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BOOK REVIEW | 'Exploring Space Urban center!': A dazzling
authoritative book
The book is a labor of dear that honors Houston's historic
hush-hush newspaper.
Exploring Space Metropolis! Cover blueprint past Carlos Lowry, encompass photograph by Jerry Sebesta.
SAN FRANCISCO — Comedian Robin Williams would say, famously, "If you call back the 1960s y'all actually weren't there" and get barrels of laughter. Of course, Williams might not take originated the quip. Other candidates include Paul Kantner and Grace Slick of the Jefferson Aeroplane and Starship, Paul Krassner of Realist fame, Pete Townshend of the Who, and Timothy Leary who urged followers to "Turn on, Tune in, Drib Out."
Once upon a fourth dimension it might have been necessary to go on all the facts about the 1960s in one's ain head. That's no longer truthful. You can Google just about everything associated with what historian John McMillan has chosen "The Long Sixties," the era that began in 1955 with the nascency of the modern civil rights move, and that lasted until 1975, when the State of war in Vietnam, in one case the longest in U.S. history, came to an end with a whimper, not a bang. Then, too, there are at present shelves and shelves of reference books about that era. The Long Sixties has long been a cottage manufacture.
'Exploring Space City!' is a companion work to 'Jubilant The Rag: Austin's Iconic Underground Paper.'
Everything and more that you could possibly want to know about Houston, Texas, including its politics, civilization, and economics, is contained in a dazzling and authoritative new book profusely illustrated and titled Exploring Space City! Edited by Thorne Dreyer, Alice Embree, Cam Duncan, and Sherwood Bishop—designed by Carlos Lowry and with dozens of staff members—the volume is a labor of honey that honors "Houston's Historic Undercover Newspaper," to borrow the subtitle.
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BOOKS | Exploring Space City! is on the way!
"This lovingly crafted compilation captures the spirit of the New Left and the counterculture." — Historian Robert Cottrell
Exploring Infinite Metropolis! Cover design past Carlos Lowry; Cover photo past Jerry Sebesta.
Our much-awaited book, Exploring Space City!: Houston's Celebrated Underground Newspaper — in the works for ii years — has been published and is currently being released.
Edited by Thorne Dreyer, Alice Embree, Cam Duncan, and Sherwood Bishop, it is a 376-page, eight½ by xi book published past the New Journalism Project in Austin, Texas (ISBN: 978-one-312-16267-9).
Read more about the volume itself below in this post.
BOOK EVENTS:
Details are available on the menu bar for The Rag Web log at Space City!
Zoom Book Launch: Exploring Space City! volition be officially released with a book launch event on Zoom, Tuesday, December. seven, at 7 p.m. For those interested in being part of the Zoom event, please send an e-mail with "Zoom" in the subject line and we will ship y'all the link to bring together.
Houston Launch Event: Please join u.s.a. at an informal gathering at Johnny McElroy'south Irish Pub & Patio, 1223 Waugh Drive, in Houston's Montrose on Saturday, Dec. eleven, from 3-vi p.m. Amid those attention will be three of the book'south editors joined by onetime staffers and friends of Space City! All are welcome. Food and drink will be bachelor and copies of Exploring Infinite City! will exist on sale. RSVP optional at this E-mail.
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EDUCATION | Rethinking the university in an age of
educational crisis
Looking dorsum and moving forward.
Smith, Alan, and Mike Seal. 2021. "The Contested Terrain of Critical Pedagogy and Teaching Informal Education in Higher Pedagogy." Epitome from Diary of a Heartland Radical.
Harry Targ will bring together Thorne Dreyer to hash out issues raised in this article on Rag Radio, Friday, November 12, 2-3 p.1000. (CT) on KOOP 91.7-FM in Austin and will be streamed alive at KOOP.org. The podcast of the show can exist listened to anytime here.
The assault on academic freedom and autonomy by right-wing political forces has been escalating in contempo months. At the University of North Carolina, the governing boards and a major donor interfered in the tenure instance of Nikole Hannah-Jones. Vaccination and mask mandates take been suppressed at colleges in reddish states around the country. Presidential searches at the University of Due south Carolina, Fayetteville Country University, and elsewhere were hijacked to insert political allies of governing boards. Recent events at the Academy of Florida have raised those problems to a new level. The time for strategizing and threading needles is over. This is an all-out attack, and kinesthesia members are now being enlisted in the endeavor to dismantle our representative democracy." — Holden Thorp, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 1, 2021
Political debates today increasingly involve the character of higher education. Current controversies have emerged over the teaching of disquisitional aspects of American history, such equally those dealing with race, course, gender, the environment, and the U.s.' role in war and strange intervention. These debates raise questions nearly higher education and the political agendas of the federal regime, state governments, prominent universities themselves, the corporate sector, and particularly powerful economically driven interest groups, such every bit the Koch Foundation, which wish to restructure the role of faculty, students, and traditional curricula and inquiry, in the 21st century.
