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Various Artists: Ranters, Reformers & Raconteurs, Vol. 1 [Box]

CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2011-09-20

Tracks: Intro - Jim Hightower; Making the Connections - Paul Wellstone - Jim Hightower; Expect Democracy - Jim Hightower; Who the Hell Is in Charge? - Jim Hightower; What Are We Going to Do? - Jim Hightower;...
Artists: Various Artists

Recording information: AK Press Warehouse (02/17/2001); Ak Press Warehouse, San Francisco & Oakland, CA (02/17/2001); Capital Theater, Olympia, WA (02/17/2001); Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church, Minne...continue...

Greg Palast: Live from the Armed Madhouse *

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2007-05-08

Tracks: Reporting from Exile; Yogi Berra's Investigative Journalism; Dumpster Diving for Votes; Indian Indecision Day; Provisional Democracy; Caged; Ballots in Body-Bags; Million Conspiracy Nuts Can't Be Wro...
Artists: Greg Palast

Recording information: Fletcher Lounge, University Of Tampa (06/2006).

Author: Greg Palast.

Photographer: Daragh McDonagh.

Unknown Contributor Role: Matthew Pascarella.

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Robert Fisk: War Journalism and the Middle East

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2006-11-21

Tracks: War to End War; Slightly Obscene Profession, A; Highway; Beginning and the End, The; Occupation and Insurgency; Abu Ghraib; Living History Again and Again; Dateline Beirut; Palestinians in Lebanon; M...
Artists: Robert Fisk

Editor: Issac Ontiveros.

The British journalist Robert Fisk, who has covered the Middle East extensively for the U.K. Independent newspaper for over three decades, is heard on this audio CD giv...continue...

Norman Finkelstein: An Issue of Justice: The Origins of the Isreal/Pal

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2005-08-23

Tracks: Jewish Question & The Zionist Movement, The; Arab Antagonism to Zionism; Population Expulsion & Western European Elite Opinion; Zionism, Conquest & Elite Western European Values; 1948 & The Expulsion...
Artists: Norman Finkelstein

Greg Palast: Weapon of Mass Instruction

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2004-01-20

Tracks: What an Introduction; Chronic, The; Christopher Hitchens and Barbie; I Don't Make It Up; George W., War Hero; Who Won the War, Daddy?; Bulldozed by the Crusader; Marines in a Tube; Perle of Arabia; B...
Artists: Greg Palast

Recorded live at Flatirons Theater, Boulder, Colorado in 2003.

Recording information: Free Speech Television, KGNU, Boulder, CO (04/29/2003); The Flatiron Theater, Boulder, CO (04/29/2003).
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Freedom Archives: Chile: Promise of Freedom

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2003-10-14

Tracks: Coup, The; Coup Background; Repression, The; Aftermath, The; Chile Today; History Lessons
Artists: Freedom Archives

Noam Chomsky: The Emerging Framework of World Power

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2003-09-16

Tracks: Historical Significance of 9-11; Latin American Victims of State Terror Respond to 9-11; Turkey and Repression; U.S. Lehanon and Israel, The; Wars on Terror, Old and Now-and Orwellian Doublespeak; Is...
Artists: Noam Chomsky

Arundhati Roy: Come September: In Conversation With Howard Zinn

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2003-08-12

Tracks: Introduction; Dangerous Things; Suspicion of Nationalism; World in Other Terms, The; Commerce of Grief; Many Septembers; Presaching Peace While Waging War; Business of War; Power Has a Shelf Life; Sp...
Artists: Arundhati Roy

Editor: DJ Slo-Mo.

Photographer: Don J. Usner....continue...

Jim Hightower: The People Are Revolting: In the Very Best Sense of That Word

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2003-03-18

Tracks: Intro; Making the Connections- Paul Wellstone; Expect Democracy; Who the Hell Is in Charge?; What Are We Going to Do?; We Have No Right to Be Quiet; Everyone's Getting Rich; Getting the Hogs Out of t...
Artists: Jim Hightower

Recording information: Capitol Theatre (02/17/2001-12/07/2001); Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church, Minneapolis, MN (02/17/2001-12/07/2001)....continue...

