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Programs listed alphabetically by title.
Each video is approximately 60 minutes long if length is not noted in
the description. Some programs have been uploaded to YouTube and are
viewable on this page by using the visible controls. There may be a download
delay for longer shows.
9/11 and the American Empire,
a talk by David Ray Griffin, Emeritus Professor of Religion and Theology,
Claremont School of Theology, San Francisco; given at University of Wisconsin,
Madison, on April 18, 2005 and broadcase on C-SPAN2 on April 30, 2005.
Included: The American Empire as real and not benign; evidence that the
9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the Bush Administration to expand this
empire
Altera Vista Presents Author and Social Activist Michael Albert
on book tour with "Remembering Tomorrow: From SDS to Life After Capitalism," speaking at Macalester College May 23, 2007. Albert talks about the failures of the progressive movement, and how it can be more effective. A witty and thought-provoking speech.
Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World
Is Possible.
Talk by Gerry Mander, on book tour for book of same name, sponsored by
Ruminator Books. Taped March 24, 2003.
American Assassination: The Strange Death of Paul Wellstone,
review of his new book by Dr. James Fetzer, University of Minnesota, Duluth,
given at Borders Books in April. Videotaped by John Bussjaeger and Dave
Greer, edited by John Bussjaeger.
Are American Elections Fair?
18-minute film "Help America Vote on PAPER: A Citizen Call for Election
Integrity," produced by the Ecological Options Network in cooperation
with Mainstreet Moms, and excerpts from media interviews with Mark Crispin
Miller, author of "Election Fraud: How They Stole the 2004 Election and
Why They'll Do It Again in 2008."
Arsenal of Hypocrisy: The Space Program and the Military
Industrial Complex.
Video produced by Randy Atkins (www.ArsenalofHypocrisy.com) and hosted
by Bruce Gagnon, founder and coordinator of the Global Network Against
Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space (www.space4peace.com). From
the jacket: "The glory days of NASA are over! Today the Military Industrial
Complex is marching towards world dominance through space technology on
behalf of global corporate interests. To understand how and why the space
program will be used to fight all future wars on earth from space, it's
important to understand how the public has been misled about the origins
and true purpose of the space program."
(WATCH PART 1 ON
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Author Paul Loeb Speech
about maintaining hope while working for justice and peace. He is the author of "The Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time," and "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear." Taped March 19, 2007.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Talk by author (of book by same name) Greg Palaste, investigative reporter
for The Guardian newspaper in Britain (he can't get published in the
United States) discussing Bush's election, dirty work in Venezuela, and
several other stories. Taped at Macalester College 3/13/03
Beyond Treason: The U. S. Government's Long History of
Conducting Deadly Military Experiments - parts 1&2
89-minute documentary featuring Doiug Rokke, Leuren Moret, Dennis Kyne,
Bob Jones, and Mark Zeller. Produced and written by Joyce Riley and William
Lewis, directed by William Lewis. Visit www.BeyondTreason.com to
learn how you can make a difference.
Can Active Nonviolence Bring Peace to Palestine/Israel?
Father David Smith, University of St. Thomas, iinterviews Sr. Mary Ann
Ford and Father Peter Dougherty, members of the Michigan Peace Team,
about their plans to be part of the MPT Summer Gaza Team 2005. The Michigan
Peace Team (www.michiganpeaceteam.org) "creates a nonviolent alternative
to militarism and violence through empowered peacemaking." Taped 2/28/05.
Can Corporations Be People? The Campaign to Abolish Corporate
Personhood.
Workshop by Molly Morgan, Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy,
and Jan Edwards, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, explaining
how corporations acquired more power than human beings have, how they
exploit that power to do whatever they want without consequences, and
the WILPF campaign to abolish that power by taking away their right to "personhood."
Can There Be Peace in the Holy Land?
Speaker Mubarak Awad, Founder of Nonviolence International and The National
Youth Advocate Program, Co-Founder Palestinian Center for the Study of
Non-Violence. Speaking at conference "Hope for the Holy land: Toward
a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel," held Oct. 22-23, 2004. Conference
presented by Friends of Sabeel North America (www.sabeel.org)
and Pax Christi USA (www.paxchristiusa.org).
