* people’s history of the united states

* 1984

- george orwell    

the classic of complete mental control by the World State. 

then  watch  J.F.K. - see below.

notice the eye - "we are always watching."
we control the news. we distort language itself to eliminate even the idea of dissent

"WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."

BIG BROTHER 
will take care of you.

* gyn/ecology

- mary daley     

devastating feminism, in deliberately non-acedemic style.  under the  critique is a search for identity.

mary rules !!!

she's getting on, and we wish her well.

* sexual politics

- kate millet 

one of the first in this phase of feminism, so of course it's the most criticized. a critique of how mores and art crush the female spirit.

* famous long ago

- ray mungo  

who in the pre-www era and on a salary of peanut butter sandwiches accomplished enough to put Indymedia to shame. almost alone he questioned the rightness of the radical left to speak in any way for black people. 

but sheer poetry as life.

* fear and loathing in las vegas

* whole earth catalogue

 - a collective project

don't get the the "millennium" edition, which has had the life sucked out of it. scrounge up an old black copy. though much in it will be out of print, it carries the spirit. 

in truth, a catologue of 10,000 human talents - human potential - presented as a brilliant jumble of borrowed graphics, excerpts and reviews, demonstrating art over linear thought. known as something fun just to read by itself.

this will be impossible to find, it isn't even on ebay. often you'll see smaller versions - go for the big one.

later editions included vehement pleas from publishers to first check if a listed book is in print.

"tools for independent living”

and books are only a small part of what's included.

wendell barry would like to take credit for this, but you don't take credit for the energy of an entire generation. again, see the LINK immediately above as a coda from thompson.

* one straw revolution

- successful non-cultivated farming and a brief, restrained critique of food killing agribuisiness. from japan.

named for a fungus that glows in the dark. 

as a high school journalism project students in rabon county, georgia begin interviewing the elder hill folk in their neighborhoods using audio tape about life in the old days, with a special view towards the skills involved in surviving in pre-industrial america. transcriptions appear in a magazine from 1967 onward. the articles began to appear in compilations, the original set came to 7 volumes, and as of 2004 there were twelve volumes with 9 million copies in print. 

the interviews are incredibly homey and heartwarming and give the lie to the notion that country folk are less bright than city folk. they’re certainly much more kind and clear headed, and aren’t ready to sit down just because they’re getting on. these are some of the best books that america has ever produced. they’re also the bibles of the back to the land movement, because they cover almost everything you’d need to know.

unfortunately, in 1992 the teacher who began and guided the project was charged with “non-aggravated” sex with a ten year old, spent a year in jail, with 19 years of probation, and was forced to leave the project.

 
 now that's the way it's 'sposed to be.

for a very brief extract,
click:

maude shope

* politics of experience

– r.d. lang  

the original anti-psychologist.

“psychology is the science 
of becoming well adjusted
to an insane world.”

you may wonder, as we did, why the cover of the original paperback seemed sort of psychedelic. but then, once you've thrown away simplistic rules, you're faced with some tough basic questions.

a montage of styles, incidents and critiques. in places a tough read, because he wishes to base radical ideas soundly in his knowledge as one of england's most famous psychologists. .                                              

* american pictures

     
           this man was not a tourist.

-jacob holdt 

a rare and absolutely amazing accidental photo journal of class divisions in america through european hitch hiking eyes, begun when the folks back home

wouldn’t believe his stories 
of universal menace and violence.

this book and the slide show that goes with has become 

orientation material 

at many universities, and he regularly lectures around the world.

 call: 212-614-0438 and ask the nice answering machine,

"why is the best book ever made on america out of print?”

* parting the waters

- taylor branch

pulitzer prize winning documentation of the civil rights movement in the king era.

* piaget

- john l. philips jr. 

 
or read 'em all. 

he wrote many easy to understand books on his theory of child development, which at the time was radical. this is the best summation we are familiar with. 

"summaries" by other people tediously mask the brilliance of the original.

* sommerhill: a radical approach to child rearing

                     with his very own zoe.

