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Michael Albert: The Next American Revolution & Revolutionary Participatory Society 2044

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…

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Jim Hightower: #VoteTrumpOut

Trump is destroying the lives of working people and killing America’s progressive possibilities

Extinction Rebellion: Stories From The Rebellion

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

Extinction Rebellion: Non-Violent Direct Action – Method or Madness?

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Bernie Sanders: Bernie Sanders’ Full Speech At The 2020 DNC

Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, saying that even though he did not receive the nomination “our movement continues.”

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Michael Albert: MIT, Secret Societies, and Powerful Institutions

Interview on experiences at MIT and the social grooming that takes place within powerful and secretive institutions (the sort that mold elites)

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II: A Multi-Racial Coalition Is Necessary For This Moment

Interview on seizing this moment with a broad-based, multi-racial movement to change an ‘impoverished democracy.’

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Naomi Klein: Naomi Klein on Juice Podcast

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

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Sam Gindin: Canadian Workers Fight to Nationalize GM Plant

In Oshawa Ontario, workers organize for a public takeover an unused GM plant to produce electric vehicles or supplied to fight the pandemic

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Daniel Ellsberg: The Doomsday Machine Still Exists

Interview on seeking profit in spite of the risk of nuclear winter is “institutional madness”

The Chicks: March March

“If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.” – unknown Use your VOICE. Use your VOTE.

Osman Kavala: Osman Kavala and the Snails: watch, enjoy, share

The world’s first lockdown opera, ten minutes of delight against oppression

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: COVID-19 Chronicles

Interview on the current uprising in the US, defunding the police, prison abolition and much more.

Jane McAlevey: A Collective Bargain

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

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Noam Chomsky: Communities of Resistance & Working Class Culture in the Age of Trump

Interview on a variety of topics

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Cornel West: What It Means to Be Human

Lecture given April 26, 2019 at the University of Oregon titled “Race Matters…A Timely Discussion on the Fabric of America.”

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Noam Chomsky: COVID-19 Chronicles

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

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Cornel West: “A failed social experiment”

“We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment”

Belly of The Beast Cuba: Cuban Doctors Speak

There are 30,000 Cuban medical professionals currently serving in more than 60 countries

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Glenn Greenwald: Media “tragically vindicated” Trump by overhyping Russiagate

“We were all so much more fascinated by this superficial, melodramatic espionage thriller that has completely destroyed the credibility of the U.S. media.”

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Robin D.G. Kelley: What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?

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.

Roy Zimmerman: The Liar Tweets Tonight

A song parody

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Arundhati Roy: India, Narendra Modi, and the Coronavirus

Is the far-right government of Narendra Modi exploiting the crisis to target Muslims and the media?

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Frank Barat: COVID-19 Chronicles

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

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Bernie Sanders: ‘The universe is collapsing’

Bernie Sanders mocks Republicans over coronavirus aid

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Reading Green New Deal

“So today, what I would like to do is to read the Green New Deal resolution for all those who are interested…”

The Founding Fathers: The Day Democracy Died

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.”

Drive-By Truckers: Drive-By Truckers – “Thoughts and Prayers”

A searing musical rejoinder to the “thoughts and prayers” reaction to gun violence, from the Drive-By Truckers new album, “The Unraveling”

Bob Marley: Bob Marley & The Wailers – Redemption Song

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?”

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Bernie Sanders: Hasan Sits Down With Bernie Sanders

Interview on aging and retirement in America

Various Contributors: The Times They Are a-Changin: Bernie Sanders

Sometimes it feels like our world is falling apart, but real change is all around us

Eliza Gikyson: Sooner or Later

From the upcoming album, “2020”. Available on Red House Records

Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come

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

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Chris Hedges: The Miracle of Kindness

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

Bob Dylan: Masters of War

Let me ask you one question Is your money that good?

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Bernie Sanders: Sanders Remarks on Iran

Sanders remarks on Iran Escalation

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Justin Podur: On the Soleimani Assassination and preventing World War Three

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

EIGHTY Bug: The Legend Of Bernie Sanders Song

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

Luiz ignacio lula Da silva: Prison gave me a greater will to fight

Interview on the reality that Brazil is experiencing and the social protests that have occurred in several Latin American countries

The Real News: Chileans Demand New Constitution as Protests Continue

For two months, Chileans have been protesting all over the country on a daily basis

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Naomi Klein: The Case for a Green New Deal

Interview on the case for a Green New Deal that tackles the causes and impacts of climate change while confronting racial and economic inequality

John Lennon: Working Class Hero

A working class hero is something to be

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Michael Albert: Debating Parecon

Interview on a post capitalist society

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Michael Albert: Participatory Economics

Albert on Nial Elkim’s podcast discussing Participatory Economics

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John Pilger: Julian Assange’s Extradition Case is a Show Trial

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

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Bernie Sanders: Talking Politics and 2020

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talk Politics and 2020 with The Intercept’s Ryan Grim

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Yanis Varoufakis: Brexit & Jeremy Corbyn

The coming UK general election and his plan for the global economy

Radical Reviewer: Participatory Economics Review

Radical Reviewer reviews Michael Albert’s Parecon: Participatory Economics: Life After Capitalism

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Bernie Sanders: We Will Make History

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

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Arash Kolahi: False Left/Right Dichotomies

Interview on a variety of topics

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