Chernobyl: A Nuclear Catastrophe Without End
interview with Dr. David Marples, Professor of Russian History, University
of Alberta, Canada, conducted by Lisa Ledwidge, Outreach Director, Institute
for Energy and Environmental Research, Minneapolis. Dr. Marples was researching
nuclear power in Russia before the Chernobyl disaster, and was one of
a very few people permitted to visit the plant afterward, although it
took him 3 years to receive permission. He remarks on the immediate and
long-term effects of this nuclear meltdown, not just in Ukraine and Belarus
but around the world.
Chris Hedges speaking at Westminster Town Hall Forum
Chris Hedges, former war correspondent and author of "War Is a Force
That Gives Us Meaning," speaking on "How War Gives Us Meaning," taped
at Westminster Town Hall Forum, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Mpls.,
Oct. 2, 2003; followed by Kathy Kelly, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness
and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaking on "Depleted Uranium: Weapons
of Mass Destruction," taped at St. Joan of Arc Church, Mpls., Oct.
13, 2003.
Citizens Media Fair: Holding the Media Accountable.
Panel of four from various media: Gary Gilson, Minnesota
News Council; Kate Parry, Minneapolis
Star Tribune; Scott Johnson, PowerLineBlog.com;
and Rob Levine, Cursor.org. Given at "Citizens
Media Fair," June 4, 2005. Produced by Bryan Olson for Altera Vista. Contact
Bryan for information about copies: reallifevideo@hotmail.com.
Civil Liberties in America: Where Do We Stand Since September
11?
Talk by Peter Erlinder, Professor of Criminal Constitutional Law at William
Mitchell College of Law, and past president of the National Lawyer's Guild
presented on September 14, 2002 at program of Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom, Minnesota Metro Branch.
A Comedy Evening with William Hartung.
Hartung is President's Fellow, World Policy Institute at the New School
University, New York. He is the author of "How Much Are You Making on
the War, Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush
Administration."
Coming Down to Earth--What Can the Church Do There?
Speech by Prof. Emeritus John Cobb, Claremont School of Theology and Graduate
School, San Francisco, and founding co-director of the Center for Process
Theology. Dr. Cobb spoke at the conference "Bringing the Church
Back Down to Earth: How Progressive Christians Embrace Ecology," cosponsored
by the North Coalition for Christianity and Ecology (www.nacce.org)
and the Center for Progressive Christianity (www.tcpc.org).
Dr. Cobb is co-author with economist Herman Daly of For the Common Good.
Coming Full Circle: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security,
and Health,
excerpts from a panel discussion at the U of M's student-organized Passport
to Earth Summit 2002 series, with Mark Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture
and Trade Policy, Minneapolis; Dr. Alison Harmon, Penn State University;
and Dr. Luanne Lohr, University of Minnesota "ReVisioning the Corporation:
Bringing Democracy to Our Economic System," speech given by Marjorie
Kelly, founder/publisher of Business Ethics magazine and author of The
Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy," at "ReVisioning:
Building Community for a Sustainable Future," conference held April
26-28, 2002 at Macalester College, St. Paul; and "The Symbolism of
Enron," speech given by Dr. John Mitchell at forum on the Enron collapse,
augsburg College, Minneapolis, April 17, 2002.
"Conspiracy Theories" a 4 part series:
by Prof. James Fetzer, McKnight Professor of Philosophy, University of
Minnesota-Duluth, videotaped Nov. 16, 2005, by John Bussjaeger and edited
by Bryan Olson. Prof. Fetzer has published more than 20 books on the
theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence,
and cognitive science, as well as four books on assasinations and conspiracies: "Assassination
Science" (1998), "Murder in Dealey Plaza" (2000), "The Great Zapruder
Film Hoax" (2003) and "American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator
Paul Wellstone" (2004). During the past year he has devoted himself to
what the evidence tells us about events on 9/11.
