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Alice Embree reports from San Antonio on that city’s 22nd annual Women’s Day celebration, organized by a coalition of “fierce ‘mujeres’” from community and social justice organizations, including union organizers and advocates for reproductive choice and LGBTQ rights. The event, … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Rock Journalist Margaret Moser and Film Actor Sonny Carl Davis
Margaret Moser and Sonny Carl Davis with Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer, left, at the studios of KOOP-FM in Austin, Friday, March 2, 2012. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio.Rag Radio:Margaret Moser and Sonny Carl Davis discussthe film, Roadie, … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Music Awards, Austin Musicians, Film, Margaret Moser, Meat Loaf, Rag Radio, Roadie, Sonny Carl Davis, SXSW, Thorne Dreyer
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Richard Raznikov : Battlefield America
Frontpagemag Battlefield America:‘We had to make some sacrifices…’ There are no more legal barriers to arrest without warrants, prison without lawyers, condemnation and even execution without trial. It is a situation so antithetical to what America has by law always … Continue reading
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Gasoline prices, the XL Pipeline, political nonsense, and oil speculators None of us like paying higher prices for gasoline. Some of us can’t afford the price increases we have seen the last few weeks and months to get to work … Continue reading
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International Women’s Day By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 5, 2012 SAN ANTONIO — For the third year I traveled south from Austin to San Antonio to take part in their International Women’s Day march with others … Continue reading
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Olympia Snow and Andrew Breibart:Is it the end of an era? By Danny Schechter | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2012 There was an eerie synchronicity in the pending resignation of veteran Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican who … Continue reading
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Jim Hightower : The Keystone XL Flim-Flam
Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Image from Nation of Change.The Keystone XL flim-flam The dirty little secret that those pushing so urgently for building Keystone XL don’t want you to know is that the tar sands oil producers are … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment, Fossil Fuels, Jim Hightower, Keystone XL Pipeline, Oil Companies, Tar Sands Pipeline
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Richard Raznikov tells us that “all across the western world, there is enormous pressure… to ‘privatize’ everything.” Severing the connection between the public and the “management of and control over public resources and operations” is dangerous, he says. For instance, … Continue reading
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Rag Radio : The Occupy Movement and Activism in Austin
Occupy activists in the studios of KOOP-FM, Austin, February 24, 2012. From left, Richard Bowden, Joe Cooper, Mo McMorrow, Nate Cowan, Brian J. Overman, Lucian Villaseñor, and Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio.Rag Radio:Representatives … Continue reading
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Tagged Million Musicians March, Occupy Austin, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Rag Radio, SXSW, Thorne Dreyer
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Legendary Commander Cody guitarist, singer, and songwriter Bill Kirchen has been called a “Titan of the Telecaster.” Kirchen, who headlined Austin community radio station KOOP’s recent benefit concert at Antone’s was our guest on Rag Radio. In Thorne Dreyer’s colorful … Continue reading
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Ian Buruma : Is the U.S. in a ‘Dangerous State of Funk’?
Graphic from Progressive America Rising.Is the U.S. in a ‘Dangerous State of Funk’? Much political rhetoric, and a spate of new books, would have us believe that the U.S. is in a dangerous state of funk. By Ian Buruma / … Continue reading
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Tagged Imperialism, Obama Presidency, Pax Americana, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Our modern-day Puritans By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / February 20, 2012 For those who don’t remember their grade school history lessons, during the 1600s the Puritans were persecuted in England for trying to purify the Church … Continue reading
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