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Tom Hayden : The Rising Cost of College
Students at the State University of New York protest tuition hikes, November, 2009. Photo from Albany Times UnionWe can’t afford to be quietAbout the rising cost of collegeBy Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / March 30, 2010 “There are … Continue reading
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Tagged Campuses, Hillary Clinton, Sixties, Social Protest, Student Activism, Tom Hayden
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Text and Subtext : The Media’s Tea Party
Framing the Tea Party movement: New Left redux? Photo from RaceWire.‘Wal-Mart Hippies?’Framing the Tea Party movement By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 10, 2010 Friday morning I was listening to my pseudo “fair and balanced” National Public … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Targ, Mainstream Media, New Left, Right Wing, Sixties, Tea Baggers
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Ramsey Wiggins : Me and Gilbert Shelton: A Memoir
Legendary underground cartoonist and comix artist Gilbert Shelton.Me and Gilbert Shelton: A Memoir By Ramsey Wiggins / The Rag Blog / March 8, 2010 Legendary underground artist Gilbert Shelton will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio, Tuesday, March 9, … Continue reading
Howard Zinn : Why We Must Not Be Discouraged
Howard Zinn, 1922-2010.On commitment,And believing in Saints By Thomas Cleaver / The Rag Blog / February 1, 2010 See ‘Against discouragement: Howard Zinn at Spelman’ by Howard Zinn, Below. I met many memorable individuals who stopped by the Oleo Strut … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Deaths, Historians, Howard Zinn, Justice, Sixties, Social Change, Spelman College, Thomas Cleaver
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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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Steve Russell : On Being ‘Outed’ as an American Indian
Tribal secrets:Carrying the freight of being an Indian Being outed as an American Indian changed my professional life, starting with an overnight 20 point drop in my IQ. By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / January 11, 2010 Steve … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indians, Austin, Bigotry, Judiciary, Native Americans, Racism, Rag Radio, Sixties, Steve Russell, Texas, The Rag
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Harvey Wasserman : A Blue-Mooning, Baby-Booming New Year
The second full moon in a single month is commonly known as a ‘blue moon,’ and that’s what we saw on New Year’s Eve.Photo by Vatsyayana / Getty.Our blue-mooned, baby-boomed 64th birthday baptism… When we believed ourselves immortal, as all … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, 2010, American History, Baby Boomers, Environment, Green Movement, Harvey Wasserman, New Years, Sixties, Social Change
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RIP Bobby Keane : The Rise and Fall of a Music Man
Ritchie Valens, left, and Bob Keane, then president of Del-Fi Records, on TV show in Los Angeles, 1958. Photo from Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images.Musician and music biz progidy:The ill-starred life of Bobby Keane By Carl R. Hultberg / … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl R. Hultberg, Deaths, Jazz, Music, Music History, Music Producers, Musicians, People, Rock 'n Roll, Sixties
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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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Paul Krassner : In Praise of Indecency
Paul Krassner depicted in Oui Magazine advertisement for an upcoming October 1975 interview. Graffiti includes references to the Realist mascot, Lenny Bruce, and Jerry Rubin. Image from the Realist Archive Project.In praise of indecency:Paul Krassner is our ‘Satirist-Laureate’ By Harvey … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Authors, Censorship, Comedians, Humor, Journalists, Political Satire, Pornography, Sixties, Yippies
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