Kids in the hall - Canada

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Angela Davis - The Prison: A Sign of Democracy?

Cornel West speaking at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C. - December 11, 2009

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Propaganda

An open source video compilation, Propaganda offers a critical look at the "mainstream" media, featuring interviews and lectures by Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, John Pilger, Amy Goodman, music by dead prez and much more!

Bell Hooks: Mind, Body and Soul - Women of Color Conference Keynote

Feminist writer bell hooks opens the Women of Color Eleventh Annual Conference. Feminist, social thinker, memoirist, intellectual, and teacher bell hooks has written over 24 books, including Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, named one of the 20 most influential women's books of the past 20 years by Publishers Weekly. Utne Reader calls hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life," and Atlantic Monthly lauds her ability to bring "moral imagination and critical intelligence to bear on the definingly American matter of race." Although hooks is primarily known as a feminist thinker, her writings cover a broad range of topics including gender, racism, teaching, classism, and the significance of media for contemporary culture. She is Distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York.

Angela Davis on Community Mobilization

On January 20th, 2007, Angela Davis, nationally and globally-respected author, professor, anti-racism/sexism/classism activist, prison-abolitionist, and former member of SNCC and the Black Panther Party, brought her message to campus about community mobilization, prison-abolition, and other issues that directly affect society. She is a living part of history and continues to make history today as a leader in social movements.

The Sociology of Emotions

UCSB emeritus professor of sociology Thomas Scheff explores the place that emotion holds in cognition.

The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Higher Ed

On 03/01/2005 three scholars providing leadership in the arena of racial and gender equity in higher education visited the UO to speak about ways to move forward in that pursuit. The panel, entitled "The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Higher Education" is cosponsored by CSWS and the Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity.

Zapatista Revolution

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SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS, 10/21/2006

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Mexican Activist, Gustavo Esteva

Deprofessionalized Intellectual, Gustavo Esteva, addresses a standing room only crowd at the University of Vermont speaking on sustainability, political issues, and living the "good life."

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UniTierra: Our Roads

Participants and co-creators in Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Mexico, discuss their experiences with learning and unlearning. In Spanish with English subtitles.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Sartre

Henry Rollins Teeing Off

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Iraq War Veterans Interviewed by Henry Rollins

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Salman Rushdie - India

The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers--the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power.

Salman Rushdie is the author of nine previous novels, including Midnight's Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and, in 1993, was judged to be the "Booker of Bookers," the best novel to have won that prize in its first twenty-five years) and The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel). He is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and three works of nonfiction---Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and The Wizard of Oz. He is co-editor of Mirrorwork, an anthology of contemporary Indian writing.

This event took place on June 18, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.

Noam Chomsky interviewed on BBC's HARDtalk

Noam Chomsky interviewed on the BBC program HARDtalk, during his tour of the United Kingdom in Nov. 2009.

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Jacques Derrida: On deconstruction

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher credited with launching the Deconstructionist movement, argues his theories in this program. Derrida begins with a frank discussion on the ethical problems of Deconstruction, especially in relation to human rights. He argues that Deconstruction is not a disillusion of the subject, it is first and foremost a historical or genealogical analysis of that subject and an attempt to focus on a universal translation of it. Derrida points out that Deconstruction is mainly an affirmation—and it goes further and changes the nature of the subject—and is neither "reconstruction" nor "destruction."

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Herbert Marcuse on the Frankfurt School

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Human, All Too Human : Nietzsche (1999)

John Pilger: Freedom Next Time

Freedom Next Time: Filmmaker & Journalist John Pilger on Propaganda, the Press, Censorship and Resisting the American Empire

"Liberal Democracy is moving toward a form of corporate dictatorship. This is an historic shift, and the media must not be allowed to be its façade, but itself made into a popular, burning issue, and subjected to direct action," said John Pilger. "That great whistleblower Tom Paine warned that if the majority of the people were denied the truth and the ideas of truth, it was time to storm what he called the Bastille of words. That time is now." We spend the hour airing a recent lecture by the acclaimed Australian filmmaker and muckraker.


When Rupert Murdoch won his bid to take over Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal last week, the Australian media baron brought one of America's oldest, most respected and widely circulated newspapers into his vast media empire. Murdoch's News Corp media conglomerate owns more than 175 other newspapers as well as the Fox Television network, 21st Century Fox film studios, several satellite networks, MySpace.com, HarperCollins, and much more.

