Pls Tell Me Your Fave Books & Videos Re- Progressive Issues!

[snot]

E.g., addressing (among other things):

labor issues,
the monetary/banking system,
public education,
the military-industrial complex
media control,
p.r. and media literacy,
internet control,
election reform (including problems with electronic voting & tabulation),
nonviolent protest & civil disobedience,
the challenges of democratic reform,
the history of all of the foregoing,
the practical, d.i.y. how-to of at least some of the foregoing
or whatever else you think important or helpful.

Thanks!

[banned from Kos]

1. the Turner award winning philosophy novel 'Ishmael' (1992) inspired me

more than anything else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_%28novel%29

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2002)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346091/

[MannyGoldstein]

3. "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut

Reviews the difficulties in making change.

Not uplifting, but clear-eyed.

[Agony]

4. War on Democracy-John Pilger w/Sam Cooke! A Change is Gonna Come

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3739500579629840148

[Hestia]

5. our daily bread - depression era farming collective movie

Not the best, but still good

[Swede]

6. The movie Missing,directed by Costa Gavras.

It's about America's involment in the rightwing coup in Chile. Here is a snip from wiki and the link.


Missing is a 1982 American drama film directed by Costa Gavras, and starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi and Janice Rule. It is based on the true story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody aftermath of the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973 that deposed leftist President Salvador Allende.

The film was banned in Chile during Pinochet's dictatorship, even though neither Chile nor Pinochet are specifically mentioned by name in the film (although the Chilean cities of Viña del Mar and Santiago are).<1>

Both the film and Thomas Hauser's book The Execution of Charles Horman were removed from the market, following a lawsuit filed against Costa-Gavras and Universal Pictures's parent company MCA by former Ambassador Nathaniel Davis and two others for defamation of character. A lawsuit against Hauser himself was dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired. Davis and his compatriots lost their lawsuit, after which the film was released by Universal in 2006.<[br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_(film)

[HopeHoops]

7. "Harold & Maude" or if you REALLY want to go all out - "Last House on the Left"

[snot]

8. Thanks, everyone!