- a.s. neil 

in later editions he gave equal credit to his wife. 

a diamond of success with an almost total absence of authority or structure. from england. still going strong.

we'll repeat that:

* autobiography of malcolm X

“the oppressed come to believe they are inferior.”

“when we lived in the country we were never hungry.”

* the long death

- ralph  andrist 

details of part of the genocide of the natives of turtle island.

* black elk speaks

photographer unknown

the hoop is broken.

-john neihardt 

he visits black elk in poverty, living four miles from water, and listens to him speak of culture and religion in the aftermath of genocide.

what does "the hoop is broken" mean? he said that any people who could wreck such slaughter and devastation

would surely kill themselves 
and the very earth itself.

* rape of nanking

-iris chang  

that the japanese were just as bad as the Nazis has been totally whitewashed.

there is a massive industry of denial of responsibility in japan. 

this includes changing textbooks that children use.

for a summary of just how bizarre the japanese are, see the section

* our bodies, ourselves

old and young together agin the guys! 
well, just without them sometimes.

- boston womens health book collective  

a whole range of topics is dealt with in detail. along with the WEC, the best example of a sanely rounded approach. the book concentrates on health, social issues, and the central role of being supportive. writen by and for women 

when there was

nothing.

later additions are a little too even, look for an older copy.

* secrets

     he changed the world.  ↓
                                     
     the truth would "endanger lives."

- daniell ellsberg

the best book on how the government during vietnam and generations before was a mountain of lies. from true blue insider at the highest levels and on the ground, and on to the  Pentagon Papers 

amazingly well written by a very kind man.

“about an hour later she came back into the living room holding the volume i had given her. there were tears in her eyes. patricia said, 'this is the language of torturers. these have to be exposed. you have to do it.'”

* lipstick traces

- greil marcus   

there has ALWAYS been an underground. 

from the author of the brief and brilliant “mystery train,” the best critique of rock as the child of the blues/gospel dichotomy in afro-american music.

* writings mentioned in the text

in no particular order.

- babyER by edward holmes    

if you want your heart ripped out and held before your face still beating, then this is the book for you.  
also about:

• the insanity of HMOs. they want to beak up or micro-manage teams that save lives.
• the insanity of very profitable "fertility medicine." it's an industry truism that they mostly produce premies.
• the sick ghetto attitude: "i aint gonna stay home and take care of no baby."    

- “search and destroy” by wilkins and clark

- “mind of the dolphin” by john lilly   

- “operation pseudo miranda” by kenneth bucchi.

- "eleanor" by blanch weisen cook

- "birth in four cultures" by briggitte jordan

- two books on the french uprising:

  1. "the almost revolution" in france by allan priaulx

- "blinded by the right" by david brock 
anita hill's assassin designate has a change of heart.

- "gideon's trumpet" by anthiny lewis, 1964

- "tailspin: women at war in the wake of tailhook" by jean zimmerman

- "do or die" by leon bing     
a former fashion model braves "the hood" and is more afraid of the police!!! out of the blue.

- "loss" by john bowlby  
part of the three part work "attachment, seperation and loss." very bad even for its day. its only good is that it contains many references and establishes loss as a trauma.

- "I and Thou" by martin buber  
written in the 1920s from a judeo-christian perspective, he maintains that the essence of religion is respect for the individual. hence "Thou", as an aspect of the devine and not the secular "you" or other.

– hellen keller's auto-biography

-  "gandhi: an autobiography in pictures." by ruhue

-  "portraits of guilt" by jeanne boylan

-  "shots" – by david fenton  
he was a photographer for SDS.

the pictures of child labor are from:

 - "child slavery in modern times" – shirlee p. newman

 - "modern slavery" – garye mccuen

 - "the diary of a shirtwaste striker" - by theresa s. malkael

 - "love songs of sapho" by paul roche, page dubois 

 - "trouble maker" - by harry wu

 - "tienanmen square" – simie and nixon 

* periodicals mentioned in the text

- boston globe, july 25, 2001

- USNews and world report, june 9, 03 , cover article - "Empty Oceans."