Besides amassing a media empire, Murdoch has repeatedly been accused of using his media holdings to advance his political agenda. In 2003, all of Murdoch's 175 newspapers supported the Iraq invasion. He spoke to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the lead-up to the invasion, some in Blair's inner circle even called him "the 24th member of the [Blair] Cabinet."

After the announcement of the five billion dollar sale, Murdoch told the New York Times that in order for the Wall Street Journal to remain editorially independent it needed to make healthy profits. Murdoch said, "The first road to freedom, is viability."

Well, one of Rupert Murdoch's fellow countrymen, an Australian who also resides in Britain, strongly disagrees. John Pilger--the eminent investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker--is a harsh critic of the corporate media. Pilger began his career in journalism close to half a century ago. He has made over 50 documentaries and is the author of numerous books, his most recent is titled "Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire."

Today, we spend the hour with John Pilger talking about journalism, war, propaganda, and silence.

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The People Speak: Howard Zinn on Moyers Journal

Howard Zinn's documentary, based on his book A Voices of People's History of the United States

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History of Spanish Anarchism

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Noam Chomsky: On anarchism

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Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History

In this lecture, Nancy Fraser situates the feminist’s movement in relation to three moments in the history of capitalism. First, the movement’s beginnings are located in the context of “state-organized capitalism.” Then, she considers the process of feminism’s evolution in the dramatically changed social context of rising neoliberalism. Finally, she contemplates the possible reorientation of feminism in the present context of capitalist crisis and US political realignment, which could start a shift from neoliberalism to a new form of social organization.

Lecture by Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research and editor of Constellations.

Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History
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Alain Badiou: Democracy, Politics and Philosophy

Alain Badiou on the relation of Democracy, Politics, Theory and Philosophy. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006. Alain Badiou, born 1937, in Rabat, Morocco is a prominent French Left-wing philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure ENS. Alain Badiou, Ph.D: Rene Descartes Chair at EGS, born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou was a student at the école Normale Supérieure in the 1950s. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint Denis) from 1969 until 1999, when he returned to ENS as the Chaire of the philosophy department. He continues to teach a popular seminar at the Collège International de Philosophie, on topics ranging from the great 'antiphilosophers' (Saint-Paul,Paul the Apostle, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Lacan ...) to the major conceptual innovations of the twentieth century. Much of Badiou's life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris. Long a leading member of Union des jeunesses communistes de France (marxistes-léninistes), he remains with Sylvain Lazarus and Natacha Michel at the centre of L'Organisation Politique, a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). He is the author of several successful novels and plays as well as more than a dozen philosophical works.

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Michel Foucault: Filosofía y Psicología (1965)

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State of the Planet: Why Is There A Crisis?

State of the Planet is a three-part environmental documentary series, made by the BBC Natural History Unit. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, and produced by Rupert Barrington. It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Each of the programmes attempts to find answers to the potential ecological crisis that threatens the Earth.

"Why Is there a Crisis?": Attenborough presents some stark facts. He states that humans are now triggering a mass extinction on a similar scale to that which wiped out the dinosaurs — but at an unprecedented rate. He investigates the five main activities of mankind that are the most likely contributory factors:

Habitat loss
Introduced species
Pollution
Over-harvesting
Islandisation

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State of the Planet: The Future of Life

State of the Planet is a three-part environmental documentary series, made by the BBC Natural History Unit. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, and produced by Rupert Barrington. It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Each of the programmes attempts to find answers to the potential ecological crisis that threatens the Earth.

"The Future of Life": As Homo sapiens relentlessly encroaches on the natural world and its inhabitants, the viewer is presented with a choice: leave behind a flourishing planet or a dying one.

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Slavoj Žižek - The Reality of the Virtual

Slavoj Žižek is one of the most distinguished and politically engaged thinkers of our time. In this tour de force filmed lecture, he lucidly and compellingly reflects on belief - which takes him from Father Christmas to democracy - and on the various forms that belief takes, drawing on Lacanian categories of thought. In a radical dismissal of today's so called post-political era, he mobilizes the paradox of universal truth urging us to dare to enact the impossible. It is a characteristic virtuoso performance, moving promiscuously from subject to subject but keeping the larger argument in view.