Conspiracy Theories #1: John F. Kennedy (WATCH
ON YOUTUBE)
Conspiracy Theories #2: 9/11 (WATCH
ON YOUTUBE)
Conspiracy Theories #3: Sen. Paul Wellstone (WATCH
ON YOUTUBE)
Conspiracy Theories #4: Comments, questions, answers
Conversations: Globalization, Socialization, and Violence,
Part I. Cynthia Enloe.
Feminist author and researcher Cynthia Enloe, speaking on women in the
military, the conflating of Nato-ization with modernization, and the modernization
of state violence. Part of a panel with authors and activists Vandana
Shiva and Naomi Klein, speaking at the conference "Globalization, Modernization,
and Violence," April 14-15, 2005, given at the University of Minnesota.
Part II will be Vandana Shiva and Naomi Klein.
Conversations: Globalization, Social Change, and Violence.
Part II. Vandana Shiva.
Part of panel with Cynthia Enloe and Naomi Klein, given at conference "Globalization,
Modernities, and Violence," April 15-16, 2005.
Conversations: Globalization, Social Change, and Violence.
Part III. Naomi Klein
Part of panel with Cynthia Enloe and Vandana Shiva, given at conference "Globalization,
Modernities, and Violence," April 15-16, 2005.
Corruption in Government: A Crisis for Democracy
a reissue of Michael Andregg's classic program first released in 1992
and replayed now to show the relevance of previously exposed corruption
and lies to the current 9/11/01 official explanation and coverup of facts.
Counting on Democracy
A program by Danny Schechter about American elections.
Creating a Culture of Love, Peace, and Justice
--speech by Rabbi Michael Lerner, founder of the Network of Spiritual
Progressives, author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country
from the Religious Right, speaking at the Midwest Conference of Spiritual
Progressives, Wesley Methodist Church, Mpls, Nov. 18, 2006.
Creating Sustainable Communities,
a talk by Dr. David Korten, author of "When Corporations Rule the
World" and "The Post-Corporate World," speaking at "Revitalize
Democracy" conference in Duluth, Minnesota, July 29, 2002
A Critical Review of 9/11 Evidence.
Slide presentation and speech by Prof. James Fetzer given at University
of St. Thomas on May 3, 2006. Co-sponsored by MN911 group and St. Thomas
Department of Peace Studies.
Cry Justice! Reports from the Front Lines.
Lawyers Chris Black,head of international defense team for Serb leader
Slobodan Milosevich, now being tried at the Hague Tribunal for war crimes;
Michael Ratner, civil defense lawyer assisting those imprisoned without
trial by the United States in the "war on terrorism"; and Lynne
Stewart, under indictment by the Justice Department for aiding terrorists
because of conversations with her client, convicted of planning the earlier
World Trade Center bombing. Panel moderated by Minnesota Representative
Keith Ellison. Taped at the conference ³Cry Justice! Activism, Organizing, & Civil
Liberties After 911," October 25, 2003.
The Cuban Five: Imprisoned by the U.S. for Trying to Stop
Terrorism Against Cuba.
Speakers Prof. Gary Prevost, St. Johyn's University, Collegeville, MN,
and Prof. Peter Erlinder, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, MN.
Taped August 29, 2005.
Fighting the War on Sexual Trafficking,
keynote speech by Leslie Wolfe, president, Center for Women Policy Studies.
Ms. Wolfe spoke at a conference entitled "Sexual Trafficking of Women
and Girls: The Minnesota Connection," held Octobr 22, 2003, at St. Catherine's
College. Her speech is followed by comments by Minnesota Attorney General
Mike Hatch about the situation in Minnesota.
Food Sovereignty and the New Face of Global Agriculture.
Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director, Institute for Food and Development
Policy (Food First), speaking at Macalester College February 26, 2004,
in a program sponsored by Macalester's Environmental Studies Program.
Ms. Mittal, a native of India, is an internationally renowned activist
and speaker on issues of food and agriculture, human rights, trade issues,
and rural development issues. She is currently a visiting scholar at
University of California-Berkeley. Food First is a "peoples" think
tank and education-for-action center, founded in 1975 by Frances Moore
Lappe and Joseph Collins, authors of "Diet for a Small Planet." Food
First highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and
poverty around the world. See www.foodfirst.org for more information.
