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Source: Politics Art Roots Culture – Media Michael Albert is an American economist, speaker, writer, and political critic. Since the late 1970s, he has published books, articles, and other contributions on a wide array of subjects. He is known for helping to develop the socioeconomic theory of participatory economics. In 1965, Albert was studying physics Read more…
Trump is destroying the lives of working people and killing America’s progressive possibilities
The right wing media is a barrier to the truth, failing to reflect the scale and urgency of the crisis and hold governments to account
Non-Violent Direct Action has worked at points throughout history but does that mean it can work for Extinction Rebellion now?
Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, saying that even though he did not receive the nomination “our movement continues.”
Interview on experiences at MIT and the social grooming that takes place within powerful and secretive institutions (the sort that mold elites)
Interview on seizing this moment with a broad-based, multi-racial movement to change an ‘impoverished democracy.’
Interview on the lessons we’re learning during this historic period, Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, and why the liberals are going to get us all killed
In Oshawa Ontario, workers organize for a public takeover an unused GM plant to produce electric vehicles or supplied to fight the pandemic
Interview on seeking profit in spite of the risk of nuclear winter is “institutional madness”
“If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.” – unknown Use your VOICE. Use your VOTE.
The world’s first lockdown opera, ten minutes of delight against oppression
Interview on the current uprising in the US, defunding the police, prison abolition and much more.
In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class
Interview on a variety of topics
Lecture given April 26, 2019 at the University of Oregon titled “Race Matters…A Timely Discussion on the Fabric of America.”
Interview on the current US protest spreading like fire across the country following the police killing of George Floyd, the forthcoming US elections and why it is crucial to vote not for someone in this case, but against someone
“We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment”
There are 30,000 Cuban medical professionals currently serving in more than 60 countries
“We were all so much more fascinated by this superficial, melodramatic espionage thriller that has completely destroyed the credibility of the U.S. media.”
Talk by Robin D. G. Kelley on “What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?” recorded November 7, 2017 at Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Sponsored by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities.
A song parody
Is the far-right government of Narendra Modi exploiting the crisis to target Muslims and the media?
Interview on the failures of the conservative party in dealing with the coronavirus crisis, the need of the EU to unify or disintegrate and the future of the left in Europe
Bernie Sanders mocks Republicans over coronavirus aid
“So today, what I would like to do is to read the Green New Deal resolution for all those who are interested…”
Some of the Founders and Framers of the Constitution did more than turn over in their graves… they actually resurfaced to sing “The Day Democracy Died.”
A searing musical rejoinder to the “thoughts and prayers” reaction to gun violence, from the Drive-By Truckers new album, “The Unraveling”
Reggae great Bob Marley would have been 75 on Feb 6. In Redemption Song, Marley calls his listeners to action: “Won’t you help to sing / These songs of freedom?”
Interview on aging and retirement in America
Sometimes it feels like our world is falling apart, but real change is all around us
From the upcoming album, “2020”. Available on Red House Records
Song first released on Sam Cooke’s 1964 album Ain’t That Good News, inspired by Cooke and his entourage being turned away from a whites-only motel in Louisiana
Take a brief journey through the eyes of American, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges to Jerusalem, Gaza, and Iraq, and discover the sacred bonds that make us human
Let me ask you one question Is your money that good?
Sanders remarks on Iran Escalation
A talk on the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Suleimani in Iraq, about who he was, why this moment is so dangerous, and what the principles of an antiwar movement should be
The Legend of Bernie Sanders was originally written for the Bernie documentary called BERN THE MOVIE and is a compendium of Bernie Sanders’s life leading into the OUR REVOLUTION movement
Interview on the reality that Brazil is experiencing and the social protests that have occurred in several Latin American countries
For two months, Chileans have been protesting all over the country on a daily basis
Interview on the case for a Green New Deal that tackles the causes and impacts of climate change while confronting racial and economic inequality
A working class hero is something to be
Interview on a post capitalist society
Albert on Nial Elkim’s podcast discussing Participatory Economics
Interview on the lack of mainstream media coverage of Julian’s persecution, his health and conditions in Belmarsh prison, CIA spying on Julian Assange and more
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Politics and 2020 with The Intercept’s Ryan Grim
The coming UK general election and his plan for the global economy
Radical Reviewer reviews Michael Albert’s Parecon: Participatory Economics: Life After Capitalism
Sanders rededicates himself to the struggle to the struggle to guarantee health care for all, make public colleges and universities, tuition free cancel student debt, and deal with climate change, criminal justice reform and immigration reform
Interview on a variety of topics