Department of Peace

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate, In fact violence merely increases hate.

So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Former Democratic presidential candidate, and true progressive politician, Dennis Kucinich has sponsored bill HR 1673 which implements a Department of Peace into our government and provides a different way of looking at the world. This legislation is a step towards a world where violence does not become the only solution towards international and domestic affairs. By showing support for the Department of Peace, you are saying that peace is a valuable and effective method towards the consistent and escalating violent means which we now consider our best and most powerful option. With the creation of this organization, America can change it’s path of murder, bloodshed, and reactionary destruction of life and begin to set the example we all too often proclaim as the most civilized nation in the world.

SUMMARY OF DEPARTMENT OF PEACE LEGISLATION

Legislation introduced today by Congressman Dennis Kucinich to create a Department of Peace includes the following:

* Establish a cabinet-level department in the executive branch of the Federal Government dedicated to peacemaking and the study of conditions that are conducive to both domestic and international peace.

* Headed by a Secretary of Peace, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

* The mission of the Department shall: hold peace as an organizing principle; endeavor to promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights; strengthen nonmilitary means of peacemaking; promote the development of human potential; work to create peace, prevent violence, divert from armed conflict and develop new structures in nonviolent dispute resolution; and take a proactive, strategic approach in the development of policies that promote national and international conflict prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict and structured mediation of conflict.

* The Department will create and establish a Peace Academy, modeled after the military service academies, which will provide a 4 year concentration in peace education. Graduates will be required to serve 5 years in public service in programs dedicated to domestic or international nonviolent conflict resolution.

* The principal officers of the Department, in addition to the Secretary of Peace will include; the Under Secretary of Peace; the Assistant Secretary for Peace Education and Training; the Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peace Activities, the Assistant Secretary for International Peace Activities; the Assistant Secretary for Technology for Peace; the Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Disarmament; the Assistant Secretary for Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution; the Assistant Secretary for Human and Economic Rights; and a General Counsel.

* The first day of each year, January 1st will be designated as Peace Day in the United States and all citizens should be encouraged to observe and celebrate the blessings of peace and endeavor to create peace in the coming year.

To read the entire Bill, click here.

Progressive Minds

The way out of personal reflection is total darkness.
The void to avoid which is clear, can also pain everything sometimes.
To walk away, to run away, to use all that you can to get away from the life which doesn’t exist outside of your own.
The denial of certain truths.
The removal of life (light) from those truths,
and how you can keep on keeping on.

When discovering certain certainties, leaving (ignoring, disposing of) them and continuing onward, towards a better and improved self is a must.
The old self, the disaster we try to avoid, is without value.
Science scoffs at the raw self, the flawed self.
Life has no better (bitter) battle than its own.
We use ourselves to advance ourselves, seldom anything else.
Through much repetition, life becomes the endurable reflection (mirage) we learn to ignore.

We’ll tear all the walls down just to avoid hanging mirrors.
We'll walk away from pain as we benefit from suffering.
The march is a long one, but there’s a profit to be made.
Emotional investments do not pay off as much as they once may have.
These are some different times.
The truth now has shifted, no longer does it matter who feels what.
Now is a time for embracing a forward motion, progression as a digression from uncivilized times.
They use the word "progressive" all wrong.
They wouldn't understand real progress if it landed in their community gardens.

We are the true progressors.
We use our minds to mind our machines to take us as far as we can.
When asked to examine our actions,
there simply remains little time to do such a thing.
Such a profitless action is worth little value days.
Long-term decisions do not involve preserving anything but our groundwork towards a more secure & quality product known as the self.
Billions of selves independent of one another.
We like out future strong, and our survival ensured.
When the weak die off, it is of their own choice, of their own doing.

Pity is never an option as the heart is the toughest muscle we own.

and we thought pdx cops were bad...

June 30, 2004
Magana Verdict

By Cathryn Stephens

Former Eugene Police officer Roger Magana is going from cop... to con. A jury convicted him on 42 charges ranging from official misconduct to rape.

It took jurors two days and a couple of hours to weigh the evidence against Magana and find him guilty on all but our of the charges. For those involved in the investigation and prosecution this case was about more than just a bad cop, it was about restoring trust in the Eugene Police Department.