A Forum On The Death Penalty,
with Bud Welch of "Murder Victim's Families for Reconciliation" and
Gary Gauger, Illinois Death Row Exoneree, presented by Minnesotans Against
the Death Penalty.
From Corporate Globalization to Earth Democracy,
A talk by Dr. Vandana Shiva. Dr. Shiva is a physicist, author, and environmental
activist, known worldwide for her work on biodiversity and the effects
on people's access to healthy food and clean water by corporate globalization
and commodification of everything on the planet. This powerful speech
covers the stealing and patenting of genes from indigenous peoples and
from their animals and plants, such as genes from India's basmati rice;
the stealing of water by the Coca Cola company; the attempt to control
all seeds; genetic engineering of plants and their spread into the wild,
and much more. Dr. Shiva is a riveting and empathetic speaker, and helps
laypeople understand the corporate view of the future and the worldwide
organizing to create an alternative, better world. Dr. Shiva spoke at
Macalester College on March 30; she was the Environmental Studies Department's
2004 Distinguished Speaker, brought to Macalester by Prof. Brett Smith.
From Global Capitalism to Economic Justice.
Interview with Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President, Institute
for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), Washington DC, conducted
by Lisa Ledwidge, U.S. Outreach Director of the Minneapolis office of
the IEER.
From Silent Spring to Silent Night,
a talk by Prof. Tyrone Hayes, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, given at Humphrey Institute in Minneapolis on March 23, 2007. Dr. Hayes is an authority on the effects of the pesticide atrazine on frogs, and is not popular with chemical companies for his views and proven research.
Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Plans for Militarizing
Space.
Interview of Bruce Gagnon, founder and coordinator of the 181-member Global
Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space (www.space4peace.org),
conducted by Lisa Ledwidge, outreach director, Institute for Energy and
Environmental Research (IEER) (www.ieer.org),
on August 7, 2004.
Global Repression: The Latest Assault on Civil Liberties,
with Peter Erlinder, Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law;
taped 2/16/02; a discussion of the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act ("Uniting
and Strengthening America by Providing appropriate tools Required to
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" in the context of
past struggles to preserve civil liberties.
Global Warming: A Catholic Perspective,
with chief meteorologist at WCCO-TV Paul Douglas, speaking on the effects
of global warming in Minnesota, and polar explorer/educator Will Steger,
speaking as an eyewitness to global warming in the Arctic. Taped Oct.
29 at Pax Christi Church, Eden Prairie.
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.
David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World, The Post-Corporate World, and his newest, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, on book tour. Speaking at the Samuel Morgan Community Forum, Unity Church-Unitarian, St. Paul, on April 14, 2007.
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century.
Paul Krugman, New York Times op-ed columnist and Professor of Economics,
Princeton University, speaking at the Howard and Darrel Alkire Symposium
on International Business and Economics, Hamline University, February
26, 2004.
Haiti, One Year After the Coup;
Brian Concannon, human rights lawyer and founder of the Institute for
Justice and Democracy in Haiti (www.ijdh.org),
speaking on the lawless situation in Haiti since democratically elected
President Aristide was deposed in a U.S.-instigated coup d'etat in March
2004. Taped Feb. 26 at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN. Brian is introduced
by Prof. Joelle Vitiello of the French Department at Macalester.
Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey into Motherhood,
speech by Dr. Sandra Steingraber given at Westminster Town Hall Forum,
Westminster Church, Minneapolis, May 9. Steingraber is called "the
new Rachel Carson"; she is an internationally recognized expert
on the environmental links to cancer and author of Living Downstream
, which presents cancer as a human rights issue. Her new book is Having
Faith, a celebration of birth and a call to arms about the ways our environmental
degradation puts newborns at risk.
Healing Our Broken Health Care System,
with speakers John Kolstad, Chair, MN Universal Health Care Coalition;
Kip Sullivan, former researcher with MN COACT; MN Senator John Marty;
and Roseville City Councilperson Amy Ihlan. Taped at Roseville Public
Library on January 19, 2005.
History and War.
Talk by Howard Zins, taped at University of St. Thomas on April 23, 2003.
