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The Press Doesn’t Cover Nonviolence : A Cautionary Tale
Creative nonviolence: street theater at the 2008 Republican Convention in St. Paul. Photo by Neal Reiter.If you want nonviolence, report it If newspaper editors are serious about wanting young people to choose nonviolence, then they must do more than pounce … Continue reading
Police in Texas : Property Seizure called ‘Highway Piracy’
Beware all who enter here. Photo by MJW.Highway robbery on the open roads of Texas By Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / February 11, 2009 See ‘Property seizure by police called “highway piracy,”‘ by Lisa Sandberg, Below. According to … Continue reading
Biden in Munich : America’s Eurasian Empire Takes Shape
Vice President Joe Biden addresses the participants of the International Conference on Security Policy in Munich, on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009. Photo by Frank Augstein / AP. Biden was telling the waiting world that Washington would continue to pursue its … Continue reading
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We Had to Do it…
Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag Blog Thanks to Dr. S. R. Keister / The Rag Blog
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The KKK in the news today… and back in Sixties Houston.
The Klan recruiting in the Panhandle; Klan cop in Florida; a Klansman says ‘I’m sorry.’ (Oh… and how they shot us up in the Sixties!) By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | February 9, 2009 As if things weren’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreyer Galleries, Houston, Houston Police, John Lewis, KKK, KPFT, Margaret Webb Dreyer, Pacifica, Right-wing Violence, SDS, Sixties, Space City, Texas, Thorne Dreyer
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Green Jobs 2009: Steelworkers, Hip-Hoppers and Tree-Huggers Get It On!
AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka at Green Jobs 2009.Van Jones heads Green For All, an organization rooted among inner city youth.Blue-Green insurgency gets fired up at the DC Green Jobs Conference By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / February 8, 2009 … Continue reading
Roger Baker on the Economy : The Pit and the Pendulum
It’s as if the economic pendulum has been made, by artificial means, to swing so far to one side for so long that it’s now becoming nearly impossible to keep it from swinging back strongly in the opposite direction of … Continue reading
Experts : Immigration Enforcement is Aggressive, Inefficient
Gregorio Cruz was working at a manufacturing plant in Van Nuys one year ago when federal agents raided the facility. Cruz is now in court claiming that arresting officers did not follow correct procedures. Photo David Crane / Contra Costa … Continue reading
Heerrre Commmes Ronnie !!
Cartoon by Charlie Loving / The Rag Blog
The Unkindest Cut : Hands Off Boy Scout Forest Land
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. I hit the damned ceiling when I learned that ‘the Boy Scouts have sold at least 34,000 acres of land to logging corporations, allowing big business to level forests that were supposed … Continue reading
