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Trade Root Music Group ROOT-CD-0011 Raj Patel- Stuffed & Starved

On this audio CD lecture, Patel talks about his comprehensive investigation into the global food network while writing his best- selling book of the same name. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to India&#39;s wrecked paddy fields and Africa&#39;s bankrupt coffee farms, while along the way he ate genetically engineered soy beans and dodged flying objects in the protester-packed streets of South Korea. What he found was shocking, from the false choices given us by supermarkets to a global epidemic of farmer suicides, and real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa. &#34;I think that actually having a democratic conversation about food is the one thing that most of us, and particularly people in de- veloping countries, have never had. In this country we&#39;ve had the poor cousin to democracy. What we experience as democracy is in fact consumer choice.&#34; - Raj Patel, Excerpt from the CD.Features. Author - Raj Patel.. Audio CD - May 18, 2010.. Original Release Date - 2010.. Number of Discs - 1.. Label - Trade Root Music Group.- SKU: TDRT035

Trade Root Music Group ROOT-CD-0009 Howard Zinn- War & Civil Disobedience

What are citizens to do when confronted by unjust laws and when their government embroils them in unjust wars&#63; Delivered in the context of the current U.S. war in Iraq, this recording is a scintillating lecture and discussion by the legendary teacher, historian, playwright and activist. Howard Zinn offers from the lens of history, models, ideas and inspiration for how and why we might go about challenging and changing the structures of power, the necessity of civil disobedience for a functioning democracy, and its centrality to social movements. &#34;Whenever important things had to be done and injustices had to be rectified, that initiative did not come from Washington; it came from social movements. It was the anti-slavery movement more than Abraham Lincoln that was responsible for the end of slavery. It was the labor movement more than FDR that was responsible for the minimum wage and all that. So we need a new social movement. We need more protests, we need more acts, we need more citizen involvement, yes, and we need civil disobedience.&#34; - Howard Zinn, Excerpt from the CD.Features. Author - Howard Zinn.. Audio CD - May 18, 2010.. Original Release Date - 2010.. Number of Discs - 1.. Label - Trade Root Music Group.- SKU: TDRT064

Trade Root Music Group ROOT-CD-0015 Noam Chomsky- The Mafia Principle of Global Hegemony

The world&#39;s most influential living intellectual, Noam Chomsky, holds forth on the root causes of the conflicts in the Middle East and talks about hopes for future social change. The renowned foreign policy critic and linguist brings the full force of his rapier-like mind and deadpan wit to bear in slicing through mainstream misconceptions - many of them intentional - about the internal and external politics of Iran and Israel&#47;Palestine. Chomsky eloquently contextualizes the power of the Israel lobby and the centrality of the U.S. in resolving the underlying antagonisms in the Middle East, as well as weighing in on how U.S. public opinion has shifted over the past several decades and addressing various positive directions for activism. &#34;Chomsky is a global phenomenon. Perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.&#34; - New York Times Book Review.Features. Author - Noam Chomsky.. Audio CD - May 17, 2011.. Original Release Date - 2011.. Number of Discs - 1.. Label - Trade Root Music Group.- SKU: TDRT010

Trade Root Music Group ROOT-CD-0006 Chumbawamba- The Boy Bands Have Won

Chumbawamba is back, armed with acoustic guitars, accordion and trumpet, five-part harmonies, a bucketful of attitude and a new 25-track album called &#34;The Boy Bands Have Won.&#34; It actually has a much longer title than that &#40;See cover for full title&#41;, but let&#39;s call it by its pseudonym. The new album is a collection of such ideas; some are just passing thoughts, others are fully-formed songs. It&#39;s gentle and warm in tone, but caustic in intent. It plays with culture, with the idea of recycling our own culture. We all have this vast history of &#39;stuff&#39;, musical and historical and in art and sport and politics and a million other things. And it&#39;s all there for the taking. Featuring guests the Oyster Band, Roy Bailey, Robb Johnson, Barry Coope and Jim Boyes. and a hundred others, give or take a few. &#34;We should be grateful for the Chumbas. Moving on from that anarchic post-punk phase and the bestselling single &#39;Tub thumping&#39;, they have eased across to the folk scene and reinvented themselves yet again - this time as a classy, low-key harmony band writing inventive, intelligent songs. - Robin Dense low, The Guardian &#40;UK&#41;.Features. Author - Chumbawamba.. Audio CD - June 17, 2008.. Original Release Date - 2008.. Number of Discs - 1.. Label - Trade Root Music Group.About The Author1986, while the rest of the music industry was clawing out each others&#39; eyes to appear on Live Aid and trying to work out how many units starvation could sell, CHUMBAWAMBA released the aptly titled LIVE AID critique - PICTURES OF STARVING CHILDREN SELL RECORDS. The band were labelled &#34;heartless bastards&#34; and the hate&#47;hate relationship with the music industry was launched.- SKU: TDRT014

