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Poetry Reading
Ernesto Cardenal
This program features some of Ernesto Cardenal’s most famous poems including: “The Arrival,” “Zero Hour,” Marilyn Monroe,” and “Ecology.” Some of the poems were recorded during Cardenal’s 1985 tour of the U.S. “Zero Hour” has original music composed by Bob Ellis. The poems are recited first in Spanish and then in English. Latin American poetry […]
Poetry Reading
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka reads some of his best poems including: Wise One, Reflections, The Premium, Class Struggle in Music, Black Music, Wailers, Sounding and How to Beat Reagan. The event concludes with Allen Ginsberg introducing writer and poet Simon Ortiz of the Acoma Pueblo. Mr. Ortiz leads a Native American chant. Recorded at Naropa Institute.
Community Rights
Paul Cienfuegos
Most citizens have political opinions. Many are involved in nonprofit community-based organizations. But the time-impaired average person remains politically disorganized and distracted. Collective political action nationally is often limited to mobilizing for wars and elections. Disengagement can seem the norm. Community organizers are bucking this trend. Local issues, be they environmental, fair wages, or municipalization […]
The Wrath of the CIA
Verne Lyon
Naked Capitalism
Richard Wolff
Through its myriad booms and busts, capitalism manages to roll with the punches and emerge standing. We are constantly told: it’s the only show in town. Do you want the old Soviet Union? No way. But can’t we imagine an economic system that is responsive to the needs of people and our precious planet rather […]
Occupy Boston
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky delivers Free School University’s Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture at Dewey Square in Boston during a peak moment in the Occupy movement of 2011.
Poems & Commentary on El Salvador
Carolyn Forché
This is one of the most powerful and moving poetry readings you’ll ever hear. Carolyn Forche, with a great voice and sense of timing, begins with a poem about growing up in rural Michigan. She travels from San Diego to Spain and then recites poems and commentary from her time in El Salvador including The […]
The State of Insecurity
Noam Chomsky
Security, security. Can’t get enough of it. Paradoxically, the more we have of it the less secure we feel. The latest weapons and massive military spending are never enough. Since 9/11 the term is bandied about. There is the huge bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security. Within it is the TSA, with its 60,000-plus employees […]
Mirrors
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano dedicates this talk to “the disappeared” but not solely the victims of military dictatorships in the Southern Cone in the 1970s. He combats pervasive historical amnesia. Delivered at a packed Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe for the Lannan Foundation, Galeano presents work found in his 2009 book Mirrors: Stories of Almost […]
A Calendar of Human History
Eduardo Galeano
When looking into the past, the great historian Howard Zinn said, “We never get ‘just the facts.’” We often get glaring omissions and distortions. History is always a selection from an infinite number of facts. And what is selected is based not just on one’s personal interest but on race, class, gender, and other factors. […]
Subaltern Studies
Ranajit Guha, Partha Chatterjee, Nicholas Dirks, Edward Said
2 CDs Panel discussion featuring leading scholars in Subaltern Studies: Ranajit Guha, Partha Chatterjee and Nicholas Dirks. Moderated by Edward Said. Recorded at Columbia University.
Afghanistan: Beyond the Propaganda
Kathy Kelly
The pretext of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was the September 11 attacks. Washington announced it was pursuing Osama bin Laden. But very quickly the Bush administration changed its objective to include the overthrow of the Taliban regime in Kabul. That mission switch precipitated the longest war in U.S. history. Washington and […]

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