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FILM / Jonah Raskin : Robert Redford ‘Keeps Company’ with the Sixties Underground
‘The Company You Keep’:Robert Redford’s overambitioustake on the Sixties underground He clearly wanted to make an epic about then and now, about Sixties radicals and their kids, and he couldn’t pull it off. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Film, Jonah Raskin, new lef, Radicals, Robert Redford, Sixties, The Company You Keep, Weather Underground
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Lamar W. Hankins : The American Values of Saul Alinsky
Community organizer Saul Alinksy. Image from Addicting Info.Saul Alinsky’s American values ‘The Radical… is that person to whom the common good is the greatest personal value. He is that person who genuinely and completely believes in mankind.’ — Saul Alinsky … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Chicago, Community Organizing, Lamar W. Hankins, Newt Gingrich, Radicals, Saul Alinsky
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Jonah Raskin : A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Never the ‘good girl,’ not then, not now:A Rag Blog interview with Bernardine Dohrn By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / October 20, 2011 Bernardine Dohrn will be Thorne Dreyer‘s … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Interview, Jonah Raskin, Radicals, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground
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BOOKS / Harry Targ : Teach Your Children Well
Raising kids to be radical:‘Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers’ Strike’ By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / October 8, 2010 Teach, your children wellTheir father’s hellDid slowly go byAnd feed them on your dreamsThe one they pickedThe one … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Children's Books, Education, Harry Targ, Labor History, McCarthyism, New Left, Radicals
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Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn : Bringing the War Home, 1970
News photo taken March 6, 1970, of the New York Fire Department responding to an explosion at an upscale Greenwich Village townhouse. Image from Wikipedia.Bringing the war home: 1970-2010 Eventually we came to think that we could make a revolution, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Educators, New Left, Radicals, SDS, Vietnam, Weather Underground, Weathermen
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Robert Jensen : Getting Radicalized, Slow and Painful
Portrait of Robert Jensen by Robert Shetterly.Becoming a radical:The grief and the joy Becoming radicalized politically allowed me to see that I was suffering because I didn’t want to fit into a world shaped by unjust systems; the problem wasn’t … Continue reading