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All Time Favorites ( 10)
Over 24 years of TUC Radio production a few programs have become unforgettable. Here they are.

Amazing Speakers & Events ( 76)
Including speakers such as Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Winona LaDuke, Ward Churchill, Michael Parenti, Vandana Shiva, Howard Lyman, Ralph Nader, Maude Barlow, Alexander Cockburn, Kathy Kelly, and Andreas Toupadakis.

Creative Communities ( 23)
Practical solutions for a new society (includes a 5-part series on how to print your own community money)
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- Banking ( 1)
- Simple Technologies ( 1)
- Transition Towns ( 1)

Environment and Climate Change ( 39)

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- Actions ( 1)
- Melting Ice ( 5)
- Sea Level ( 1)
- The ocean ( 3)

Films
Two years ago I started filming all my radio programs. Here are the most intriguing, interesting, helpful, unusual or rare film in that growing collection.
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- Films on DVD ( 34)

Food & Water ( 20)

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- Clean Water ( 1)
- Safe Food ( 3)
- Seed Sovereignty ( 1)

Foreign Policy

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- Imperial US ( 4)
- Middle East ( 19)
- Palestine ( 5)

Globalization ( 3)

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- Corporate Power ( 1)

Inside U.S.

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- 9/11 ( 7)
- Civil Rights ( 5)
- Economics ( 3)
- Government ( 10)
- Internet ( 1)
- Labor ( 3)
- Politics ( 11)
- Racism ( 2)

Live Recordings ( 1)

Michael Parenti ( 1)
An archive of speeches by this insightful author/researcher about how our societal institutions no longer serve us - Themes are: Globalization, US Intervention, Racism, the Media the cost of Empire and a discourse on Julius Caesar, rebel or dictator?
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- Michael Parenti Audio CDs ( 46)
  Audio CDs of Michael Parenti.
- Michael Parenti Films on DVD ( 30)
  Included are archival films transferred from VHS (come back for updates ..)

Native Nations ( 1)
Native peoples speak on the destruction of their lands and their cultures, which are inseparable
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- Environment ( 12)
  The effect of environmental degradation
- Sovereignty ( 15)

Newest Catalog Items ( 461)
If you can't see the program you are looking for on this list use the search form at top of this website to locate it in the Catalog.

Nuclear ( 2)

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- Nuclear Power ( 4)
- Nuclear Weapons ( 11)

Technology

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- Biotechnology ( 1)
- Radiation ( 1)

The Arts ( 6)

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- Philosophy ( 3)

Women ( 1)

How Support for Israel’s Violations of International Law Puts the U.S. on the Wrong Side of History – Noura Erakat

By MariaApril 17, 2018Newest Catalog Items

Noura Erakat, is a noted Palestinian legal scholar, human rights attorney, and activist. She is an assistant professor at George Mason University, and was one of the speakers at the annual conference organized by the Institute for Research Middle Eastern Policy and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. She spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2018.
The theme of the conference was: The Israel Lobby And American Policy 2018. Speakers explored the different ways in which a powerful Lobby for Israel, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,AIPAC, influences US law, our Middle East policy and our elections, steering the flow of donations to Israel-friendly members of Congress who ensure the flow of foreign aid [ . . . ]

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Does the U.S. Support an Apartheid State in Israel? Dr. Virginia Tilley

By MariaApril 10, 2018Newest Catalog Items

As this program goes out to broadcast in early April 2018, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have embarked on what they call the “Great March of Return”. In their thousands they walk toward the electric fence that has kept 2 million Gaza residents penned in for more than a decade. They plan to sit in a tent-city, until Nakba day, on May 15. That day marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe” – when the marchers, their parents or their grandparents, were forced to flee their homes upon the creation of the state of Israel.
Israeli soldiers killed 17 Palestinians and wounded more than 1,500 others in the first few days. Analysts on US media such as Democracy Now, [ . . . ]

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The West Virginia Wildcat Strike of 2018 – Olivia Morris

By MariaApril 3, 2018Newest Catalog Items

West Virginia teacher and grassroots strike leader, Olivia Morris, talks about the historic 9 day wildcat strike that lasted from February 22 to March 7, 2018. She is in conversation with Stacy Davis Gates, political director for the Chicago Teachers Union.
This is a personal, very candid conversation about a strike in an anti union right to work state, about alliances between teachers and public workers, a broken down health care system, how low or no taxes for coal and gas extraction diminish the money needed for education and more.
The Chicago Teachers Union described the event this way: “The wildcat strike by West Virginia teachers, among the lowest paid teachers in the nation, has ignited public support across the state and [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: Capitalism’s Apocalypse (ONE of ONE)