* living proof

 - by michael gearin-tosh 

an oxford professor who beat cancer by going hardcore vegetarian. for not only lies, but the full spectrum of emotional abuse by doctors. 

don’t get the idea we endorse anything.

* lies

obviously left wing fanatics, all of 'em.
            ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

* torture in the eighties

- amnesty international

you won’t need an update - this is more on the nature of the problem.

the upshot is,
there is no other goal but 

the PLEASURE of

breaking  down a personality permanantly.

* the cia’s greatest hits

- by mark zepezauer.   

28 two page chapters. if you think this guy is nuts, he includes references.  the book is a reduction of a much larger volume. this is common, if down played history. 

* steal this book      by a. hoffman
        and
    * we are everywhere    by j. ruben

read these two books and you're sure to be on The Man’s short list, especially if you get them off the net.

for the ruben book, don’t get the library edition, find the paperback with the picture of the kid

with a STAR on his tummy.

one of the quotes on the left is from walter cronkite, one of the nicest people on the planet. from before all news casters were whores.

VIDEO

* the case for reasonable doubt             

the governor of the state in which mumia was tried was the first 

as one eminent black journalist titled his article on the rise of the republicans: 

“the south rises in d.c.”

- john edgerton

a program produced for HBO television on mumia abu-jabal.

  can be got from:
           (1) http://www.freemumia.org at

The Mobilization To Free Mumia abu-Jamal

           298 valencia st 
           san francisco, 
           california, 94103
           415-255-1085

           (2) http://www.refuseandresist.org

(3) amazon.com, cheaper, but the above people could use your money.

the police say he confessed in the emergency room, not bringing this forward until two months after his arrest, but  the attending physician, who never left the room, says not. his gun was a different caliber than the bullet found in the policeman, but they “lost” the bullet. his gun and his hands were never tested. major witnesses, including an eye witness, have recanted statements, with clear evidence of intimidation. the police were found in the emergency room with guns pointed at his head. the judge has given more death sentences than any sitting judge. the prosecutor removed eleven blacks from the jury. philadelphia put 120 on death row, all but 13 are non-white. the list goes on. he has been a prisoner for twenty one years. he had no criminal record. however, he did write for the black panthers, small papers and radio stations and won awards doing it. 

follow this link to a whole page about

MUMIA.

*  J.F.K.

warner brothers theatrical poster

this movie is tedious, and is also rife with inaccuracies.  its purpose is not to add to all the conspiracy theorists, but to describe for the average person:

the nature of power.

“in all nations power rests in the ability to make war,” 

and the people who 

profit from making the machines.

the best line in the movie is by an informant who soon is found

DEAD,

"you know, you are really naive." 

“the simpson’s,” perhaps the greatest public art in full decades, with jaw dropping rapid fire and subtle writing, has succumbed to “saturday night live syndrome” and become a tawdry imitation of itself. the writers got greedy and fired and groening sold out. instead of wit there is stereotype, in place of keen social observation there are barbed comments, in place of an incredible human warmth there is sensation. and now there is something that was never there before, pointless violence. it is truly all gone, existing now only to make money from advertising.

for a quick look at groening's style pre-simsons,
less warm but still concise,
click:

WEBSITES

doonesbury. from the security of his fame he takes cheap shots at authority without questioning the basis of society. he had a single strip deriding feminists, but his concience tapped him on the shoulder and now does a long sequence on rape within the military in iraq. his posters of disabled vets are in post offices but the civilian carnage in iraq is off limits. above, are the only decent panels he's produced in ten years.

opus the befuddled penguin is funnier, more risky, more concise, and more emotional.

* http://www.iabolish.com/

don’t think slavery is gone.

* http://www.iskip.com/

despite the flag suit.

* http://www.longnow.org/

the dial of the ten thousand year clock.

the long view in science and culture.

these people are serious.

and darned smart.

