Archive | February, 2009

Mumia Abu-Jamal to Release New Book

Mumia Abu-Jamal to Release New Book

Even as he continues to fight to prove his innocence, the nation’s most famous death row inmate has penned a new book. “Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA” is about prison inmates who have taught themselves about the intricacies of the US justice system to fight for their freedom and the freedom of others.

Mumia describes his book: “This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the hidden, dank dungeons of America … It is law learned in a stew of bitterness, under the constant threat of violence, in places where millions of people live, but millions of others wish to ignore or forget. It is law written with stubs of pencils, or with four-inch-long rubberized flex-pens, with grit, glimmerings of brilliance, and with clear knowledge that retaliation is right outside the cell door. It is a different perspective on the law, written from the bottom, with a faint hope that a right may be wronged, an injustice redressed. It is Hard Law.”

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Flow: For Love of Water

Flow: For Love of Water

Director: Irene Salina

Disturbing documentary about the water shortages around the world, and the role that international corporations play in creating this global water crisis.

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The Distillers

The Distillers

Song: “Seneca Falls”

L.A. punk rock about the birth of the American women’s movement.

CD: Sing Sing Death House

Website: www.thedistillers.com

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Fishbone

Fishbone

Song: “Party at Ground Zero”

Crazy, high energy ska about the end of the world.

CD: The Essential Fishbone

Website: www.fishbone.net

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Loikaemie

Loikaemie

Song: “Good Night White Pride”

Anti-racist German punk.

CD: III

Website: www.myspace.com/loikaemiemusic

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Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog

Director:  Barry Levinson

Although meant to satirize politics, it’s just an inch a way from the real world. Dark comedy about a president who drums up a fictional war to distract from his ongoing sex scandal. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro.

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Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun

Director:  Dalton Trumbo

Powerful film about a young man’s struggle for sanity after losing his limbs and nearly all of his senses in WWI. The book on which the story was based was banned, and its author (who also directed the film) spent time in jail for refusing to give names to the government during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Thin Red Line

Thin Red Line

Director:  Terrence Malick

Trippy, introspective war film that’s almost more poem than movie. Starring Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, and Jim Caviezel.

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“The Price of Oil” by Billy Bragg

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Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements

Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements

By James DeFronzo

A historical look at revolutions, successful and non, how they came to be, their strengths and weaknesses, and more.

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