December 2007

December 8th: 27th Anniversary of John Lennon’s Death

December 6, 2007 by Staff

A Message from Yoko Ono, Dear Friends, This December 8th is the 27th anniversary of John Lennon’s passing. Please visit: www.IMAGINEPEACE.com at any time on December 8th for a special message & video. WAR IS OVER! artwork is now available for download here. Please print & display in your window, workplace, school, street, car, computer […]

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Now More Original OB Rag Full Pages, Photos & Graphics Scanned

December 5, 2007 by Staff

We’re proud to announce that another issue of the original OB Rag has been scanned and is now available via this blog. Check out these full pages of the Late January 1972 issue, Vol. II, Number 5. Plus more original photos and graphics from the pages of the old Rags have now been included in […]

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POLOSI IS RELEASED – SAYS CHALLENGING MARTIAL LAW “IS OFF THE TABLE” (satire)

December 3, 2007 by Staff

WASHINGTON – In a late development, Speaker of the House, Nancy Polosi (D-CA) has been released from House detention. Speaking to reporters gathered outside the barricaded Capitol Building, Polosi argued that contesting martial law “is off the table.” She stated that Democrats did not want to appear to be soft on terrorism, SEE Martial Law […]

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BUSH DECLARES MARTIAL LAW (satire)

December 3, 2007 by Staff

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Ocean Beach-The Haight-Ashbury of San Diego

December 1, 2007 by Frank Gormlie

The first OB Rag, the O.B. People’s Rag, published its very first issue, edition no. 1, in September 1970. Published by a small collection of activists who lived on Etiwanda Street in northeast Ocean Beach — most of them recent local graduates of the University of California and veterans of the campus anti-Vietnam War movement […]

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Summer of 1970 – the Jetty Is Stopped by OB

December 1, 2007 by Frank Gormlie

The Jetty is Stopped There was definitely turmoil in OB the summer of 1970. For a number of weeks during those hot days, OB residents used a combination of direct action and legal moves to battle efforts by the Army Corps of Engineers and the City to construct a jetty parallel to the southern edge […]

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