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Topic Spoken Word : 186 results | page 1 of 19 pages
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Malcolm X: Last Message Part 2 - Malcolm X
The second part of Malcolm's Last Message recording — done in Detroit, and with very good sound quality. The CD kind of picks right up where the speech left off on disc one, meaning that you should probably hear the first volume first — but the scope of the material is great, showing an increasingly complex understanding of politics, race, and the global scene — all presented with an uncann...
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Malcolm X: Last Message Part 1 - Malcolm X
Part one of one of Malcolm's greatest recordings — the chilling Last Message, in which he begins by talking about his experience staying at a house in Detroit that had been bombed the night before his speech. An exhilirating classic.
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Great Debate With James Baldwin and Others - Malcolm X (Contributor) and James Baldwin (Contributor)
Two revolutionary giants converse about race in the United State, segregation among other topics.
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Now This War Has Two Sides - Derrick Jensen
Examining the premises of his latest controversial work, Endgame as well as core elements of his ground breaking book Culture of Make Believe, this two hour lecture and discussion offers both a perfect introduction for newcomers and additional insight for those already familiar with Derrick Jensen's work.


Whether exposing the ravages of industrial civilization, relaying humorous anec...
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The We That Sets Us Free: Building A World Without Prisons - Nyla Moujaes (Contributor), Tre Vasquez (Contributor), Maria Poblet (Contributor), Sistas in the Pit (Contributor), and Alix Olson (Contributor)
The We That Sets Us Free combines music, spoken word and interviews with activists inside and outside prison to challenge all of us to imagine new ways of living, to question what purpose prisons serve and to propose anti-racist alternatives to punishment and confinement.


The We That Sets Us Free is part of a national campaign — Building a World Without Prisons — bringing...
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Paul Robeson: Words Like Freedom - Patricia Hemphill (Producer) and Sele Nadel-Hayes (Producer)
With this CD, Freedom Archives introduces you to rare spoken words of the great Paul Robeson, illuminating a side of this amazing man's personality and politics that has too often been suppressed. Robeson saw it as his responsibility to speak the truth about conditions both domestic and abroad knowing that his fame would allow these messages to be more widely heard. He was also deeply aware of the consequenc...
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Guernica: A Political Odyssey - Wolf Edwards (Music By), Emily McGiffen (Contributor), Maria Garcia Yelo (Contributor), Patricia Leighten (Contributor), Francis Frascina (Contributor), and Allan Antliff (Contributor)
Allan Antliff discusses the political history of Picasso's most famous painting from its inception during the Spanish Civil War to the Iraq War of 2003. It is modern art's most powerful antiwar statement. Inspired by Franco's atrocities against the civilian population of a little Basque village, Picasso's painting stirs up controversy to this day.

Included are interviews with art historians Francis...
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Art, Anarchy and Activism - Matti Hart (Contributor), Ben Rubin (Contributor), Susan Simensky (Contributor), Kevin C Pyle (Contributor), Mecca Normal (Contributor), Norman Nawrocki (Contributor), Josh MacPhee (Contributor), and Allan Antliff (Contributor)
The usual image of anti-globalization demonstrations in places like Seattle, Quebec City, and Genoa is violent confrontations between police and protesters. But University of Alberta art historian Allan Antliff believes this misses the most interesting aspect of the demonstrations: the role artists play in radical politics. In Art, Anarchy and Activism he presents some of the leading anarchist artists...
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Readings From Voices Of A People's History Of The United States CD - John Sayles (Contributor), Anthony Arnove (Editor), Lili Taylor (Contributor), and Howard Zinn (Editor)
Bold and empowering words from America's struggles, past and present, are resurrected here by some of our leading living voices. Authors Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove are joined here by Danny Glover, Sarah Jones, Paul Robeson,Jr., Lili Taylor, Wallace Shawn, Marisa Tomei, John Sayles, Viggo Mortensen, Sandra Oh and Kerry Washingon to perform the rousing words of dissent that have shaped and quickened the pu...
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Live from the Armed Madhouse - Greg Palast
"Upsets all the right people."—Noam Chomsky

"Doggedly independent, undaunted by power. His stories bite, they're so relevant they threaten to alter history" —Chicago Tribune

Armed with over fifty classified documents, confidential memos, and secret plans liberated from the Pentagon, FBI, World Bank, and ExxonMobil, Palast cuts through the TV news baby-talk. It was Palast, for...
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