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The Rag Blog Digest October 20, 2011 theragblog.blogspot.com ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260300/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/ ) Richard D. Jehn, founder Thorne Webb Dreyer, editor Mike Davis : No More Bubblegum ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260301/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/mike-davis-no-more-bubblegum.html ) by Mike Davis / The Rag Blog. Davis sees prophesies of today's Occupy Wall Street movement in John Carpenter's classic "date-night terror" flick, They Live. "As Carpenter foresaw, force enough Americans out of their homes and/or careers... and something new and huge will begin to slouch toward Goldman Sachs." In assessing the surging movement, scholar and veteran activist Davis notes that, "although old radicals like me are too apt to declare each new baby the messiah, this child has a rainbow sign." Jonah Raskin : A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260302/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/jonah-raskin-rag-blog-interview-with.html ) by Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog. An exclusive Rag Blog interview with Dohrn --the leader of late Sixties SDS and the Weather Underground who now teaches law at Northwestern and is an advocate for children and family justice -- by an old colleague, Raskin. When asked why Americans are so docile, Dohrn says, "The trick is to avoid cynicism. Ordinary people have the wisdom but they don't know they have the power." Dohrn will also be Thorne Dreyer's guest on Rag Radio Friday. (See below.) Carl Davidson : Occupied Wall Street and the Emergence of a Popular Front ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260303/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/carl-davidson-occupied-wall-street-and.html ) by Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog. In a comprehensive report onand analysisof Occupy Wall Street in New York, Carl sees the implications of the new movement as "deep, complex, and strategic,"saying that Occupy Wall Street "has changedthe political conversation." He envisions the emergence of a "new popular front against finance capital, encompassing a progressive majority of the country." Alyssa Burgin : Cronyism, Corruption, and the Keystone XL Pipeline ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260304/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/alyssa-burgin-cronyism-corruption-and.html ) by Alyssa Burgin / The Rag Blog. The pipeline project has embroiled the State Department in a swirl of corruption allegations due to what has been revealed as a "cozy relationship" between pipeline contractor TransCanada and State Department officials. Burgin reports on the allegedcronyism --and the recent public hearings about the project--and informs us that thousands of environmentalists and others opposing the projectedtar sandspipeline willconverge on Washington Nov. 6,and "encircle the White House." Greg Moses : Even Weather Turns Spiritual at Occupy Austin ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260305/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/greg-moses-even-weather-turns-spiritual.html ) by Greg Moses / The Rag Blog. Moses reports that, "as Occupy Austin entered its second week, organizers were looking more rested, wholesome, happy, and relaxed as they mixed themselves into the festival of people..."Greg looks in on how the group organizes its ongoing "official" occupation activities, and reports on a group discussion on "strategies of nonviolent communication." EVERY FRIDAY: KEEP TUNED IN WITH RAG RADIO! Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260306/32516/goto:http://www.koop.org/schedule/detail.php?ext=info&oa_id=33 ): Every Friday, 2-3 p.m. (CDT) on KOOP 91.7-FM in Austin. To stream online, go here ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260307/32516/goto:http://www.koop.org/pages.item.86/stream-koop-listen-online.html ). Rag Radio features hour-long in-depth interviews and discussion about issues of progressive politics, culture, and history. Our guests include newsmakers, artists, leading thinkers, and public figures Listen to Thorne Dreyer's Oct. 14, 2011 Rag Radio interview with Scholar, Urban Theorist & Social Activist Mike Davis ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260308/32516/goto:http://www.archive.org/details/RagRadio2011-10-14-MikeDavis ). Oct. 21, 2011: Academic, Activist & Child Advocate Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of Weather Underground. Oct. 28, 2011: Singer/Songwriter & Community Activist Charlie Faye. Listen to earlier shows on Rag Radio. ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260309/32516/goto:http://www.koop.org/schedule/detail.php?ext=info&oa_id=33 ) Rag Radio is rebroadcast every Sunday at 10 a.m. (Eastern) on WFTE, 90.3-FM in Mt. Cobb, PA and 105.7-FM in Scranton, PA. Never the "good girl" : Bernardine Dohrn interviewed. Dick J. Reavis : Que Vivan los 'Plantonistas' de Wall Street! ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260310/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/dick-j-reavis-que-vivan-los.html )by Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog. Reavis thinks that the current street rebellions against Wall Street deserve a better generic name than "occupations,"and suggests we look below the border for inspiration. Our Mexican neighbors have been staging protest campouts for more than 50 years and in 2006 thousands participated in a "plantn" in Mexico's Zcalo plaza. "Plantarse" means "to stand firm in one place," and the occupiers are, according toReavis, "plantonistas." David P. Hamilton : What Occupy Wall Street Has Accomplished ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260311/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/david-p-hamilton-what-occupy-wall.html )by David P. Hamilton / The Rag Blog. David believes that the Wall Street movement has already brought some major innovations to the U.S. protest scene. "A wholly new phenomenon is presented when the demonstrators refuse to go home, set up housekeeping on the doorstep of the ruling class, and become unruly neighbors."Among other things, hecites the internationalism of the movement, its explicitly anti-capitalist nature, its inclusion of labor, and the ways it has changed the terms of the political debate. Lamar W. Hankins : Religion is the Elixir of Republican Politics ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260312/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/lamar-w-hankins-religion-is-elixir-of.html )by Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog. Lamar reports on the role religion is playing in Republican politics -- and themainstream media's propensity to "focus on the irrelevant, but titillating" --with the "latest unnecessary diversion"having to do withMitt Romney's Mormonism. Rick Perry and other Republican hopefuls "are using religion to... curry favor with the religious right." Suzanne Goldenberg : Perry Officials Alter Environmental Report; Scientists Rebel ( http://e2ma.net/go/7309025151/208711068/226260313/32516/goto:http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/suzanne-goldenberg-perry-officials.html )by Suzanne Goldenberg / The Guardian. Officials in Rick Perry's Texas have set off a scientists' revolt after purging mentions of climate change and sea-level rise from what was supposed to be a landmark environmental report on the state of Galveston Bay. Rice University oceanographer John Anderson said that officials "summarily struck out any reference to climate change..." "That's not scientific review," he says."That's just straight forward censorship." In time for dinner : Dear, it's the other 99 percent... The Rag Blog is a non-profit internet newsmagazine produced by activist journalists committed to progressive social change. The Rag Blog is published by the New Journalism Project, inc., a Texas non-profit corporation that has been granted tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. This status is retroactive to Oct. 9, 2008. If you do not wish to receive further email from The Rag Blog, please click on the "opt out" button below. 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