How Much Did You Make on the War, Daddy?
A Talk by William Hartung, author of 'How Much Are You Making on the War,
Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration.'
Mr. Hartung is senior research fellow at the World Policy Institute,
New York. He is an internationally recognized expert on the arms trade
and the economics of military spending. His others books include "And
Weapons for All" and "Star Wars: The Economic Consequences." Mr.
Hartung spoke at Hamline University on March 23, sponsored by the Minnesota
Alliance of Peacemakers.
Igniting a Culture of Love, Peace, and Justice.-Rabbi
Michael Lerner
Lerner is the founder of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, editor
of TIKKUN magazine, and author of "The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our
Country from the Religious Right." He spoke at the Midwest Conference
of S;iritual Progressives at Wesley United Methodist Church on November
18, 2006.
International Day of Solidarity with Palestine
with spoken word by Ismail Khalidi, report from Palestine by Anti-War
Committee member Tracy Molm, and perspectives of a Palestinian-American
by Sabry Wazwaz, moderated by Prof. Jesse Benjamin, St. Cloud State University.
Taped Nov. 29, 2004 at Walker Church, Minneapolis.
International Inquiry Into 9/11: Phase One, Part 1
Panel with Nafeez Ahmed, author and political scientist; Paul Thompson,
author of 9/11 Timeline; and Barry Zwicker, media critic and journalist,
hosted by Lynn Pentz, followed by a talk by Jim Marrs.
International Inquiry into 9/11: Phase One, Part 2
9/11 in Historical Context with Gray Brechin, author and historian (The
Role of Oil in Foreign Pollicy and Covert Operations) and Nafeez Ahmed,
author (The War on Freedom).
Interview of Dr. Ron Glossop,
professor emeritus of philosophical studies at University of Southern
Illinois, author and leading thinker of World Federalist movement; interviewed
by Michael Andregg, adjunct professor, University of St. Thomas, St.
Paul; taped 4/1/03.
Interview with Steve Leeper,
U.S. representative of Mayors for Peace, an organization started by the
mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to work against nuclear proliferation,
conducted by Larry Johnson in late fall 2006. Mayors for Peace is trying
to raise public awareness of the possibility of a nuclear strike on Iran,
with inevitable retaliation, and the need for action.
Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic? An Evening with Norman
Finkelstein. Part 1
Taped November 5, 2006, at St. Joan of Arc, Minneapolis. Dr. Finkelstein
teaches political theory at DePaul University, Chicago. He is author of
five books, including "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism
and the Abuse of History" and "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on
the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering."
Finkelstein is known for his writings about the policies of the state
of Israel especially with regard to Palestinians. (VIEW
ON YOUTUBE)
Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic? An Evening with Norman
Finkelstein. Part 2
Taped November 5, 2006, at St. Joan of Arc, Minneapolis. Dr. Finkelstein
teaches political theory at DePaul University, Chicago. He is author of
five books, including "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism
and the Abuse of History" and "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on
the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering."
Finkelstein is known for his writings about the policies of the state
of Israel especially with regard to Palestinians.
Journey of a Gospel Activist
--talk by Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas
(SOA) Watch, about his life as a "talking parrot" mouthing
the government's propaganda, serving in Vietnam, and then becoming a
Maryknoll priest, serving in Central America, and learning the truth
about U.S. involvement in oppressing Latin American people and training
Latin American militaries in the arts of low intensity conflict (killings
of civilians, torture, massacres) at the so-called School of Assassins.
A moving portrayal of one man's dedication to making a difference. Speaking
at Newman Mission Forum, Minneapolis, Oct. 12, 2004.
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror.
Talk by Prof. Michael Ignatieff, Director of Human Rights Policy Center,
Harvard University, speaking at 22nd annual honorary Theodore Mitau Lecture,
Macalester College, April 4, 2003.
Letters to, Letters from, Letters never written.
A play created from letters, journals, and memories of Minnesota veterans,
by Frances Ford, director; Part of The War Plays Project. Taped
2/18/06 at Hamline University's Sundin Hall.
