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Barbara Hines is a famed immigration attorney and a clinical law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is co-director of the immigration clinic at the UT School of Law. A two-time Fulbright scholar, Hines has practiced immigration … Continue reading
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Lily Keber : Putting Families in Jail in America
Putting children in jail:T. Don Hutto and family detention in America As hope for change in Obama immigration policy dwindles, activists speculate on the fate of family detention. By Lily Keber / The Rag Blog / November 20, 2009 See … Continue reading
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Tagged ACLU, Criminal Justice Reform, Documentary, Family Detention, Filmmakers, Hutto Prison, Immigrant Detention, Immigration, Private Prisons, Texas, UT-Austin, Video
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Si Kahn : 44 years of music and social justice
Activist, musician, and executive director of Grassroots Leadership: four decades in the struggle. By Bob Libal | The Rag Blog | July 28, 2009 I read in the paper, I watched on the show They said that it happened a … Continue reading
Dick Cheney : Assassination Nation
Dick Cheney: More tales from the dark side Peter Berger, a security analyst at the American Enterprise Institute thinks that, judging from Congressional reaction, the program must have involved much more than killing some Al Qaeda people. By Sherman DeBrosse … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, Cheney, CIA, Department of Defense, War Crimes
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The KKK in the news today… and back in Sixties Houston.
The Klan recruiting in the Panhandle; Klan cop in Florida; a Klansman says ‘I’m sorry.’ (Oh… and how they shot us up in the Sixties!) By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | February 9, 2009 As if things weren’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreyer Galleries, Houston, Houston Police, John Lewis, KKK, KPFT, Margaret Webb Dreyer, Pacifica, Right-wing Violence, SDS, Sixties, Space City, Texas, Thorne Dreyer
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Freeze! CodePink Strikes Austin Mall With Anti-War Theater
Austin “freeze action”: Video by Ric Sternberg / The Rag Blog. On December 20, 2008, a group of Code Pink members and friends staged a ‘freeze action’ at the Barton Creek Mall in Austin, Texas. The message was ‘don’t buy … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Agitprop, CodePink, Iraq War, Peace Movement, Social Action, Street Theater
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Does the Pentagon Intend to Betray the Iraq SOFA?
U.S. Army soldiers search an abandoned house for weapons and illegal materials during a patrol in Haidraq, Iraq, April 6, 2008. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army, by Spc. C.W. Gill.U.S. Military Defiant on Key Terms of Iraqi PactBy Gareth Porter … Continue reading
It’s a Narnia Christmas : A Hodgepodge of History Bound Together by Love
Drawing by Jeffrey Fisher. Copyright 2008 / New York Times.‘Narnia is a mongrel thing, and so is Christmas. As is often the case, this mongrelizing is the source of its strength.’By Laura Miller / December 18, 2008 Every Christmas, I … Continue reading
Afghanistan: Breaking from BushCo Policy and Catastrophe to a Viable Future
The Afghan government says that at least 70 people including women and children were killed in the ‘careless’ attack by US forces on Azizabad village in northwest Afghanistan. Photo: AP.Operation Enduring Disaster: Breaking with Afghan PolicyBy Tariq Ali / November … Continue reading
