“Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or “playing God.” This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.” — Thomas Sowell

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” — Paul Gauguin

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The Best of the 2007 Media Reform Conference and Before the Music Dies

with special host Thenmozhi Soundararajan

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Best of the Media Reform Conference 2007 – 4 CDs – $120

Over three thousand people attended this past January’s National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, Tennessee. Among the activists, experts and concerned citizens who gathered were Bill Moyers, Helen Thomas, Jesse Jackson, Jane Fonda, Deepa Fernandes, and Amy Goodman. The conference, organized by Free Press, opened with a stirring address given by veteran journalist Bill Moyers. Jesse Jackson invoked the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend as he called for greater media access and spoke out against the undemocratic nature of concentration …

“When you are looking your children in the eye in the future, or when you are at the end of your life, you want to look back on your life and know that at a very important moment, when I had the opportunity to make the right decisions, I did so, even knowing there were negative consequences.” — Lt. Ehren Watada

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GI Resister Ehren Watada and The Road to Guantanamo

with special co-hosts Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Alan Minsky

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Soldier, We Love You- DVD – $60

With his high profile refusal to fight in the Iraq war, First Lt. Ehren Watada has become the poster boy for the anti-war movement. His court martial by the military recently resulted in a mistrial, a story we’ve covered extensively on KPFK. Now, a brand new DVD compiled by Pepperspray Productions documents the extraordinary story of this highest ranking military war resister in his own words. Soldier We Love You is a fantastic video document containing Watada’s historic speech in Seattle at the Veterans for Peace convention, where he first spoke out about his resistance. This speech garnered him …

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Special President’s Day hour with People’s Historian Howard Zinn and a Power Governments Cannot Suppress

with special host Thenmozhi Soundararajan

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War, Occupation and Torture – DVD – $50

Howard Zinn is a historian, playwright, and social activist, best known for his book, “A People’s History of the United States,” which has sold more than a million copies worldwide.
Howard Zinn was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the G.I. Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught at Spelman College and Boston University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. While at Spelman College, Zinn became involved in the Civil rights movement, where he was …

“My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that people of the
united states will be able to listen to a message that the rest of the world sobered by wars without end, can also understand:that war itself is te enemy of the human race” — Howard Zinn

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An hour special with veteran journalist and war correspondent Chris Hedges, on his latest book, “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.”

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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the war on America

GUEST: Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and war correspondent

Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author, has just released his newest book, on the dangers of the Christian right in the United States. You may know him …

“All Americans — not only those of faith — who care about our open society must learn to speak about this movement with a new vocabulary, to give up passivity, to challenge aggressively this movement’s deluded appropriation of Christianity and to do everything possible to defend tolerance.” — Chris Hedges

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Special hour on Christian Fundamentalism

with special guest co-host Thenmozhi Soundararajan

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Jesus Camp – DVD – $150

Jesus Camp is a documentary released late last year by film makers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that looks into the often disturbing world of evangelical indoctrination of children in middle America. On Uprising we interviewed the two film makers and since then, Jesus Camp has won more awards and been nominated for best documentary at this year’s Academy Awards. With incredible access to a right wing Christian community, Ewing and Grady follow three children, Levi, Rachel, and Tory as they head to a Bible summer camp called “Kids on Fire.” Becky Fisher, a children’s pastor who runs the camp is unabashed about …