By MariaMarch 27, 2018Michael Parenti Audio CDs, Newest Catalog Items

Why the rich can’t save anybody – not even themselves
Parenti predicted the financial crisis and said that giant corporate capitalism – by it’s very nature – is an apocalyptic system. When unregulated the built in elements of ever increased growth may well bring the whole system down. And he described the growing national debt not as a tragic mistake but as a means to shift ever more money from the tax payers to the financial institutions in the form of interest payments. This speech is an analysis of the many structural flaws of a capitalist system that puts it on a permanent collision course with democracy.
Recorded on August 23, 2008 at the closing reception for Maria Gilardin’s art show. [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: The Assassination of Julius Caesar (TWO of TWO)

By MariaMarch 5, 2018Newest Catalog Items

A People’s History of Ancient Rome – 2018 Tribute – Updated Archive
Who was Julius Caesar, a dictator or a populist? And who really was Brutus, who murdered him on the Ides of March? A young hero or a participant in a deep seated conspiracy? This intriguing lecture by the noted author, speaker, activist and scholar Michael Parenti provides surprising new insights and parallels to today that are both shocking and amusing.
This rebroadcast is part of the very popular series on what Parenti calls Real History, an intriguing reading of a surprisingly large number of all too familiar stories.
Parenti spoke about his Pulitzer Price nominated book: The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a people’s history of ancient Rome. He was recorded by [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: Superpatriotism and the Importance of Being Number One

By MariaFebruary 27, 2018Michael Parenti Audio CDs, Newest Catalog Items

2018 Tribute to Parenti – Updated Archive What does it mean to love one’s country? Why is it so important to be number one? In this sharp and funny speech MP dissects the uses of patriotism.
That was the introduction to a Michael Parenti talk given in 1988, at the end of the Reagan administration. That talk became a TUC Radio program and 2004 book published by City Lights. Superpatriotism: How hype, fear, and mindless flag-waving are supplanting informed debate and commitment to democracy.
Now, in 2018, so many years later, slogans such as: America First, America the Greatest Country on Earth are having a powerful come back. Resistance to Superpatriotism – even if it is simply remaining seated or taking a [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: The Face of Imperialism

By MariaFebruary 20, 2018Newest Catalog Items

2018 Tribute to Parenti – updated archive “The Face of Imperialism will be hated by those who run the Empire, and it will be loved by people around the world – many of them indigenous peoples – who are defending themselves against the Empire.” That’s what the author Andre Vltchek wrote for the jacket of Dr. Michael Parenti’s 2011 book.
Parenti has written about empire, history, the media, theology, and socialism in his decades as an activist and teacher. He is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Yale Parenti has taught at colleges and universities, in the United States and abroad.
Parenti says that “Imperialism has been the most powerful force in [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: How I Became an Activist

By MariaFebruary 13, 2018Michael Parenti Audio CDs, Newest Catalog Items

Parenti rarely talks about his life. How does a NYC street kid get accepted to Yale? Hoe does he lose the privilege of his PhD. in an arrest at a demonstration against the war on Vietnam, and become an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer?
Michael Parenti grew up in a poor, working class Italian community in New York City. When he received his PhD in political science from Yale in 1962 he was the success and pride of his family. He risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam. Ultimately the choice he made then was a good one. He now is an independent political writer and thinker and author of over 20 books. Invitations [ . . . ]

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Daniel Ellsberg – The Doomsday Machine (TWO of TWO)

By MariaFebruary 6, 2018Newest Catalog Items

Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner In 1969 Daniel Ellsberg secretly copied the plans for the United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967, later to be published as the Pentagon Papers. What was not known widely until late 2017 is that Ellsberg also copied the top secret plans for nuclear war that he consulted on for the Department of Defense and drafted for Secretary Robert McNamara.
Some of these papers, along with his first person report of the history of nuclear war planning, have now finally been published to high acclaim. The publication comes at an extraordinarily auspicious and dangerous time as nuclear tensions are mounting and the US president is challenging North Korea.
This program begins with two excerpts from the Nobel [ . . . ]

