Thorne Webb Dreyer, Editor
RECENT POSTS
Tag Archives: The Rag
Freakence : Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis De Didier Mainguy / The Rag Blog / August 30, 2009 Plus connu sous le nom de Juvenal. (Ier siècle et du début du IIe siècle) Etait-il beat, hippie, autonome ultra-gauchiste, anarchiste ? L’histoire ne le dit … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged France, Philosophy, Sixties, The Rag, Underground Press
Leave a comment
Zine Fest : When Houston is Cool
Zines on parade at Zine Fest Houston, May 16, 2009. Photo by Rob Block / Houston Independent Media.Zine Fest Houston 2009 The fest showcased dozens of writers, artists, publishers and distros who presented a wide variety of independent publications with … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Alternative Media, Houston, Sixties, Space City, The Rag, Underground Press
3 Comments
Steve Russell, Indian : Advice to Myself at 14
I seldom got caught skipping school because the last place they would look for a truant was the public library. I read books by the shelf rather than by author or topic. It was a small library. By Steve Russell … Continue reading
Marilyn Buck from the Greybar : Reflections on Liberation and Poetry
Portrait of Marilyn Buck by Tom Manning from Can’t Jail the Spirit: Art by Political Prisoner Tom Manning and others, 2006. The following is from former Austinite and Ragamuffin (contributor to our Sixties underground paper), long-time political prisoner and poet … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Austin, Poets, Political Prisoners, Sixties, The Rag, Women's Movement
2 Comments
Our Correspondent : Germany’s Alternative ‘Rag’ Hopeful About Obama
Die Tageszeitung: ‘As Obama so often said: Change is not about me, it is about you. Europeans should feel addressed by that.’By David MacBryde / The Rag Blog / November 14, 2008 BERLIN — After the election, the headline of … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged 2008 Elections, Alternative Media, David MacBryde, Europe, Freak Brothers, Germany, Gilbert Shelton, Obama, Sixties, The Rag, The Rag Blog, The World, Underground Press
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Rag Bloggers
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
3 Comments
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
Posted in Rag Bloggers
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
1 Comment
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
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged Austin, Blogging, Blogosphere, Internet, Netroots Nation, Sixties, Social Action, Texas, The Rag, The Rag Blog
Leave a comment
