of post-Katrina desperation, racism, and white vigilante violence. Adapted for The Rag Blog from a draft of … Continue reading
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scott crow : White Vigilantes and the Battle of Algiers
One of numerous looter signs posted by white vigilantes in the small Algiers Point Neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.Battle of Algiers:White vigilantes and the policein Katrina’s aftermath By scott crow / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2010 “…within the war … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Ground, Community Organizing, Katrina, New Orleans, Racism, Robert King, scott crow, Vigilante Justice
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Harry Targ : Time for Progressives to ‘Get on the Bus’
Organize: The handwriting’s on the wall.Social justice and the fall elections:Mobilizing the progressive movementBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / September 16, 2010 “Get on the Bus.” That was the conclusion 16 activists from Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky came … Continue reading
Marcy Winograd : We Need a Green New Deal
Image from Conservation Value Notes.It’s time to retool our economy:The United States needs a Green New Deal What if our engineers, now building weapons, could build solar cities instead? By Marcy Winograd / September 15, 2010 My talented young cousin … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Economic Recovery, Green Jobs, Marcy Winograd, New Deal, War Economy
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Thomas McKelvey Cleaver : Belize Looking Pretty Good
New best friend? Belize’s national bird, the Keel Billed Toucan. Image from LocoGringo.com.If the Tea Party wins:Belize looking better and better By Thomas McKelvey Cleaver / The Rag Blog / September 15, 2010 With the results of the primary elections … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 Elections, Belize, Fascism, Nazi Germany, Right Wing Extremists, Tea Party, Thomas Cleaver
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Dahr Jamail : Strong Evidence BP Is Spraying Toxic Dispersants
Dispersant remnant, June 26, 2010. Photo by Shirley Tillman / Truthout.Evidence mounts:BP spraying toxic dispersants The Tillmans and thousands of other fishermen and residents along the Gulf of Mexico are deeply concerned about local, state, and federal government complicity in … Continue reading
Bill Freeland : More Evolution at Ten
Rag Blog graphic by Bill Freeland. See Bill’s video version here.Verified by a second source: Image courtesy of Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog.The Rag Blog / Posted September 15, 2010
