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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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Tagged Arab Spring, Arabic Hip Hop, Middle East, Music Video, Rappers, Revolutionary Movements
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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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Eliza Gilkyson. Photo by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog. Texas Music Hall of Fame Singer/Songwriter and Political Activist Eliza Gilkyson on Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: Eliza Gilkyson was Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio, … Continue reading
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BOOKS / Jerry Harris : Carl Davidson’s ‘Lost Writings of SDS’
Collection of ‘lost’ SDS writings revealsdepth of Sixties radical thinking By Jerry Harris / The Rag Blog / December 19, 2011 [Revolutionary Youth and the New Working Class: Lost Writings of SDS, edited by Carl Davidson; (Pittsburgh PA: Changemaker Publications, … Continue reading
Willie Nelson : Occupy the Food System
Willie Nelson at Farm Aid 2011.Occupy the food system From seed to plate, our food system is now even more concentrated than our banking system. By Willie Nelson / Reader Supported News / December 18, 2011 Thanks to the Occupy … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Family Farms, Farm Aid, Food Industry, Occupy Wall Street, Willie Nelson
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Mike Klonsky cautions us to remember that Teddy Roosevelt, eulogized in President Obama’s Osawatomie speech on “New Nationalism” last week, “was at his best a tame economic reformer and at his worst, a racist, imperialist war monger” who believed in … Continue reading
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Rag Radio : We Interview Nonviolent Activist Val Liveoak and Author Robert H. Frank
Nonviolent Activist Val Liveoak of Peacekeeping en Las Americason Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: Also listen to New York Times Columnist Robert H. Frank,Author of The Darwin Economy, on Rag Radio, here: (Texas Music Hall of … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Economics, Nonviolence, Rag Radio, Robert H. Frank, Roger Baker, Social Activism, Thorne Dreyer, Val Liveoak
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The State of Indiana vs. theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights By Harry Targ / December 12, 2011 The massive atrocities of World War II led nations to commit themselves permanently to the protection of basic rights for all human beings. … Continue reading
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The Rag Blog : Technical Difficulties!
After the apocalypse:We’re baaack! By Editors | The Rag Blog | December 12, 2011 You may have noticed that there hasn’t been much activity on The Rag Blog for the last week or so. And, if you are a subscriber, … Continue reading
Jenny Brown : Workers Challenge Big Food
Image from Food Chain Workers’ Alliance.From farm to fork:Workers challenge Big Food By Jenny Brown / Labor Notes / November 7, 2011 Workers and students gathered at “Food Day” events on dozens of campuses to link decent jobs to decent … Continue reading
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Tagged Campuses, Consumer Action, Food Industry, Food Workers, Labor Unions
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