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David P. Hamilton : The 1969 Chuck Wagon Riot
Police riot at the Chuck Wagon on the University of Texas campus in Austin in November 1969. Photo by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog.1969 in Austin:The famous Chuck Wagon police riot By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Chuck Wagon Riot, David P. Hamilton, Direct Action, SDS, Sixties, Student Movement, The Rag, UT-Austin
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Felix Shafer : Mourning for Marilyn Buck, Part II
Mourning for activist, poet, and political prisoner Marilyn Buck, shown at three stages of her life.The blue afterwards:Mourning for Marilyn, Part II By Felix Shafer / The Rag Blog / January 13, 2011 Part two of three [On December 13, … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Liberation Movement, Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, Felix Shafer, Marilyn Buck, Poets, Political Activists, Political Prisoners, SDS, Sixties
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Felix Shafer : Mourning for Marilyn Buck, Part I
Mourning for activist, poet, and political prisoner Marilyn Buck, shown at three stages of her life.The blue afterwards:Mourning for Marilyn By Felix Shafer / The Rag Blog / January 13, 2011 First of three parts [On December 13, Marilyn Buck, … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Liberation Movement, Felix Shafer, Marilyn Buck, New Left, Political Activists, Political Prisoners, SDS, Sixties, The Rag
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BOOKS / Mariann G. Wizard : The Odyssey of Our Winter Soldiers
Nancy Miller Saunders’ Combat by Trial:Documenting 20th century ‘winter soldiers’ By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / August 25, 2010 Combat by Trial: An Odyssey with 20th Century Winter Soldiers by Nancy Miller Saunders. (iUniverse, Inc., 2008.) 591 … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Anti-War Vets, Books, Mariann G. Wizard, Nancy Miller Saunders, SDS, Vietnam, VVAW, Watergate
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Dick J. Reavis : The Conspiracy in the Attic
Above, Dick Reavis now. Photo from San Antonio Current. Below, Dick Reavis then, in 1966 demonstration by Sexual Freedom League on University of Texas campus. Montage image scanned from The Daily Texan.The conspiracy in an Austin attic:My first rad-confab I … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Civil Rights Movement, Dick J. Reavis, Marijuana, SDS, Sixties, UT-Austin
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Thorne Dreyer : Poet Marilyn Buck Freed After 25 Years in Prison
Poet-activist Marilyn Buck was released from a federal prison hospital on July 15, 2010. Photo taken at Dublin Fci, 1998. Photo from The Rag Blog.Poet and political prisoner Marilyn BuckFreed after 25 years in federal prison By Thorne Dreyer / … Continue reading
Bill Ayers : I’M SORRY!!! (I Think…)
Bill Ayers’ Sixties history — and his alleged relationship with Barack Obama — hit the top of the news during the 2008 presidential campaign. Image from webcastr.On notoriety, complexity, and contrition:I’M SORRY!!!! (I think…) By Bill Ayers / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, X 2008 Elections
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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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Jonah Raskin : Yippie Jerry Rubin’s ‘Do It!’ Turns Forty
Image by rhpepsi1 / Amazon.com.Do It! does it:Jerry Rubin’s Yippie classic makes it to 40 By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 31, 2010 Jerry Rubin, the youthful Yippie who turned into a middle aged Yuppie, didn’t coin … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Jerry Rubin, Jonah Raskin, LNS, New Left, SDS, Seventies, Sixties, Yippies
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Tom Miller : When Jerry Rubin Came to Tucson
Yippee Jerry Rubin addresses a crowd at a park in Tucson, Arizona in 1970. Photo by David Lee Guss / Flickr.Yippie activist Jerry Rubin broughtHis psychedelic oratory to ArizonaBy Tom Miller / The Rag Blog / January 25, 2010 Writer … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Jerry Rubin, SDS, Sixties, Tom Miller, Tucson, Underground Press, Yippies
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Jonah Raskin : 40 Years Later: The Assassination of Fred Hampton
Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in 1969. Photo by Paul Sequeira.I will never forget…The assassination of Fred Hampton I protested in New York with hundreds of other people, all of us outraged… I was arrested and beaten on 51st Street … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Black Panthers, Black Power, Books, COINTELPRO, Jonah Raskin, Police Brutality, Police Repression, SDS, Sixties
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