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The Life and Times of Joe Hill
Sender Garlin
Join veteran journalist Sender Garlin in an exploration of Joe Hill’s life, the legendary Swedish-born union activist and organizer and talented songwriter. Hill was executed in 1915 in Utah where he was framed on murder charges. His Last Will is famous: “My will is easy to decide For I have nothing to divide My kin […]
Activism On & Off the Reservation
Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke recounts how she became an activist. She spoke at the UN when she was a teenager and she never looked back. She says, “The launch of my political career was a kind of baptism by fire. I was thrown right into it.” She began working on the Navajo reservation on uranium mining issues, […]
Washington Rules
Ralph Nader
There is an extraordinary confluence of corporate and political power in the nation’s capital. The right-wing surge, called a revolution by some, seems to be predicated on the notion of: Take from the needy and give to the greedy. The wallets of the big boys are bulging as they climb into their Lear jets. Back […]
The Food Revolution
John Robbins
Two-thirds of the products on supermarket shelves now contain genetically engineered ingredients that are not labeled. Do corporations have a responsibility to inform consumers about what’s in their food? With livestock shot full of hormones and antibiotics to combat the disease generated in filthy crowded factory farms, and with much of soybean and corn genetically […]
Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America’s Arms Trade
John Tirman
The U.S. now exports more weapons than all other countries combined. The President and his trade negotiators actively promote arms sales. The deals are huge money-makers for U.S. corporations. But the buck doesn’t stop with profits. Regimes like Turkey and Indonesia turn those weapons against their own citizens. The price of moral degradation, human rights […]
Dateline: Middle East
Rami Khouri
It’s embarrassing. Despite decades of military invasions, occupations and intervention it is remarkable how little most Americans know about the Middle East. Do people recall how the Eisenhower administration destroyed democracy in Iran or Washington’s close alliance with Saddam Hussein? Do people realize that Arabs are Semites and to call them anti-Semitic is an oxymoron? […]
Working Class Movies
Haskell Wexler, John Sayles, Kristi Jacobson, David Barsamian
Haskell Wexler recounts his experiences starting in 1946 as a filmmaker and cinematographer. “As the Cold War developed unions were decimated, all the unions that were active in favor of their workers were denuded off their militancy by calling them Reds. I jumped at the opportunity to work on John Sayles’ Matewan. To this day I […]
Tariq Ali-II 3-pack
Tariq Ali
Includes:
- Connections: 1968 & 2018
- Obama: The Continuity of U.S. Policy
- Uncle Sam’s Pakistan
Dateline: Baghdad
Dahr Jamail
All journalists have perspectives that color and shape their reporting. Many factors influence not just what questions get asked but what issues get reported on in the first place. It takes much more work to remain objective when some of the people journalists cover are similar to them in terms of class and culture while […]
The Case for Impeaching Bush
John Bonifaz
On May 1, 2005, the Sunday Times of London published a secret memo that summarized meetings between top British officials and the Bush Administration. Dubbed the “Downing Street Memo” it instantly became front-page news in Britain but not in the United States. The memo’s explosive content reveals that by July 2002 George W. Bush had […]
Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky and Barsamian span the globe in a stunning three-hour tour de force interview covering U.S. propaganda and its influence on the Nazis, war crimes and tribunals, Kosovo, East Timor, India and Pakistan, Colombia, Israel and more. A must for all Chomsky fans.
The Poetry of Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral
Features Gabriela Mistral’s poetry read in both Spanish and in English translation as well as commentary on her life and work by Yvonne Barrett of the University of Colorado. Prof. Barrett is known for her knowledge and scholarship of contemporary Latin American poetry. Part of David Barsamian’s 20th Century Latin American Poetry Series. Funded by […]

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