Christian Parenti: Taking Liberties: Prisons, Policing & Surveillance

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2003-03-18

Tracks: Capitalism: Crisis and Response; Violating the Law; State Repressions' New Suit; Surveillance Prior to 911; Deciphering the U.S.A. Patriot Act; New Definition of Terrorism; Application of the Law; Ne...
Artists: Christian Parenti

Recording information: AK Press Warehouse (04/2000-12/2001); San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair (04/2000-12/2001); Stop The War Teach-In, San Francisco, CA (04/2000-12/2001).

Economic libertarian...continue...

Various Artists: Mob Action Against the State

2 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2003-01-21

Tracks: Anarchism, Commodity Culture and Global Capitalism - Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Greedy Blues, The - Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Capitalism, Crisis and Managing the Threat of Poverty - Christian Parenti; Punk,...
Artists: Various Artists

Editor: DJ Slo-Mo.

A collection of bits of speeches from the annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, Mob Action Against the State is about half interesting and thought provoking, and half dry and ...continue...

Howard Zinn: Artists in a Time of War

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2002-11-19

Tracks: Artist and Society, The; Historian and Society, The; Artists and Experts; Standing in Line; Mark Twain on War; Patriotism and Loyalty; Artists and the Great War; Eugene O'Neil and the Good War; Langs...
Artists: Howard Zinn

Recorded at Massachusetts College Of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, October 10, 2001.

Liner Note Author: Howard Zinn.

Recording information: The Massechusetts College Of Art, Boston, MA (10...continue...

Alex Cockburn: Beating the Devil: The Incendiary Rants of Alexander Cockburn

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2002-10-15

Tracks: Displacement; On the 17th of January; "You're Messing Up Our Lovely Movement"; Seat at the Table, A; Absolute Sham, An; Liberals for Ashcroft; Looking Forward; Coming Home to Roost; Cost-Benefit Food...
Artists: Alex Cockburn

Recording information: Ak Press Warehouse, San Francisco & Oakland, CA; Mission High School, San Francisco, CA.

Leftist political commentator Alex Cockburn has plenty to say on this live spoken...continue...

Ward Churchill: In a Pig's Eye: Reflections on the Police State Re

2 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2002-06-18

Tracks: Christian Parenti Introduction; Hello My Relatives; Anniversary of Pine Ridge, The; 500-Year War, A; Richest People in America, The; ... Or Poorest; Nation of Their Own, A; Investigating the FBI; Fun...
Artists: Ward Churchill

This lecture from American Indian Movement co-director Ward Churchill focuses on the Pine Ridge incident in the '70s that led to the jailing of the famous political prisoner Leonard Peltier on murder ...continue...

Noam Chomsky: An American Addiction: Drugs, Guerillas and Counterinsurgency/US Intelligence

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2001-11-20

Tracks: Where the Arms Are; Military Aid to Turkey; Terrorism; Colombia; Inequality in Latin America; Impact of Us Intervention; Pacification; Drug War, The; Deeper Reasons, The; New Imperialism, The; Global...
Artists: Noam Chomsky

This spoken word release is in conjunction with anarchist book distributor AK Press. Noam Chomsky examines America's foreign policy and the intersection of drugs, guerrillas, and U.S. involvement. Lea...continue...

Mumia Abu-Jamal: 175 Progress Drive *

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2001-06-25

Tracks: For Mumia / I Was Born With Two Tongues; Rap Thing, A; Mumia Abu-Jamal Reporting Public Schools & Public Housing; Why a War on the Poor - (read by Ruby Dee); Defense For the Prosecution; Rubin Hurric...
Artists: Mumia Abu-Jamal

Personnel includes: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Bob Marley, Hugh Masakela, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Rubin Hurricane Carter, Assata Shakur, Peter Coyote, Martin Espada, Michael Franti, Bamuthi Born With Two Tongues...continue...

Howard Zinn: Stories Hollywood Never Tells

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2001-02-20

Tracks: Stripping Deceit (Introduction by David Barsamian of Alternative Radio); Accidents Will Happen; Revolution in the Revolution; Why War?; San Patricio Battalion; Changing Mt. Rushmore; Saying No to War...
Artists: Howard Zinn

Personnel: Tim Forrest (recorder).

