Tag Archives: Jonah Raskin

JONAH RASKIN :
OBITUARY | Rennie Davis (1940-2021): Not the boy next door

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

He was a man with a deep moral consciousness who followed the dictates of his heart and his head no matter where they took him. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | February 9, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. — … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
FILM | ‘The War at Home’

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

A review of Glenn Silber’s and Barry Brown’s timeless documentary. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 27, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, California — As Austinites and their friends and comrades all across Texas know, the coasts, east and … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
FILM | Watch this movie: Dorothy Dickie’s LNS

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

‘Under the Ground: The Story of Liberation News Service’ is definitely worth seeing. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | January 12, 2021 SONOMA COUNTY, California — Let’s cut to the chase. Under the Ground, the new 80-minute documentary … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
OPINION | Top 12 heroes of 2020

Posted on December 9, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

In alphabetical order for your convenience. Compiled by Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog |December 9, 2020 [Also see Jonah Raskin’s “Top 11 criminals of 2020” on The Rag Blog.] 2020 has been the year of the collective, often unheralded, … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
OPINION | Top 11 criminals of 2020

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

In alphabetical order for your convenience. Compiled by Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog |November 26, 2020 [Also see Jonah Raskin’s”Top 12 heroes of 2020″ on The Rag Blog.] If you don’t like this list, make up one of your … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
POLITICS | Eat the 2020 election

Posted on November 12, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

“Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are.” — French writer, Jean Anthelme Brilliant-Savarin, 1825 By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | November 12, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, California — Voters were definitely on edge … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
FILM | See the movie on the 8: Vote and protest

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

I wish the movie had been more historically accurate. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | October 22, 2020 I would feel a whole lot better about Aaron Sorkin’s movie if he had titled it The Trial of the … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
HISTORY | ‘Up Against the Wall’

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

Peter Laufer has observed and written about borders and walls all around the world. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | October 1, 2020 [Up Against the Wall: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border by Peter Laufer, PhD; … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
PROTEST | Writers against Trump

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

Texans rally during memorable 90-minute webinar. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | September 24, 2020 SONOMA COUNTY, California — “Texas can be California,” author Laura Moser said during a 90-minute Zoom Webinar hosted by Writers Against Trump, a … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
ACTIVISM | Thank you, Kenosha: A cry for civil disobedience

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

We weren’t in a revolutionary moment in 1969 and we aren’t in a revolutionary moment now. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | September 8, 2020 Watching the TV news from Kenosha has given me the opportunity to look … Continue reading →

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C.E. McAULEY :
BOOKS | Jonah Raskin’s ‘Dark Past, Dark Future’ reflects cruel reality

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

This novel demonstrates that readers are in the able hands of a noir master. By C.E. McAuley | The Rag Blog | September 3, 2020 In Jonah Raskin’s new murder mystery Dark Past, Dark Future (2020, McCaa Books) Detective Tioga … Continue reading →

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Robert C. Cottrell :
BOOKS | In response to Jonah Raskin

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Thorne Dreyer

The author replies to Raskin’s ‘Rag Blog’ review of ‘All-American Rebels.’ By Robert C. Cottrell | The Rag Blog | August 26, 2020 [The following is a response to Jonah Raskin’s August 18, 2020 Rag Blog review of Bob Cottrell’s … Continue reading →

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