* http://www.amnesty.org/

“better to light a single candle 

than to curse the darkness.”

the people who originated the idea that 

international action does not 
have to originate with governments. 

their example spawned a whole wave.

before, governments would have told you 
to mind your own business.

the human rights conscience of the world. it began with prisoners of conscience and evolved to a full spectrum. 

* http://www.patchadams.org

the gesundheit institute

humor 
as an essential component
of health and medicine.

BREAD and PUPPET

* http://www.scenesofvermont.com/bread&puppet/bread.htm

yikes - they finally got a site.

 * http://www.breadandpuppet.org/

 
                 this man is seventy.

and why "bread"? because peter makes bread all by his lonesome starting days before a show and

GIVES IT AWAY.

they have an 

international
apprenticeship program.

basically the inspiration of one person, a former member of the 

LIVING THEATRE.

for many years he ran an annual family oriented festival on his property that was attended by thousands, until it got overrun by waste cases and phish heads.

they still run a smaller version.
if there's one thing you do,

go visit it.

the original giant puppets for peace, abstract political theater. no ranting, just poetry and images enough to knock your socks off. derived from The Living Theater. look that up too. 

they also make amazing posters. you can find them squirreled away in kindly homes everywhere, usually in the kitchen or bathroom.

above. photos from the defunct yearly theater.

* www.democracynow.org
live news, radio, t.v., internet, non-corporate, proffessional.

amy goodman

unfortunately, she's decided she's an "important person," and also,
she harbors the bizarre illusion that if only there were real
reporting in the u.s.a. things would be better.
green cheese anyone? "don't follow leaders."

their web page includes a map of radio and t.v. stations that carry them.  solid, restrained reporting from the rabid left. amazing interviews. large archives. the t.v. broadcasts are heartening.

* www.earthfirst.org
all this material was brazenly stolen from the nov/dec 2000 twentieth anniversary issue.

“our goal is to destroy, to eradicate, the  environmental movement...”                     -ron Arnold                      founder of the “wise use” movement, which uses a smoke screen of christanity and environmental jargon to hide rapacious “free enterprise.” he sounds like a pious man doesn’t he?

pete seeger’s banjo,
with quote above.

started by a couple of jocks out in the desert, it set an example for the world of visible non-violent civil disobedience. their journal will not sit idle on a coffee table.

the group is large enough to attract cranks, but basically, they emphasize the 

spiritual support

of action among like minded people.

 notice the t-shirt.
darn abos.

        read this guy's books.

* FoodnotBombs

     you’ll have to find these folks yourself. 
     personalities vary, check it out before you join,
     or start your own!!!

police keeping the poor away from free food.

these raving anarchist loonies actually try to

give away food on the street,

but because their tables usually have political literature, they never get public funding.

california used its “three strikes” laws to run the founder out of state. what was his third crime? giving a woman a bagel from a milk crate - you know, they all say, “misuse liable to prosecution.”

* http://www.50years.org

the gruesome facts behind the “international aid” of the i.m.f./w.b.. the site is a little confusing but the information is there.

* www.ucsusa.org

 the union of concerned scientists

these people are the major organization of top scientists  concerned for the planet. they are calm and committed, and the top dog in this field.

*  http://207.70.82.73/ra/204.ram

this is an audio file from N.P.R.’s show “this american life” on how the author’s father was instrumental in removing homosexuality from the D.S.M.  

it is extremely touching and an excellent illustration of how pervasive and crippling  fear  is in minorities.

*Democracy Now article

titled 

“I killed civilians in iraq.” 

this twelve year veteran decides to quit and is threatened with court martial.

* www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm.

this has been called the 

“voting irregularities  in florida during the 2000 presidential election.”

"sorry sir, your black a** isn'y on the voter roles."

and in the other corner:

* http://www.harpers.org/online/jesus_plus_nothing

truly scary secret fanatic christians whose only goal is power. 

this is real 

and includes many u.s.a. and world leaders.

as with all religious nuts, 
the women should stay in the kitchen.