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The KKK in the news today… and back in Sixties Houston.
The Klan recruiting in the Panhandle; Klan cop in Florida; a Klansman says ‘I’m sorry.’ (Oh… and how they shot us up in the Sixties!) By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | February 9, 2009 As if things weren’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreyer Galleries, Houston, Houston Police, John Lewis, KKK, KPFT, Margaret Webb Dreyer, Pacifica, Right-wing Violence, SDS, Sixties, Space City, Texas, Thorne Dreyer
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Green Jobs 2009: Steelworkers, Hip-Hoppers and Tree-Huggers Get It On!
AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka at Green Jobs 2009.Van Jones heads Green For All, an organization rooted among inner city youth.Blue-Green insurgency gets fired up at the DC Green Jobs Conference By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / February 8, 2009 … Continue reading
Roger Baker on the Economy : The Pit and the Pendulum
It’s as if the economic pendulum has been made, by artificial means, to swing so far to one side for so long that it’s now becoming nearly impossible to keep it from swinging back strongly in the opposite direction of … Continue reading
Experts : Immigration Enforcement is Aggressive, Inefficient
Gregorio Cruz was working at a manufacturing plant in Van Nuys one year ago when federal agents raided the facility. Cruz is now in court claiming that arresting officers did not follow correct procedures. Photo David Crane / Contra Costa … Continue reading
Medical Marijuana : Raids Continue But Policy Change in the Air
The message is clear, said UCLA professor Mark Kleiman, a former Justice Department official and an expert on crime and drug policy. ‘It is no longer federal policy to beat up on hippies.’By Devlin Barrett / February 7, 2009 See … Continue reading
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Tagged DEA, Drug Law Reform, Drug War, Medical Marijuana, Obama Administration
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The Unkindest Cut : Hands Off Boy Scout Forest Land
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. I hit the damned ceiling when I learned that ‘the Boy Scouts have sold at least 34,000 acres of land to logging corporations, allowing big business to level forests that were supposed … Continue reading
Economic Stimulus : Try Whips and Chains
Graphic courtesy of The Daily Beast.Kinkonomics: With staff jobs evaporating and former nine-to-fivers cobbling together incomes through scattered side projects, freelancing as a dominatrix — or “pro-domme,” as industry types prefer to call it — has become a plausible gig … Continue reading
Alyce Guynn : Blue, Black and In Between
Poet and novelist Al Young. Photo courtesy of Gabrielle Motta-Passajou / Appalachian State University News.Blue, Black and In Between Have you seen her dressed in blue? ….She comes in colors everywhereShe combs her hair; she’s like a rainbowComing, colors in … Continue reading
Bill Ayers : Lawmaker Calls for His Ouster; Graphic Memoir to be Published
University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers talks to a reporter in 2008. Illinois State Sen. Larry Bomke wants Ayers removed from his university post under a proposal that says anyone who has committed an act of violence against … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Books, Educators, SDS, Weather Underground, William Ayers
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Wall Street Madam : Bankers Used Corporate Credit Cards for Sex
Shown here at a court appearance last fall, Kristin Davis pleaded guilty to charges of running a prostitution business that used more than 100 women. In an ABC interview Feb. 6, 2009, she tells how Wall Street CEO’s paid her … Continue reading
Corn Flakes and the Phelps Flap : Just Say No
Garbage in, garbage out. Photo by Bill Narum / The Rag Blog. I support freedom of choice, Kellogg’s doesn’t have to sponsor Phelps and I don’t have to eat their products. By Bill Narum / The Rag Blog / February … Continue reading
