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Carl Davidson : U.S. Social Forum a High Energy Event
10,000 marched through downtown Detroit to kick off the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, June 22, 2010.U.S. Social Forum in Detroit:High-energy gathering fires upA new generation of activists The gathering in Atlanta in June 2007 had 12,000 people come together … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Davidson, Labor Unions, Social Activism, Social Forum Movement, Socialism
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Poet and political prisoner Marilyn Buck has been released from a prison hospital in Texas after serving 25 years of an 80-year sentence for crimes related to her actions in support of the black liberation movement. Buck was diagnosed with … Continue reading
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Thorne Dreyer : Poet Marilyn Buck Freed After 25 Years in Prison
Poet-activist Marilyn Buck was released from a federal prison hospital on July 15, 2010. Photo taken at Dublin Fci, 1998. Photo from The Rag Blog.Poet and political prisoner Marilyn BuckFreed after 25 years in federal prison By Thorne Dreyer / … Continue reading
Jack A. Smith : Israel and Palestine After the Flotilla / 3
Then Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, left, meets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on March 19, 2006 in Gaza City. Haniya continues to function as Prime Minister, despite having been dismissed by Abbas the next year. Photo from … Continue reading
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Tagged Foreign Policy, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Israel, Jack A. Smith, Middle East, Palestinian Blockade
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Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Afghanistan /Conclusion
Iran-Turkmenistan gas pipeline. The Turkmenistan government is apparently still interested in moving forward with a pipeline through Afghanistan. Photo from Tehran Times.Conclusion: 2001-2010A People’s History of Afghanistan By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / July 18, 2010 [If you’re … Continue reading
BOOKS / Dick J. Reavis : Bruce Watson’s ‘Freedom Summer: The Savage Season…’
But his take is a bit romantic…Bruce Watson’s Freedom Summer a page turner By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / July 16, 2010 [Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, by … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Civil Rights Movement, Dick J. Reavis, Freedom Summer, Mississippi, The Rag, the South
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NOLA’s Killer Cops : Danziger Bridge is Just the Beginning
Lance Madison is surrounded by State Police and NOPD SWAT members on Sept. 4, 2005, after violence erupted on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans. Madison was accused of shooting at police and was arrested, but he was later released. … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Rights, Criminal Justice, Jordan Flaherty, Katrina, New Orleans, official, Police Brutality
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Distribution of Wealth : Way Out of Whack
Image from OECD / CBS News.Trickle UP theory:The recession and its roots By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / July 15, 2010 Have you ever wondered just what caused the deep recession that the United States is in? Many … Continue reading
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Tagged Economics, Income Gap, Poverty, Recession, Ted McLaughlin, Wealth
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Chief Wahoo — the cartoonish logo of the Cleveland Indians — is arguably the most racist logo in sports, with its “ridiculous, buck-toothed profoundly offensive caricature of a single-feathered native.” With the departure of Lebron James from the Cavaliers — … Continue reading
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Paul Krassner : Remembering Tuli Kupferberg
In the day: Paul Krassner, Tuli Kupferberg, and unidentified woman. Photo by Paskal / The Rag Blog.And about those rumors…Remembering Tuli By Paul Krassner / The Rag Blog / July 14, 2010 [Tuli Kupferberg, beat poet, singer, and a founder … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Deaths, Ed Sanders, Philip Roth, Poets, Rock 'n Roll, Singers, Sixties, The Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg
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Beat poet, humanist, political mystic, rock star… Tuli Kupferberg is dead at 86. When writer Carl R. Hultberg, only 16 at the time, first saw Tuli and the Fugs at the Players Theatre on MacDougal Street in the Village in … Continue reading
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Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs : Rock’s Inner City Shaman
Tuli Kupferberg. Image from The Poetry Project.Beat poet, humanist, political mystic, rock star:The Fugs’ Tuli Kupferberg dies at 86 Despite all my waspy-whitebread cultural upbringing I fell in love with this individual immediately, even though he was probably the ugliest … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat Generation, Carl R. Hultberg, New York City, Poets, Rock 'n Roll, Sixties, The Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg
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