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RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Hall of Fame singer Maryann Price; Ellen Sweets, author of ‘Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins’
Maryann Price sang with Dan Hicks, The Kinks, and Asleep at the Wheel; Ellen Sweets is a prize-winning journalist recently returned from Cuba. Interviews by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | March 23, 2015 Recent guests on Rag Radio … Continue reading
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METRO EVENT | Town Meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders in Austin on March 31
Event: Town Meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders When: Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Presented by: Friends of Bernie Sanders Where: IBEW Local Union 520 Address: 4818 E. Ben White Boulevard, Austin, TX 78760 Price: $25 suggested contribution; no one … Continue reading
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METRO EVENT | ‘Bringing It Home: A Night With Hemp,’ at the Alamo South Lamar
Event: Bringing It Home: A Night with Hemp When: Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Presented by: The Texas Hemp Industries Association Featuring: Screening of documentary film, Bringing It Home Where: Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Address: 1000 South Lamar Blvd., … Continue reading
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Tagged Bringing It Home, Documentary Film, Industrial Hemp, Metro
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VERSE | One White Crow
By Alyce Guynn | The Rag Blog | March 23, 2015 In a snow storm of silence, quiet wraps itself around her a smothering blanket taming ghostly shadows that claim the night So as not to drown in the chill … Continue reading
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Former civil rights activist and political street vendor Charlie Saulsberry is dead at 70
Charlie, who was well-known around the UT campus in late-’60s Austin, ‘was a lefty, but always a heretic.’ By Dick J. Reavis | The Rag Blog | March 22, 2015 Charlie Saulsberry, 70, a familiar figure on the UT-Austin campus … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Charlie Saulsberry, Civil Rights Movement, Dick J. Reavis, Don Weedon, Obituary, Racism, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Sixties, UT-Austin
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FILM | Oscar-winning ‘Citizenfour’ documents one citizen’s sacrifice for our liberty
Laura Pointras tells Snowden’s story in an engaging account that is both enlightening and unsettling. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 22, 2015 Citizen Four is the name used by 29-year-old Edward Joseph Snowden when he … Continue reading
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METRO | Special Olympics, still alive and well… and in Austin!
The athletes came with an abundance of the original spirit of the Special Olympics movement: inclusion, courage, and fair play. By Beverly Baker Moore | The Rag Blog | March 18, 2015 AUSTIN — Last month, as they do every … Continue reading
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Parents of missing Mexican students take action
A new report by an expert within the Mexican government casts further doubt on the credibility of the official story. By Johnny Hazard | Special to The Rag Blog | March 17, 2015 Austin with Ayotzinapa: From March 18-20, a … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO PODCAST | Jim Hightower on
‘the growing populist rebellion against our corporate plutocracy’
We also talk about the U.S. Postal Service and grassroots efforts by workers and supporters to fight back against privatization. Interview by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | March 12, 2015 Progressive populist writer and radio commentator Jim Hightower, … Continue reading
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Tagged Grassroots Activism, Interview, Jim Hightower, Podcast, Populists, Progressive Activists, Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, Tracey Schulz
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RAG RADIO PODCAST | Heart attack survivor Jeff Shero Nightbyrd on how not to have one!
Jeff, who had triple bypass surgery, talks about heart health, holistic health, and our health care system. Interview by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | March 12, 2015 Jeff Shero Nightbyrd, who was a major figure in the ’60s … Continue reading
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Tagged Cuban Health Care, Health Care, Heart Health, Heart Surgery, Holistic Health, Interview, Jeffrey Nightbyrd, Podcast, Rag Radio, SDS, Sixties, Thorne Dreyer, Tracey Schulz, Underground Press
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Richard Lee, 1940-2014: Farewell to an
enemy of the State
‘His life was tempered by his grasp of history, his sense of justice, and his refusal to conform.’ By Mariann G. Wizard | The Rag Blog | March 10, 2015 In writing this remembrance, I had vital assistance from Robert … Continue reading
