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ART / ‘Man at Work’ Exhibition Has Lessons for Today
At the Grohmann Museum in Milwaukee: Frederick Arthur Bridgman, The Seaweed Gatherers, 1912 / MSOE.Workers Built the Modern World [The Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection ‘Man at Work,’ continuing installation of 700 paintings and sculptures spanning 400 years of history. Also, … Continue reading
They’re Not Sticking !!!
Cartoon by Charlie Loving / The Rag Blog
Texas Prisons : Forced Labor Creates Unfair Competition
Lufkin rig: forced out by forced labor.Prison labor contract forces Lufkin Trailers out of business; Another manufacturer fights back. By William Michael Hanks / The Rag Blog / April 3, 2009 All those big rigs pulling trailers with “Lufkin” branded … Continue reading
Intrepid Berlin Correspondent MacBryde Reports on the Berlin Dialogue on the Financial Crisis
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German Minister for International Economic Cooperation and Development. Photo: © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank. Changing the System(s) (Part 1)By David MacBryde / The Rag Blog / April 1, 2009 Some quick steps in February and March … Continue reading
Reasons
Cartoon by Charlie Loving / The Rag Blog
Ric Sternberg Video : Million Musician March for Peace
“Bionic Ric” Sternberg played in the band and also filmed the Million Musicians March — led by Grand Marshal Wavy Gravy — on March 21, 2009, in Austin, Texas. Photo by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog.The Million Musician March:Just … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Million Musicians March, Musicians, Peace Movement, Social Action, Video
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The Last Slow Dance : Texas’ Angry Prophet of Climate Change
Illustration by Chuck Kerr / San Antonio Current. Climate-changing events are happening on a much larger scale, and much sooner, than we had earlier thought possible. By The Rag Blog / March 31, 2009 See ‘Last chance for a slow … Continue reading
Thomas Good : An Interview With Mark Rudd
Mark Rudd speaks at the West End Bar in New York last week. Photo by Thomas Good / NLN. Beneath the gray beard and the wrinkles I could clearly see the boyish face of the 20-year-old SDS leader. By Thomas … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Books, Interview, Mark Rudd, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, Weathermen
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Life During Wartime
Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag Blog Thanks to Dr. S. R. Keister / The Rag Blog
Health Care and the Arrogant Republican Elite
Aristocrat 01 by Gabriel Dzieslaw / mixmedia on canvas, 2007. Also see, ‘Single-payer health reform bill introduced in Senate,’ Below. ‘…one watches the Republican Senate and House “leadership” posturing on television, in their Seville Row suits, sporting their salon or … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Republican Party, Single Payer, Universal Health Care
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Alice Embree : Remembering Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero
Mural at the National University of El Salvador depicting the late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, assassinated in March 24, 1980. Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.Liberation theologian and advocate for the poor, El Salvador’s Romero was assassinated 30 … Continue reading
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Tagged El Salvador, History, Latin America, Liberation Movements, Liberation Theology, People
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