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Patricia Vonne Headlines Rag Blog Benefit Sunday at Jovita’s in Austin
CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE. Please join us this Sunday at Jovita’s Please join us Sunday, January 23, from 6:30-10 p.m., at Jovita’s, 1619 South First Street in Austin, for the Rag Blog Benefit featuring Latina rocker Patricia Vonne and … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton, who writes regularly for The Rag Blog on issues of climate change, explains why recent occurrences of especially cold winter weather in no way contradict scientific theories about global warming. “On a warmer planet,” he tells us, “winter … Continue reading
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The Rag Blog and Rag Radio present acclaimed Latina rocker Patricia Vonne and folk-rock singer-songwriter Gina Chavez at Jovita’s, 1617 South First Street, Austin, Texas, on Sunday, Jan. 23, from 6:30-10 p.m. It’s a benefit for the New Journalism Project, … Continue reading
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Austin native Marilyn Buck — activist, poet, and long-time political prisoner — was released from prison last December after serving 25 years for crimes related to her actions in support of the black liberation movement in the late ’70s and … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : It Is Colder Because It Is Warming
It is colder because it is warming Blizzards, no matter how cataclysmic, are still just weather. Climate is much, much bigger than weather. By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / January 12, 2010 Global warming refers to climate, not … Continue reading
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At The Rag Blog, we asked some of our old-school colleagues to share with us their unique experiences and adventures in the political and cultural movements of the radical Sixties, and Ray Reece obliges in spades! Ray combines the story … Continue reading
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Patricia Vonne Headlines Jan. 23 Rag Blog Benefit Bash
Graphic by James Retherford / Hot Digital Dog Design / The Rag Blog. CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE. Latina rocker Patricia Vonneheadlines Rag Blog benefit at Jovita’s What: Rag Blog BenefitWho: Latina rocker Patricia Vonne and singer-songwriter Gina ChavezWhere: Jovita’s, … Continue reading
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Marc Estrin : Infiltrations
Skulker by R. Crumb.INFILTRATIONS By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / January 11, 2011 Last week, I wrote about what I consider politically unearned infiltrations supporting rampant consumerism. I will not sing Hallelujah in the mall. Infiltrations, however, do … Continue reading
The blue afterwards:Mourning for Marilyn By Felix Shafer / The Rag Blog / On December 13, Marilyn Buck, U.S. anti-imperialist political prisoner, acclaimed poet, former Austinite, and former original Ragstaffer, would have been 63 years of age. Scheduled for parole … Continue reading
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