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FILM / William Kunstler : Disturbing the Universe
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe… Remarkable film tells story ofFamed civil rights attorney By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / October 28, 2009 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, a film by Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler, premiered as part … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Black Panthers, Chicago 8, Civil Rights, Documentary, Film, Movement Lawyers, New Left, Political Activists, Sixties, The Movement
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Judy Gumbo Albert : Peoples’ Park and Our Sixties Legacy
Art from Peoples’ Park 35th anniversary celebration in Berkeley, April 25, 2009. Photo by Z / Bay Area Indymedia.Berkeley’s Peoples’ Park Remembered and Zayd Dohrn’s play, Magic Forest Farm I repeat this phrase, loudly and with more emphasis: ‘Our politics … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Counterculture, Judy Gumbo Albert, Sixties, The Movement, Weathermen, Yippies
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Judy Gumbo Albert : It’s ‘Celebrate 60s Radicals’ Week!
Judy Gumbo with (left) Stew Albert and Jerry Rubin, May, 1971. Photo from yippiegirl.com.In California this week, book signings, an historic poster exhibition, a theatrical event and a ‘Champion of Justice’ award all shine a light on Sixties activists and … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Judy Gumbo Albert, Mark Rudd, SDS, Sixties, The Left, The Movement, Weathermen, Yippies
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Tim Wise : Obama’s Victory and the Rage of the Barbiturate Left
Member of the “joyless left.” Now in the wake of Barack Obama’s victory these barbiturate leftists are back in full effect, lecturing the rest of us about how naive we are for having any confidence whatsoever in him, or for … Continue reading
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Tagged Obama, Obama Presidency, Sectarian Left, The Left, The Movement, Ultra Left
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Bert Garskof on the Obama ‘Movement’ : Shoot Where the Ducks are
Turning the Obama campaign into a real movement: Get your ducks in a row.Ducks in Flight: The Obama campaign has often been described as the Obama Movement. Why? Because of the huge number of young people, students and others who … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Chicago 1968 / Denver 2008
Veteran activist and former California state Sen. Tom Hayden. Photo by Chris Schneider © The Rocky Mountain News The New Left leader from four decades ago thinks Denver should be skeptical of federal authorities’ warnings about violent protest.By M.E. Sprengelmeyer … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago 1968, Chicago 8, Democratic Convention, Direct Action, New Left, Protest, SDS, Sixties, Social Action, The Movement, Tom Hayden, Vietnam
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BOOKS : Dick Reavis on Carl Oglesby
Another view of ‘Ravens in the Storm’By Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / July 5, 2008 Comrades: A week or so ago I more or less promised a review of Oglesby’s Ravens in the Storm. I have read … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Carl Oglesby, New Left, SDS, Sixties, The Left, The Movement, Weather Underground
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Mariann Wizard : ‘I Have No Nostalgia for the 60s’
Updated July 30, 2008 Sixties anti-war demonstration in Austin.‘We glimpsed, briefly, the power people can wield when mutual interests are clarified by adversity’By Mariann Wizard / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2008 “When we attacked the Moncada, none of … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, New Left, Sixties, Social Action, Social Change, Texas, The Left, The Movement
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BOOKS : Dreams and Everyday Life by Penelope Rosemont
No revolution ever disappears…by Len Wallace / The Rag Blog / July 28, 2008 Penelope Rosemont, Dreams & Everyday Life: Andre Breton, Surrealism, sds & the Seven Cities of Cibola, Charles H. Kerr Publishing. Co., Chicago, 2008,ISBN 978-0-88286-234-2. Despite an … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Marxism, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Surrealism, The Left, The Movement
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David Zeiger : Did the GI Movement End the Vietnam War?
Updated July 26, 2008 G.I. dissenters in David Zeiger’s documentary “Sir! No Sir!”. Photo courtesy of Displaced Fillms.And What is the real legacy of the GI Coffeehouses?By David Zeiger / The Rag Blog / July 25, 2008 David Zeiger is … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War GIs, GI's, New Left, SDS, Sixties, Texas, The Movement, 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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