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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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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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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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BOOKS : Carl Oglesby’s ‘Ravens in the Storm’
Last updated July 29, 2008 Former SDS president reflects on that organization’s stormy history at the leading edge of the sixties New LeftBy Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / July 24, 2008 When I joined UT Students for … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Authors, Books, Carl Oglesby, COINTELPRO, Education, Memoir, New Left, Peace Movement, SDS, Texas, The Left, UT-Austin, Weather Underground, Writers
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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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