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‘Justice in the Coalfields’ : The Pittston Strike, April 5, 1989
Trailer: ‘Justice in the Coalfields’ by Anne Lewis Anne Lewis’ provocative and skillfully produced documentary of the strike, Justice in the Coalfields, has had a profoundly formative influence not only on my understanding of the struggle, but larger issues of … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Anne Lewis, Coal Mining, Labor Unions, Social Movements, Strikes, West Virginia
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Dr. Stephen R. Keister : The Insurance Industry Could Use a Hippocratic Oath
Hippocrates / josh pincus is crying. Nowhere, does the Hippocratic Oath require a physician to be a peon, or a servant of a HMO or insurance company. By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / April 6, 2009 … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medicine, Universal Health Care
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Life During Wartime : The Contortionist
Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag Blog The Rag Blog
Ric Sternberg Video : Million Musician March for Peace, Part 3
The Million Musician March:STILL Keeping Austin Weird By Ric Sternberg / The Rag Blog / May 5, 2009 Part 3 of the 2009 Million Musician March trilogy is now up and running. [The 2009 Million Musician March for Peace, an … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Million Musicians March, Musicians, Peace Movement, Social Action, Video
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Author of ‘Writing Down the Bones’ Visits Austin
Natalie Goldberg and Bookwoman’s Susan Post. Photo: Alice Embree.Natalie Goldberg Visits AustinBy Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 5, 2009 Natalie Goldberg was in Austin on April Fools’ Day promoting her book, Old Friend from Far Away, The … Continue reading
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