Living Economies for a Living Planet,
speech by David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World and
The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism," given at ReVisioning:
Building Community for a Sustainable Future, Macalester College, April
26-28, 2002.
Lynne Stewart--Defense Attorney, and Victim of the U.S.A.
PATRIOT Act
an interview with New York lawyer Stewart conducted by Lisa Ledwidge,
Outreach Director, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Minneapolis.
Ms. Stewart, a New York criminal defense attorney who handles clients
whom many attorneys do not want to defend, is now under indictment for "aiding
and abetting a terrorist", namely, her client, the Egyptian cleric convicted
of helping to plan the World Trade Center bombing of 1994. The case is
based on secret government eavesdropping on lawyer and client. Lynne faces
40 years in prison if found guilty. Her trial is scheduled for October
2003. She was invited to address the annual meeting of the National Lawyer's
Guild in St. Paul the weekend of December 5-6, 2002. See www.lynnestewart.org for
further information.
The Making of ‘Inside Iraq’:
Interview with documentary film maker Mike Shiley, including discussion
of media’s role in forming public opinion and how American corporate
media caused shift from investigative journalism to propaganda. A film
of “Reclaiming Democracy,” an education project of the Alliance for Democracy,
South Puget Sound Chapter, Olympia, WA.
Market Fundamentalism: Worshiping the Market as God.
Talk by economist Karen Redleaf, member of Women's International League
for Peace & Freedom, MN Metro Branch. Karen outlines how and why
the market, regarded by economists and free-traders as perfect, is very
imperfect and why governments have until recently been relied on to address
its failures. Contains a short section on current "tort reform" efforts
and the effects such reform will have on ordinary people who are injured
by industry
Medea Benjamin
speaking at the Minnesota Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Annual Awards Dinner March 26, 2005, followed by question and
answer session with Naomi Klein during her presentation at the
conference "Globalization, Modernities, and Violence" at the
University of Minnesota on April 15, 2005.
Nuclear Power: Issues of Economics and Safety.
Interview with Dr. David Lochbaum, Nuclear Safety Engineer, Union of Concerned
Scientists, Washington, D.C., conducted by Lisa Ledwidge, Outreach Director,
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Minneapolis office.
Dr. Lochbaum covers the history of the development of the nuclear power
industry, the costs of nuclear plants and the role such costs had in
the move toward industry deregulation, and the dangers of aging plants
and of course disposal of the waste they generate. Taped January 29,
2003. Dr. Lochbaum testified about maintenance and safety issues of aging
plants before the Minnesota Commerce and Public Utilities Commission
right after this interview.
Nuclear Roulette in an Age of Terrorism,
speech by Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President, Institute
for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER), Washington DC, at the
8th Annual Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers Celebration
of Peace on November 12, 2002.
Our Great Big Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and
How We Can Get Out
Kip Sullivan, organizer and activist, and an expert on single-payer health
care insurance.
Pakistan and India: Why Are They on the Brink of War Again?.
interview with Dr. Joseph Schwartzberg, Professor Emeritus of Geography,
with speciality in South Asia, University of Minnesota, interviewed by
Mo Janzen, PhD philosophy student at U of M; and
"Want Lead in Your French Fries? The Use of
Hazardous Waste in Fertilizer,"
with Duff Wilson, Pulitzer prize-nominated investigative journalist and
author of "Fateful Harvest"; Nancy Witte, Washington State farmer;
and Dr. Ted Schettler, Science Director of Science and Environment Network,
speaking at event organized by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy,
Minneapolis, February 27, 2002.
Palestinians in Exile: Growing Up in a Refugee Camp,
interview of Palestinian-American Chaouki Khamis by Aida Wazwaz, taped
September 2002.
Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima: The Connections
Talk by Dr. Arjun Makhijani, author, nuclear physicist, President, Institute
of Energy and Environmental Research, given on Dec. 7, 2005, the 60th
anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Power, Morality, and Justice in the Quest for Holy Land
Peace.
Talk by Jonathan Kuttab, Palestinian human rights lawyer from Jerusalem,
co-founder of Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, speaking
at conference "Hope for the Holy land: Toward a Just Peace in Palestine
and Israel," held Oct. 22, 2004. Conference presented by Friends
of Sabeel North America (www.sabeel.org)
and Pax Christi USA (www.paxchristiusa.org).