Trade Root Music Group ROOT-CD-0003 Chumbawamba- A Singsong & a Scrap

This mainly acoustic Chumbawamba album is, for the first time, a collection of songs, pure and simple; Songs with a radical voice, songs with those instantly familiar Chumbawamba four part harmonies and catchy choruses, but songs nevertheless songs without drum loops or samples, without backwards cymbals or synth sequencers. A Singsong &#38; a Scrap won&#39;t fit neatly into any categories, since it stands with its eight legs in different camps. Traditional English music, &#39;unplugged&#39; pop, choral secular music, jangly acoustic singalongs. oh&#33; Just sling a few barely related words together to create categories that sound vaguely familiar.Features. Author - Chumbawamba.. Audio CD - January 9, 2007.. Original Release Date - 2007.. Number of Discs - 1.. Label - Trade Root Music.- SKU: TDRT011

Trade Root Music Group ROOT-CD-0012 Noam Chomsky- Crisis and Hope Theirs and Ours

On June 12, 2009, Noam Chomsky gave a historic address at the Riverside Church in New York City. More than 2,000 people attended this historic lecture, captured here, in which Chomsky offers a powerful analysis of the current economic crisis and its structural roots; the continuity in U.S. foreign policy under the Barack Obama administration; and the class interests driving U.S. domestic and foreign policy. He discusses at length the traditions of worker self-management as a concrete alternative to the business as usual approach of corporations and the government during the current crisis. Includes an introduction by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now&#33; &#34;The notion of workers&#39; control is as American as apple pie. It&#39;s kind of been suppressed, but it&#39;s there. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution in New England, working people just took it for granted that those who work in the mills should own them. And they also regarded wage labor as different from slavery, only in that it was temporary. There have been immense efforts to drive these thoughts out of peoples heads, to win what the business world calls &#39;the everlasting battle for the minds of men.&#39; On the surface, they may appear to have succeeded, but I don&#39;t think you have to dig too deeply to find out that they&#39;re latent and they can be revived.&#34; - Noam Chomsky, excerpt from the recording.Features. Author - Noam Chomsky.. Audio CD - April 20, 2010.. Original Release Date - 2010.. Number of Discs - 1.. Label - Trade Root Music Group.- SKU: TDRT008

Trade Root Music Group ROOT-CD-0010 Noam Chomsky- Iraq The Forever War

Presenting an arresting analysis of U.S. foreign policy and the war on terror, this original recording of renowned disident Noam Chomsky delivers a provocative lecture on the nation&#39;s past and present use of force. Demonstrating how imperial powers have historically invented fantastic reasons to sell their wars to their people, this powerful examination illustrates the attack on Iraq as not just a mistake but also a crime, proposing that the criminals behind it should be brought to justice. The discourse focuses on the present U.S. disregard for the Geneva Conventions and the dangerous and immoral use of &#34;anticipatory self-defense&#34; to undermine the United Nations Charter and international law. &#34;In brief, the United States is now insisting that Iraq must agree to allow permanent U.S. military installations, grant the United States the right to conduct combat operations freely, and to guarantee U.S. control over the oil resources of Iraq. It&#39;s all very ex- plicit, on the table. It&#39;s kind of interesting that these reports do not elicit any reflection on the reasons why the United States invaded Iraq. You&#39;ve heard those reasons offered, but they were dismissed with ridicule. Now they&#39;re openly conceded to be accurate, but not eliciting any retraction or even any reflection.&#34; - Noam Chomsky, Excerpt from the CD.Features. Author - Noam Chomsky.. Audio CD - May 18, 2010.. Original Release Date - 2010.. Number of Discs - 1.. Label - Trade Root Music Group.- SKU: TDRT009

Trade Root Music Group ROOT-CD-0016 The Liberty Tree A Celebration of the Life and Writings of Thomas Paine

The Liberty Tree tells the story of United States Founding Father Thomas Paine&#39;s extraordinary life, interweaving Paine&#39;s own words from his letters and the pamphlets that made him one of the most influential and dangerous writers of his age. While the recording includes readings of extracts from newspaper reports, diaries, letters, and other documents of the times, also featured are Paine-inspired tracks written and sung by prolific and influential singer&#47;songwriters Robb Johnson and Leon Rosselson. It adds a compelling dimension to the story by reflecting Paine&#39;s radical ideas and evaluating them in the context of the 21st century. This unique blend of words and music challenges received opinion in the same way Paine&#39;s writings did. &#34;A highly subversive pairing of two of the left&#39;s most eloquent songwriters.&#34; - The Daily Telegraph.Features. Author - Leon Rosselson &#38; Robb Johnson.. Audio CD - July 20, 2010.. Original Release Date - 2010.. Number of Discs - 2.. Label - Trade Root Music.- SKU: TDRT038

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