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Ernest McMillan and Stoney Burns : Dallas 60s Activists Revisited
The Rag Blog was inspired by an underground newspaper we published in the 1960s in Austin. We called it The Rag. When Carol Neiman and I were editing The Rag — and many more whose bylines you see here from … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, Anne Lewis, Black Liberation Movement, Black Power, Counterculture, Dallas, New Left, Sixties, SNCC, Texas, Texas History, The Rag, The Rag Blog, Underground Press
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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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Susan Klonsky on Carl Oglesby’s Memoir
Carl Oglesby, author of Ravens in the Storm, in 1989. On July 24 The Rag Blog ran what proved to be a very controversial review of former SDS leader Carl Oglesby’s memoir, Ravens in the Storm. The review, written by … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Books, Carl Oglesby, Memoir, New Left, SDS, Sixties, The Left, The Rag Blog, Writers
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makingpeace : Netroots in Fertile Ground
T-Shirt Humor.The Rag Blog’s Dreyer and Organic Consumers’ CumminsBy makingpeace / July 28, 2008 Following another computer crash and a friend’s valiant attempt to fix it, we headed out yesterday to buy a new machine. Now we’re getting used to … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Blogging, Blogosphere, Internet, Netroots Nation, Sixties, Social Action, Texas, The Rag, The Rag Blog
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