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Native American Sacred Architecture
Peter Nabokov
What is the relationship between sacred geography and architecture? Peter Nabokov explores the Native American worldview in its reverence for land and water as spiritual geography. He gives the example of Taos Blue Lake and its significance in the cosmology of the Taos Pueblo Indians. Then he discusses architecture which he says, “is an important […]
1995 Z Media Institute Seminar
Noam Chomsky
Each June, at Woods Hole on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the Z Media Institute is convened by Z Magazine to bring together media activists to network, learn new media skills and hear some of the most important voices on the progressive left. Training covers general political education, organization building, activism and radical media work. This […]
Media Coverage of the Gulf War
Jeff Cohen
Many Americans have a strong sense that they are not getting the real news. Walter Cronkite has publicly complained about media manipulation. Jeff Cohen, Executive Director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), delivers a stinging critique of mainstream media coverage of the Gulf War. He demonstrates, with many examples, how National Public Radio, Nightline, […]
Media and the Contract with America
Laura Flanders
George Bush once described Ronald Reagan’s fiscal agenda as “voodoo economics.” You’ll recall that Reaganomics was a great success story. The U.S. in the 1980s went from the world’s #1 creditor nation to the world’s #1 debtor. There were massive budget deficits. Remember the famous “trickle-down” theory? It never happened. It was a flood up […]
Armenia in Crisis
Richard Hovannisian
The collapse of communism has seen the eruption of ethnic wars from the Balkans to the Caucasus. One of the most explosive and dangerous of these involves Armenia and Azerbaijan. Their dispute revolves around Nagorno-Karabakh, an overwhelmingly Armenian-populated enclave within Azerbaijan. Since fighting broke out in 1988, thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands […]
Native Sovereignty
Wilma Mankiller
Recorded at the University of Colorado.
The Politics of Family Values
Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward
“Family values” is a political football thrown all over the field. It’s a rich vein of rhetoric mined by politicians who can’t seem to finish a paragraph without denouncing “deadbeat dads” and “welfare moms.” What are the underlying impulses that drive both Democrats and Republicans in making family values such a contentious issue? How do […]
Urdu Poetry
Shamim Kamal
Learn about the origins of one of the world’s richest languages and its incredibly rich poetic tradition. Hear some of the most famous Urdu poems written by Sauda, Mir, Momin, Zafar, Zauq and Ghalib. Hear the original Urdu with translation and then the poems, ghazals sung by Begum Akhtar, Mehdi Hassan, Mahendra Kapoor and Mohammad […]
African American History Baker’s Dozen Programs
Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Camara Phyllis Jones, Cornel West, James Forman, Kali Akuno, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Manning Marable, Martin Luther King, Michael Eric Dyson, Michelle Alexander, Tavis Smiley
Includes:
- Crime and Punishment in Black America
- Race & Caste in the U.S.
- Real Politics, Real Poetry
- Activism: Lessons from Mississippi
- Beginnings: Movements of Possibility
- White Privilege
- Racism & Health
- Beyond Vietnam
- By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X
- The Black Panther Party
- The Hidden Dr. King
- Black Lives Matter
- On the Road to Freedom
POETRY-II 3-Pack
Amiri Baraka, Edward Dorn, June Jordan
Includes:
- Real Politics, Real Poetry
- Satirical Verses
- Poetry & Politics
Worker Solidarity & Human Rights
Elaine Bernard
An injury to one is an injury to all has long rallied workers. It’s not merely a slogan but a basis for organizing and action. When workers are being denied basic human rights, solidarity is the vehicle for recovering eroded rights and winning new ones.
Global Apartheid: Race & Religion in the New World Order
Ali Mazrui

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