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Labor Activist : Bill Fletcher Speaks to Austin Audience
Bill Fletcher. Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.Bill Fletcher speaks to Austin audience:Union organizing and class struggle By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 29, 2009 On Sunday night, March 28, Bill Fletcher, Jr. — union … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, African-American, Alice Embree, Bill Fletcher Jr., Labor Unions
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Bill Ayers : Obama and Education Reform
“Arne Duncan was the smart choice.” Nominee for education secretary Duncan, with President-elect Obama, speaks to children at a school in Chicago. Photo by Jeff Haynes / Reuters.‘Since the Obama victory, many people seem to be suffering a kind of … Continue reading
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Bridging the chasm between environmental and economic justice
A conversation with activists Bill Fletcher, Jr., and Bill Gallegos. By Anne Lewis | The Rag Blog | February 11, 2014 Steelworkers President Leo Gerard said about the choice between a clean environment and good jobs, “You can have both, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Lewis, Bill Fletcher Jr., Bill Gallegos, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Climate Justice, Economic Justice, Environment, Environmental Justice, Environmental Movement, Green Economy, Green Movement, L.A. Alliance for a New Economy, Labor Movement, Labor Unions, National Nurses Union, Navajo Nation, Rag Bloggers, Social Justice
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Bob Wing : The Battlelines Are Drawn in the South
Demonstrator at Moral Monday protest, Raleigh, N.C. Image from newsobserver.com. The battlelines are drawn:Right-wing neo-secession or a third Reconstruction? In this war for the heart and soul of the U.S., the battle for the South stands front and center. By … Continue reading
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott on Big Ag and the Politics of Food
Sustainable food writer Tom Philpott at the studios of KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas, June 7, 2013. Photo by William Michael Hanks / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio podcast:Mother Jones‘ Tom Philpott onsustainable ag and the politics of food “As a … Continue reading
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Economist Gar Alperovitz Asks, ‘What Then Must We Do?’
Rag Radio podcast: Political economist Gar Alperovitz,author of ‘What Then Must We Do?’ “Like a picture slowly developing in a photographer’s darkroom, the potential elements of a new system, of something meaningful and very American, are beginning to emerge.” — Gar … Continue reading
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Jay D. Jurie : A Free School for the 21st Century
The Professor, his own self. Graphic treatment by James Retherford / The Rag Blog.A free school for the 21st century:The Online University of the Left The OUL is dedicated to ‘changing our thinking, changing opinion, changing the world.’ By Jay … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Davidson, Free Schools, Higher Education, Jay D. Jurie, Online University of the Left, Radical Scholars, SDS, Sixties
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Betsy Leondar-Wright : Class and the Political Moment
Protester in Olympia, WA, February 16, 2010. Image from the Washington State Wire.Five well-known leftists, five strong opinions:What’s needed at this political moment? I was struck by how openly they disagreed [and] by how passionate all five of them are … Continue reading
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Tagged Betsy Leondar-Wright, Class Struggle, Classism, Leftists, Social Change
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