This podcast features a talk by Professor David Roediger, Kendrick Babcock Chair of History and Afro-American Studes at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A long-time scholar-activist, his books include The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class and How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon.
Roediger is introduced by Professor Nathan Godfried of the Department of History at the University of Maine.
Today’s talk focuses on Professor Roediger’s study of the life and work of his late friend and colleague, the labor activist and historian for the Industrial Workers of the World, Fred Thompson. Thompson died in 1987.
I found the discussion of Thompson’s years as a professor at Work People’s College in Duluth, Minnesota personally quite interesting. This was a labor school founded by radical Finns and operated for about fifty years from the 1920s to 1970.
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This special podcast features Maine attorney and civil liberties champion Phil Worden. Phil Worden, along with his colleague, attorney Lynne Williams, received the 2007 Hands of Peace award from the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine. This program is Phil Worden’s short but powerful acceptance speech given at the Center’s annual Harvest Supper event at the Unitarian Universalist church on Park Street in Bangor, Maine on Saturday October 13, 2007.
Update 12/28/2007: The shameless reactionary Jonah Goldberg has published a book called “Liberal Fascism.” Sheesh, what passes for conservative intellectualism these days! The blog Sadly, No! explains the folly here. Phil Worden would find the musings of Goldberg and the insufferable Glenn Reynolds beyond the pale in ignorance about the nature of real fascism. Orcinus explains that Goldberg merely repeats propaganda the Nazis created about themselves beginning eight decades ago.
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This is a very special podcast featuring internationally recognized journalist and author Chris Hedges. Chris Hedges gave a major address in Orono, Maine on the 3rd of April as the 2007 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics at the University of Maine Honors College.
Before discussing his seminal book, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges reminded the audience of our responsibilities as citizens to hold our own government accountable to domestic and international law with respect to its relations with the State of Iran.
According to the handbill distributed to the large April 3, 2007 audience in Corbett Hall on the University of Maine campus, Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly 20 years, working as the bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans, as well as in other assignments, for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005. He previously worked for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio. Chris was a member of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty international Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, he is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and his latest book, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America, was published this year.
Professor Burt Hatlen of the University of Maine Department of English introduces the speaker, calling War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning a book that is “a useful tonic for an America that had in many ways gone mad.”
Prominent Japanese philosopher Iwao Hirose spoke on “Primary Health Care and the Market Mechanism” at the University of Maine on Thursday March 29, 2007. Iwao Hirose discussed the privatization of health care in Chile following the the 1973 coup and the possible lessons this experience holds. He described the US health care system as comparatively expensive and ineffective.
This podcast features human rights activist Lisa Sullivan speaking about Military Force and Empire: Latin America and THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS. The event took place at the Memorial Union, University of Maine, Orono, ME on October 12, 2006 as part of the Fall 2006 Thursday series.
Lisa Sullivan works with the School of the America’s Watch and for Venezuela Information Center in Washington. With the Maryknoll sisters, she lived and worked for 25 years in Venezuela, and has been active in Mexico, Bolivia and other parts of Latin America.
In this program, Lisa Sullivan describes the efforts to close the US torture school now known officially as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). She discusses remarkable meetings with defense officials from various Latin American countries.
The talk preceded the November 17-19, 2006 rally across hemisphere to demand closure of the WHINSEC. This big event is an annual mass vigil at the gate of the WHINSEC compound in Fort Benning, GA.
Please visit soaw.org for more information.
63 min; 21 MB; 48 kbps mp3; download link here ->
Professor Doug Allen spoke about RELIGION AND VIOLENCE (69 min, 23 MB; 48 kbps/24 kHz mp3) on September 21, 2006. The talk was given at the Memorial Union on the University of Maine campus in Orono, Maine to kick off the Fall 2006 Socialist/Marxist Studies Fall Thursday series. (Speakers’ topics are intended to raise thought-provoking questions, but do not necessarily present socialist or Marxist viewpoints.)
“Some of the most violent religious forces in the world–and by far the most threatening, to the survival of humankind–are in the United States.” –Doug Allen
69 min; 23 MB; 48 kbps mp3; download link here ->
The Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine held its annual HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI COMMEMORATION at noon on August 6, 2006 in Bangor, Maine. This podcast is the full program, with a few edits for pacing and clarity. I apologize for the variable audio quality. It’s all quite listenable even though recording outside presented a few problems.
28 min; 6 MB; 32 kbps mp3; download link here ->
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