Monkeywrenching the New World Order

Howard Zinn

When tens of thousands of demonstrators shut down the WTO meetings in Seattle, it heralded not only an awareness of the new global capitalist order, but the start of a movement to effectively...

Heroes and Martyrs

Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, and the Revolutionary Struggle

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn takes us back a century to a newly industrialized America, the time of robber barons & tycoons, of tenements bursting with immigrants, of dramatic and often violent labor struggles like...

The Prison Industrial Complex

Angela Davis

Over the last generation, the United States prison systems have grown at a rate unparalleled in history, creating what many call a Prison Industrial Complex. What happens to our legal system, our...

Stories Hollywood Never Tells

Howard Zinn

What sort of view of our history do we get from Hollywood movies? Why are some stories told and others not? Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States helped to enlarge our sense of...

Case Studies In Hypocrisy

US Human Rights Policy

Noam Chomsky

With the recent celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, and America's undisputed position as the world's only superpower, the contrast between the...

Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind

Noam Chomsky

"The war against working people should be understood to be a real war. It's not a new war. It's an old war. Furthermore it's a perfectly conscious war everywhere, but specifically in the US...which...

A People's History of the United States

A Lecture at Reed College

Howard Zinn

A scintillating lecture and discussion by the legendary teacher, historian and activist. Here Zinn explains with great humor and passion how his teaching, his history and his activism are parts of...

I've Got To Know

Utah Phillips

"During the Gulf War, I got plenty good and mad.....with the help of Dakota Sid Clifford, I went in a small but very fine studio....For the next 70 minutes I spouted, fulminated, and sang about...

Less Rock, More Talk

A Spoken Word Compilation

Noam Chomsky

A spoken word collection from the cutting edge. Combines politics from the likes of Noam Chomsky and Jello Biafra, the latest from literary figures such as James Kelman, Jerme Spew, Tom Leonard,...