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Daniel Ellsberg – The Doomsday Machine (ONE of TWO)

By MariaJanuary 30, 2018Newest Catalog Items

Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner at Seattle Town Hall
Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame has another revelation to make. In 1961 he consulted for the Department of Defense and the White House and drafted Secretary Robert McNamara’s plans for nuclear war.
In 1969 Ellsberg copied the top secret documents along with those pertaining to the war on Vietnam. Ellsberg’s attempts to publish the nuclear war papers were stymied by the loss of his copies and the refusal by 17 publishers who told him that nobody was interested in a book about nuclear war. The Doomsday Machine was finally published in December 2017.
Now, in the context of Trump’s threats to North Korea, the question of what it means for the rest [ . . . ]

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The Execution of Martin Luther King, William Pepper (TWO of TWO)

By MariaJanuary 23, 2018Newest Catalog Items

updated archival program
In Part ONE: Bill Pepper became James Earl Ray’s lawyer when he found out that Ray was not the murderer. His friendship with King and his family goes back to 1967. Pepper had gone to Vietnam and taken photos of children burned by napalm. King asked to meet with him and they worked closely together during the anti-Vietnam war phase of King’s life.
After the failure of all his efforts to get James Earl Ray a new trial, William Pepper recommended one more option to the King family. In this Part TWO Pepper explains why he recommended a wrongful death suit against Loyd Jowers and other known and unknown conspirators. For the first time under oath in any [ . . . ]

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Where Are the People in the Nuclear Age, Norma Field

By MariaJanuary 9, 2018Newest Catalog Items

In the annals of nuclear accidents Fukushima has a special place. In Chernobyl the government opted to remove the 116,000 people living around the power plant. In Fukushima there is an ongoing effort to remove the contamination and to bring the 154,000 evacuees back. The Japanese government claims the effort is successful – independent researchers have serious doubts.
Admittedly the cleanup so far reached only 5 percent of Fukushima province and the only published data on the status of radioactive substances come from independent researchers. They find that contamination returned to cleaned up areas via wind, rain and traffic.
Norma Field is an author and professor emeritus of East Asian studies at the University of Chicago. She has taught Premodern Japanese Poetry [ . . . ]

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Where Are the People in the Nuclear Age, Arnie Gundersen

By MariaJanuary 2, 2018Newest Catalog Items

On December 2, 2017 the University of Chicago celebrated the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear chain reaction that led to the building of the atomic bomb and the nuclear power industry. The physicist Leo Szilard said at the time that by his and Enrico Fermi’s invention universal death had come into the world. Today critics of the 2017 anniversary say that the lectures and events were biased in favor of nuclear weapons and nuclear power and even insulting to radiation victims as they culminated in fireworks in the shape of a mushroom cloud. The Nuclear Energy Information Service, NEIS, called attention to the plight of people who suffer the consequences of radiation. Dave Kraft of NEIS introduces the first [ . . . ]

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Restoring a Forest with Fire and Love – Dennis Martinez

By MariaDecember 26, 2017Newest Catalog Items

Rebroadcast from the TUC Archives
The 2017 California fires were the largest in State history. How did the management of the California forests and wild lands contribute to the inferno?
When Spanish Conquistadors rode up the West Coast they were astonished to see that they entered forests that looked like parks with widely spaced trees. Church and military records show that in the early 19th century California’s forests were carefully tended. The catastrophic wildfires of today were extremely rare. California Natives used controlled fires to create these parks that in turn provided food and shelter to them and thousands of animals.
Dennis Martinez talks about Indian forest practice and restoration. He has worked for over 50 years in eco-cultural restoration specializing in tribal [ . . . ]

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Evolution of Organic at the Grange

By MariaDecember 19, 2017Newest Catalog Items

Community screening of the film by Mark Kitchell – In November 2017 Mark Kitchell brought his new documentary film, Evolution of Organic, to the Willits Little Lake Grange in Northern California. It’s a new film on the history of organic agriculture told by those who built the movement. Willits and the surrounding county of Mendocino have a rich tradition of organics and everybody in the audience was either a happy consumer of local food or a farmer/gardener themselves.
Gloria and Stephen Decater and Ruthie King are among those local farmer/gardeners and in addition they were important participants in the movie, Evolution of Organic. The Decaters began as students of Alan Chadwick’s in Santa Cruz, and founded in 1973 the Live Power [ . . . ]

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