"We hope that today will be the beginning of a long process to restore confidence of the community in the police department and it's employees," said Eugene Police Captain Steve Swenson.

Swenson says former officer Magana, and previously convicted officer Juan Lara, were anomalies in the department. And to make sure abuses of power like these don't happen again, an in-depth review of department policy is well underway.

"That we will review our processes, our recruitment, our hiring, our training and our supervision to see if there's anything out there that explains what happened. And if there is we'll fix it," said Swenson.

Magana was convicted on 42 of 45 counts against him including rape, sex abuse, harassment and official misconduct. Five of the guilty charges came back from the jury as less serious offenses.

"He grabbed me by my head, got a big handful of hair and pulled my head into his lap with his pants unzipped," said Miriam Olson, a Magana victim.

Jurors found Magana guilty of three charges involving Olson. A former heroin addict and prostitute, Olson told KVAL-TV in an interview, and testified in court, that Magana victimized her numerous times in the west Eugene area.

Jurors took their time deciding this case and prosecutors believe it was for a reason.

"What I think it says is that they considered this case and took it really, really seriously," said Lane County Deputy District Attorney Kent Mortimore.

Meantime, Magana's defense attorney and family members don't agree with the guilty verdicts.

"We strongly believe that a conviction based on lies is definitely an insult and demeans this very system that we had faith in with the jury," said Mathew Magana, Roger Magana's brother.

Several of those guilty charges hold mandatory minimum sentences and Magana will likely be sentenced to many, many years in prison. We'll find out just how long in mid-July.

The case is not over for the city of Eugene. Several of the women abused by Magana have filed civil suits against the city.

July 1, 2004 - The Eugene Weekly (OR)

Policing Police

Magana Verdict Leaves Many Unanswered Questions About Police Policing Themselves

By Alan Pittman

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Roger Magana was convicted Wednesday on 42 out of 45 charges that he sexually abused women while a Eugene police officer.

The jury has answered the question of Magana's guilt or innocence. But the massive trial involving alleged crimes including rape, sex abuse, kidnapping, sodomy, coercion, harassment and official misconduct has raised a host of unanswered questions about the need to reform how the Eugene Police Department polices itself.

Prosecutor Robert Lane told the jury in closing arguments last week, "There's nothing you can do that's going to restore any shine to the badge. There's nothing you can do to make women feel safer in Eugene or elsewhere. The cops have to do that for themselves."

Exactly how they will do that remains unclear. But it is clear that the public trial has left EPD's secretive police discipline system much to answer for. What follows is a rundown of some of the bigger police accountability questions raised by the trial this past week.

Officers Dismissed Complaints

Last summer police Detective Scott McKee first contacted one woman who Magana allegedly forced oral sex from on multiple occasions by threatening to arrest or shoot her.

In a taped conversation of McKee's call, the woman said she had told officer Jerry Webber and police Lt. Pete Kerns and was "99 percent sure" she'd also told officer Roberto Rios of the abuse when it was happening, but the officers did nothing.

"Why the hell didn't they listen to me? That's gravely offensive," the woman told McKee.

"It's disturbing to me," McKee admitted.

"It's absolutely horrendous," the woman said. She compared it to police failing to investigate the Green River serial murders because they involved prostitutes.

Other officers also heard allegations against Magana and also apparently failed to act. Police Officer Larry Crompton said he was doing a bar check at Diablos one night with Magana. A man came up and angrily confronted Magana and "there was some pretty pointed allegations made."

The judge in the Magana trial did not allow Crompton to specify the exact nature of the allegations because of a defense objection that they were hearsay. Crompton said he thought the confrontation was "pretty unusual," but he apparently did not report the man's allegations to superiors for investigation.

In his opening statement in the trial, defense attorney Russell Barnett said it was hard to believe that a competent police department would have let Magana's alleged crimes continue for so long against so many victims without detection. "He's either the slickest guy working with the dumbest people, or perhaps the accusations don't add up."

Prosecutor Lane said police did not see what Magana did and did not believe the complaints from drug users against their fellow officer. "This bunch of cops are not stupid."

But Lane himself pointed out to the jury that most of Magana's victims were not drug users and that even drug users are often held up by police as reliable informants in cases against criminals.

