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Victor S. Navasky
05July05 -HM IMC
A Matter of Opinion


Victor S. Navasky HiFi 19.8 meg 50:41. Victor Navasky QA HiFi 6 meg 15:01

Heading up The Nation magazine for almost 30 years, Victor S. Navasky read from his memoir A Matter of Opinion. His experience spans decades of investigating, writing, and reporting. Editor, writer and teacher.
Navasky is introduced at the event by Michael Klare, Five College Prof. of Peace and World Security Studies, Hampshire College (Klare serves as the defense correspondent for The Nation magazine).

Recorded at
Odyssey Bookshop S Hadley Ma.




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terms apply for all recordings



MAD IN AMERICA 29 June 05 -HM IMC
From Labeling to Empowerment in Mental Health Care

Will Hall HiFi 8.5 meg 22:26 Diagnosed with schizophrenia, award-winning disability rights activist, and co-founder of Freedom Center, a support and advocacy group run by and for people labeled with mental illness.

Robert Whitaker HiFi 9.53 meg 24:35 Pulitzer-nominated and George Polk Award-winning journalist and author of Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. (
Pharm. Industry corruption etc. A.I.)

Cheryl Alexander HiFi 10 meg 26:33 MSW, SCSSW, therapist, ally to the survivor movement, abuse whistleblower and organizer with Freedom Center’s restraints and seclusion campaign.

Presented by The Freedom Center, a group of people diagnosed with severe mental illnesses such as bipolar, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorders who work to provide alternatives to the mainstream system.

Recorded atbSmith
College School of Social Work




Tim Wise -HM IMC
Part 1 HiFi 40:36 21.6 meg , Part 2 HiFi 40:07 21.3 meg

Trapped in a History They Do Not Understand: The Consequences of Racial Privilege for White Americans (from event promo) This presentation examined the ways in which racism and racial privilege damage the emotional, psychological, political, cultural, and economic well being of most whites, even as they provide whites with benefits (in relative terms) vis-à-vis people of color. The unintended "collateral damage" of privilege to whites must be understood

Recorded June 20 2005 at The Smith College School for Social Work Lecture Series, Northampton Ma.




Michael Ratner Q&A -HM IMC

QA HiFi 43:13 23.5 meg

Following the dramatic reading of Guantánamo- 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' audience members were invited by Robert Meeropol to participate in a talk-back with Attorney Michael Ratner (President of the Center for Constitutional Rights) -- The event took place on the 52nd anniversary of the execution of the Fund's namesakes, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and marks the Rosenberg Fund for Children's 15th year. Event presented by: the Rosenberg Fund for Children In conjunction with: the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the Center for Constitutional Rights

Recorded 19 June 05 at Academy of Music
Northampton, Ma




Medea Benjamin -HM IMC
Stop the Next War before it Begins


Main 50:07 HiFi 26 Meg File link:display terms apply

Co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, a women's group that has been organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq. CODEPINK is pushing for a reorientation of budget priorities in the US to focus on heath care, education and housing, not war.
Founding Director of Global Exchange For over twenty years, Medea has supported human rights and social justice struggles around the world.
Additional comments by Tim Carpenter: Progressive Democrats of America.

Creative Commons legal


Recorded 05June05 at Odyssey Bookshop S Hadley Ma



The Northampton Committee to Stop the War in Iraq -HM IMC
A Conversation with Congressman Richard Neal
The Iraq war and other issues

Main 1:15:53 HiFi 46.3 meg File link:display terms apply

This event was the result of Members of the Northampton Committee to Stop the War in Iraq occupying Congressman Neal's office. The Committee wanted Congressman Neal to see that his constituents are active and interested.

Recorded 03June05 at Media Education Foundation
Northampton Ma




COERCIVE PSYCHIATRY Available from H-M IMC
"Treating" the Mentally ill

Main 49:07
26.3 meg . Q&A 31:04 16.7 meg

Despite a public image of benevolence, psychiatry and mental health care have intimate historic ties to racist eugenics, the Holocaust, human experimentation, political repression, and brutal treatments. Unless we remember and understand this disturbing legacy, we will fail to see the ways it continues today.

Presented by The Freedom Center, a group of people diagnosed with severe mental illnesses such as bipolar, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorders who work to provide alternatives to the mainstream system.

This panel discussion and community dialog addresses the origins of the biomedical model of psychiatry, the use of mental patients in government funded mind control experiments, the connection between German Nazi psychiatrists and the American Psychiatric Association, and the implications of the Bush Administration’s “New Freedom Commission” mental health policy.

Recorded 22April05 Hampshire College




Yanar Mohammed Available from H-M IMC
Iraqi women's rights under attack

Main .17:38 9.7 meg
QA
. 19:30 10.4 meg

Yanar Mohammed, head of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), at the forefront of raising Iraqi women’s awareness of their rights, fighting for an egalitarian secular state and full equality for women, as well as advocating for the separation of religion from the state and educational system.

