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Abolition Democracy Prisons, Democracy, and Empire |
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Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world’s leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America’s most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. Davis talks about her own incarceration, as well as her experiences as “enemy of the state,” and about having been put on the FBI’s “most wanted” list. She talks about the crucial role that international activism played in her case and the case of many other political prisoners. |
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Second Edition "Tanya Reinhart's Israel/Palestine is the most devastating critique now available of Israel's policy toward the Palestinian people. Written with urgency and an unflinching clarity, it deserves to be read by every American who, unknowingly perhaps, has been subsidizing Israel's 35-yea-old military occupation. Today Palestinians face either ethnic cleansing or apartheid. Reinhart compellingly shows why and how both must be opposed." —Edward W. Said Tanya Reinhart's informative and chilling analysis could hardly be more timely. It should be read and considered with care, and taken very seriously." —Noam Chomsky |
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Israel/ Palestine How to End the War of 1948 |
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America’s Disappeared Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the “War on Terror” |
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"To read AMERICA'S DISAPPEARED is to be moved by the personal stories of human beings plucked out of our midst, tortured, kept away from family, from legal counsel, from the world. To read these stories is to be shocked by the way our constitutional rights have been violated again and again, with the government justifying this as a 'war on terrorism'. The essays in this collection not only confront us with the human reality of the detentions at Guantánamo and the tortures of Abu Ghraib. They also scrutinize and dissect the legal arguments of the government, as it tries to defend the indefensible. This volume informs us as it angers us, and provokes us to act in whatever way we can to bring democracy alive in our country." —Howard Zinn "America's Disappeared is a strong, eloquent and necessary book, one that presents its readers with a challenge and a charge to not sit by and allow the juggernaut of the Bush Administration to roll over our Constitution, our human rights, and our fellow human beings." —Lewis H. Lapham, Editor, Harper's Magazine |
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SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS READS HIS WORK IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME This original and historic CD, recorded in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, features the internationally renowned yet enduringly enigmatic Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Marcos, reading selections from the English edition of his acclaimed book, OUR WORD IS OUR WEAPON. In these dark times of occupation, oppression and authoritarian control, the voice of Subcomandante Marcos sounds and inspiring wake up call for principled resistance, democracy, movement building, and working across borders and languages to build "one world in which many worlds fit." |
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Our Word Is Our Weapon CD Subcomandante Marcos reading his work in English |
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The Battle Of Venezuela |
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A probing account into one of the world's biggest oil producers, and the controversial revolutionary leader at it's helm. “McCaughan gives a vivid eyewitness report of the extraordinary events of the coming to power of Hugo Chåvez. . . . His book will be welcomed by all those interested in the complexities of the most original political experiment in Latin America since the Cuban revolution.” —Richard Gott, author of In the Shadow of the Liberato In August 2004, the Venezuelan public came out in record numbers to deliver an overwhelming vote of confidence. After many attempts to unseat him, Hugo Chåvez, the former military man who took the country first by coup and then by ballot, again emerged as the people’s choice. It was, in his words,“a victory for the people of Venezuela.” |
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Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control has been updated and expanded into a two-section book, and redesigned following the acclaimed format of his Open Media anti-war bestseller, 9-11. The new edition of Media Control also includes “The Journalist from Mars,” Chomsky’s 2002 talk on the media coverage of America’s “new war on terrorism.” Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky “propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state,” and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson’s Creel Commission “suceeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population,” to Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq, Chomsky examines how the mass media and public relations industries have been used as propaganda to generate public support for going to war. |
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Media Control The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda , 2nd Edition |
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