This is a prerecorded episode of aution: Tinfoil Hat Area !!:!! with Kevin Tilsner from June 28th, 2011. Kevin interviews Derrick Jensen and Love Police founder Charlie Veitch and discuss the destructive dominating culture and share ideas on what people can do to change it.
Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India, and studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and their family, set in Kerala, India, during the late 1960s, when Communism rattled the age-old caste system. Roy received the Booker Prize for this book in 1997. She has written several nonfiction books, including The Cost of Living, Power Politics, War Talk, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, and Public Power in the Age of Empire. In addition to writing, she has worked as a film designer and screenplay writer in India. Roy was featured in the BBC television documentary "Dam/age," which is about the struggle against big dams in India. A collection of interviews with Arundhati Roy by David Barsamian was published as The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile. Her newest book, published by Haymarket, is Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. Roy last read in Santa Fe in 2002, when she received the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize.
Avi Lewis is an award-winning Canadian television journalist and documentary filmmaker. His productions include The Take, an emotional story of hope and resistance in the global economy that follows Argentina's worker-run business movement, which the New York Times called, "a stirring, idealistic documentary." In the early 1990s, he hosted City TV's landmark music journalism show The New Music, interviewing hundreds of musicians, from David Bowie and Leonard Cohen to The Rolling Stones and The Spice Girls. In 2008, Lewis served as host for the series Inside USA on Al Jazeera's English television network, examining the issues at stake in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Currently, Lewis co-hosts the network's Fault Lines, a bi-weekly show that investigates the forces that drive the big news stories of today. Lewis was last in Santa Fe to interview Arundhati Roy for Lannan's Readings & Conversations in April, 2010.
Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy says her country’s government has declared war on its own people. Her outspokenness earned her an invitation to spend time with Maoist rebels. On this edition, Arundhati Roy takes us into the jungles of India, as she reads excerpts from her new book ‘Walking with the Comrades’.
Special thanks to the Center for Place Culture and Politics at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.
DemocracyNow.org - In a rare move, a
federal judge has struck down part of a controversial law signed by
President Obama that gave the government the power to indefinitely
detain anyone it considers a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world
without charge or trial -- including U.S. citizens. Judge Katherine
Forrest of the Southern District of New York ruled the indefinite
detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act likely
violates the First and Fifth Amendments of U.S. citizens. We speak with
Chris Hedges, a journalist who filed the suit challenging the NDAA along
with six others, and Bruce Afran, the group's attorney. "This is
another window into the steady assault against civil liberties," Hedges
says. "What makes [the ruling] so monumental is that finally, we have a
federal judge who stands up for the rule of law."
To watch the complete daily, independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, and for more information, visit http://www.democracynow.org/
C'est la fin du système totalitaire
marchand (du capitalisme) grâce aux mouvements de désobéissance partout
dans le pays. Le gouvernement ne sait que faire.
Un petit
détournement, basé sur le film La chute, sur le thème de la
désobéissance... Vidéo remarquablement bien faite, pleine d'humour mais
surtout de vérités... À voir absolument!
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/)
Author and journalist Christopher Hedges speaks of the despair,
destruction, love and truth that he found during his long career of
covering wars and social justice throughout the world. Hedges is
interviewed by Dean Nelson as part of the 17th annual Writer's Symposium
by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University.
"Chomsky Et Compagnie" is a french
documentary that came out in 2008. It concerns broad topics like the
media, the general intellectual culture (primarily in France), thought
control in democratic societies and freedom of speech. All of this
blended with the thought and writings of Noam Chomsky. Other figures who
appear in the film are belgian physicist Jean Bricmont and the canadian
writer Normand Baillargeon.
A typical Jensen event is multidimensional and feels a bit like traveling beneath the earth among tree roots, as they twist their way into soil, rock, river beds and accompany fish, insects, discarded tires, cellophane wrappers, animal minds, history, and human instinct on strange and interlocking journey.
Speaking in an almost improvisational style, Jensen explores the nature of injustice, of what civilizations do to the natural world and how, in the face of the resulting horror that is one of the all too apparent consequences of grave injustice, civilized human beings create intricate systems of denial, silence, abnegation, deception and self-hatred to keep it at bay.
He also reaches back to our collective childhoods, to the reality of magic in life, to discuss how nature has spoken to us and to how we must remember all the conversations we’ve had with her and renew them. It’s his antidote to cynicism and apocalypse. That there is a language much older than the lying language we use daily, without being aware, to dispel the horrors of modern living and dying.
If there is a connection between Tiger Woods, newspaper journalism, the bad moods of trees, child abuse, amnesia, school, language, and salmon, Jensen finds those connections in a most personal way and exploits them so that the listener can actually experience the intricacies of Jensen’s point of view.
