Resources and References
for Debs Lecture 1/4/2005
Tony Zaragoza
zaragozt@evergreen.edu
Movie seen Tuesday Jan 4
Eugene Debs and the American Movement a film by Renner Wunderlich and Margaret Lazarus Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Documentary Films, 1977. TESC Sound & Image Library: HX84.D3E94 1985
Websites
Debs Writings
Debs Official Foundation Site
Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute
Books
A Hubert Harrison Reader. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. Available via Summit.
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States. Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty; illustrations by Joe Sacco New York: New Press, 2001. Available via Summit.
Other Films and events I mentioned (each film is linked to its website)
Battle for Broad is a short documentary video that captures the tension and excitement of four days in the summer of 2000 leading up to the Republican National Convention. With the eyes of the world upon them, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign gathers to take on the Philadelphia police in a battle to hold an illegal march on the Convention’s opening day. Battle for Broad was created by Skylight Pictures and the Media College of the University of the Poor, 2001. Available via ILLIAD; I also have a copy.
Savage Acts Using political cartoons, animations, documentary film and excerpts from diaries, examines American imperialism, expansionist policies and wars at the beginning of the 20th century. Special focus on the American annexation of the Philippine Islands and racial attitudes portrayed in the World's Fairs of 1893, 1901 and 1904. American Social History Productions, Inc., 1995. TESC Sound & Image Library: E713.S38 1995
The Take In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - "the take" - threatens to turn the globalization debate on its head. The Forja San Martin auto plant had been dormant until its former employees take action. They're part of a daring new movement of workers who are occupying bankrupt businesses and creating jobs in the ruins of the failed system. A Film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, A Co-Production of Barna Alper Productions and the National Film Board of Canada, 87 minutes, 2004.
Thirst A piercing look at the global corporate drive to control and profit from our water —from bottles to tap. Is water part of a shared “commons,” a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded in a global marketplace? Thirst tells the stories of communities in Bolivia, India, and the United States that are asking these fundamental questions, as water becomes the most valuable global resource of the 21st Century. 62 minutes: Directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, 2004. Available via Summit.
One song from the movie that I pointed out was the Internationale
The Internationale as Performed by Billy Bragg
Lyrics as retranslated by Billy Bragg