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Pillar of Fire: Martin Luther King
Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch’s Pillar of Fire covers the epic years of 1963 to 1965 in the civil rights movement. It is the second volume of his trilogy. Parting the Waters, the first book, was honored with the Pulitzer Prize. At Canaan’s Edge is the final tome. Notwithstanding his personal foibles, which Branch confronts and details, Dr. Martin Luther King looms more […]
War and Television
Bruce Cumings
Television, that ubiquitous box transmitting images, is watched daily by 2.5 billion people around the world. Its penetration in the U.S. is staggering. Almost every home has a TV set that is turned on for more than seven hours per day. Polls reveal that more people depend on TV for news and information than any […]
Faithful Peacemaking in a War-Making State
Daniel Berrigan
Berrigan outlines a grammar of dissent and calls for an ethical housecleaning of the “Just War” theory. Just War is invoked to give a moral and juridical guise to a war one intends to wage for reasons different than stated. When this happens, “We are called to be conscientious objectors to war,” and “put the […]
Black History 3-Pack
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Malcolm X, Julianne Malveaux
Includes:
- Black Liberation
- The Ballot or the Bullet
- Economic Justice: Dr. King’s Legacy
Economic Justice
Howard Zinn
Origins of the Gulf War
Joel Beinin
Why is the U.S. at war with Iraq? What are the root causes of the conflict? Did U.S. policy possibly send mixed signals to Saddam Hussein? What are the long term U.S. goals in the region? These are some of the vital and provocative questions Joel Beinin addresses in the important program. Professor Beinin presents […]
Haiti: U.S. Policy
Noam Chomsky
Historical Experiences with Multiculturalism
Edward Said
2 CDs. Recorded at Queen’s University.
Poetry Reading
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders and Nanao Sakaki at Naropa University
Class Time
Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti engages students in a college classroom setting. He opens with a presentation and then takes questions. He implores the students to be aware of how power operates and its “rational use of irrational symbols like the flag.” He says, the corporate media “pursues trivia. PBS has cooking shows and how to crochet but […]
Raga Desh
Debu Chaudhuri
This is one of the best recordings of classical Indian music you’ll ever hear. Before an appreciative audience, sitar maestro Chaudhuri explains the structure of Desh, an evening raga often performed during the monsoon season. He begins with a serene, alap, a slow, measured introduction to the raga. He flawlessly plays both Maseet Khani (slow) […]
Visions of Freedom
Noam Chomsky
Recorded at the Visions of Freedom Conference Festival at Sydney University.

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