Hidden history, contra-band pop,
and the international cinema of revolt.
A compelling 2 hour montage of obscure video - designed to slowly crack open our greatest cultural assumptions. Originally compiled for viewing at Oakland's Liberation Drive-In pirate movie theater, this program is a layered mix of rare sources and subverted information, with a melodic post-pop background score.

The following viewing guide is a scene by scene break-down of the video content contained on the tape, with it's background and source clearly annotated. The list will serve those viewers who wish to become better informed on these topics, or who would like to continue along their own lines of research.

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1.  "Public Relations as Propaganda"
     Profile of John Stauber, PR Watch (www.prwatch.org)
     by the Guerrilla News Network (www.gnn.tv)
2.  "Information Control"
     from the film 1999 AD produced by the Ford Foundation
     warning about Masonic control over society.
3.  "Crazy in Moluk"
    from "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg.

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4.  "Manufacturing Consent"
    from the documentary (of the same title) about the work 
of Noam Chomski
5.  "The People take the Pentagon"
    Jeff Jones of the Weatherman Underground, voice of Alfre Woodard
    from Young Blood, an episode in the People's Century PBS Series
6.   Global Anti-War Demonstrations  (People's Century)
7.   Paris '68 - revolution at hand (People's Century)

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8.  Puerto Rico is a Colony
    voice of Bernadette Dohrn from the Weathermen Underground
9.  Renegades of Funk, Rage Against the Machine cover of Afrika
Bambatta's song.
10.  The Assassination of Fred Hampton (Growing Up In America)
       Chicago Black Panther Party leader falls victim
         to the covert operation: COINTELPRO.
11.  William Kunstler (Growing Up In America)
       Fred Hampton and MLK's lawyer discusses the paradoxes 
of the "legal system".
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12.  Information Wants to be Free
      Cyberpunk ethic, from the film Cyberpunk
13.  These words may be too late...
       from Nova Express by William Burroughs
14.  "Homosexuality is a Mental Illness"  (Out of the Past)
        Attempts to "recondition" gays and lesbians.
15.  MK-Ultra  (from The Most Dangerous Game)
      U.S. Mind Control Programs developed by Nazi Scientists 
working for the CIA.
        by the Guerrilla News Network (www.gnn.tv)
16. The Human Brain (from Citizen)
17.  Free Everything for Everybody
       A White Panther Speak, from Growing Up in America.
18.  Change what's on the Screen
       Timothy Leary
19.  Your Evening News
       Ralph Nader (from Countdown, GNN)  
20.  State Violence
      What really happened in Seattle
        from "This is What Democracy Looks Like" by Indy Media
21.  INDY-MEDIA TRAILOR

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22.  Slack
      The voice of Dr. Howl Robins explains the principle of Slack.
        from the Arise! Video by the Church of the Subgenius
23.  Manifestoon
       reading of Karl Marx, from the film Manifestoon by Jesse Drew.
24.  Anatomy of a Sound Bite
     Noam Chomski, Manufacturing Consent

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25.  Subverting Media
       A low-tech guide to information activism by PaperTiger TV.
26.  Tagging the Walls & the Mind
      Aerosol Pioneers from Graffiti Verite I & II,
        plus pics from the Bay Area Aerosol Heritage Society
27.  Huey Newton speaks from an Oakland Jail
      founder of the Black Panther Party interviewed in 
A Prelude to Revolution.
28.  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
      Music: Gil-Scott Heron, Video: Berkeley in the Sixties
29.  The War Economy / A Profit Based Society
      Voices of the Weatherman Underground from the film Underground.
30.  The Heart & Mind of Che Guevera, Cuban Revolutionary
     Images and video compiled from Che's Bolivian Diary, and Che!
 
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31.  Killing Time
     from the film Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000
32.  Kill Your Television
     from the film Anarchy TV
33.  Corporate Slave State
      voice of Alex Jones from the film Waking Life
34.  A People's Park
     from the film Berkeley in the Sixties
35.  Governer Reagan Calls in the National Guard
36.  Human Pieces of a Military Machine
      from the film Machine Dreams
37.  FEMA: the Federal Emergency Management Agency
      Shocking plans to destroy the U.S. Constitution and 
all civil liberties.
       from the film Cover-Up: Behind the Iran/Contra Affair

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28.  What is Anarchism?
      from a film by Jino Choi
29.  Anarco-Syndacalism, or Libertarian Socialism
      Noam Chomski, Manufacturing Consent
30.   Babylon & Jerusalem
        from the film Apocalypse; Visions for a New Millennium.
31.  Moving from the Microscopic to the Macroscopic
       from the film Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames.