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Austin Benefit : Friends Support, Celebrate Marilyn Buck
Robert King, former Black Panther and member of the Angola 3, speaks in support of Marilyn Buck at June 25 benefit in Austin. Photo by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog.Lively Austin gathering benefitsPolitical prisoner Marilyn Buck By Mariann G. … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Liberation Movement, Mariann G. Wizard, Marilyn Buck, Poets, Political Prisoners, Robert King, Sixties, Social Action, The Rag, Thorne Dreyer
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Warrior-Poet Marilyn Buck : No Wall Too Tall
In prison but clearly in bloom. Marilyn Buck at Dublin FCI, 1994. Photo by Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog.Supporters call for release:Free Austin’s Marilyn Buck! For her acts of selfless courage on behalf of victims of American criminal … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Liberation Movement, Criminal Justice, Mariann G. Wizard, Marilyn Buck, Poets, Political Prisoners, Sixties, The Rag
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Ernest McMillan and Stoney Burns : Dallas 60s Activists Revisited
The Rag Blog was inspired by an underground newspaper we published in the 1960s in Austin. We called it The Rag. When Carol Neiman and I were editing The Rag — and many more whose bylines you see here from … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, Anne Lewis, Black Liberation Movement, Black Power, Counterculture, Dallas, New Left, Sixties, SNCC, Texas, Texas History, The Rag, The Rag Blog, Underground Press
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Austin : Former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver Sparks UT Gathering
‘1968: A Global Perspective’ keynote speaker Kathleen Cleaver, center, at the UT-Austin campus. Immediately flanking her are conference panelists Alice Embree and Thorne Dreyer of The Rag Blog. At far left and far right are Jim Retherford and Carl Webb … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Liberation Movement, Black Panthers, Daniel Ellsberg, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, Sixties, Texas, UT-Austin
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