Commentator and former Clinton cabinet member Robert Reich has been a lightning rod for conservatives over the years
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Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy
October 15, 2010
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Known for his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed and a grand vision of popular education, Paulo Freire is revered by progressive intellectuals for his core idea that the disadvantaged could talk about their circumstances as a means of understanding their plight as well as their role in changing the situation.
Maria’s Story: A Documentary Portrait Of Love And Survival In El Salvador’s Civil War
September 4, 2010
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From 1980 to 1992, the Central American country of El Salvador was embroiled in a civil war between the military-led government and the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional.
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
August 17, 2010
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Investigative journalist Naomi Klein speaking on “The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” is a PM Press DVD produced by Bonobo Films. It consists of a brilliant 65-minute talk Naomi gave on May 19, 2008
Muzzling a Movement
August 4, 2010
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It seems that the petty antagonisms that for so long characterized relations between competing animal activist and advocacy movements are dissipating. More and more frequently, the struggle for legitimacy between welfare, rights-based, and grassroots movements is being subsumed into a superstructural antagonism
The Politics of Protest: Task Force on Violent Aspects of Protest and Confrontation of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
July 21, 2010
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So the story goes, the original edition of The Politics of Protest was in fact a report commissioned by the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration in 1968. That year, Johnson created the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
George Orwell’s 1984 Electronic Music Remix
June 9, 2010
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George Orwell meets twenty-first century electronic agit-prop. That’s the best way to explain Margaret Noble’s latest nonprofit sound project. She begins with a 1950s vinyl recording of George Orwell’s novel 1984, famous for its depiction of a totalitarian society held captive by the three-pronged propaganda of: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.




October 27, 2010
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