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Lamar W. Hankins : Free Speech and the Texas Confederate License Plate
Speciality license plate proposed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Image from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles.Texas Confederate Battle Flag:License plates, racism, and free speech By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / October 25, 2011 At first … Continue reading
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Tagged Confederacy, Free Speech, Lamar W. Hankins, Racism, Slavery, Texas Politics
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Mike Davis : No More Bubblegum
Nada’s magic glasses in John Carpenter’s They Live.No more bubblegum:Occupy Wall Street’s magic glasses As [John] Carpenter foresaw, force enough Americans out of their homes and/or careers… and something new and huge will begin to slouch toward Goldman Sachs. By … Continue reading
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Tagged Horror Movies, Mike Davis, Occupy Wall Street, Progressive Movement, Radical Change
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Jonah Raskin : A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Never the ‘good girl,’ not then, not now:A Rag Blog interview with Bernardine Dohrn By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 20, 2011 Bernardine Dohrn will be Thorne Dreyer‘s … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Interview, Jonah Raskin, Radicals, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground
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Carl Davidson : Occupied Wall Street and the Emergence of a Popular Front
Photo by Emily Laermer / Crain’s.We shall not be moved!A report from occupied Wall Street: A new popular front against finance capital, encompassing a progressive majority of the country, is beginning to take shape. By Carl Davidson / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Davidson, Occupy Wall Street, Popular Front, Progressive Movement, Social Protest
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Alyssa Burgin : Cronyism, Corruption, and the Keystone XL Pipeline
Don’t mess with Texas. Photo by Jon McLaughlin / National Resources Defense Council.‘Regulatory capture’:Cronyism and corruption in the Keystone XL Pipeline approval process By Alyssa Burgin / The Rag Blog / October 19, 2011 AUSTIN — On November 6, 2011, … Continue reading
Greg Moses : Even Weather Turns Spiritual at Occupy Austin
General Assembly at Occupy Austin. Photo from Occupy Austin.Even the weather turns spiritual:Onward through the storms at Occupy Austin As Occupy Austin entered its second week, organizers were looking more rested, wholesome, happy, and relaxed as they mixed themselves into … Continue reading
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Tagged Democracy, Greg Moses, Martin Luther King, Nonviolence, Occupy Austin, Occupy Wall Street
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Dick J. Reavis : ¡Que Vivan los ‘Plantonistas’ de Wall Street!
“Plantonistas” protest Mexican election results at Mexico City’s Zócalo plaza, Nov. 11, 2011. Photo by Régis Lachaume / Wikimedia Commons. Borrowing From Mexico:The Wall Street Plantón By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / October 19, 2011 The widespread … Continue reading
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Tagged Dick J. Reavis, Mexican History, Occupy Wall Street, Social Protest
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David P. Hamilton : What Occupy Wall Street Has Accomplished
Eat the Rich: Occupy Wall Street is made for TV.What the Occupy Wall Streetmovement has accomplished so far By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / October 18, 2011 Plenty. 1. The implantation of the tactical innovation of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, David P. Hamilton, Direct Action, Occupy Wall Street, Progressive Movement, Social Protest
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Lamar W. Hankins : Religion is the Elixir of Republican Politics
Religion as magic elixir. Image from Photobucket.Religion:The elixir of Republican politics By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / October 18, 2011 An elixir is a substance taken to cure one’s ills, or it’s a substance used to carry … Continue reading
Ellen LaConte : Finding Democracy in Unexpected Places
Single-celled amoeba called dictyostelium gather together and turn themselves collectively into a new creature: slime mold. Image from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).Finding democracy in unexpected— and radically green — places What if nature — life as we know … Continue reading
Steve Russell : ‘Chief’ Was Born on Death Row
The North Block entrance to Condemned Row at San Quentin. Image from Strong as an Ox.‘Chief’ Stankewitz:Born on death row Just as you can’t discuss federal Indian policy without recourse to history, it’s hard to understand Douglas Stankewitz and his … Continue reading
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Steve Russell : ‘Chief’ Was Born on Death Row
The North Block entrance to Condemned Row at San Quentin. Image from Strong as an Ox.‘Chief’ Stankewitz:Born on death row Chief has now spent 33 years of his life on California’s death row, but virtually all of his life before … Continue reading
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