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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.
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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
  • Newest Catalog Items ( 455)
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Amparo Cadavid: Magdalena Medio Community Radio in Colombia

By Creative Communities

In Search of Sister Stations
(The special edition of this tape comes with the talk by Peter Dale Scott on Side B)
At a radio conference in Madison, Wisconsin, a shy, young woman from Colombia arrived with a video recorded along the Magdalena River. It showed three of the 15 radio stations that are currently on the air in that region.
Ranging from a tiny shed where an elder woman shoos away the chickens every morning to turn on the transmitter to a full-fledged studio with staff meetings, these signals stand for the huge diversity of stations that are only a few dozen miles apart. What unites all of them is the fear of Plan Colombia. Financial support to the army has always [ . . . ]

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Civil Disobedience: Forest and Land Action

By Creative Communities

Rainbow Warrior Action
Interview with the daring women and men from Greenpeace who boarded the freighter Thorseggen, en route to Long Beach, by night and blocked the cargo cranes for three days. They called attention to the newsprint containing old growth that had been loaded on the Fraser surrey docks in Vancouver. The Great Bear Rain forest is the largest remaining tract of temperate rain forest left on earth. 50 minutes, 1998
code: A133 >To order a cassette copy click here: $8.00
Luna, Julia, and the Survival of the Forest
Julia Butterfly Hill has been living in a 1000 year old redwood tree called Luna for one year. She has protected Luna from being logged and has become an eloquent spokesperson for [ . . . ]

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Civil Disobedience: Grassroots War Resistance

By Creative Communities

Kathy Kelly: STOP the war on Iraq –
Adam Shapiro, ISM : STOP the war on Palestine
an invitation to create International Teams
Kathy Kelly was part of  teams of Internationals who went to Iraq, Kosovo and Palestine to help protect civilians and refugees. She explains how this work is done and how to overcome fear of going into a war zone. Kathy Kelly is the co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness. <http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw > They are working on ending the sanctions on Iraq that cause the death of so many children.
For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Kathy Kelly click HERE
For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Adam Shapiro click> HERE
code A219: >To order a copy click [ . . . ]

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Cities – and how to make them a better place to live

By Creative Communities

Mike Davis from the City of Quartz to Gentrified San Francisco
A conversation with Tim Redmond
Los Angelenos who read his “City of Quartz” never looked at their town the same way again. Seen from the intersection between kitsch and ecological disaster, Davis reveals the hidden history of the city that points into a future shared with other towns. This conversation centers on that common pattern of development.
Mike Davis is a former meat-cutter and long-distance truck-driver. He now teaches Urban Theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Tim Redmond is the editor of the weekly San Francisco Bay Guardian.
code: A 178 >To order a copy click here: $8.00
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Ward Churchill – A Little Matter Of Genocide

By Sovereignty

Holocaust and Denial in the Americas
29 second Preview/Promo Part ONE
30 second Preview/Promo Part TWO
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us we may be more open to an unflinching look at genocide and denial in America. Churchill compares the treatment of North American Indians to historical instances of genocide by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Turks against Armenians, as well as Nazis against the Poles and Jews. With one important difference. This genocide is unparalleled in term of the size of population and in the way it was sustained through time.
In the first of two parts Churchill sets out to prove that the numbers of how many Indians lived North of the Rio Grande were cooked – [ . . . ]

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Dennis Banks – The Sacred Run 2006

By Sovereignty

Recorded at the Roxie, San Francisco, February 2, 2006.
Dennis Banks, co-founder of AIM, participant in the occupation of Alcatraz and in the defense of Wounded Knee, and co-founder of the annual Sacred Run, spoke on the eve of the 2006 run from San Francisco to Washington, DC.
This is a moving, unedited, 27 minute speech on the origins of the run, the way walking changes people’s lives, Native American land rights, the names of the many tribes that will host the walk along the way, the occupation of Alcatraz, his time in prison, and his meeting with Cindy Sheehan when he joined her in Crawford.
A radio quality mp3 file click HERE
The walk began after a sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz, [ . . . ]

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Who will protect the earth? – Western Shoshone Land Rights

By Creative Communities, Sovereignty

Two recent military style raids to confiscate Shoshone cattle are meant to intimidate the tribe into accepting money for their land. Elders refuse payment of 15 cents per acre for 26 million acres of stolen land.Others disagree. The US government plays hardball and tries to divide the Shoshone. Recorded at the Spring 2003 Gathering of the Western Shoshone
For a broadcast quality mp3 version click HERE
code: N230 To order a cassette copy click here: $8.00
code N230CD: $10.00

