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Demonizing Race
Elaine Brown
Ask people about racism in the US and many of its citizens will say it’s a thing of the past. People of color have equal opportunity and, if anything, there is now reverse discrimination. But how do we explain the marked difference in college attendance between whites and non-whites? The extremely disproportionate rates of incarceration […]
Marx in Soho
Howard Zinn
Marx in Soho, written in 1999 by historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010), is a one-man play on the life of Karl Marx. Zinn stated that he wrote the play to “show Marx as few people knew him, as a family man, struggling to support his wife and children.” The play depicts Marx resurrected to defend the […]
Israel & Palestine: The Challenge Ahead
Edward Said
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears at once intractable and unsolvable. The cycle of outrages affecting both communities seems endless. The much-vaunted peace process is in shambles. In this program, Edward Said proposes a radical solution that cuts through the current impasse with a promise of reconciliation and peace for both peoples. Recorded at the Association of […]
Health Care Reform
Steffie Woolhandler
Discussions around health care reform at times border on the hysterical. Relentless misrepresentations and lies are the keys to successful propaganda. Stoked by talk show hosts and politicians, there are wild allegations about death panels and killing granny. Why is there so much anger and fear around health care? In times of bankruptcies, foreclosures and […]
Democracy 3-Pack
Steven Levitsky, Timothy Snyder, Michael Parenti
Includes:
- Polarization Can Kill Democracy
- The State of American Democracy
- Capitalism
Desperate Passions and Direct Actions
Helen Caldicott
Our planet is becoming increasingly polluted and unalterably changed. Governments seem more intent on promoting and protecting corporate interests than those of the citizenry. While corporations experiment with our food supply and find more markets for their ever-expanding arsenals of chemicals, we bear the financial burdens of cleaning up the toxic soup. We also face […]
Privatizing War
Rania Masri
Naomi Klein, the noted Canadian journalist and author says, Iraq is open for business. She’s not kidding. Private contractors are making a killing. And the taxpayers are shelling out the bucks. A significant portion of the $18 billion budgeted for reconstruction in Iraq is going to such firms as Dyncorp, Blackwater and Northbridge who provide […]
Linguistics and Politics
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky’s linguistic theory has been widely successful in transforming the field and establishing it as a natural science. Chomsky claims that the acquisition of language is an intrinsic part of our biology and that this facility has acquired near-perfect computational efficiency through natural selection. In this talk, Chomsky elaborates on this property of language as […]
Arundhati Roy 3-pack
Arundhati Roy
Includes:
- Fascism & Resistance in India
- What Have We Done to Democracy?
- Modi’s India
Language & Nature
Noam Chomsky
Science Super Lecture Series, Australian Museum
Race & Class in Public Education
Jonathan Kozol
Public schools are a political and social battleground infused with issues of race and class. A recent study found that since the landmark Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation, some schools today are more segregated and less equal than in 1954.
From Death Row
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most well-known death row inmate. In 1982 he was sentenced to death for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman. Numerous efforts, based on new and suppressed evidence, to secure Abu-Jamal a new trial have thus far failed. His case has sparked demonstrations and the formation of support groups throughout the world.

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