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Rag Radio : Academic/Activist Bernardine Dohrn, Former Leader of Weather Underground
Academic/activist Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of WeatherUnderground, on Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio this Friday, October 28, 2011, 2-3 p.m. (Central) on KOOP 91-7-FM in Austin, will be singer/songwriter and … Continue reading
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Tagged Activists, Bernardine Dohrn, Eddy Awards, Leftists, Rag Radio, SDS, Sixties, Thorne Dreyer, Uranium Savages, Weather Underground
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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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Mark Naison : Wall Street and the Making of a Global Counterculture
Photo by Robert Johnson / Business Insider.The Wall Street occupations and themaking of a global counterculture The emergence of a global youth counterculture should be seen as a powerful complement to a global movement for freedom, democracy, and economic justice. … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Power, Counterculture, Direct Action, Mark Naison, Occupy Wall Street, Sixties, Social Protest
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Mark Naison : Wall Street and the Making of a Global Counterculture
Photo by Robert Johnson / Business Insider.The Wall Street occupations and themaking of a global counterculture The emergence of a global youth counterculture should be seen as a powerful complement to a global movement for freedom, democracy, and economic justice. … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Power, Counterculture, Direct Action, Mark Naison, Occupy Wall Street, Sixties, Social Protest
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Mark Naison : Wall Street and the Making of a Global Counterculture
Photo by Robert Johnson / Business Insider.The Wall Street occupations and themaking of a global counterculture By Mark Naison / The Rag Blog / October 6, 2011 NEW YORK — On Monday, October 3, I spent about an hour in … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Power, Counterculture, Direct Action, Mark Naison, Occupy Wall Street, Sixties, Social Protest
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Mike Davis : The Eloquence of Carl Oglesby
Carl Oglesby. Image from Kngine.Eloquent orator of the New Left:Remembering Carl Oglesby Carl Oglesby sadly left this world Tuesday morning after a long bout with cancer. President of SDS from 1965-66, he was a passionate American radical and one of … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Davidson, Carl Oglesby, Deaths, Mike Davis, New Left, Peace Activists, SDS, Sixties
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Jeff Shero Nightbyrd : Skipping Stones With Carl Oglesby
Carl Oglesby at an SDS conference in 1968. Photo by Neal Boenzi / The New York Times.Seismic shifts and skipping stones:Memories of Carl OglesbyBy Jeff Shero Nightbyrd / The Rag Blog / September 15, 2011 [Carl Oglesby, a former president … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Oglesby, Deaths, Jeffrey Nightbyrd, New Left, Peace Activists, SDS, Sixties
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Nancy Miller Saunders : Idiots and Blinders
Vietnam Veterans protest the war at the Republican National Convention in 1972. Photo by Langelle.Idiots and blinders:Military ‘intelligence’ then and now There is nothing new about such blindness to alternative possibilities. Forty years ago those of us who wanted to … Continue reading
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Tagged G. Gordon Liddy, Military Intelligence, Nancy Miller Saunders, Peace Movement, Sixties, Vietnam, VVAW
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Richard Raznikov : From Berkeley to London, a Word From Our Sponsors
The Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley, 1964. Image from the New SDS Website. From 60’s Berkeley to the London ‘riots’: A word from our sponsors Whoever controls the media controls the story the public sees … Continue reading
Jay D. Jurie : Vietnam and the Historic Struggle Against ROTC
Marchers in 1970 want ROTC removed from the campus of Ohio University. Image from Cape Girardeau History and Photos. ROTC resurgent Part I: ROTC and the anti-war movement They held regular drills on an open field approximately two blocks from … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Boulder CO, Jay D. Jurie, Military, New Left, Peace Movement, ROTC, SDS, Sixties, Student Activism, Vietnam
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Ken Handel : The Port Huron Statement Spoke Truth to Power
The Port Huron Statement. Image from Bibliopolis.Speaking truth to power The 1962 Port Huron Statement describes the goals, values, and strategies of Students for a Democratic Society — and continues to inform and inspire. By Ken Handel / The Rag … Continue reading
BOOKS / Harry Targ : Remembering Malcolm and Manning
Image of Malcolm X, above, from The Daily Grind. Manning Marable from NewsOne.Remembering Malcolm and Manning Telling Malcolm X’s story was Marable’s way of advocating for fundamental social change in a deeply troubled world. By Harry Targ / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Black History, Black Liberation Movement, Education, Harry Targ, Malcolm X, Manning Marable, Radical Change, Sixties
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