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BOOKS | Genealogy effort leads to book about people becoming Americans
This impressive new volume is the work of Carla Barringer Rabinowitz. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | July 9, 2020 ROYALSTON, Mass. — Borderers: Becoming Americans on the Southern Frontier is the title and subtitle of an impressive … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Young, Books, Borderers, Carla Rabinowitz, Genealogy, Rag Bloggers
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OPINION | Trump’s Fourth of July ‘remarks’
The demagogue sounds off. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | July 9, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. — Donald Trump’s Fourth of July oration has been heralded in some quarters as a genuine expression of the highest ideals of … Continue reading
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ECONOMICS | New thinking, political economy, and economic policy
The university community as a microcosm of the national economy. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | July 8, 2020 WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana — In a recent article Shawn Hubler surveys the impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic on … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronavirus, Economics, Government Spending, Harry Targ, Political Economy, Rag Bloggers, University Campuses
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ENVIRONMENT | Covid-19, climate change,
and permafrost collapse…
…and our new, abruptly evolving culture. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | July 3, 2020 AUSTIN — The origin of Covid-19 is still in dispute in academia. The classic connection is from contemporary bats via pangolins or civets, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Melton, Climate Change, COVID-19, Habitat Loss, Pathogen Reanimation, Permafrost Collapse, Rag Bloggers, Telework, Virus Origin
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ELECTIONS | Here’s the latest on voting by mail and in person
The following statement comes from the Austin Chapter of the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA): If you mailed in your application to vote by mail and you are concerned that you haven’t received your ballot yet, you can call … Continue reading
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FILM | Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: An anti-imperialist perspective
Come on, Spike. You can do better than this. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | July 2, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, California — Spike Lee has made a name for himself over the past 35 years as the preeminent … Continue reading
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Tagged Da 5 Bloods, Film, Jonah Raskin, Rag Bloggers, Spike Lee, Vietnam War
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ANALYSIS | Obscure moment in 1951 recalls long history of racial injustice
The CPUSA was the only predominantly white organization to make anti-racism a major priority. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | July 2, 2020 ROYALSTON, Mass. — When I read the news a few weeks ago that Philonise Floyd, … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Young, Black History, Communist Party, CPUSA, Paul Robeson, Racism, Rag Bloggers, William Patterson
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REPORT | ‘Space City!’ lives online,
survives quarantine
Houston’s underground paper is now digitized; soon to be a book. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | June 18, 2020 AUSTIN — On March 11, 2020, I shipped a near-complete collection of Space City! newspapers to Indiana to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Internet Archive, New Journalism Project, Rag Bloggers, Space City!
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ANALYSIS |The crime of dark skin
There is little justice in the ‘criminal legal system’ for black people. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | June 18, 2020 SAN MARCOS, TX — I lived in Vidor, Texas, until I was four years old, with … Continue reading
