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Shifting Fortunes: The Wealth Gap
Chuck Collins, Holly Sklar
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great concentrated wealth in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both.” What might Brandeis think as he viewed the current economy? Behind the hoopla of the economic boom, many Americans have actually lost ground. […]
M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
Bruce Franklin
A persistent right-wing myth for decades after the U.S. left Vietnam was that some soldiers were left behind and that treacherous politicians in Washington were doing nothing about it. The phantom captives were designated as MIA: missing in action. There was no evidence to support the claim but it helped to demonize the Vietnamese and […]
Savage Inequalities: Race and Schools
Jonathan Kozol
This 70+ minute speech delivered in 1991 was never broadcast. A must-hear for Kozol fans.
2018 Immigration 6-Pack
Avi Chomsky, David Bacon, Eric Foner, Juan González, Ray Suarez, Sonia Nazario
Includes:
- Who is An American?
- Migration & U.S. Policy
- Immigration & the New Illegality
- Harvest of Empire
- The Courage of Immigrants
- The Latino United States
Human Rights & the U.S.
Noam Chomsky
Democracy & Biodiversity
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva discusses the corporatization of the rural economy in India and the efforts to resist it. “I have recognized that civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy. Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi, that society should put its own resources and its local capacities to use to meet its […]
East Timor: A Case of Genocide
Allan Nairn
Far from the newsrooms and awareness of North America and Europe is East Timor. It is half of an island in the Indonesian archipelago. It is east of Bali and 400 miles north of Australia. East Timor was a Portuguese colony for four hundred years. It became independent in 1975. In that same year it […]
Media 3-Pack
Craig Aaron, Janine Jackson, Jeff Chester, Jeff Cohen, Kathryn Montgomery
Includes:
- The Future of Media
- Commercial Surveillance Culture
- Cutting Through Corporate Media BS
Workers & the Challenge of Globalization
Dana Frank
Globalization poses acute challenges for workers. While corporations go transnational, workers remain national. In a race to find cheap labor, businesses move to Third World countries. Unions are largely defenseless in the new economic order. Along with a decline in membership has come an erosion in the standard of living for most workers, whose real […]
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
Juliet Schor
Working more hours, if you are working at all, and enjoying it less? Why, contrary to all expectations, do Americans enjoy less leisure today than at any time since the end of WWII? In the last twenty years, employed Americans have seen their working hours increase by the equivalent of one month a year. Manufacturing […]
Poetry 3-Pack
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Martin Espada, Jorge Edwards
Includes:
- A Defense of Poetry
- Remembering Well & Raising Hell
- Neruda & Modern Latin American Literature
The Political Economy of Policing
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
At nearly two million Americans behind bars and counting, the United States leads the world in imprisoning its own population. Along with record levels of incarceration, there has been a boom in prison construction. An extensive prison-industrial complex is now an integral part of the economy. Private companies use prison labor to enhance their profits. […]

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