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Austin : Former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver Sparks UT Gathering
‘1968: A Global Perspective’ keynote speaker Kathleen Cleaver, center, at the UT-Austin campus. Immediately flanking her are conference panelists Alice Embree and Thorne Dreyer of The Rag Blog. At far left and far right are Jim Retherford and Carl Webb … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Liberation Movement, Black Panthers, Daniel Ellsberg, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, Sixties, Texas, UT-Austin
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Dr. William H. Schubert : The Bill Ayers I Know
Bill Ayers Those of us who care about education and what’s been done to it in the cruel, foolish, and profligate class war from above over the quarter-century that has been my entire adult life are likely to know Bill … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Ayers, Campaign Tactics, Education, Educational Reform, Obama, Obama Smear Campaign, Scholars, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, William Ayers
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Daniel Ellsberg, Kathleen Cleaver Headline Austin ‘1968’ Conference
History as prologue? 1968 A Global PerspectiveBy Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / October 7, 2008 See more about Daniel Ellsberg, Kathleen Cleaver and the SDS Comic Show Below. Daniel Ellsberg and Kathleen Cleaver headline an interdisciplinary conference being … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Austin, Black Panthers, Daniel Ellsberg, Graphic History, History, Kathleen Cleaver, MDS, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Texas, The Rag, The Rag Blog, UT-Austin, Vietnam
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Obama and the ‘Weatherman Connection’ : In Defense of Bill Ayers
William Ayers, left, in 1980 with wife, Bernardine Dohrn. Photo by Knoblock, via Associated Press.‘The Bill Ayers I knew in the late 1960’s was a very thoughtful and serious person.’By David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog / October 6, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Bernardine Dohrn, Campaign Tactics, Keating Five, Obama, Obama Smear Campaign, SDS, Sixties, Weather Underground, William Ayers
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ART : R. Crumb: Mr. Natural Goes to the Museum
“Mr. Natural” (1974), paint on plywood, from “R. Crumb’s Underground.” Image courtesy of John Lautemann / NYT. R. Crumb’s Underground One of the more than 100 works in this exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Image courtesy … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Comix, Counterculture, Exhibitions, Psychedelia, R. Crumb, Sixties, Underground Culture
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Joan Baez: A Core Message of Pacifism
Joan Baez, the queen of America’s folk scene in the Sixties, says she has ’never really been a songwriter’ (Source: TimesOnline)Joan Baez: ‘I Was Right 40 Years Ago and I Am Right Now!’by Will Hodgkinson / August 29, 2008 Age … Continue reading
We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby : Strip-Search Nation
The Ballad of the Panhandler and Smokey the Bear: Remembering When the Government was at Least ApproachableBy Dave Lindorff / August 27, 2008 We’ve come a long way towards imperial government in the US—towards a view of the relationship between … Continue reading
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Tagged Fascism, Police State, Police Tactics, Sixties, U.S. Government
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When I Covered My First Democratic Convention: Chicago 1968
Chicago cops brutally attack demonstrators (and journalists, and bystanders) outside Democratic Convention, 1968.‘It culminated in the crushing of Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s anti-Vietnam crusade inside the convention hall and the cracking of peacenik skulls by Mayor Richard Daley’s police in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1968 Democratic Convention, Chicago 1968, Journalism, Peace Movement, Sixties, Vietnam
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Tom Hayden : Same Social Expectations Amid a Very Different War
‘The similarities between the movements for RFK and Barack Obama (the fervor and the interracial character) have been often noted. If anything, the Obama constituency is larger because of the mobilization of so many more young people’By Tom Hayden / … Continue reading
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Tagged Cold War, Iraq War, Obama, Peace Movement, Robert Kennedy, SDS, Sixties, Social Change, Tom Hayden, Vietnam
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BOOKS : Bob Dylan’s Poetic Pause in Hollywood on the Way to Folk Music Fame
‘T dare not ask your sculpturer’s name/with glance back hooked, time’s hinges halt.’ BOB DYLAN From a text in “Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript,” accompanying a photo of Marlene Dietrich at Gary Cooper’s funeral in 1961. Photo by Barry Feinstein … Continue reading
Gentle Rage: Clyde Bellecourt Remembers the Birth of the American Indian Movement
Clyde Bellecourt, one of three founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968.‘We had to create our own institutions. Even today, we can do that all across America.’By Brenda Norrell / August 13, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — Clyde Bellecourt … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, American Indian Movement, Direct Action, Indigenous People, Native Americans, Sixties, Social Action
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ROCK ‘N ROLL : The Sixties Series from American Beat
‘Sugar Sugar’: Bubblegum Gold and more…By Margaret Moser / August 11, 2008 This American Beat series from last year languished under a stack of poorly sorted CDs until my recent excavation. The label’s sense of whimsy and willingness to produce … Continue reading
