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Real Terror Network, Disinformation: Plot to Kill the Pope, Demonstration Elections
Edward Herman
Interviewed by David Barsamian.
LABOR 3-Pack
Elaine Bernard, Jenny Brown, Michael Yates
Includes:
- Worker Solidarity & Human Rights
- Women: Labor Pains
- The Working Class
Robert Friedman talk at KGNU
Robert Friedman
Robert Friedman talk at KGNU.
Organize! Union Summer
Tania Rosario, Mateo Roose
Much of the current economic malaise is attributed to a weak union movement. Corporations downsize and restructure with virtual impunity because there is no countervailing force to defend and protect workers’ rights. There is now a major effort to recruit new members into unions. Tania Rosario and Mateo Roose are Recruitment Coordinators for the AFL-CIO’s […]
Brecht & HUAC
Sender Garlin
Bertolt Brecht of Germany is a major figure in 20th-century culture. He fled Hitler and settled in the U.S. at a time when the House UnAmerican Activities Committee was conducting political witch hunts. Anti-Communist hysteria gripped the U.S. Sender Garlin gives an overview of the political climate in the U.S. in the aftermath of WWII. […]
Allen Ginsberg at Naropa, 1986
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg does a reading at the Naropa Institute, Dec 7, 1986
A Compassionate Society
Helen Caldicott
Dr. Helen Caldicott cautions her audience that even though the Berlin Wall is down, our job is not over. She covers a wide range of issues related to the present environmental catastrophe: secret U.S. preparations for a preemptive nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, the dangers associated with Rocky Flats, the environmental consequences of the […]
The Wrong Complexion to Get the Protection
Ron Daniels
Stolen. That’s how the year 2000 U.S. presidential election will go down in history to the minds of many Americans. Numerous problems with voting procedures became apparent in the days following the election. But what may be most disturbing is how people of color were literally stopped from reaching the polls. The events that occurred […]
Prospects for Peace in the Middle East
Hanan Ashrawi
The adjective most often used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is intractable. Ancient hatreds, the experts tell us, make it impossible for the two peoples to live in peace. Peace, peace, peace is chanted like a mantra by both parties. Yet what is preventing it from being realized? For decades, there has been an almost […]
The Spanish Civil War
Milt Wolff
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) was a prelude to WWII. German and Italian forces backed General Francisco Franco. Anti-fascist Americans volunteered to fight in Spain as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. The Luftwaffe bombing of Guernica inspired the Picasso masterpiece. Orwell, who fought with the Republic wrote Homage to Catalonia. Neruda, who was there as […]
Santa Maria de Iquique
Quilapayun
This special program explores the bloody 1907 massacre of mine workers in northern Chile. It was an important event in Chilean and Latin American labor history. For decades after there was no official acknowledgment. Finally, in 2007 the government conducted a public commemoration of the centenary, including a day of national mourning. This people’s cantata […]
Islam in Asia
Fred Denny
Interviewed by David Barsamian. Recorded at KGNU.

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