Policing Themselves

Eugene police have trouble policing themselves, according to testimony.

The alleged victim in the taped phone conversation asked how McKee felt investigating a fellow officer.

"Initially it was very uncomfortable and you can't help but feel some loyalty" to an officer with 10 years on the job, McKee said.

Lane told the jury that McKee investigating a fellow officer at first "chose to, let's face it, adopt a strategy of trying to clear this guy" by using police records to place him somewhere else. "He failed."

Police officer Jeff Glemser said officers often discredit complaints against police officers from drug users. He said he would tell superiors of a complaint involving coerced oral sex, "but on the other hand, you take that kind of thing with a grain of salt."

Police Officer Mel Thompson testified that he has often heard charges from drug users that "so and so is dating a cop" but has brushed them off.

Magana isn't the only EPD cop to be accused of sex on the job. Members of the EPD Rapid Deployment Unit were accused about five years ago of drug use, money theft and consorting with prostitutes, according to testimony from Officer Thompson. Thompson said the allegations weren't true, but it's unclear what the police did to investigate.

One thing the police didn't do was conduct a sting operation. Police regularly use stings to catch people using prostitutes. Det. McKee testified that Officer Webber proposed that the police check the allegations against the police unit by doing a sting with fake prostitutes, but EPD Lt. Jim Fields refused to authorize the sting.

Two of the alleged Magana victims also offered to help with a sting against Magana, but police did not apparently follow through, according to testimony.

Police had another opportunity to stop Magana's alleged sex crime spree three years ago when a woman filed a complaint that Magana had sexually harassed her, according to testimony.

Sgt. Willy Harris said the complaint "caused me some concern." Stopping the woman late at night appeared lawful, but Magana inexplicably did not report on information gathered from the woman nor did he run a computer check on her for warrants, according to Harris. But Harris said he could not "make a definitive determination" that Magana acted unlawfully and the department dismissed the complaint.

Lane asked Police Chief Robert Lehner if he was aware that a 2001 audit of police complaints found that the department should have found Magana guilty of wrongdoing at that time. Lehner said he was not aware of that.

The woman stopped by Magana while looking for her cat testified that Magana asked if she was pregnant and asked if she had a boyfriend. The on-duty officer asked her to call him on his day off. "I felt very afraid when I was speaking with him," she said.

Lax Supervision

Magana lacked effective supervision and had apparent free reign to allegedly victimize women while on duty, according to testimony.

Magana's most recent supervisor, Sgt. Harris, was apparently clueless about Magana's alleged criminal activity. "I never had any concerns as to where he was," Harris said. Harris testified that he gave Magana positive performance evaluations and praised him for his knowledge of police work and for working a lot of hours.

Harris apparently did not regularly check up on officers on the street. He said he relied on their honesty. "It's absolutely crucial for us to be honest with each other."

At one point, Magana allegedly placed himself on "special assignment" with dispatchers so he would have time to coerce sex from a female drunk driver while on duty. Harris said he would have known and authorized such a "special assignment" but he appeared ignorant that Magana gave himself the assignment that night.

Fellow officers had questions about where Magana was while on duty, but apparently did not report their concerns.

"There were times I would see Mr. Magana at the briefing and not see him until the end of the shift," testified officer Greg Reeves, who worked an adjacent patrol sector to Magana.

Officer Jeff Glemser said he patrolled Bethel with Magana but now realizes, "I never really knew where officer Magana was."

Officer Thompson said in 1999 he looked for Magana at a location he had reported by radio but couldn't find him. He said he found Magana a few blocks away entering a drug "flop house" where one of his alleged victims lived.

A trainee officer, John Sharlow, noticed Magana was on his personal cell phone a lot late at night when most people were asleep. Magana allegedly used the phone to call his sex victims.

Yet More Questions

Did Magana have many more victims? The jury was only asked to consider crimes against 11 victims. But McKee told an alleged victim last year that he had 18 victims he was investigating, according to a tape played at trial.

Did Magana also steal money? McKee testified that Magana has not been charged with theft, but he did begin investigating questions about his finances. He said people contacted him with concerns of how Magana was able to afford a half million dollar house, new cars and thousands of dollars in new fitness equipment on his and his wife's relatively small salaries. There was also suspicious evidence that Magana had paid for several hundred dollar cell phone bills and $3,000 to $10,000 in fitness equipment in cash. "I haven't completed that inquiry" into Magana's finances, McKee said.

