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Under The Hood : An Anti-War GI Coffeehouse in Texas
Last updated July 28, 2008 Jane Fonda at Oleo Strut Coffee House, Killeen, Texas, circa May, 1970. Photo by Thorne Dreyer / Space City! The Under the Hood cafe offers an oasis for members of the military to gather and … Continue reading
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Tagged GI's, History, Iraq Occupation, Iraq War, New Left, Peace Movement, Sixties, Texas, The Left, Underground Press, Vietnam
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Bobby Seale : Still Revolutionary After All These Years
Former Black Panther Party chairman Bobby Seale. Photo By Adam Wallacavage.An interview with the former chairman of the Black Panther PartyBy Kam Williams / July 20th, 2008 Robert George Seale was born on October 22, 1936 in Dallas, Texas where, … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Black Panthers, Black Power, Chicago 8, Civil Rights, COINTELPRO, FBI, Sixties
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U.S. Soldiers No Longer Find Haven in Canada
James Corey Glass, an Army deserter, is appealing an immigration removal order in Canada. Photo by Farah Nosh / Getty Images.Little sympathy for deserters from Conservative governmentBy Ian Austen / July 13, 2008 TORONTO — James Corey Glass, apprentice mortician … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Deserters, GI's, Iraq Occupation, Iraq War, Sixties, Vietnam
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Robert Pardun : In Support of Barack
Robert Pardun, back in the day. And the words that are used for to get the ship confused will not be understood as they are spoken…And like Pharaoh’s tribe they’ll be drowned in the tide and like Goliath they’ll be … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, New Left, Obama, Presidential Campaign, SDS, Sixties, Social Change, Texas, The Movement
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Abbie and the Theater of the Flag
Abbie Hoffman, proudly attired.What Would Abbie Hoffman Have Thought Of The Flag Lapel Pin Debate?By Chris Weigant / July 4, 2008 I’d like to address, in as patriotic spirit as can be mustered, the wearing of United States flag lapel … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Agitprop, Bill of Rights, Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice, Direct Action, Flag Pin, New Left, Peace Movement, Sixties, Street Theater, The Left, The Movement, Yippies
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Architecture-Bucky Fuller Revisited
Buckminster Fuller stampsInventor, tireless proselytizer, inspirational cult figure, something of a flimflammer. By Witold Rybczynski | July 2, 2008 The Buckminster Fuller exhibition that has just opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has already received … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Exhibitions, Inventors, Museums, People, Sixties, Visionaries
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Interview with an Outlaw Woman
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz: Roots of ResistanceBy Andrej Grubacic Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. During the first two decades of the 20th century, her paternal grandfather, a veterinarian from a Scots-Irish … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, History, Interview, IWW, Native Americans, New Left, People, SDS, Sixties, The Left, Weather Underground, Women, Women's Movement, Writers
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If you want to watch today’s vintage video, then just…
…Raise Your HandJanis Joplin and Tom Jones 1970 Somehow Tom Jones and Joplin together just gives me the willies but the backup dancers are worth the video. Besides, I think Tom is going to break a hip trying to keep … Continue reading
Look Out Denver
“How can we make ourselves less frightening? We aren’t this scary image that protesters often get painted as.” – Zoe Williams, CodePink. Photo by Joe Amon, The Denver Post.New generation plans dissentat Democratic ConventionBy Colleen O’Connor / June 22, 2008 … Continue reading
Doug Zachary in the 70s : Girls Say Yes to Men Who Say NO
Confessions of an ex-Marine on AcidBy Doug Zachary / The Rag Blog / June 22, 2008 It is 1970, I am 20 years old, and I have been out of the Marine Corps for about a year. Finally, women are … Continue reading
Mesmo’s Reflections on the Sixties
Janis Joplin, folksinger. Austin, Texas, 1965, at The 11th Door on Red River Street. Photo by Bob Simmons / The Rag Blog. Gerry Storm wrote the following reminiscence on Austin music in the sixties for the Texas Ghetto website in … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, History, Music, Psychedelia, Rock 'n Roll, Sixties, Texas, Texas Ghetto
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Books : Writings for a Democratic Society : The Tom Hayden Reader
Richard Flacks discusses Tom Haydenand the new collection of his writings By Richard Flacks / June 12, 2008 If you were on the campus at Ann Arbor at the dawn of the 1960s, you’d have been aware of Tom Hayden’s … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Authors, Books, Civil Rights, History, New Left, Peace Movement, Sixties, Social Action, Social Movements, The Left
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