John Trudell – What it means to be a Human Being

By Sovereignty

29 second Preview/Promo Part ONE
30 second Preview/Promo Part TWO
This is a moving, thought provoking spoken word and poetry address by the Native American musician and leader John Trudell. He did not set out to be a writer. His poetic gift developed out of the remarkable, sometimes unbearable circumstances of his life.
Trudell grew up on and around the Santee Sioux reservation near Omaha, Nebraska. In 1969 he participated in the Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz. From 1973 to 1979 her served as national chairman of the American Indian Movement. The government response to A.I.M. was swift Trudell said, “They waged a war against us. They hunted us down. They killed, jailed, destroyed by any means [ . . . ]

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Restoring a Forest – with Fire and Love

By Creative Communities, Environment

Dennis Martinez
code: N 315 $8.00
The forest at the Mountain Grove Center For New Education, near Glendale in SW Oregon was clear-cut in the 1930s and 40s. It has come back thick, young, and dark. When Indians cared for the land the old growth incense cedars and chinquapins were spaced widely, plants thrived on the sun-lit forest floor, and animals found shelter and food. Dennis Martinez knows about Indian forest practice and he is restoring this land. 60 minutes
CLICK HERE to download a 29 minute version.

Reclaiming Native American History: The Yuki of Thule Valley

By Sovereignty

code: N317   $8.00
The bronze plaque on the Historical Marker at the entrance to the Round Valley Indian Reservation reads: “This valley was discovered by Frank M. Asbill arriving from Eden Valley, on May 15, 1854. During the same year, Charles Kelsey from Clear Lake also visited it, …” What really happened on that day was that the Asbill brothers opened fire and killed 39 Yuki who had come to greet them. A year later the settlers returned and rounded up 30 young women and sold them as slaves to the gold miners.
TUC Radio brought a micropower transmitter onto the reservation to broadcast community meetings about re-writing of the historic marker. This program give a sense of the way [ . . . ]

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Frank Kanawha Lake

By Environment

code: N316   $8.00
When TUC attended an Indian wedding in the Trinity Alps four young men arrived with a gift of freshly caught salmon. Maria watched their cooking ceremony and learned from other guests that they are Native American graduate students at the University of Oregon, Corvallis, who work as a team. They study aquatic ecology, conservation biology and salmon runs while maintaining a knowing and respectful connection to their native traditions. They refuse to be confined to university labs and spend much of their time doing field work, learning from elders. They lead regular salmon camps with Native American youth. Frank Lake is a student as well as a teacher.
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Ward Churchill – The History Of Cointelpro And The FBI

By Sovereignty

This is a passionate, scholarly, and far reaching analysis of the Counter Intelligence Operations of the FBI. Beginning with World War I, Churchill covers the Palmer Raids, the defeat of the Anarchists and of Marcus Garvey; the attacks on the Civil Rights Movement, the 1964 murders of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the murders of Black Panthers. Dedicating his speech to Leonard Peltier, who by now has spent almost 30 years in prison, Churchill gives a detailed description of the FBI raid on the Pine Ridge reservation on June 26, 1975 and of the case against Peltier.
For years the FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs, BIA, had supported and financed a private army (the goons) of Tribal Chief Dick Wilson. Wilson [ . . . ]

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Ward Churchill: A Little Matter Of Genocide

By Sovereignty

Why did so many voters in the 2004 election agree with the Bush War on Iraq? And all the other wars against indigenous peoples before? This will continue, says Churchill, until we acknowledge our history of genocide here, in the USA.
Ward Churchill is Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a member of AIM. This is a very serious account – supported by a stunning array of new evidence – of the scope of the genocide of Native American Nations. 60 minutes, 1996
code: N 301 $10.00

Winona LaDuke: White Earth

By Environment, Sovereignty

code: A 110 $8.00
Winona LaDuke received a standing ovation for her keynote speech at the Environmental Law Conference. She is a member of Mississippi Band Anishinabeg, founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, and author of the novel Last Standing Woman. She talks about the meaning of White Earth, the plight of the buffalo, and toxics on Indian land. 50 minutes

Uranium on Indian Land

By Environment

code: N302 To order a copy click here: $8.00
Manuel Pino lives within the 30-mile radius of the Grants Mineral Belt, which was the most intensely mined area of North America for uranium ore from the 1950s to 1980s. Eighty percent of the Native American workforce worked the mines or mills, including Manuel’s father, uncle, and cousins. Today we see the impact on humans – widespread respiratory illness and lung cancer. 60 minutes