Magana helped train several police officers while he was allegedly also sexually abusing women. It's unclear if those officers will now require retraining.

David Montgomery prosecutes drug cases for the district attorney and testified that he had to dismiss many drug cases Magana was involved in after the allegations against the officer came to light. "There was a cloud and it would be uncomfortable to go forward based on the allegations against Mr. Magana," he said. It's unclear if the district attorney will also have to go back and retry or dismiss existing drug convictions that were based on Magana's testimony.

In the taped phone call to a victim last summer, the woman told Det. McKee that she "was surprised it's taken this long" to catch Magana.

McKee, noting allegations stretched back to 1997, replied, "I am too."

sources:

kval.com
eugene weekly

let's take down starbucks!

the "trash intervention" is an idea given to us by our friends at revbily.com

if anyone would like to participate in this action e-mail us: service@salvationinc.org
and we will plan to do it on a future date.

Trash Intervention

At least a dozen actors dress up likes executives and various kinds of
upwardly mobile careerists. Each has a briefcase, a gym bag, or a big
purse. They enter the Starbucks in ones and twos, not in a pack.
The action manager keeps an eye on everything.

Soon the Starbucks is full. No one has made a purchase at the counter.
At least one person is seated at every table, and others are standing by
the various counters – every flat surface has a nearby interventionist.

The action manager (director) pulls on her baseball cap or some such signal.
The participants begin to lift out of their briefcases and carrying bags
empty paper Starbucks cups which they had previously culled from the
trash. They do this slowly, without expression, looking at each item with
interest, placing the cup carefully on the table.

Soon the tables are crowded with Starbucks cups, and there is no more
room for anything else. Even the counters where the sugar and napkins
are situated have Starbucks cups covering every square inch.

Now the actors become still, sitting in their forest of upright trash, every
item sporting the Starbucks logo. At this moment the Starbucks
Coffeeshop becomes it’s objective self, a box-like room with dozens of
graphic decisions from café society history, with world music turned
muzak, and -- it is a shop that creates tons and tons of trash. All the
interventionists sit in this place and observe it.

THE STAGE IS SET

In a good action there comes a point where the action manager decides
that everything is "ripe." People have been sitting and standing in the
contradiction of their trash until it feels like a photograph pregnant with
meaning. The whole scene is ready to break open. The manager’s
signal is seen by the new wave of actors, waiting outside. We’re ready
for the play within the play,
We invite you to create this playing out of the drama. Here are two
scenarios that we have performed.

1) A dancer enters with an accompanying musician – I see a woman in
this starring role and will describe the performance this way – but many
variations are possible and I’d like to hear what you come up with. The
most effective dance is culturally famous – like a gypsy woman dancing
with skirts in her fists and a red petticoat, or a fiery flamenco goddess or
a elegant Degas-like ballerina or a step-dancer in clogs (a clogger) or a
tapdancer in a Marlene Dietrich tuxedo. If the Starbucks has room, you
can stage two or three dancers. Good to have a couple children or
assistants. The dancer throws her head back keening as she whips
her skirts back and forth, or spins on point. Instead of clapping, people
at the tables pick up one cup in each hand and wave them in the air in
circles. This is a mysterious economy in which the legal tender is
based on ritual gestures with trash. The performers dance frenetically,
encouraging more cup circles. Soon the entire Starbucks is full of
two-fisted cup circles. The delighted children point to the cup-circles
and do little spins. The performers finally leave, acting. as if they have
been well-paid. The actors at the table’s wave the cups until the
dancers are out of sight, talking of the performance admiringly,
occasionally picking up a cup and whipping it through a circle to help in
their fond description.

