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Remembering Well & Raising Hell
Martin Espada
If you’d ask most people, they’d rather stay at home and watch a Seinfeld rerun than go to a poetry reading. Yet almost imperceptibly poetry enriches our lives and generates cultural growth and change. Think about it. Add up all the myriad poetry-related activities: readings, workshops, symposia, retreats, undergraduate and MFA programs at universities, books, […]
Microcredit
Mohammad Yunus
Recorded at the University of Washington.
CIA Covert Operations
Bill Schaap
Interview by David Barsamian.
Dollarocracy
Robert McChesney, John Nichols
Dollarocracy: a system of government where private wealth determines political outcomes. Sound at all familiar? The corruption bred by boatloads of cash contaminates and pollutes our entire political process. So-called reforms won’t cure the ailment. Radical surgery is required. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. understood this well when he counseled, “Timid supplications for justice will […]
Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories
Richard Falk
Richard Falk delivers the 11th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Since Edward Said’s death in 2003 a number of institutions around the world have sponsored talks by renowned academics in his honor. This lecture is by Richard Falk. He says of Edward Said, that he “addresses the challenge of apparent defeat and the accompanying feelings of […]
1998 Z Media Institute Seminar
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs For several years each June, at Woods Hole on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the Z Media Institute (ZMI) was 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. This is the first part of Chomsky’s […]
Power Systems Do Not Give Gifts
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Chomsky discusses early formative experiences and his attraction to anarchism and Rudolf Rocker. He talks about a range of issues from his first act of rebellion to Super Bowl ads to Israel. And as always deconstructing propaganda such as when he says, “Reform is like most political terms: you have to distinguish between […]
The Rise of the Hindu Right in India
Rahul Mahajan, Snehal Shingavi
A constellation of Hindu fundamentalist organizations are threatening to shatter the image India has projected of being a secular state. The Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP, is the political expression of Hindutva, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology. It is poised to be the dominant party in what is often called the world’s largest democracy. The man […]
Justice for Some
Bryan Stevenson
In her bestselling book, The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander says, the huge number of people behind bars in the U.S. is “due largely to the war on drugs which has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color even though studies have consistently shown for decades that contrary to popular belief, people of […]
Israel: Siege Mentality
Max Blumenthal
From Kissinger to Kerry, U.S. Secretaries of State engage in endless rounds of shuttle diplomacy. They issue rosy statements about progress and breakthroughs. But little changes. Israeli policy has created concrete facts on the ground. Settlement building on Palestinian land, illegal under international law, has expanded over decades. Some 500,000 Israelis live in settlements from […]
Reimagining the World
Arundhati Roy
The news item was brief and buried in the back pages: “India: Maoists Ambush Patrol, Killing 7 Soldiers. The attack occurred in a rebel stronghold in Jharkhand State. Thousands of people have been killed in the past decade in violence involving Maoists, who claim they represent India’s dispossessed, particularly indigenous tribal groups.” You may wonder, […]
The Courage of Immigrants
Sonia Nazario
Emma Lazarus in her poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty wrote: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Bedros, my father might have seen those words in 1914 when he landed at Ellis Island and Araxie, my mother too, seven years later when she arrived. My parents were […]

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