On May 11 in International House's Great Hall at UCSD, urbanist, author and Professor of History at UC Irvine Mike Davis spoke to an audience of about 200 people about the prevalence of slums in cities of the global South, slum dynamics, and their grim future under population growth.
Audio Duration: 1 hr 5 min. Partial transcript included.

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More sound from an upcoming seditious West Australian film: "happy in our graves - ten years deep". Feel free to use as radio fillers on Indymedia shows - or wherever you like... Dissent!

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Veteran U.K. Radical Film Director Ken Loach`s Film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, gives a new historical reading of the Irish Civil War and English Imperialism. An Interview with Paul Laverty Loach`s loyal scriptwriter treats the political messages behind the film. duration 8 minutes, Music by Dead Can`t Dance and Dick Gaughan

Audio taken from video of Atenco Mexico, holding a road and keeping federals from Texococo where a flower vendor eviction was taking place, in hopes of building a Wal-Mart.

Just to show you how off the hook people can get, while finishing up an interview with this African cat named Amadu, some white cat butted into the conversation and tried to tell us that we should not be at the rally because Mexicans hate Black people. He got frustrated when we told him we still support the demonstrations. Then he proceeded to tell us how the chant ‘Viva La Raza’ was a call to actions against Black people. Amadu told him to keep his propaganda to himself. I told him I was gonna ask my wife about that and see if it also applied to our kids.

Two speeches, one by Abdelkader Belaouni (an Algerian refugee in sanctuary in a church), and one by Amir Hodhod (an Egyptian refugee forced to go underground), played at the demonstration "Status for All" on May 27, 2006 in Montreal