2) The snake dance. This is a good-time party play – it allows for an
unlimited number of participants. At the point that the room is, by the
lights of the action manager, ready, "ripe," the dancers come in from the
street, each loosely holding the waist of the person in front. They are
dancing to the beat of a drummer or a phrase that the repeat in a
rhythmic way. It is effective to make the repeated phrase rhythmic but
quiet, hushed, spooky. A phrase we used: "TRASH – RASH – ASH –
SHSHSH! TRASH – RASH – ASH – SHSHSH! TRASH – RASH – ASH –
SHSHSH!" Wind through the tables and then, suddenly, everyone grabs
their throats and gasps, they can’t breathe, they fall to floor. The actors
at the tables take the cups and make the air circles, enjoying the
melodrama and waving the cups at each other approvingly, as if that in
itself constitutes a complete communication. The dancers revive, too
much approbation, reconstitute their line, and trash rash ash shshsh
their asses out the door.

When your play-within-a-play is over, leave in an exact mirror image of
how you came. One by one put the cups away, into the briefcases and
purses. We must leave the Starbucks with no evidence that we were
there, but leave information sheets about Starbucks abuses on every
table.

The aftermath for an observer, a regular Starbucks customer who sat
sipping through this – would be that it was like a dream. People who
communicate through trash, somehow, were entertained by a fiery
dancer who is famous in their strange world. In the end, the startling
research about this company is staring up at them from the table, in the
eery quiet that follows the dance.

Related link: trashworship.org

*If an aggressive manager comes up and tells someone "I saw you
putting the cups there. You brought them in here in your briefcase." A
good response would be… a cheerful, chipper report. "Yes! Of course!
Let’s throw away the trash! But there was no place to put the cups
except into plastic bags and plastic is a petroleum product and
petroleum has smart bombs killing people on its behalf. And so I was
trying to save innocent children, wouldn’t you?"

Don’t confront any workers with anger or moral superiority. Never be
utopian, never recite "the way things should be." Drama saves us,
didacticism kills.

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Lebanese boycott of starbucks

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howard schultz: fascist

starbucks CEO helps bankrole bush and sharon

jesus rules

anarchist march in DC October 17th

Washington DC, October 17th, 11:00 AM
Call for Anarchist Contingent at Million Worker March
March as one on October 17th, Washington DC!
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ANARCHIST FEEDER MARCH TO THE MWM MARCH:
MEET @ AFL-CIO HEADQUARTERS (16TH AND H ST. NW) AT 11:00 AM
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Calling all anarchists! Come all who toil in factories, farms, hotels, houses, stadiums, convenience stores, kitchens, cubicles and sweatshops everyday to make ends meet. Come all who are unemployed by circumstance or by choice! From steel workers to artists to single mothers, we must form a pact of solidarity that can defeat the forces that hold us down as servants! Come unite as working people against capitalist violence and profit-based economic structures.

W E???A R E???A L L???W O R K E R S !
We are all workers, whether or not we are recognized as such by the systems in place. We work everyday with our families, on our own projects, on art, or perhaps under the watchful eye of their managers or executives. We work both willingly and out of necessity. Executives excluded, regardless of who pays you or if you are paid at all, you are a worker!

A G A I N S T???C A P I T A L I S M . . .
Workers in this country and across the world have always been the victims of profit-politics. Workers have never gained anything substantial from capitalism, as capitalism is the enemy of the people. Only by selling each other out can workers enjoy the benefits of a system of war and destruction. This is evident in the ranks of the current big unions. Capitalism has been designed to keep the people fighting amongst each other and lost within problems created specifically as smokescreens to the real problems. We are running in circles and it must end!

As anarchists, we are opposed to any system that holds people down to benefit any group of individuals, and thus are opposed to the capitalization and co-opting of labor unions. We are in opposition to AFL-CIO style boss-bargaining and seek to destroy the entire notion of the boss. We seek a world where workers are not pinned against each other by the money-makers or by their so-called "union leaders". We consider reformist unions a part of the democratic party (and, for that matter, of the boss class), and we urge unions and workers who want real change to break from the confines of these unions and organize themselves for themselves!

N E I T H E R???B U S H???N O R???K E R R Y . . .
We are opposed to both the Democratic and Republican parties, as we recognize clearly that both of these parties represent nothing but ruling class politics and profit-schemes. We will not be fooled during the upcoming election, and we will continue to participate in this struggle regardless of which pawn is selected by the so-called "electoral process". NAFTA, FTAA, and all other "free-trade" agreements, as well as the wars we are currently engaged in, as well as the poverty-policies that the poor suffer from here at home, as well as the prison-industrial complex, as well as the destruction of the planet's forests, water, and air, as well as the racist courts and corrections system, are bipartisan issues. All of these policies cross party lines and are equally supported by ruling class candidates.