Privatizing Our Water--Will the Air Be Next?
with Nancy Price, Alliance for Democracy; Marie Mason, Sweetwater Alliance
(Detroit); and Darcie Rowe, Minnesota Water Alliance. Nancy, Marie, and
Darcie cover the topics of water privatization in general; water privatization
in Detroit and what has happened to those who cannot pay the hugely increased
water bill; Perrier buying up a community's spring water to bottle Ice
Mountain water; and how the scene is set in Minnesota for privatization
of municipal water systems.
Professor Emeritus David Ray Griffin
speaking on the inconsistencies of the government's explanation for 9/11,
University of Madison, Fall 2005.
A Question of Democracy: U.S. Intervention in Haiti, Cuba,
and Beyond.
Speakers Michelle Karshan, former foreign press liaison to President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide until coup d'etat ousted him in February 2004; and Prof. August
Nimzt, Political Science Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
expert on Cuba, speaking at the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers Annual
Celebration of Peace, September 21, 2004.
The Realities of U.S. Foreign Policy,
speech by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, given at the Minnesota
Alliance of Peacemakers annual celebration November 2001.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
A remarkable film made by an independent producer at the actual time a
coup against Venezuela's elected president Hugo Chavez was put in action.
The film begins with U.S. TV news personnel announcing there had been
a change of regime in Venezuela. The film covers the coup itself, its
perpetrators, their celebration in the presidential palace with their
chosen new leader, the refusal by the population of Venezuela to accept
the coup, and the triumphant return of Chavez to the presidential palace
when the military refused to support the coup.
The Rise of a National Security State.
Talk by C. Willia,m Michaels, attorney, activist, and author of "No
Greater Threat--America after September 11th and the Rise of a National
Security State," given at Walker Community Church, Minneapolis, February
23, 2003.
Sami's Rasouli's talk given February 16, 2006,
on his return from several months in Iraq working with the Christian Peacemaker
Team and his own creation, the Muslim Peacemaker Team.
Seeking Justice for the Cuban Five.
Lawyer Leonard Weinglass reviews results of the last appeal for the five
Cubans convicted in 2001 in Miami, home of the "Cuban Exile Mafia," of
various serious charges, including "conspiracy to commit espionage" (three
persons, who received life sentences) and "conspiracy to commit murder" (this
charge was added several months after the trial started, and one person
was convicted, receiving a second life sentence). The Cuban Five are
U.S. political prisoners. Includes segments from the recent film, "Mission
Against Terror." Filmed at William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul,
MN, October 16, 2006.
Shareholder Democracy--One Dollar, One Vote.
Talk by Doug Henwood, founder and editor of Left Business Observer and
author of "Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom," speaking
at conference "After the 90's: A Conference on Finance and Fallout
in the New Economy," Humphrey Institute, May 9, 2003.
Shut Up and Eat,
speech by John Stauber, Investigative journalist and founder of the Center
for Media & Democracy, Madison, given at the Acres USA "Eco-Farming
'01" annual conference, December 7. 2001. Stauber explains the inner
workings of the PR industry, specifically how it spins information on
food and agriculture issues and wages a pro-genetically engineered food
campaign.
Take Back America!
A talk by Dr. Robert Bowman, Lt. Col. USAF, ret., president of Institute for Space and Security Studies, at Macalester College on June 10, 2007. Dr. Bowman was on a 5-month tour of the United States in an effort to bring Americans together to begin taking back their country from a radical regime destroying the country. Dr. Bowman touches on almost every problem we now face, and urges a new inquiry into what and who perpetrated the acts of 9/11, for which the government refuses to release evidence or account for the glaring impossibilities of the government's story. Sponsored by MN 9/11 Truth group.
Terrorism, Patriotism, and the Quagmire of Iraq.
Talk by Dr. Robert Bowman, President, Institute of Space and Security
Studies. Given July 2005 for local Vets for Peace group.
