PHIT Blog Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/topics/blog/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 04:36:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-logo-32x32.png PHIT Blog Archives - People's History in Texas https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/topics/blog/ 32 32 People’s History in Texas Blog https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/peoples-history-in-texas-blog/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:32:29 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?page_id=1883 Subscribe Today! Most Recent Previous Blogs

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]]> Texas Organic Label part 4 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/texas-organic-label-part-4/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:53:22 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1592 Dennis Holbrook was appointed by Hightower to the Texas Organic Advisory Board that Dan Kelley was assembling that would craft a Texas Organic Label.  We talked about that process in the previous blog. Holbrook has farmed organic in South Texas for over 40 years. Holbrook is a bit of a legend in Texas organic circles.  He has a story to […]

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]]> The Jeff Friedman Story: A First Glance https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/the-jeff-friedman-story-a-first-glance/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 21:33:03 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1544 By Sarah Pike   Today, Austin faces a myriad of problems including rampant water issues, gentrification, and overcrowding; and like the population, these issues are only growing. However, in an alternative world, Austin might have been a different city.  It might have been a city that saw its imminent future as a booming metropolis, and instead of ignoring it’s looming […]

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]]> Exploring Space City! https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/exploring-space-city/ https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/exploring-space-city/#respond Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:59:32 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1400 Space City! was an underground newspaper published in Houston from the summer of 1969 to the summer of 1972.  The New Journalism Project has selected a wildly eclectic collection of articles, adorned it with the wildly creative art and cartoons that decorated those articles, and published it a beautiful book that is perfect for Christmas presents for everyone on the […]

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]]> https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/exploring-space-city/feed/ 0 Pesticides and the Right to Know https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/pesticides-and-the-right-to-know/ Fri, 19 Nov 2021 23:27:38 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1379 August 5th 1982, farmworker Sacharias Ruiz awoke at dawn in Bryan, Texas.  He would not live to see the sun set.  Mr. Ruiz’s job that day was to spray Dinitro-3, a highly toxic pesticide, on cotton plants in Bryan, Texas. The pesticide canister had a leak, just a small leak, but, nonetheless, a fatal leak.  Soon, Mr. Ruiz was too […]

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]]> VOICE LESSONS https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/voice-lessons/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 18:39:49 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1363 PHIT is proud to announce the publication of Voice Lessons, a major memoir of one of Austin’s own legendary activists.  Alice Embree is indeed a Texas legend.  When I arrived in Austin in the mid-1970s, tall Texas tales were already being told of her free speech battles with Frank Erwin, the rather misogynist chairman of the UT Board of Regents.  […]

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]]> Pesticides are Hell on Bugs and Not Much Better on People https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/pesticides-are-hell-on-bugs-and-not-better-on-people/ https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/pesticides-are-hell-on-bugs-and-not-better-on-people/#respond Thu, 29 Jul 2021 22:52:37 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1352 People’s History in Texas is in the middle of a in-depth project collecting oral history and archives on the Jim Hightower tenure as Commissioner of Texas Department of Agriculture from 1983-1991.  In those eight years, an amazing legacy of support for family farmers and sustainable rural agriculture was implemented.  That legacy of positive programs is still making its impact on […]

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]]> https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/pesticides-are-hell-on-bugs-and-not-better-on-people/feed/ 0 Wine, Texas, and the Camelot Project https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/wine-texas-and-the-camelot-project/ https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/wine-texas-and-the-camelot-project/#respond Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:18:16 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=1341 The Jim Hightower Department of Agriculture (1983-1991) operated like the Knights of the Round Table. He attracted men and women who were willing to fight the good fight and sent them out into the field to Do Good things for the small farmers, the consumers, the farmworkers and the environment. One group, working through the marketing department, offered valiant services […]

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]]> Wind Power and the TDA https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/wind-power-and-the-tda/ https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/wind-power-and-the-tda/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2020 19:17:45 +0000 https://www.dev.peopleshistoryintexas.org/?p=904 Texas is the now King of Wind! Wind delivered 22% of the state’s electrical energy in 2019.  More than the nasty, no longer dirt-cheap, coal and wind power gaining rapidly on natural gas as a source of Texas electricity. It is quite a stunning achievement for Texas, the land of fracking and flaring natural gas, to also rule the renewable […]

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