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Cambridge, MA - On November 10, noted historian and novelist Tariq Ali spoke about his new book "The Idea of Communism" at Harvard Book Store to an audience of over 70 people.



The 1 hour 6 minute audio recording of the talk can be played directly on this page or downloaded from the Internet Archive audio service in the free software Ogg Vorbis format. Download the free software VLC Player to play Ogg Vorbis files on your own computer.

BOSTON/Dorchester - Malalai Joya, now 31, was the youngest ever woman elected to the Afghan Parliament in 2005 and is an outspoken critic of the Karzai government and NATO occupation. Press Pass TV caught up with Joya and supporters at an event hosted in Dorchester by United for Justice with Peace and Dorchester People for Peace.

BOSTON/Dorchester – For three years, the Israeli and Egyptian governments have blockaded Gaza; preventing locals and foreign nationals from crossing in and out of the tiny occupied territory.

Jeff Klein, a retired machinist and union leader and now an activist with Dorchester People for Peace, recently returned from Gaza following his participation in the Viva Palestina aid convoy from Cairo, Egypt to Gaza City. Klein, interviewed Thursday, August 6, 2009 in the studios of WMBR, Cambridge, says family members of Palestinian-Americans in the convoy (including children who were born in the United States) are trapped within Gaza, and were prevented from crossing back into Egypt when the convoy left Gaza last month.

BOSTON/Chinatown - Venezuela's Adjunct Ambassador to the United Nations Julio Escalona and economists Richard B. Freeman of Harvard University, Julie Matthaei of Wellesley College and Arthur MacEwan of the University of Massachusetts Boston spoke on the Global Economic Crisis to an audience of over 60 people on Friday at the encuentro 5 movement space.

Cambridge, MA - Michael Albert of Z Magazine and Prof. Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spoke to an audience of over 200 at a panel on Building a Society from Below in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States. They were joined by Gregory Wilpert of Venezuela Analysis and Julio Chávez, former mayor of the Torres municipality of Venezuela. The event was sponsored by the Boston and New York Consulates of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

The accompanying 57 minute audio recording of Albert and Chomsky's presentations can be played below or downloaded from the open source Internet Archive.

Gaza is the most densely populated area in the world: 4,500 people per sq. mile. Over one-half of its 1.5 million citizens are children. On the fourth day of continuous Israel bombing, the known number of dead in Gaza is 380, mostly civilians - including women, children, the elderly, ill and disabled. Over 1000 are said to be badly injured. Israeli government officials say that innocent civilians should move away from the Hamas militants so they won’t be injured. To where were the 5 young sisters crushed to death by collapsing walls of a mosque bombed by Israel supposed to escape? The mosque, one of five now bombed to rubble, was next to their home.

Let's begin with the elections. The word that the rolls off of everyone's tongue is historic. Historic election. And I agree with it. It was a historic election.

In a wide-ranging interview lasting more than an hour, Prof. Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently spoke to Subrata Ghoshroy about the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal, the financial crisis, and other topics of interest.

The full fury of 4 successive hurricanes has much of the Caribbean in disarray. In Haiti, the toll measured in lives climbs rapidly, probably surpassing 1,000 by the time you read this, nearly a million people are displaced and bereft of shelter.