It is indeed a heart rending, mind expanding, and ultimately healing exercise to explore Jensen’s root system, with him not so much as a guide, but an experienced fellow traveler
Alex is a member of my record label
Teenager though he is
He joined the Ever Reviled Records collective
And the indy music biz
Well his parents didn't like such turns of events
So they sent off a couple of thugs
To bring him back to Utah, lock him up
And pump him full of drugs
They say he's got problems with authority
Yes this is what they claim
And their psychiatric analysis
Has even got a name
(Chorus)
Oppositional Defiance Disorder
I think I got it, too
Oppositional Defiance Disorder
He's sick and so are you
If you think George Bush is a moron
And Tony Blair's a liar
If you fantasize about setting
Your local Wal-Mart on fire
If you don't like Tom Brokaw
And you think he's full of it
And you feel that a Rush Limbaugh punching bag
Might be kinda fun to hit
If bombing other countries
Makes you feel appalled
You have got a problem
And this is what it's called
(Chorus)
If you think school is boring
And your teacher is a fool
If you don't like your congressman
And you called him a corporate tool
If you were not standing
To sing save the Queen
If you turned down hamburgers
And ate rice and beans
We've got a diagnosis
No matter whether you agree
Just do what the doctors tell you
And thank God for psychiatry
(Chorus)
Created July, 2003
Copyright David Rovics 2003, all rights reserved
In this edition of the show Max interviews Danny Schechter; media activist, author and filmmaker.
The program starts with a precedent of Danny Schechter's book, "In Debt We Trust" which is about economic meltdown in America.
Another book discussed by Schechter was "plunder" which was about Lemon Brothers' collapse. He said the financial story in America is not a business story, it's rather a crime story.
1. Occupy movement under attack
2. Waking up to the role of the police
3. Bloomberg's real message
4. Anonymous strikes at the 1%
5. McGill students fight back
6. George Wright still free
7. Mc Sole
8. Occupy the Machine
Summary: Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? If civilization is destroying us and the earth, do we need to bring down civilization?
Recorded by: Maria Gilardin TUC Radio
Derrick Jensen wrote in his early book: "Listening to the Land": "We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity."
And he follows that with a question: "Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of being? My work and life revolve around these questions."
When I recorded him in the Oakland, California warehouse of AK Press, he asked that question in a much more pointed way: If civilization is destroying us and the earth, do we need to bring down civilization?
Kashmir, Post-Colonial States, India's War Against its People, the strength of the Maoist movement and the participation of women. A wide ranging interview with Arundhati Roy by Alternative Radio's David Barsamian. Filmed in India, February 2011
human salvation lies on the hands of the creatively maladjusted....
At this time of year we always hear the same 2 or 3 MLK clips over and over, but there was much more to the man. So here are ten of my favorite quotes from MLK that aren't heard as often.
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art held its annual festival recently, with independent comics artists from all over the world convening in New York to show off their work. Some are new on the scene, and others, like Peter Kuper, co-founder of World War 3 Illustrated, have been around for decades and have had work in such mainstream publications as The New York Times.
GRITtv visited the MoCCA festival, and then visited Kuper's studio to speak with him about his new book, Diario de Oaxaca, and the unexpected events that went into its creation.
World-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky has been pushing change in language, politics and culture for decades. The controversial expert on modern language explains why "the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."
- Commonwealth Club
Mike Prysner es un soldado del ejercito norteamericano que estuvo destinado en Irak. Tras dos años volvió a casa con todo lo vivido en el frente. A consecuencia de esto ha comenzado con su propia revolución contra la guerra, tanto haciendo conferencias, como el discurso suyo que está dando la vuelta al mundo a través de Internet, como formando parte de manifestaciones antibelicistas, e incluso siendo detenido por ello, algo curioso ser detenido simplemente por protestar contra una decisión gubernamental en un país que presume de ser la tierra de la libertad. Ya desde su estancia en el frente durante el años 2003 mostraba signos de estar en contra de las acciones del gobierno estadounidense. Esto lo prueba la carta que escribió desde Irak a Michael Moore:
He derribado estatuas y destrozado retratos mientras usaba una bandera norteamericana en mi manga, y luchaba por aprender a entenderlo. Me uní al ejército en cuanto tuve el mínimo de edad -rechacé una beca de escritura en una universidad estatal para servir a mi país, listo a morir por los ideales que aprendí a amar. Dos años después me encontré a punto de desembarcar en una pista aérea negra como la noche, listo a atacar a un país en el cual yo no creía que debía estar Durante todo el tiempo que he estado en Irak he estado buscando ideas para convencerme de que puedo sentirme orgulloso de mis actos, que yo era parte de algo justo. Pero no importa qué argumento encontraba a favor de la guerra me venía a la cabeza la imagen de mi comandante en jefe que sonríe con presunción mientras piensa que ha engañado a un país. Aquí os dejo el vídeo de su discurso, realmente emotivo. Our real enemy is not the ones living in a distant land whose names or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us.
Eduardo Galeano: "El mundo se divide en indignos e indignados"
The Crime of Ecocide
http://www.pollyhiggins.com/
"... move away from property laws to trusteeship laws, so rather than I own, to I owe. I owe a duty of care to this planet."
12-year old Victoria Grant explains why Canada (her homeland) and most of the world, is in debt.
"How the Media Frames Political Issues" by Scott London
In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]
McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15] http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html
I am just an anonymous citizen who firmly believes that we are the ones we are always waiting for. No saviors, heroes, leaders, gurus, or superior or inferior, we are all equals, and we need to think and behave as if it matters.