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AMLO at midterm
Mexico'south president receives mixed grades.
Andres Manuel López Obrador. Photograph by Eneas De Troya / Wikimedia. Commons.
Heed to Thorne Dreyer'due south Rag Radio interview with Philip Russell about the issues discussed in this article, Friday, Oct. 28, 2021, two-3 p.m. CDT on KOOP 91.7-FM in Austin, or stream information technology live at KOOP.org. Or listen someday to the podcast of this bear witness at https://annal.org/details/rag-radio-2021-10-27-philip-russell.
November start marks the midpoint of President López Obrador's half dozen-year term. Based on his blessing ratings alone, 1 would accept to judge his presidency a roaring success. An October poll establish 63.7% of the population approved of his presidency while merely 35.ix% disapproved. His blessing rating is up from a year agone, when it was 58.8%. (eleconomista.com.mx, Oct. 26, 2021.)
Several factors contribute to his loftier ratings. He dominates the daily news cycle with his morning news conferences, the mañaneras. In these conferences, he highlights his social programs and has led people to identify these programs with him personally. In addition, he has had several successes during the first half of his term. He raised the minimum wage, increased tax collection without increasing the taxation rate, and aided millions by eliminating abuses associated with subcontracting.
Although AMLO'southward support remains high, information technology is nuanced. When asked near specific aspects of his administration, approval plunges. A poll in September found that only 38% canonical of his handling of the economy, only 40% approved of efforts to fight corruption, and 31% of his arroyo to public condom. (El Financiero, Sept. two, 2021, p. 37.) As columnist Enrique Quintana noted, "AMLO's support is based, non on what his government does or does non do, simply on who he is." (El Financiero, Sept. 17, 2021, p. 2.)
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IN MEMORIAM | Recent passages: JoAnn Mulert, Pat Cramer,
Gregg Barrios, and Steve Russell
Sometimes they happen in quick succession.
From left: JoAnn Mulert, Pat Cramer.
From left: Gregg Barrios, Steve Russell.
Sometimes the passages happen in such quick succession. This has been a summertime of such passages with four friends and colleagues who were courageous and artistic. 3 of them tackled Texas homophobia and expanded LGBTQ rights with their advancement. Nosotros lost Pat Cramer June 19, 2021 and JoAnn Mulert passed away on July fifteen, 2021. And Gregg Barrios died August 17, 2021. So, on September 25, 2021, Steve Russell passed on.
Gregg Barrios was a film critic for Austin'due south Rag newspaper in the early days and became an influential critic, poet, and playwright. Steve Russell was an activist in Austin in the 1970s and later served as a Texas Country trial gauge.
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POLITICAL OPINION | Blowback: The forever wars are
coming domicile
I meet a desire for violence as catharsis in many protesters on the
Left and Right today.
March on the Pentagon, 1967. Photo by Warren K Leffler /
Library of Congress / Flickr.
By Mike Giglio | The Rag Web log | Sept. xvi, 2021
This article was first published by The Intercept on September ix, 2021, and was cross-posted to The Rag Weblog.
Listen to Thorne Dreyer's Rag Radio interview with Mike Giglio on Friday, September 17, 2021, from 2-iii p.m. (CDT) on KOOP 91.7-FM in Austin or stream it here. Listen to the podcast of the bear witness someday hither.
I was driving dwelling house from a militia muster in the Virginia mountains last summer — after another day immersed in preelection talk of ceremonious war — when I constitute myself reflecting, as I oftentimes take in the year since, on Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night.
The book is about the 1967 anti-war protest at the Pentagon and, more than broadly, the factionalizing unrest of that period and how Vietnam fueled information technology. Information technology besides explores how the quiet or mostly repose acquiescence to horrors abroad, horrors carried out by U.S. troops in the proper name of an entire democratic nation, degrades a lodge. At one point, the narrator imagines himself encountering "Grandmother, the church-goer, orange hair burning bright" at a slot machine in Las Vegas. "Madame, we are called-for children in Vietnam," he tells her. "Male child, you just become get yourself lost," she replies. "Grandma'south nigh set up for a buss from the jackpot."
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BOOKS | 'Life Is a Butt Dial: Tales from a Life Among
the Tragically Hip'
It'due south A greezy, slippery slope to fun!
When it's the Canis familiaris Days and the second summer of Covid and the headlines are ugly and even Cousin Junebug has stopped posting up beautiful puppy pictures, information technology's time for a cool, low-cal summertime read!
Cleve Hattersley's Life Is a Barrel Punch: Tales from a Life Amongst the Tragically Hip (2019: Yes Publishing, Austin, Texas, 2021, 171 pp., $19.95) which was actually published just every bit Covid knocked everything off the tracks, fills the beak just every bit admirably correct now. Bustling, breezy vignettes from the veteran band leader, guild manager, newspaper columnist, and occasional political operative conduct merely enough weight to pull readers happily along Hattersley's twisty byways of connections and insights.
