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McCarthyism Then and Now
Sender Garlin
Joe McCarthy (1908-1957) was a fiery demagogue who exploited and contributed to the anti-Communism hysteria of the 40s and 50s. He accused the Democratic Party of “twenty years of treason.” He said, “Those who wear the label Democrat, wear it with the stain of a historic betrayal. The Democrat Party stands for government of, by […]
The Real Mother Jones
Sender Garlin
Mary Harris Jones, (1830-1930), widely known as Mother Jones, achieved fame by her role in organizing textile workers in Pennsylvania and coal miners in West Virginia and Colorado. Her radicalism resulted in frequent jailings. She was a fiery speaker and a crusader against child labor. Her imprisonment during the historic 1912-13 mine strikes in Colorado […]
Reform and Revolution in the Soviet Union
Barbara Engel
Clarence Darrow
Sender Garlin
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) was the leading criminal and labor attorney of his time. He was chief counsel for Eugene V. Debs in the railway strike of 1894; represented “Big Bill” Haywood, IWW leader, against murder charges in Idaho in 1907; defended Dr. Ossian Sweet, an African-American physician in Detroit, who drove off a racist mob, […]
Economic Bill of Rights
Howard Zinn
Recorded at Gray Panthers Meeting.
Changing the System
Arun Gupta
With Donald Trump in the White House we may have entered a post-truth era. As Orwell wrote in his great essay “Looking Back on the Spanish War:” “If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’—well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five—well, two and two […]
Bill of Rights Bicentennial
Howard Zinn
The Bill of Rights has changed over time. Free speech is often limited to those who have money. There is only enough freedom to give people a sense of democracy. Prof. Zinn recounts his experience on the Today show. “The corporate media treat people as if they were born yesterday.” There is little history or […]
History & Politics
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn says in this classic program, “I’m going to argue there is no conflict between historical honesty and a passionate belief that the world should be changed, that people should be equal, that war should be abolished. In fact, that particular scholarship is meaningless unless in some way it advances the human race in […]
First Amendment & Free Speech
Nat Hentoff
A spirited defense of the First Amendment, and in particular connecting it with censorship of student newspapers and their right to free expression. Hentoff approvingly quotes Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, who says, “Students have fundamental rights and should not be seen as closed circuit recipients of only what the state wishes to communicate.” Hentoff […]
India’s Great Sitarist in Concert
Ravi Shankar
A wonderful, rare live recording featuring sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and his long-time accompanist Allah Rakha on tabla. You’ll hear two ragas in this concert. The first raga is “Pat Manjari” in jhaptal, a ten-beat rhythmic cycle. That is followed by another evening raga, “Shyam Kalyan.” The first composition, gat, is in slow vilambit teental […]
Z Media Institute 2004
Noam Chomsky
Gunned Down: Kids Getting Killed
Gary Younge
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December 2012, impending firearm control legislation led to panic buying of guns throughout the country. In 2016, the prospect of Hillary as president led to another rush to buy. Smith and Wesson stock prices soared. Remington Arms Company boosted production. Walmart gun sales went up. Incidents of […]

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