Category Archives: Rag Bloggers

Honduras : Zelaya to Return With ‘Peaceful Popular Army’

Zelaya crosses the border, which is marked by a chain. Photo from La Jornada, Mexico.Strikes and military crackdown continuePresident Manuel Zelaya defies compromise By David Holmes Morris / The Rag Blog / July 31, 2009 Deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya … Continue reading

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Leonard Peltier Hearing Brings Hope for Freedom

Photos by Bill Hackwell / indybay.org.Leonard Peltier could leave prison by August 18 By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / July 30, 2009 For a formidable and growing global community of supporters, the prospect of Native American activist Leonard … Continue reading

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Health Care : True Reform Must Include Public Option

Public Insurance Option is Necessary For True Reform It’s becoming obvious that these Repubs and Blue Dogs have been bought off by the millions of dollars the lobbyists are throwing at them. To them, getting re-elected is far more important … Continue reading

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Friday : Feed the Blog!

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Single-Payer Health Care: Some Reasons to Do It

Health CareBy Hosea W. McAdoo M.D. / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2009 “The Americans will always do the right thing . . . After they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.” — Winston Churchill PART IAfter carefully following all the … Continue reading

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Harvey Wasserman : Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Faces Parole Board

Leonard Peltier, founder of the American Indian Movement, faces the Parole Board today, July 28, 2009, after 33 years of incarceration.Today we ALL stand before Leonard Peltier’s Parole Board The circumstances of the prosecution, and the legal history of the … Continue reading

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Bad Boogie at Austin’s KUT : ‘We Built This City’

Paul Ray, Texas Hall of Fame jazz musician and KUT radio host. Photo by Christina Murrey). Changes abound at KUT Programming changes at KUT have cut longtime hosts Paul Ray and Larry Monroe to one night a week each. “Paul … Continue reading

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Robert Jensen on White Privilege : Teachable Moments Require Willing Learners

Harvard Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. is photographed by a neighbor as he is arrested at his home in Cambridge, July 16. Photo by B. Carter / Demotix Images / AP.Teachable moments require willing learners A system as perverse and … Continue reading

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Bob Libal :
Si Kahn : 44 years of music and social justice

Activist, musician, and executive director of Grassroots Leadership:  four decades in the struggle. By Bob Libal | The Rag Blog | July 28, 2009 I read in the paper, I watched on the show They said that it happened a … Continue reading

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Doctors Want Real Health Care Reform

Cartoon from LTSaloon.orgDoctors show support for health care reform; Lobbyists, Blue Dogs and Republicans work to gut real change By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / July 28, 2009 This past Wednesday I listened to President Obama’s … Continue reading

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Feed the Blogger!

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Mexico : The Song of the Guerrilla is Heard Again

Rosendo Radilla Pacheco, politician, activist and folksinger, was “disappeared” by federal troops in August 1974 during Mexico’s “dirty war.” He is now the subject of a human rights investigation and a documentary film (above).As Mexico Awaits 2010:The song of the … Continue reading

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