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THORNE DREYER : DOCUMENTARY FILM | Documentary about LNS wins prestigious national award
Film with Austin ties wins NETA award for Best Cultural Documentary. Watch the film here. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | February 4, 2022 Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service, an 80-minute documentary film produced … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary Film, Liberation News Service, LNS, Rag Bloggers, Thorne Dreyer, Under the Ground
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE | Can’t see past the blue
How prosecutors and judges let cops get away with murder, or at least with criminally negligent homicide. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | January 31, 2022 The two or three nationwide instances that we have seen recently … Continue reading
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INTERVIEW | Why do men keep making war?: An interview
with scholar Michael Klare
Michael Klare has had war on his mind for the past 60 years. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 20, 2022 Michael Klare has had war in all its many ignominious manifestations on his mind for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War Movement, History of War, Jonah Raskin, Michael Klare, New Cold War, Rag Bloggers
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BOOKS | ‘Making History Making Blintzes’
A memoir by New Left veterans Mickey Flacks and Dick Flacks. By Robert C. Cottrell | The Rag Blog | January 20, 2022 As a historian who has concentrated extensively on American radicalism, I attempt to keep abreast of newly … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Dick Flacks, Making History Making Blintzes, Memoir, Mickey Flacks, New Left, Rag Bloggers, Robert C. Cottrell
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BOOKS | Alice Walker’s ‘Gathering Blossoms Under Fire’:
Journals as autobiography
The book reads like a peremptory strike meant to deter future biographers. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 13, 2022 Before the advent of Black Lives Matter, Me Too, and the most recent generation of Black writers, … Continue reading
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FILM | ‘Don’t Look Up’: Apocalypse, again
‘Don’t Look Up’ is apocalyptic science fiction, but it’s also biting satire. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 6, 2022 I had heard about Don’t Look Up (Netflix, 2 h 18 m) the new apocalyptic science fiction … Continue reading
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Tagged Don't Look Up, Film, Jonah Raskin, Rag Bloggers, Science Fiction
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VERSE | The Christmas Keys, a True Carol in Limericks
The Christmas Keys, a True Carol in Limericks On Christmas Eve I lost my keys then dreamt of a very high bridge that spans a river fast and wide that flows below a ridge and on that ridge a town … Continue reading
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BOOK REVIEW | Nick Licata: ‘Student Power, Democracy and Revolution in the Sixties’
In Licata’s book, social unrest percolated on multiple levels. By Patricia Vaccarino | The Rag Blog | December 19, 2021 Listen to Thorne Dreyer’s Rag Radio interview with Nick Licata, Friday, Dec. 24, 2-3 p.m. (CST) on KOOP-91.7 FM in … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, Memoir, Nick Licata, Patricia Vaccarino, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, Student Activism
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE | The politics of assassination: An initial thought
Throughout the early postwar era and emphatically during the 1960s, the politics of assassination came into play. By Robert C. Cottrell | The Rag Blog | December 18, 2021 I’m writing this on the morning of December 4, 2021, the … Continue reading
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DOCUMENTARY FILM | The widowmaker: Betty and Kenneth Rodgers’
doc, ‘I Married the War’
That’s what war does: demonizes the Other. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | December 2, 2021 Almost all women whose husbands go to war inevitably become widows. Even those with husbands who come home from war alive. They … Continue reading
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BOOK REVIEW | ‘Exploring Space City!’: A dazzling
authoritative book
The volume is a labor of love that honors Houston’s historicunderground newspaper. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | November 21, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO — Comedian Robin Williams would say, famously, “If you remember the 1960s you really weren’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Exploring Space City!, Houston, Jonah Raskin, Journalism, New Left, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, Sixties Houston, Underground Press
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BOOKS | Exploring Space City! is on the way!
“This lovingly crafted compilation captures the spirit of the New Left and the counterculture.” — Historian Robert Cottrell By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | November 18, 2021 Our much-awaited book, Exploring Space City!: Houston’s Historic Underground Newspaper — … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Exploring Space City!, Houston, Journalism, Rag Bloggers, Space City!, Thorne Dreyer, Underground Press
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