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Steven Harper Joins Junior’s Repression Club
Antiwar Group Fears Speakers will be Blocked at Borderby Doug Ward / May 31, 2008 VANCOUVER – Organizers of an antiwar conference in Vancouver this weekend fear that Canada Border Services may prohibit their keynote speaker, retired U.S. Army Colonel … Continue reading
Stop Military Recruitment
Stopping the War Machine: Military Recruiters Must Be ConfrontedBy Ron Kovic As a former United States Marine Corps sergeant who was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam on Jan. 20, 1968, … Continue reading
Mesmo’s Desert Digest : From Austin to Crazy Horse
Mesmo’s desert homeboy. [This is the first installment of a regular feature coming from The Rag Blog’s new desert correspondent, Gerry, aka Mesmo. First: Getting to know you.] Hello all, I am Gerry, aka Mesmo, a septuagenarian desert rat from … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Music, Native Americans, Nature, Peace Movement, SDS, Spirituality, Sustainability
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The Peace Movement’s Many Faces
Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog The third Friday of every month has been designated Iraq Moratorium day, and this past Friday, May 16, 2008, was the ninth Iraq Moratorium. Every week thousands of demonstrators throughout the country … Continue reading
Austin Vets for Peace Fete Folk Legend Utah Philips
Utah Philips performs in Milwaukee on May Day, 2006.Austin salutes ailing folk great and freedom fighter Utah PhilipsBy Doug Zachary / The Rag Blog Austin Vets For Peace is raising money for our fellow Peace veteran and VFP member, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Folk culture, GI's, IWW, Music, Peace Movement, The Left, Unions
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Cindy Sheehan on Mother’s Day
Cindy Sheehan outside the White House on Nov. 7, 2006. Photo by Ben Schumin.Mother’s Day 2008: Peaceful Idealism v. Political PragmatismBy Cindy Sheehan / May 11, 2008 / Mother’s Day As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvilAt … Continue reading
Military Moms: We Need Each Other to Heal
Mother’s Day Veteran: Moms Wear Combat Boots, Tooby Eli PaintedCrow At the age of twenty, being a mother of a three and five year-old was not easy. Being a single mom on welfare living in a cockroach-infested apartment was not … Continue reading
Peace Action for Mother’s Day
As Julia Ward Howe wrote in her Mother’s Day Proclamation, “Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have taught them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be too tender … Continue reading
We Have the Answer, and It Is Us
Dismantling Peace Movement Mythsby Frida Berrigan [From a speech for Peace Action Maine on April 26th, 2008]This moment in time contains so much hope and possibility and so much death and destruction. These are not easy times and they are … Continue reading
Iraq War Moratorium Number 9, Number 9, Num …
The Raging Grannies, backed by San Mateo Peace Action, demonstrated at the San Mateo, CA post office on “tax day,” as part of Iraq Moratorium 8.The Iraq Moratorium is a national, grassroots effort uniting individuals and groups who want to … Continue reading
Iraq Moratorium : Americans Saying "NO!"
Almost 40 people turned out on Iraq Moratorium Day #8 in Hayward Wisconsin at a Vigil for Peace sponsored by Peace North and Veterans for Peace Chapter 153.From Dennis O’Neil / April 27, 2008 Dear Friends, Reports from Moratorium Day … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Dissent, Iraq, Peace Movement, Social Action
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New York SDS : Agit-Prop Against the Business of Torture
SDSers die-in at L3 Corporation / Photo by Thomas Good / NLN.SDS Die-In At L3 CorporationBy Thomas Good / April 19, 2008 NEW YORK — “Is that real blood?” a woman passing the SDS die-in at L3 Corporation said. “Where’s … Continue reading