Recorded at
http://www.wsc.ma.edu/gwhp/conferences.html
14April05 Westfield State College, Westfield Ma




Michael Parenti Available from H-M IMC
Democracy vs. the "Bush agenda"


HiFi 56:27 19.9 meg

Recorded at Hampshire College event: Understanding Fascism -- (From Promo) "Very few voices are calling out the severity of what is taking place. Many say the system simply needs some fine tuning, or corporations need to be reigned in a little bit. None tackle the historical reality and the economics as directly and powerfully as Dr. Michael Parenti...

Michael Parenti states that the ruling class desires "Above all to seek a wealth distribution that is markedly, steeply unequal. (To) increase that portion of the gross national income that is unearned income (from investments) And decrease that portion that is earned through wages, saleries, fees and pensions."

Recorded 08April05 at Hampshire College

All files above line Available from H-M IMC
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Vandana Shiva
India Divided- (File formerly located at wMIMC- Request for link restoration)

Intro Hifi 3:00 Jean Grossholtz MHC 1.4 meg Main
HiFi 47:33 17.7 meg
Main Lofi 5.54 meg
(
Src.-promo) India Divided describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war of fundamentalisms in the age of terror.

Event sponsored by: Dept. of Women’s Studies, Mount Holyoke College, the American Friends Service Committee and Odyssey Bookshop S. Hadley Recorded at Mount Holyoke College S. Hadley MASponsored by Odyssey Bookshop S Hadley


Recorded 10April05 Mount Holyoke College



Dr. Elaine Hagopian
The geo-politics surrounding current events in Iraq Iran

(File formerly located at wMIMC- Request for link restoration)

Part1
15.3 meg 29:51 . Part2 16 meg 31:20

Middle East specialist Dr. Elaine Hagopian spoke about the geo-politics surrounding current events in Iraq and Iran, with a focus on the recent Iraqi election.

Women from Iraq and Iran April 14-16 2005 , at Westfield State College
Info on the conference http://www.wsc.ma.edu/gwhp/conferences.html.

Recorded at Westfield State College
30March05




The Forum
New wMass. Jails & Massachusetts Death Penalty?
(File formerly located at wMIMC- Request for link restoration)

Intro HiFi 2.8 meg 5:35 . Russ Neufeld 6.9 meg 13:03 . Robert Meeropol HiFi 9.3 meg17:45
Holly Richardson HiFi 6.8 meg 13:07 . Shujaa Graham HiFi 8.4 meg
Final Comments HiFi 10.8 meg 21:27

Sponsors: ACLU, American Friends Service Committee, Arise for Social Justice, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, and the International Socialist Organization of Western Mass, Statewide Harm Reduction Coalition, Out Now, Traprock Peace Center, and WMass Citizens Against the Death Penalty



Rachel Meeropol
America’s Disappeared...
(File formerly located at wMIMC- Request for link restoration)

Main 25:15 HiFi 13.4 meg
Q&A 25:10 HiFi 13.4 meg



Attorney Rachel Meeropol is a fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
She reads from, “America’s Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the ‘War on Terror” .
This collective effort brings together detainees' testimonies with case studies by constitutional scholars, working for their release. The book goes beyond the prevailing accounts to a detailed exploration of detention.

Recorded 22March05 at Odyssey Bookshop S Hadley




Michael Klare
The Permanent Energy Crisis
(File formerly located at wMIMC- Request for link restoration)

Main
42:56HiFi 16.4 meg
QA
21:058.12 meg

Recent publications by Michael Klare include: Resource Wars and
Blood & Oil. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies
(PAWSS) , http://pawss.hampshire.edu
Here he discusses more of the consequences of oil dependency.

Recorded 27February05 at event of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Grace Church, Amherst Ma




Peter Kornbluh
The Case Against Henry Kissinger in Chile
Main 59:43 27.3 meg link restored 28June07

Peter Kornbluh directs the Cuba Documentation Project and the Chile Documentation Project at the National Security Archive www.nsarchive.org,
a public interest research center located at George Washington University.

Peter Kornbluh discusses his book The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability (New Press). -- Presented by the FiveCollege Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS)http://pawss.hampshire.edu

Recorded at Hampshire College
15February05




Sut Jhally 18Fbruary05 link restored 07
Spin Room: More Light of More Fog?
(File formerly located at wMIMC- Request for link restoration)

46:39 HiFi 18.1 meg

Framing Reality: Modern Use of the Public Relations industry & perception management techniques.
Sut Jhally is professor of Communication at the UMass Amherst and founder and director of The Media Education Foundation http://www.mediaed.org in Northampton, Ma

Recorded at Smith College
18February05
John Stauber reviews "Managing Activism: PR Advice for Neutralizing Democracy"



Francis Bok
Escape from Slavery
(File formerly located at wMIMC- Request for link restoration)

Part1 30:43 11.8 meg
Part2 50:24 19.3 meg

Taken to
northern Sudan by ra