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ALICE EMBREE / REMEMBRANCE / Glenn Scott inducted into Texas Labor Hall of Fame
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / January 27, 2026 [Cross posted from Alice Embree’s Substack] On January 24, 2026, Glenn Scott from Austin was inducted into the Texas AFL-CIO Labor Hall of Fame. It was icy cold outside, but … Continue reading
ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY!
NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Day, that commemorates the May 1, 1886, General Strike in … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, May Day, Texas, Texas State Employees Union, Texas State Unviersity
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JAN LANCE / RETIREES / Senior Solidarity
By Jan Lance /The Rag Blog / April 2, 2026 Protecting Retirement Now and for the FutureThe Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) wants you! Hear Jan Lance on Rag RadioKOOP 91.7 FM TARA’s Senior Solidarity campaign focuses on four issues – … Continue reading
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Tagged Jan Lance, medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Texas Alliance for Retired Americans, Voting Rights, WISeR
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MICHAEL MEEROPOL / FOREIGN POLICY / Trump’s War of Choice
Caricature by DonkeyHotey SPECIAL TO THE RAG BLOG By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2026 People in the media have been scrambling in an attempt to actually figure out the reasoning behind Trump’s decision to launch … Continue reading
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Tagged Axis of Evil, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy, Iran War, Israel, Michael Meeropol
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LAMAR HANKINS / FARMWORKERS / Another civil rights icon who had feet of clay
Dolores Huerta. Image from Flickr. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 21, 2026 At age 20, all I knew about migrant farmworkers was found in Woody Guthrie’s song “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos.” Earlier in 1965 I … Continue reading
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Tagged Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Farmworkers, Lamar Hankins, Migrant Farmworkers, VISTA, Woody Guthrie
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LAMAR HANKINS / RELIGION / Make America’s public school children bible-readers again
By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 2, 2026 It is increasingly likely that Republicans will make Texas the first state in the country to mandate all public school students read passages from the bible. There are several … Continue reading
JONAH RASKIN / BOOK REVIEW / Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground. By Zayd Ayers Dohrn; W. W.Norton & Company, 2026 By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / February 26, 2026 On July 26, 1982, the 23rd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, a … Continue reading
ROXANN WEDEGARTNER / BOOK REVIEW / From the Octagon: People, Places, News, Views by Allen Young.
By Roxann Wedegartner / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2026 Royalston, Maine, resident, author, and journalist, Allen Young, is at it again. His latest book, From the Octagon – People, Places, News, Views, is an informative, delightful, easy-read collection … Continue reading
DAVE ZIRIN / CULTURE / Bad Bunny Steals the Show
Bad Bunny in Los Angeles, California, on October 11, 2019. Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com By Dave Zirin / The Rag Blog / February 10, 2026 Cross-posted with permission from Edge of Sports. The past year in Stephen Miller’s … Continue reading
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MARIANN GARNER-WIZARD / REMEMBRANCE / Robert “Bob” Pardun, beloved prairie radical
By Mariann Garner-Wizard / The Rag Blog / January 27, 2026 Robert Pardun was born June 30, 1941 and passed away January 16, 2026 after a long struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. The following is an excerpt from the cover of Robert … Continue reading