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Ray Reece : Where’s the Outrage?
A dead Portuguese man-of-war floats on rust-colored oil off the Louisiana coast on Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Photo by Eric Gay / AP.Where’s the outrage?Just more ‘Happy Motoring’ Given the other threats currently menacing planet Earth and its so-called civilization, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Environment, Gulf Coast, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill, Ray Reece, Sustainability
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Dick J. Reavis : Something Missing at Texas Writers’ Festival?
“The Texican.” Painting © Mike Aston /mikeastonart.com .Artaud and Arizona:Tempest at Texas Observer’s writers’ fest By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / May 5, 2010 This weekend a startling email come to my inbox and to those of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dick J. Reavis, Diversity, Latinos, Liberals, Texas, Texas Monthly, Texas Observer, Writers
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VERSE / Larry Piltz : The Gulf
Art from illusion360.The Gulf “The water was fouled at once,but they drank it none the less,a mess of mud and blood”– Thucydides Oil on the waterblood on the sandscruel and unusualbig business planseleven souls dyingthen millions moreof fellow live beingsdamn … Continue reading
In a Changing World : Workers on the Move
Workers in Paris join in massive May Day demonstration. Photo from AFP.As the nature of work evolves…A week of worker militancy Those who proclaimed May Day as the workers’ day over a hundred years ago understood the need for global … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Targ, Labor, May Day, Social Action, workers rights, World
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SPORT / New Era in Arizona : Here Come ‘Los Suns’
Image from IndyPosted.Here come the Suns!Taking a stand on Cinco de MayoBy Dave Zirin / The Rag Blog / May 4, 2010 A battle has been joined for the very soul of Arizona. On one side, there are the Minutemen, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, Basketball, Dave Zirin, Racial Profiling, Social Protest, Sports
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A Triple Curse : The Corporate Climate Bill
Image from Climatico.Devil’s brew:Curse of the climate bill By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / May 4, 2010 Legend says curses come in threes. Let’s pray that doesn’t happen with the unholy trinity of the Corporate Climate Bill It … Continue reading
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Tagged Chernobyl, Climate Legislation, Energy, Harvey Wasserman, Nuclear Power
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Energy Drain : Peak Oil and the Big Spill
Drill, baby, drill:Time to get serious about energy policy By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / April 3, 2010 Yesterday, President Obama went to Louisiana and met with officials there concerning the growing disaster caused by the explosion of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill, Peak Oil, Ted McLaughlin
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Marc Estrin : M’aidez! M’aidez!
Cartoon by R. Crumb from Motor City Comics.M’aidez! M’aidez!The revolutionary and the stinking idolBy Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2010 SOS was the Morse Code signal requesting aid. Mayday became the oral radio code, probably a … Continue reading
‘We Are All Immigrants’ : 10,000 at Austin May Day March
An estimated 10,000 May Day protesters gathered at the Texas State Capitol for a rally and then marched through downtown Austin in support of immigrants’ rights. Photo by Carlos Lowry / The Rag Blog. Profile this: Arizona awakens a sleeping … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Immigrants' Rights, Immigration, May Day, Social Protest, Thorne Dreyer
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Teenage ‘Sicarios’ : Colombia’s Child Assassins
Image from Colombia Passport.Colombia’s child ‘sicarios’:Playing with guns in real time By Marion Delgado / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2010 These are not baby killers, they are babies who kill. CARTAGENA DE INDIES, Colombia — Sicarii (Latin plural … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Abuse, Colombia, Latin America, Marion Delgado, South America, Violent Crime
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Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Afghanistan / 3
Jews in Afghanistan became increasingly pauperized because of government monopolization of foreign trade, and all but 3-4,000 had emigrated by the 1930’s. Image from The Embassy of Afghanistan.Part 3: 1901-1924A People’s History of Afghanistan By Bob Feldman / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bob Feldman, Great Britain, Imperialism, Jewish History, South Asia, World History
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin on ‘The Bomb’ : Howard Zinn Speaks From the Dead
The Bomb:Howard Zinn’s last callTo rebel against war By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / May 2, 2010 The Bomb by Howard Zinn (City Lights Open Media, San Francisco, August 2010); paperback, 100 pp; $8.95. In his lifetime, Howard … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Authors, Books, Historians, Howard Zinn, Jonah Raskin, Peace Movement, World History, World War II
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