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Muhammad Ali - Attica prison riot poem!

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An american history lesson with Gore Vidal

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Salt of the Earth - Herbert Biberman (1954)

Salt of the Earth (1954) is an American drama film written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had been blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their involvement in communist politics.^[1]
The movie became a historical phenomenon and has a cult following due to how the United States establishment (politicians, journalists, studio executives, and other trade unions) dealt with it. Salt of the Earth is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view.
The film centers on a long and difficult strike led by Mexican-American and Anglo miners. It is based on the real-life 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New Mexico; in the film, the company is identified as "Delaware Zinc", and the setting is "Zinctown, New Mexico". The film shows how the miners, the company, and the police react during the strike. In neorealist style the producers and director used actual miners and their families as actors in the film.

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis. Part 1

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Hegel and Modern Life (Rick Roderick)

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Malcolm X Oxford Debate 1964

Malcolm X participated in a classic debate at Oxford Union, a special all university organization as part of Oxford University in England. The debate took place December 3, 1964. This is the first public access to the entire debate.      Malcolm X was under great pressure at this point in his life.  He was the leading Black revolutionary voice in the world and was hounded by the intelligence agencies of imperialism.  In addition, the Nation of Islam was increasing its public attempts to isolate Malcolm X from the broader Black community.  It is important to review the activities of Malcolm X during 1964 to examine how intense and global his actions were - please click on the chronology link of the navigational icon, then click on 1964 to get a listing of selected activity that took place during that year.

Malcolm X.  Standing alone at the heart of the oldest, most important university in the western world.  He advanced his argument and stood tall.  This is a model for all militant youth standing in opposition to oppression and exploitation.

Stand tall and speak truth for power.
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Arun Gandhi: Lessons from My Grandfather

CONFÉRENCE | PUBLIC LECTURE by Carlos Perez - What is Che?

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The School of Political Studies, Territorio Libre and the Salvadorian Canadian Association of Ottawa

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June 14, 2010 marked the 82th birth anniversary of one of the most controversial figures in contemporary history, Ernesto Guevara, better known as Che.  His image has become ubiquitous, but the true meaning behind the icon remains unknown to most.  To his detractors, at best Che represents the non-pacific way to confront oppression and change the world order.  To others, Che is a revolutionary symbol, an inspirational example of internationalist solidarity and the epitome of the “new human”, the selfless individual of the XXI century he envisioned as the agent of genuine change.  What is the true Che?  Are Che’s deeds and vision relevant to contemporary efforts to build a new society?  This panel invites you to debate these and other important related topics.

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This public lecture is free and open to the public. It is not required to register. For further information, please contact massicot@uottawa.ca   Parking is available on campus.

Cuando pienso en el Che

El testimonio del Comandante Fidel Castro concedida al periodista italiano Gianni Mina.

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Mi padre el Che

Ernestico, como lo llaman en Cuba, el quinto hijo del CHE, emprende un viaje tras los pasos de su padre, para buscar al hombre detrás del mito.
Así recorre su lucha, desde sus comienzos, reconstruyendo historias que vivió Ernesto Guevara, mientras se convertía en el comandante CHE Guevara.

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Mi hijo el Che

"Mi hijo el Che. Un retrato de familia de Don Ernesto Guevara" del año 1985, emitido por Canal Encuentro (www.encuentro.gov.ar).

El realizador Fernando Birri, por medio de una entrevista a Don Ernesto Guevara, se nutre de imágenes fílmicas y fotografías que retratan la infancia de Ernestito, para luego recorrer su viaje en motocicleta por Latinoamérica, el encuentro con Fidel Castro, la guerrilla en Sierra Maestra y el triunfo de la revolución cubana, hasta su muerte el 9 de octubre de 1967.

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Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine

Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

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Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice research institute.

The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

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Africans in America

The Terrible Transformation (1450-1750)

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Noam Chomsky - The Center Cannot Hold

Democracy NOW! - DN! 1/6 "Rekindling the Radical Imagination" - This Memorial Day special with the world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of over a hundred books. He spoke recently here in New York addressing more than a thousand people at the Left Forum. Published with written permission from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. All credits for this video belongs to democracynow.org, an independent non-profit user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide. (3rd part video may be included under Fair Use)

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Corruption in America's Banks

It was more than greed and incompetence that brought down the U.S. financial sector and plunged the economy in recession — it was fraud. William K. Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, has seen pretty much everything.

Now an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, William K. Black tells Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL that the tool at the very center of mortgage collapse, creating triple-A rated bonds out of "liars' loans" — loans issued without verifying income, assets or employment — was a fraud, and the banks knew it. They involve deceit, which is the essence of fraud.

And while there is no law against liars' loans, Black points out that there are, many laws against fraud, and liars' loans are fraudulent. A few of the names implicated are Henry Paulson & Timothy Geithner,

Only the scale of the scandal is new. A single bank, IndyMac, lost more money than the entire Savings and Loan Crisis. The difference between now and then, explains Black, is a drastic reduction in regulation and oversight, "We now know what happens when you destroy regulation. You get the biggest financial calamity of anybody under the age of 80."

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Vandana Shiva - Planting the Seeds for Change

Cochabamba Water Wars - Democracy NOW!

Democracy NOW! - DN! 1/2 Ten years ago this month the Bolivian city of Cochabamba was at the center of an epic fight over one of the citys most vital natural resourcesits own water. The Water Wars occurred just months after the Battle of Seattle. The uprising against Bechtel on the streets of Cochabamba was seen as the embodiment of the international struggle against corporate globalization. Published with written permission from democracynow.org. http://www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. All credits for this video belong to democracynow.org, an independent user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide.

