A Tale of Two Great Depressions

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22 January 2013

World Top Incomes Database

 

23 January 2013

FDR's first inaugural address

Obama's second inaugural address

 

7 February 2013

B&W photos from the FSA-OWI (1935-1945)

 

13 February 2013

WOODY GUTHRIE

"I Ain't Got No Home"

"Blowin' Down the Road (I Ain't Going to be Treated this Way)"

"Dust Bowl Refugee"

"So Long Its Been Good to Know Yuh"

"Tom Joad" (part 1)

"Tom Joad" (part 2)

 

SPECIAL: Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello, "The Ghost of Tom Joad"

 

25 February 2013

"The Cradle Will Rock" (1964)

"Joe Worker" (1964)

Federal Theater Project

Lotte Lenya, "Mack the Knife"

Dave van Ronk, "Mack the Knife"

 

1 March 2013

Dwight D. Eisenhower (17 January 1961)

Allen Ginsberg, "America"

Muddy Waters: "Rollin' Stone" and "Don't Go No Further"

Bob Dylan: "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues", "Chimes of Freedom", "Subterranean Homesick Blues", and "Like A Rolling Stone"

Martin Luther King, Jr. (30 April 1967)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, "Ohio"

 

6 March 2013

Gil Scott-Heron, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (1970)

Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On" + "What's Happening Brother" (1973)

The Isley Brothers, "Fight the Power" (1975)

Richard Hell and the Voidoids, "Blank Generation" (1977/1980)

Madonna, "Material Girl" (1984)

Public Enemy, "Fight the Power" (1989)

Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991)

 

19 March 2013

Gordon Gekko (Wall Street, 1987)

Gordon Gekko (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 2010)

Pennywise, "Homeless" (1991)

Soul Asylum, "Black Gold" (1993)

CNN, Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" (1994)

CNN, Bill Clinton, "Era of Big Government is Over" (1996)

Rage Against the Machine, "No Shelter" (1998)

WatchMojo.com, George W. Bush and the Iraq War (2011)

 

21 March 2013

Pink Floyd, "Money" (1973)

Talking Heads, "America Is Waiting" (1981)

Talking Heads, "This Must Be the Place" (1983)

 

RESOURCE: 1931-32 miners' strike in Harlan County

 

28 March 2013

Wealth Inequality in America

Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton, "Living Beyond Your Means"

 

4 April 2013

Cosmopolis, "The Rat as the New Unit of Currency"

Datek Online, "The Wall"

"Union Rat"

Cosmopolis, "A Protest Against the Future"

James Cagney, "You dirty, yellow-bellied rat!"

 

9 April 2013

Peter Gabriel, "Big Time"

Inside Job

 

11 April 2013

Michael Moore: Capitalism: A Love Story and crime scene tape story

Too Big to Fail: financial crisis explained and various scenes

Bill Moyers, "Six Films on the Financial Crisis"

 

16 April 2013

Al Jazeera, Occupy Wall Street: History of an Occupation

Chris Giamo, Occupy ME.

Helen Kallao, Occupy Chicago (photos)

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "We Are the 99 Percent, 1765 Edition"

Harvard Ec 10 students, "An Open Letter to Greg Mankiw"

Occupy Wall Street, Mic Check at Zuccotti Park (25 September 2011)

Joseph Stiglitz, "A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent"

 

18 April 2013

Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, How to Read Donald Duck

Camila Vallejo and Thriller protest

Democracy Now! in Zuccotti Park

Network, I'm As Mad As Hell! (1976)

Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Bob Dylan, "Political World"

Sam Cooke, "A Change Is Gonna Come"

Ani diFranco, "Which Side Are You On?"

 

23 April 2013

Federal Reserve Board Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin, "Aspects of Inequality in the Recent Business Cycle"

Richard Wolff, Occupy Wall Street (part 1)

Planet Money, "How Much Should We Trust Economics?"

Billy Bragg, "There Is Power In A Union"

Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution (blog)

Paul Krugman, "The Jobless Trap"

Colbert Report, Austerity's Spreadsheet Error

 

25 April 2013

Ilyana Kuziemko and Stefanie Stantcheva, "Our Feelings About Inequality: It's Complicated"

Robert S. McElvaine, "If (Economic) History Doesn't Repeat Itself, Does it Rhyme? The 1920s & the 2000s: Convergences & Divergences"

Robert S. McElvaine, "Obama vs. Hoover"

Barry Eichengreen and Kevin H. O'Rourke, "A Tale of Two Depressions: What Do the New Data Tell Us?"

Pew Research, "A Rise in Wealth for the Wealthy; Declines for the Lower 93%: An Uneven Recovery, 2009-2011"

 

30 April 2013

Leonard Cohen, "Democracy"

Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen, "This Land Is Your Land"

 

songs of the Second Great Depression:

Mel Waiters, "Everything going up but my paycheck"

Ry Cooder, "No banker left behind"

Dropkick Murphy's, "Take 'em down"

Lupe Fiasco ft. Skylar Grey, "Words I never said"

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, "Same Love"

Soul Asylum, "Black Gold"

MGMT, "The youth"

Incubus, "Megalomaniac"

John Butler Trio, "One way road"

Bob Dylan, "Pay in blood"

Bruce Springsteen, "We take care of our own" and "Death to my hometown"

Ras Kass ft. Doc Hollywood, "The Great Recession"

Billy Bragg & Wilco, "All you fascists"

State Radio, "Camilo"

O.A.R., "Heard the world"