Showing posts with label Youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Youtube. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Spartacus: Behind the Myth
This film tells the story of what I am tempted to call an ancient Che Guevara.
Blacklisted writer Howard Fast eventually wrote a novel about this ancient anti-imperialist rebel. It was adapted to film by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The film starred Kirk Douglas and was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
The story of a slave rising up against Rome has inspired many who find it in the pages of history.
It also became a Soviet Ballet:
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Marat/Sade: A Relevant Debate
Peter Weiss' classic verse play, which I first read as a teen, is all the more relevant today. The play is a debate between Jean-Paul Marat, the agitational journalist of the French Revolution, and Marquis de Sade the pornographer locked away in a mental institution.
The subject of the debate is whether Charlotte Corday was justified in murdering the leader of the French Revolution in the hopes of causing an end to the bloodshed of the infamous "reign of terror."
The debate is thus:
Marquis de Sade: Revolutions are bloody, violent, and oppressive. They are based on idealistic notions of a perfect world. Ultimately all we can do in this "dog-eat-dog" world is weaken the oppressive apparatus of the state, and try to survive.
Jean-Paul Marat: The "dog-eat-dog" world has no chance of improving unless the people take up arms to change it. People dying is sometimes necessary for history to march forward. Until there is a perfect world, the duty of people is to constantly be at war.
Essentially, as society crumbles, should we rise up and try and build a better world, or just try and survive as long as we can?
Full Film Youtube Playlist
Monday, June 8, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
UAW Rally For Jobs in Twinsburg!
Martha Grevatt and Adam Gluntz rile up the crowd!
More Footage from the Protest
A UAW Member Confronts a Spokesperson for Congress
More Footage from the Protest
A UAW Member Confronts a Spokesperson for Congress
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
From the Exponent Archives: Who is Mumia Abu Jamal?
This was the second to last article I wrote for the Exponent before being permanently banned.
On December 6th, the Today Show will be interviewing Maureen Faulkner about her new book Murdered By Mumia. Maureen Faulkner, whose husband was tragically murdered in 1981, will go on the T.V. program and rail against the man accused of killing her husband, Mumia Abu Jamal.
She will complain about how Mumia is a “celebrity” and how he has gotten the support of the Pope and various leftists of the world. What she will fail to mention is that Mumia is probably innocent. The bullets found in the body of Officer Faulkner, according to the police’s own ballistics tests, do not match Mumia’s firearm.
Several witnesses have come forward and said they saw another person do it. Someone else has even confessed to the crime. But such is never mentioned in the media. Instead, when Mumia’s namecomes up, the phrase “cop killer” is sprawled at us, and discussion is closed.
Never do those calling for Mumia to be put to death challenge the evidence which points to Mumia’s innocence. Never do they admit the fact that those who testified against Mumia at his trial were coerced by police terror and have admitted that their testimony was false. Never do they admit that the judge in the trial was a former member of the Fraternal Order of Police, who was hardly capable of giving justice to someone accused of killing one of his brothers in blue. Never do they admit that the people who support Mumia and call for his freedom are doing so because they overwhelmingly think he is innocent of the crime.
Mumia Abu Jamal, prior to being accused of shooting Officer Daniel Faulkner, was a radio journalist. His main target of exposure was the horrific police brutality that went on in Philadelphia. Mumia is a socialist and was a member of the Black Panther Party as a teen. Mumia is a brilliant writer, speaking for those who often have novoice--those locked behind the prison bars.
But on the Today Show the supporters of Mumia who have so much of a popular base that a street has been named for Mumia in Paris, will get no publicity. Rather, Maureen Faulkner and the right-wing talk show host who helped write her book will be given the entire section of the program to emotionally pump-up a racist desire for revenge against a “cop killer” and rail against leftists for supporting him.
The attacks on Mumia are very personal to me. When I was just a teen starting to discover the world of radical politics, I learned so, so much from Mumia’s writings. His short, concise, essays, which explode with truth and criticism of this society, have been so inspiring. Mumia is innocent of his crime, and he is a voice we cannot afford to lose. Shame on those who wish to silence the people defending Mr. Jamal.