Candidly crediting always having the all-time weed for his easy esprit with many of the biggest names in show business and sports over the last one-half-century, Cleve name-drops unabashedly, and why should he be abashed? From James Dark-brown and Bo Diddley to Abbie Hoffman and Robin Williams to the New York Yankees, he toked, joked, and/or coked with the stars and celebs in greenrooms, hotel rooms, locker rooms, and night clubs afterward closing, when the real jams come out.
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BOOKS | Alice Embree's 'Phonation Lessons'
This important volume tells the story of Alice Embree'south struggle to be heard at a time when women were especially marginalized.
By Sharon Shelton | The Rag Blog | Baronial 26, 2021
Voice Lessons by Alice Embree (Briscoe Center for American History, Academy of Texas Press, 2021) tells the story of an Austin, Texas, in modify from the harsh segregation and gender oppression of the 1950s through the upheavals of the '60s and '70s to the present. Far from a dry history, this highly readable memoir brings those exciting years alive and at the same fourth dimension paints a picture of the personal life of a adult female activist and leader inspired by the Civil Rights Move to begin what became for her a lifetime struggle for the voices of marginalized people to exist heard.
For sometime-time Austinites, Embree's book, both its words and photos, will vividly bring back the joys, the mistakes, the humor, and the obstacles of an idealistic movement that, as information technology matured, sought to end racist, sexist, and economical oppression at dwelling house and imperialist wars abroad. For today's activists who are continuing that struggle simply may not have experienced those pivotal times, her book contains many invaluable lessons of a young movement charting a path into the unknown out of the deeply entrenched and all-pervading racism and sexism of the 1950s. These are lessons that remain as relevant today as they were 50 years ago.
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PUBLIC Wellness | Gov. Abbott'south pandemic failure
It is not a personal health decision when the failure to protect oneself endangers the lives of anybody.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Caricature past DonkeyHotey / Flickr / Creative Commons.
Like many Americans, I have been pondering how nosotros could best cease the pandemic of Covid-xix in the U.S. and in Texas. Virtually Republican governors and some Democratic ones are relying on a belief in personal responsibility — leave the decision to each private to get vaccinated, wear a mask in public, and physically distance. Subsequently all, this reasoning goes, these measures are personal health decisions, non ones to be made by someone else.
But they are not personal health decisions when the failure to protect oneself endangers the lives of anybody. We are in a public health emergency that requires government intervention to protect the health and welfare of all. The 1918-19 flu epidemic is comparable to the Covid-nineteen pandemic. According to the CDC, that flu epidemic took the lives of 675,000 people in the U.S., and resulted in fifty million deaths worldwide. Mutations of that influenza pandemic go along to crusade the yearly flu for which many receive annual vaccinations.
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FOREIGN POLICY | The elephant in the room
Us global hegemony is coming to an finish.
[This article was adapted past the writer from a 2017 post that appeared in The Rag Blog.]
An empire in pass up
U.s.a. global hegemony is coming to an end. The United States was the country that collaborated with the Soviet Union to defeat fascism in Europe and with Peachy Britain to crush Japanese militarism in Asia in 1945. The Soviet Union, the first Socialist state, suffered 27 one thousand thousand dead in the war to defeat the Nazis. Great Britain, the last great imperial ability, was near the finish of its global reach because of war and the rise of anti-colonial movements in Asia and Africa.
Equally the beneficiary of war-driven industrial growth and the development of a war machine-industrial complex unparalleled in world history, the U.s.a. was in a position in 1945 to construct a post-war international political and economic order based on huge banks and corporations. The Us created the international financial and trading organization, imposed the dollar as the global currency, built military alliances to challenge the Socialist Bloc, and used its massive armed services might and chapters for economical penetration to infiltrate, subvert, and boss most of the economical and political regimes across the world.
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THE VOTE | Gratis the vote and the governor'due south hostages
Rev. William Barber of the Poor People's Entrada led a four-day
march from Georgetown.
Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.
The Austin American-Statesman headlined their story on July 1: "Republicans counter Willie Nelson, Beto O'Rourke rally to back up Texas Democrats in D.C." The account of "hundreds" at the rally, and the equal time afforded a couple dozen protestors gave me a shudder of 60s déjà vu. Hundreds marched 27 miles and thousands were at the Capitol.
While it is true that Beto O'Rourke gave a powerful spoken language and his system, Powered by People, boosted turnout, Beto is only role of the story. It is likewise true that Willie Nelson made his first public advent since quarantine to grace the oversupply with his talent and rally them with his song, "Vote 'Em Out." Merely there was so much more to this march and rally.
Several of my Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) compatriots marched much of the road from Georgetown. I joined on Sabbatum in forepart of the AFL-CIO edifice to walk the last mile, circling the Capitol before entering the grounds.
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