No vote cast or individual elected can ever alter the course of this system because the system is designed to withstand any attack from the inside. That is why we must abandon the system! Private property and profit-oriented production can have no place in the new world we envision.

B U I L D I N G???T H E???A N A R C H I S T???M O V E M E N T . . .
This is NOT a call for a militant contingent or black bloc, it is a call for anarchists to come participate as working people! We do not want to jeopardize this march or take advantage of the safety in numbers that it will create. We encourage creative and direct action against this government, but we must not violate the safety of people who cannot take on the risk level that we may be willing to take on. There is a time for direct and confrontational action and Black Bloc tactics, but this is not it.

Instead, this is a perfect opportunity to express our revolutionary, explicitly anti-capitalist solutions to the issues raised by this march. Against a sea of reformist agitation and alienating electoral-focused rhetoric, we as anarchists must present our politics with pride, creativity, and fierceness. Take this opportunity to outreach to other working people about anarchist principles and methods, to build the anarchist community, not to take action against our enemies. Building the anarchist movement IS fighting back!

S O L I D A R I T Y???N O T???C O N F O R M I T Y . . .
While we have these visions of a desired world, we recognize that these things can take time and that solidarity is necessary! Solidarity means that we recognize who our comrades are in the current struggle, and we will support them and receive support back from them. There is no reason to maintain theoretical battles between ourselves while so many suffer and die at the hands of this system. We stand in solidarity, not complete agreement, with the supporters and endorsers of the Million Worker March.

The movement needs us! Come to Washington DC on October 17th to stand up and struggle with other working people! And remember, don't be fooled by the electoral scams, we are powerful without our masters, whether they are bosses or presidents!
DON'T JUST VOTE, DON'T JUST NOT VOTE...
Participate, organize, and fight back!

recommended media

note: avoid paying for these materials at all cost. Try checking them out from a library, or borrow from a friend or co-worker. Or buy directly from the artist themselves if you must.

Books:

Fiction

The Alchemist by Paulo Caulo

The Fall, and The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Damien, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Paradise, Beloved and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Elegiac Feelings American (poetry) by Gregory Corso

A Coney Island of the Mind (poetry) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Belfast Confetti (poetry) by Ciaran Carson

Non-Fiction

People's History of the United States of America by Howard Zinn

All writings of Noam Chomsky

lies my teacher told me by j. loewen

The Rebel by Albert Camus

The Birth of Tragedy, and The Geneology of Morals by Fredrich Nietzsche

Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers & the Media That Love Them by Amy Goodman & David Goodman

Down The Tube by Baker and Dessart

Four Arguments For The Elimination Of Television by Jerry Mander

Boxed In by Mark Crispin Miller sample essay

Terrorism and Tyranny by James Bovard

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly by Peter Hart & Fair & Accuracy In Reporting

Lost Liberties: Ashcroft & the assault on personal freedom by Cynthia Brown, Aryeh Neier

Lies, & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right and Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat, Idiot by Al Franken

Dude, Where's my Country, Stupid White Men, Downsize This by Michael Moore

First World Ha Ha Ha: The Zappatista Challenge edited by Elaine Katzenberger

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere

Bush's Brain by James Moore & Wayne Slater

A Little Compendium on That Which Matters by Frederick Franck

Cimarron: History of a Slave by Miguel Barnet

On Liberty by J.S. Mill

Walden and "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau

The Decline & Fall of Public Broadcasting by David Barsamian

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Joe Trippi

Living My Life by Emma Goldman

Film and Movies:
(that we consider thought provoking)

Easy Rider

Harold and Maude

Fight Club

Goonies

Stranger than Paradise

A Clockwork Orange

The films of Werner Herzog

Documentaries

Third Party: Political Alternatives in the Age of Duopoly

The Corporation

The Fourth World War

A Brief History of Time

Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control anything by Errol Morris

Bowling for Columbine and Farenhiett 911

Koyaniqatsi, Powaqatsi, Naqoyqatsi

Out Foxed

The Corporation

Hands on a Hard Body

Inside Iraq

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