Brick by Brick! Wall by Wall! Free Mumia Abu Jamal!
Note: Due to the mass protest of hundreds of people outside of the "Today Show" when Maureen Faulkner was interviewed, NBC was forced to actually challenge her arguements. They even showed footage of the protest, showing Workers World Party signs, as well as the signs of the Internationalist Group, and the Partisan Defense Committee.
On December 6th, the Today Show will be interviewing Maureen Faulkner about her new book Murdered By Mumia. Maureen Faulkner, whose husband was tragically murdered in 1981, will go on the T.V. program and rail against the man accused of killing her husband, Mumia Abu Jamal.
She will complain about how Mumia is a “celebrity” and how he has gotten the support of the Pope and various leftists of the world. What she will fail to mention is that Mumia is probably innocent. The bullets found in the body of Officer Faulkner, according to the police’s own ballistics tests, do not match Mumia’s firearm.
Several witnesses have come forward and said they saw another person do it. Someone else has even confessed to the crime. But such is never mentioned in the media. Instead, when Mumia’s namecomes up, the phrase “cop killer” is sprawled at us, and discussion is closed.
Never do those calling for Mumia to be put to death challenge the evidence which points to Mumia’s innocence. Never do they admit the fact that those who testified against Mumia at his trial were coerced by police terror and have admitted that their testimony was false. Never do they admit that the judge in the trial was a former member of the Fraternal Order of Police, who was hardly capable of giving justice to someone accused of killing one of his brothers in blue. Never do they admit that the people who support Mumia and call for his freedom are doing so because they overwhelmingly think he is innocent of the crime.
Mumia Abu Jamal, prior to being accused of shooting Officer Daniel Faulkner, was a radio journalist. His main target of exposure was the horrific police brutality that went on in Philadelphia. Mumia is a socialist and was a member of the Black Panther Party as a teen. Mumia is a brilliant writer, speaking for those who often have novoice--those locked behind the prison bars.
But on the Today Show the supporters of Mumia who have so much of a popular base that a street has been named for Mumia in Paris, will get no publicity. Rather, Maureen Faulkner and the right-wing talk show host who helped write her book will be given the entire section of the program to emotionally pump-up a racist desire for revenge against a “cop killer” and rail against leftists for supporting him.
The attacks on Mumia are very personal to me. When I was just a teen starting to discover the world of radical politics, I learned so, so much from Mumia’s writings. His short, concise, essays, which explode with truth and criticism of this society, have been so inspiring. Mumia is innocent of his crime, and he is a voice we cannot afford to lose. Shame on those who wish to silence the people defending Mr. Jamal.
Brick by Brick! Wall by Wall! Free Mumia Abu Jamal!
Note: Due to the mass protest of hundreds of people outside of the "Today Show" when Maureen Faulkner was interviewed, NBC was forced to actually challenge her arguements. They even showed footage of the protest, showing Workers World Party signs, as well as the signs of the Internationalist Group, and the Partisan Defense Committee.
What can Workers World Party do for you?
I found this on the web a while back. Some students made this video for a school project in which they had to pick a political party and make an advertisement for it. It's quite fun to see one for my party!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Arthur Scargill, Hero of the British Miners Strike of 1984-1985
Arthur Scargill, the unrepentant Marxist-Leninist who led the British Miner's Strike of 1984-1985 stands strong today as leader of the Socialist Labor Party of the United Kingdom. He led strikers to do battle with the police and the bosses in defense of what the Thatcher government was trying to strip away from them. They used military intelligence and secret police to kill the strike, and accused Scargill of being an agent of the Islamic Socialist Government of Libya.
10 Miners were killed by the British Bosses in this strike. Scargill stands before the British people today, calling on them to revive the spirit of resistance that was crushed in Thatcher's day and fight for Socialist Revolution.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Sexual Freedom and Enjoyment: West Germany v. East Germany
Do Communists Have Better Sex? (2006) Andre Meier, First Run/Icarus Films English Subtitles
Monday, March 9, 2009
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