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Yearly Archives: 2010
Text and Subtext : The Media’s Tea Party
Framing the Tea Party movement: New Left redux? Photo from RaceWire.‘Wal-Mart Hippies?’Framing the Tea Party movement By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 10, 2010 Friday morning I was listening to my pseudo “fair and balanced” National Public … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Targ, Mainstream Media, New Left, Right Wing, Sixties, Tea Baggers
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Gilbert Shelton, the legendary underground comix artist who created the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Wonder Wart Hog, started out with the famed Texas Ranger humor magazine in Austin, where he and Ramsey Wiggins first met — back in the … Continue reading
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Joseph Stack and the Texas GOP : Murder-Suicide of the King’s English
Art by Cindy Flynn / Clifton Studios.Murder-suicide of the English language:Stack, and the Texas Republican primary By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / March 9, 2010 Like fabled ruts gouged into dirt by heavy wheels, or war trenches widened … Continue reading
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Tagged Greg Moses, Joseph Stack, Language, Racism, Republican Party, Texas
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Ramsey Wiggins : Me and Gilbert Shelton: A Memoir
Legendary underground cartoonist and comix artist Gilbert Shelton.Me and Gilbert Shelton: A Memoir By Ramsey Wiggins / The Rag Blog / March 8, 2010 Legendary underground artist Gilbert Shelton will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio, Tuesday, March 9, … Continue reading
San Antonio : Thousands Rally for International Women’s Day
More than 2,000 demonstrators celebrated International Women’s Day, Saturday, March 6, in San Antonio. Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.International Women’s Day:Multi-ethnic coalitionCelebrates the struggles of women By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 8, 2010 … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Alice Embree, International Women's Day, San Antonio, Social Action, Texas, Women
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The Women of Bolivia : A Reason to Celebrate
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales congratulates his new Minister of Productive Development Antonia Rodriguez Medrano in La Paz on 23 Jan 2010. Photo by Juan Karita / AP.International Women’s Day:In Evo Morales’ BoloviaWomen are playing a major roleBy Richard Lee / … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolivia, Evo Morales, International Women's Day, Latin America, Richard Lee, South America, Women, World
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March Forth in Austin : Students and Faculty Protest Budget Cuts
Naomi Caballero of MACHA speaks at a rally on the West Mall Thursday, protesting budget cuts and tuition increases at UT Austin. Photo by Danielle Villasana / The Daily Texan.Stop the Cuts Coalition at UT-Austin:Protest against budget cuts, faculty layoffs … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Lewis, Austin, Campuses, Economy, Education, Social Protest, Student Activism, Texas, Unions, UT-Austin
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Student Protests : Education Funding Cuts vs. Sports Largesse
Students and supporters rallied against funding cuts to higher education at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. on Thursday, March 4, 2010. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli / AP.National Day of Action:Students protest massive funding cutsWhile millions goes to coaches, stadiums By … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, California, Campuses, Dave Zirin, Economy, Education, Social Protest, Sports
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Marc Estrin : Skulkstack
Austin’s Echelon Building, which housed offices of the IRS, was destroyed on Feb. 19, 2010, when disgruntled software engineer Joseph Stack allegedly crashing his single-prop Piper Cherokee into building.Creepy connection:Stack’s attack and my novel Skulk By Marc Estrin / The … Continue reading
KBR and the Army : Rewarding Incompetence and Scandal
Image from Ms. Sparky.Repeating bad behavior:Houston’s KBR gets $2.8 billion contract By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / March 7, 2010 It looks like the United States Army is incapable of learning from past mistakes. On Tuesday, the Army … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Abuse, Corruption, Houston, Iraq Occupation, KBR, Military Contractors, Ted McLaughlin, U.S. Army
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Leonardo Boff : The World Society of Blindness
Image from Camelia Elias / FRAG/MENTS.The World Society of Blindness These are global problems that transcend our paradigm of specialized knowledge. Life does not fit into a formula, nor caring into a calculus equation. By Leonardo Boff / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Knowledge, Leonardo Boff, Liberation Theology, Philospophy, Religion, Science
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Earth to Obama : Nuclear Just Can’t Cut It
Dreamscape VII by Midnight-digital / Flickr / The End of Capitalism. Not in your wildest dreams:Five reasons nuclear just isn’t sustainable By Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2010 President Obama recently announced an $8.3 billion loan … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Knight, Economy, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Nuclear Power, Technology
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