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Rigoberta Menchu Tum - Guatemala

We Speak As One



1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu discusses her inspiring life; as well as, the human condition at The Human Forum Conference. Check out www.anhglobal.org for more information.

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The Ideas of Chomsky-BBC interview

A very early and also very interesting interview with Noam Chomsky regarding his Linguistic work published at the time.
The last part contains a discussion of his political views regarding the Vietnam war and Libertarian Socialism.

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Earth: The Climate Wars (BBC's Fightback)

Global warming, and how to combat it, has provoked intense debate, changed the way we see the planet and created headlines around the world. But when and how did scientists first discover global warming, why has it led to such furious debate and who should we believe? In BBC Two's three-part series, Earth The Climate Wars, geologist Dr Iain Stewart presents a definitive guide to the history of climate change.
Fightback: Dr Iain Stewart investigates the counter-attack that was launched by the global warming sceptics in the 1990s. At the start of the '90s it seemed the world was united. At the Rio Earth summit the world signed up to a programme of action to start tackling climate change. Even George Bush was there. But the consensus didn't last. Iain examines the scientific arguments that developed as the global warming sceptics took on the climate change consensus. The sceptics attacked almost everything that scientists held to be true. They argued that the planet wasn't warming up, that even if it was it was nothing unusual, and certainly whatever was happening to the climate was nothing to do with human emissions of greenhouse gases. Iain interviews some of the key global warming sceptics, and discovers how their positions have changed over time.

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COLOMBIA WAR ART - APERTURA COLOMBIA

A survey of Colombian photography and video featuring 14 Colombian artists and photojournalists.

The works of art in this exhibition go beyond simple reportage or exposé. They document the events and emotional turmoil caused by terror, exclusion and loss. They demonstrate the artist's ability to come to grips with the violent modern history of Colombia and transform this history into a positive source of truth and regeneration.
Jesús Abad Colorado's award-winning photographs serve as testimonials to the despair, resilience and strength of those caught in the vicious maelstrom of violence that has encompassed Colombia recent history. Miguel Ángel Rojas, one of the masters of contemporary photography, loaned works from his major retrospective in the capitol city, Bogotá, which examines the effects of Colombia's narco- wars on its people and landscape. The equally significant Luis Fernando Peláez, combines photography and sculpture together in poetic works of art that dig into the deepest aspects of memory. Juan Fernando Herrán's solemn photographs reveal hidden memorials that commemorate the slaughter of innocents with simply constructed crosses.
Juan Manuel Echavarria's "Monumentos" series serves as a poignant response to tragedy, taking its inspiration from W.H. Auden's poem "Beaux des Arts". María Elvira Escallón's series, "Desede Adentro"investigates the aftermath of a devastating act of violence and the ephemeral human presence that remains. In his "Short Wave" series, François Bucher journey's through the detritus of a drug lord's abandoned home. Internationally acclaimed artist, Óscar Muñoz's images categorically chart human loss or disappearance. A seminal figure of video art in Colombia, José Alejandro Restrepo's installation deals with issues of myth and national history.
Libia Posada questions the history of violence towards women. In the genre of l8th and l9th century portraiture, contemporary abused women are depicted in company with and in contrast to traditional portraits of men of that era. The video and photography of Luigi Baquero offers a sobering look into the internal refugee crisis that has subjected the lives of millions of Columbians to abject poverty. Luz Elena Castro's project "Faces of Colombia"presents intimate portraits of Colombian life. Andres Sierra's erotically charged "Karma Sutra" project is a powerful metaphor for Colombia's ongoing tragedy. Jaime Ávila's "Banderas negras" is a symbolic triptych that depicts the complicity between United States and foreign governments.
The artists in APERTURA COLOMBIA are engaged in transgressing the tumultuous history of their country, in particular, the experience of living under conditions of perpetual war and terrorism. Further, they are works of universal import, created by gifted artists who are uniquely suited to understand and interpret the radical zeitgeist of the 21st Century.

APERTURA COLOMBIA will be on view from March 8th, through May 18th.

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Colombia - Historia del paramilitarismo (TVFORO)

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