Thom Hartmann discusses his recent book "Screwed: The
Undeclared War Against the Middle Class,"
given at United Church of Christ Jan. 6, 2007, sponsored by Magers and
Quinn Bookstore. Hartmann has an informed overview of how society and
nature works, and his description of the 51% of a population (human or
animal) that produces a change of direction should be heard by all interested
in changing the current course of society.
Two 30-min. programs from “Reclaiming Democracy,”
an educational project of the Alliance for Democracy, South Puget Sound
Chapter, Olympia, WA: “Corporate Personhood and Money as Speech,” an
interview with environmental and constitutional lawyer Jacqui Brown Miller
(January 2005) and “The Root of Our Broken Democracy Problem,” interview
with Richard Grossman, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD),
and Tom Linzey, lawyer, co-foounder of Community Environmental Legal
Defense Fund (February 2005).
Uncovered: The Truth about the Iraq War
A film by Robert Greenwald
"United States v. George W. Bush et al," Former federal
prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega talks about her recent book.
This book is a formal grand jury indictment against administration officials
with the charge of "tricking the United States into war," or "fraud." Here
are all the reasons citizens of this country should be demanding an impeachment
trial of these officials. (VIEW
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An Urgent Call for Media Reform,
speech by Matthew Rothschild, at evening sponsored by Minnesota Alliance
of Peacemakers to focus on the need for alternative media and action
to curtail monopolization of mainstream media, including public radio
and TV.
Using Depleted Uranium in Weapons: Putting Our Troops
and the Whole World at Risk,
talk by Dr. Doug Rokke, Major in the U.S. Army Reserve and member of the
U.S. Army Medical Command's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Special
Operations and Teaching Team during the Persian Gulf War; preceded by
clips from "Hidden Wars in the Middle East."
Visions of Sustainability
speech by Native American author and activist Winona LaDuke, given at
the annual celebration of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers Nov.
1, 2005. Short drum performance by Thunder Nation precedes speech. LaDuke's
latest book is "Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming."
War and Fleece: How Economic Shock Therapy Backfired in
Iraq
Keynote speech by Naomi Klein, author of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand
Bullies and award-winning journalist, at Conference "Globalization,
Modernities, and Violence," University of Minnesota, April 15-16,
2005. Conference sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study
of Global Change.
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
Talk by author Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York
Times, explaining the seductiveness of being in the center of danger
and among fellow risk takers. Taped at War Conference, Inver Hills Community
College, Inver Grove Heigts, MN, April 9, 2003. Listen
to MP4 audio only
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here to download player)
War Profiteering: Why the US Is Always at War,
a talk by Ed Felien, Publisher of The Pulse of the Twin Cities weekly
newspaper (www.pulsetc.com), followed
by clips fromn "Bush Family Fortunes," a Greg Palast investigation produced
by the BBC.
Weapons of Mass Deception: How the Media Have Become Propaganda
Tools and What to Do About It.
Journalist/filmmaker/"media dissector" Danny Schechter, speaking
at the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemaker's annual Celebration of Peace,
November 13, 2003.
We're Committing Genocide Over There.
Talk by ex-Marine Jimmy Massey, co-founder of Iraq Veterans Against the
War, speaking at Vets for Peace annual meeting April 9, 2005.
What's the Matter with Kansas?
Talk by Thomas Frank, author of book by same name, given at Hubert Humphrey
Institute Dec. 9, 2004. Followed by 15-minute segment of Dec. 10, 2004,
Press Conference to send off volunteers from Minnesota to monitor the
vote recount in Ohio.
"Will Peace Win? The Will of the People and the End of
War."
Talk by Jonathan Schell, columnist for "The Nation" and author of The
Fate of the Earth and The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and
the Will of the People. Introduced by Phil Steger, of Friends for a Non-Violent
World. Taped September 17 at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul.
World Summit on Sustainable Development: Where Do We Stand
Since Rio 1992.
Interview of Kristin Dawkins, Director of Global Governance Program at
the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, by Lisa Ledwidge,
U.S. Outreach Director and Editor of Science for Democratic Action at
the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Minneapolis; taped
on August 15, 2002. Kristin, along with Mark Ritchie, head of the IATP,
is now at the World Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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