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HENRY MECREDY / REMEMBRANCE / Gavan Duffy was a scholar with a sense of humor
By Henry Mecredy / The Rag Blog / September 25, 2025 Gavan Duffy was born December 8, 1949, in Massachusetts. He passed away in Syracuse, New York, on September 6, 2025. He graduated from the University of Houston and taught political … Continue reading
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Tagged Gavan Duffy, Henry Mecredy, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Scholar, Space City!, The Rag, The Rag Blog
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MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966
By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval cadets came for ROTC training at the Naval Air … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Mary Mantle, Obituary, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Sixties, The Rag, Tom Mantle
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THORNE DREYER / REMEMBRANCE / Kinky Friedman 1944 – 2024
Kinky Friedman. Image from Wikipedia. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | July 4, 2024 Kinky Friedman, a singer, songwriter, humorist and sometime politician who with his band, the Texas Jewboys, developed an ardent following among alt-country music fans … Continue reading
RICHARD CROXDALE | REMEMBRANCE | Doyle Niemann
Photo by Alan Pogue | The Rag Blog. By Richard Croxdale | The Rag Blog | June 2, 2024 [Originally posted May 28, 2024, in the People’s History in Texas Substack and cross-posted to The Rag Blog.] Doyle Niemann passed … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Doyle Niemann, Obituaries, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Richard Croxdale, SDS, Sixties
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THORNE DREYER | REMEMBRANCE | Daniel Jay Schacht, July 4, 1945 – December 22, 2022
Danny was involved in a precedent-setting landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | January 24, 2023 With tributes from friends John R. Herrera and Roger Baker In September 2015, our mutual friend … Continue reading
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Tagged Danny Schacht, Houston Activists, John Herrera, Obituary, Radical History, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Roger Baker, Sixties, Thorne Dreyer, U.S. Supreme Court
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ALICE EMBREE | REMEMBRANCE | Scott Pittman: March 23, 1940 – July 31, 2022
A former UT-Austin activist, Scott settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he devoted himself to the teaching of Permaculture. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | November 28, 2022 Many people knew Scott Pittman in Austin as a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Austin Activist, Obituary, Permaculture, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Scott Pittman
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A remembrance of Gene Bishop and
Herman Goldfarb
Two doctors who were activists for peace. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | March 30, 2020 ROYALSTON, Mass. — Every time I read about a monument being erected to honor soldiers, I remember conversations I’ve had with friends … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Young, Gene Bishop, Herman Goldfarb, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance
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Akwasi Evans: poet, publisher, and
born rebel
Publisher of Austin community newspaper, ‘NOKOA: The Observer,’ is dead at 70. By Mariann G. Wizard | The Rag Blog | June 19, 2019 Also see “METRO EVENT: Akwasi Evans: Speaking Truth to Power: A Tribute,” on The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Akwasi Evans, Austin Journalist, Black Activist, Mariann G. Wizard, Obituary, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance
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Give us bread, but give us roses
Remembering Glenn Scott, Loreto Espinoza, and Susan Duncan, sisters in solidarity. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | September 17, 2018 AUSTIN — In a short span of time three women I greatly admired passed from this life to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Chile Committee, Glenn Scott, Loreto Espinoza, Obituary, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Renato Espinoza, Susan Duncan
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METRO | The fan-shaped destiny of R. Paul Pipkin (1946-2017)
Paul was my sounding board, devil’s advocate, ‘camerado,’ goad, fount of naughty ideas, and sympathetic ear. By Mariann Wizard | The Rag Blog | August 23, 2017 SAN IGNACIO, Cavo, Belize — There was a notorious news photo from a … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Activists, Church of Satan, Communist Party, Deaths, Green Party, Mariann G. Wizard, Metro, Paul Pipkin, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, SDS
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METRO | Citizen James, Austin’s loss
James Gardner was pure Old Austin, and a quintessential beatnik. By Jim Simons | The Rag Blog | November 1, 2016 AUSTIN — One of Austin’s most distinctive, identifiable, and interesting citizens died a few weeks ago. James Gardner had … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, James Gardner, Jim Simons, Metro, Obituaries, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance
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