Liner Note Author: Howard Zinn.

Recording information: Taos Talking Film Festival (04/17/1999).

This recording is Zinn speaking at the Taos Talk...continue...

Howard Zinn: Heroes and Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Venzetti, And the Revolutionary Struggle

2 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2001-01-23

Tracks: Historical Education; Finding Anarchism; Make Some Connection; Cigar Strikes & The Gilded Age; Haymarket; Manhattan Cafes; Homestead; Direct Action; Assassin; I'll Talk When I Damn Please; In Love Wi...
Artists: Howard Zinn

Compilation producers include: Howard Zinn, David Barsamian.

Recorded in Cambridge, Massachusettes on February 24, 1993 and Boston, Massachusettes on October 9, 1997. Includes liner notes by Ho...continue...

Various Artists: Less Rock More Talk: Spoken Word Compilation

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2000-11-14

Tracks: Spoken Word, The - Mykel Board; Propaganda And Control Of The Public Mind - Noam Chomsky; Moderate Member's Monologue/From The Institution/Scotland ...: Moderate Member's Monologue / From The Institu...
Artists: Various Artists

Performers include: Noam Chomsky, Jello Biafra, James Kelman, Jerme Spew, Tom Leonard, Peter Plate, Steve Pottinger, Penny Rimbaud, Norman Nawrocki, M Gira, Mykel Board.

Recording information: ...continue...

Noam Chomsky: Case Studies in Hypocrisy: U.S. Human Rights Policy

2 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 2000-03-22

Tracks: Old "New World Order", The; IMF and Bretton Woods; Rule of Finance Capital, The; Where Capital Flows; Nixon and Reagan; Fairy Tale Boom; Saintly Alan Greenspan, The; After Nafta; Rogue State; Univers...
Artists: Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is internationally renowned for his valuable, alternate viewpoint to U.S. foreign policy. On this two-CD set, he shows that the United States' first priority abroad is the free flow of ca...continue...

Angela Davis: Prison Industrial Complex *

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 1999-12-14

Tracks: On Becoming an Activist; Race, Class & Incarceration; Young Black Men & Prison; Technologies of Punishment; Specter of Crime, The; Political Persecution; Enemies Are Needed; Targeting Women; Anti-Imm...
Artists: Angela Davis

Personnel: Angela Davis....continue...

Mumia Abu-Jamal: All Things Censored, Vol. 1

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 1998-12-08

Tracks: Dorothy Allison; Dedication; From Death Row; War On The Poor; Cornel West; Media Is The Mirage; Ronald Hampton; True African American History; Sister Helen Prejean; When Ineffective Means Effective; ...
Artists: Mumia Abu-Jamal

ALL THINGS CENSORED VOL. 1 is a collection of Mumia Abu-Jamal's commentaries about racism, the death penalty, life on death row, the privations of the prison system and the corporate control of the me...continue...

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Spoken Word

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 1997-10-14

Tracks: Bright Shining Hell, A; Message to Mumia, A; House Is Not a Home, A; May 13th Remembered; Father Hunger; Black August; Legalized Crime; Diversity on the Airwaves; Freedom to Write, The; Statement; De...
Artists: Mumia Abu-Jamal

/Man Is The Bastard.

Personnel: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Assata Shakur, Bob Dole, Allen Ginsberg, Jello Biafra (spoken vocals).

Man Is The Bastard: Wood, Kenyon (vocals, bass); Beattie, Lawrence...continue...

Judi Bari: Who Bombed Judi Bari?

1 CD / Alternative Tentacles / 1997-09-09

Tracks: Redwood Summer (Song) / KPFA News; Mississippi Summer in the Redwoods; Logging to Infinity; Death Threats; LP - (song); May 24th, 1990; Darryl From Jail; Injuries; Knocking Out the Leaders; Dances Wi...
Artists: Judi Bari

Personnel: Judi Bari (spoken vocals, vocals, fiddle); Darryl Cherney (spoken vocals, guitar, bass, backgroung vocals); Ophidia (vocals, guitar); Dawn (guitar, background vocals); George Shook (banjo);...continue...