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Noam Chomsky: History of US Imperialism

Noam Chomsky - arguably the most famous Western intellectual and dissident alive today - interprets former President Bush's foreign policy actions (such as the Iraq war) in the long history of American Imperialism. He points out how the US was founded as an Empire -contrary to popular perception - and has been driven since inception again, contrary to popular perception - by an "expansion is the path to security" strategy. This lecture was delivered at Boston University in the United States on April 24th, 2008 under the title of "Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond".

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THE MAN AND THE MOVEMENT

AN INTERVIEW WITH WORLD'S LARGEST non-violent people's movement SARVODAYA Sri Lanka. Dr. A T Ariyaratne is a three times Noble Peace nominee.

István Mészáros: The New Crisis of Capitalism

Tough Guise - Violence Media and the Crisis in Masculinity

Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity. Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century.

Bell Hooks: On cultural criticism and transformation

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Mr Bean talk about Immigration

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Emma Goldman - An exceedingly dangerous woman

Emma Goldman (1869 -1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War.

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*Extracts of Address by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard Class Day Afternoon Exercises. (Source: http://www.pravoslavieto.com/docs/eng/solzhenitsyn.htm)

Although written in 1978, Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address still ranks as one of the best moral critiques of Western culture and irreligious humanistic consciousness.

*For the complete article go to the Columbia University website (http://www.columbia.edu/).

...I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. ...

But should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours. Through intense suffering our country has now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive. Even those characteristics of your life which I have just mentioned are extremely saddening. ...

The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?

...George Kennan, say: we cannot apply moral criteria to politics. Thus we mix good and evil, right and wrong and make space for the absolute triumph of absolute Evil in the world. On the contrary, only moral criteria can help the West against communism's well planned world strategy.

*Humanism and Its Consequences

How has this unfavorable relation of forces come about? How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present sickness? Have there been fatal turns and losses of direction in its development? It does not seem so. The West kept advancing socially in accordance with its proclaimed intentions, with the help of brilliant technological progress. And all of a sudden it found itself in its present state of weakness.

This means that the mistake must be at the root, at the very basis of human thinking in the past centuries. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world which was first born during the Renaissance and found its political expression from the period of the Enlightenment. It became the basis for government and social science and could be defined as rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of man from any higher force above him. It could also be called anthropocentricity, with man seen as the center of everything that exists.

The turn introduced by the Renaissance evidently was inevitable historically. The Middle Ages had come to a natural end by exhaustion, becoming an intolerable despotic repression of man's physical nature in favor of the spiritual one. Then, however, we turned our backs upon the Spirit and embraced all that is material with excessive and unwarranted zeal. This new way of thinking, which had imposed on us its guidance, did not admit the existence of intrinsic evil in man nor did it see any higher task than the attainment of happiness on earth. It based modern Western civilization on the dangerous trend to worship man and his material needs. Everything beyond physical well-being and accumulation of material goods, all other human requirements and characteristics of a subtler and higher nature, were left outside the area of attention of state and social systems, as if human life did not have any superior sense. That provided access for evil, of which in our days there is a free and constant flow. Merely freedom does not in the least solve all the problems of human life and it even adds a number of new ones.

However, in early democracies, as in American democracy at the time of its birth, all individual human rights were granted because man is God's creature. That is, freedom was given to the individual conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility. Such was the heritage of the preceding thousand years. Two hundred or even fifty years ago, it would have seemed quite impossible, in America, that an individual could be granted boundless freedom simply for the satisfaction of his instincts or whims. Subsequently, however, all such limitations were discarded everywhere in the West; a total liberation occurred from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with their great reserves of mercy and sacrifice. State systems were becoming increasingly and totally materialistic. The West ended up by truly enforcing human rights, sometimes even excessively, but man's sense of responsibility to God and society grew dimmer and dimmer. In the past decades, the legalistically selfish aspect of Western approach and thinking has reached its final dimension and the world wound up in a harsh spiritual crisis and a political impasse. All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which no one could imagine even as late as in the Nineteenth Century.

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One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorship; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. ...

The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. When they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East. ...

As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness. ...

On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis. The split in the world is less terrible than the similarity of the disease plaguing its main sections.

If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most out of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one may leave life a better human being than one started it. It is imperative to review the table of widespread human values. Its present incorrectness is astounding. ...

It would be retrogression to attach oneself today to the ossified formulas of the Enlightenment. Social dogmatism leaves us completely helpless in front of the trials of our times.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. We cannot avoid revising the fundamental definitions of human life and human society. Is it true that man is above everything? Is there no Superior Spirit above him? Is it right that man's life and society's activities have to be determined by material expansion in the first place? Is it permissible to promote such expansion to the detriment of our spiritual integrity?

If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will exact from us a spiritual upsurge, we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but, even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern era.

This ascension will be similar to climbing onto the next anthropologic stage. No one on earth has any other way left but -- upward.

Thursday, June 8, 1978

For the complete article go to the Columbia University website (http://www.columbia.edu/).

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David Harvey - The Enigma of Capital

David Harvey - The Enigma of Capital - Kings College from swpUkTv on Vimeo.

David Harvey - The Crises of Capitalism

Critical sociologist David Harvey asks: is it time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?

On Habermas And The Fragile Dignity Of Humanity

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Felix the Cat and Capitalist Competition

Felix the cat teaches us about the productive innovations driven by capitalist competition.

For more on this guys great work, look up his blog (http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/)

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Noam Chomsky : Two kinds of democracy

Noam Chomsky on democracy, consumerism, super ball, social contract, health care, propaganda for democracy, engineering consent, bewildered herd, public relations, devil, war, churches, Vietnam syndrom, "sickly inhibitions on use of violence" etc.

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