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On Being Young and Crazy By Paul Robbins / The Rag Blog / January 9,2012 AUSTIN — On Friday, Jan. 6, Austin officially commissioned its new 30 Megawatt Solar plant. It is one of the largest solar installations in the … Continue reading
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Let the sunshine inOn being young and crazy By Paul Robbins / The Rag Blog / January 9,2012 AUSTIN — On Friday, January 6, Austin officially commissioned its new 30 Megawatt Solar plant. It is one of the largest solar … Continue reading
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Alex Haley. Image from Gather.A Better Day:Remembering Alex Haley and Mario Savio By Tony Platt | The Rag Blog | January 10, 2012 Let me drink from the waterswhere the mountain streams floodLet the smell of wildflowersflow free through my … Continue reading
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Alex Haley. Image from Gather.A Better Day:Remembering Alex Haley and Mario Savio By Tony Platt | The Rag Blog | January 10, 2012 Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams floodLet the smell of wildflowers flow free … Continue reading
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Carl Gibson : Grow Up, Ron Paul
Running away from home. Image from goodbuddies inc.Grow up, Ron Paul Ron Paul’s right-libertarian ideology does espouse a new kind of freedom, just as rebellious children who fantasize about running away from home dream of a new kind of freedom. … Continue reading
Rag Radio : Bruce Melton on the Real-World Effects of Climate Change
Climate change activist Bruce Melton, left, with Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer, in the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio. Environmental activist Bruce Melton discussesthe real-world effects of climate change … Continue reading
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Ryan Holeywell : Meet Occupy Wall Street’s Favorite Banker
The Bank of North Dakota: The country’s only publicly-owned state bank.The Case for public state banks:Meet Occupy Wall Street’s favorite banker By Ryan Holeywell / SolidarityEconomy.Net / January 4, 2012 See clip from Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story, Below. … Continue reading
Rebecca Solnit : Occupy Your Heart
Occupy your heart:Compassion is our new currency Occupy arrived and, as if swept by some strange pandemic, a contagious virus of truth-telling, everyone was suddenly obliged to call things by their real names and talk about actual problems. By Rebecca … Continue reading
Vote Obama – if you want a centrist Republican for US president Because Barack Obama has adopted so many core Republican beliefs, the US opposition race is a shambles By Glenn Greenwald / The Guardian / December 28, 2011 American … Continue reading
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Ulysses : The Hip Hop Revolution of the Arab Spring
El Général performing at the first meeting of Tunisia’s main PDP opposition party on Jan. 29, 2011 in Tunis. Photo by Fethi Belaid / AFP / Getty.The hip hop revolutionof the Arab Spring By Ulysses / openDemocracy / December 28, … Continue reading
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As the troops return from Iraq, Rev. Jim Rigby, human rights activist and pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, reflects on the Christmas message and a “reframed” Christmas story that he wrote for a local newspaper during … Continue reading
Rag Radio : Texas Music Hall of Fame Singer/Songwriter Eliza Gilkyson
Eliza Gilkyson. Photo by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog. Texas Music Hall of Fame Singer/Songwriter andPolitical Activist Eliza Gilkyson on Rag Radiowith Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: Eliza Gilkyson was Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio, Friday, December … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Musicians, Eliza Gilkyson, Inteview, Rag Radio, Singer-Songwriters, Thorne Dreyer
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