Anarchism
1988(1989): Peter Kropotkin: Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Black Rose Books
Indigenous Resistance
1991: Geoffrey York & Loreen Pindera: People of the Pines: The Warriors and the Legacy of Oka, Little Brown & Co.
1969: Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell & Mort Ransen: You Are On Indian Land, National Film Board of Canada
- Most of the documentary focuses on a single act of protest, Mohawks blockading the Canada/US border near Cornwall ON.
- I remember in early 2013 activists from Idle No More! Marched on the Sarnia/Port Huron border minutes after I crossed into the US
- Have there been any blockade actions at any US/Mexico crossings?
- Viewable on National Film Board website and Youtube
1993: Alanis Obomsawin: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, National Film Board of Canada
- begins with discussions of the Oka crisis, the expansion of a golf course and allotment of land for a luxury housing development
- Obomsawin discusses the history of this golf course, once common land, the French Canadians began playing golf there to the detriment of Native farmers who used the commons for their cattle, then in the 1940s the town expropriated the land and made it a golf course officially.
- there is thus a long term period of a disrespect shown to Native uses of the land that continued into the 1990s (and beyond)
- the mayors of the region all supported the mayor of Oka, who refused to reconsider his project
- the Quebecoise of the region also chanted "savages" in response to their unhappiness about this event
- some interview subjects state that much of the town didn't like the development plans either and the mayor rejected the advice of everyone, including the premiere, to not go forward.
- Viewable on National Film Board website and Youtube
1991: Rick Hornung: One Nation Under the Gun: Inside the Mohawk Civil War, Stoddart
Protest Music
2005: Ronald D Lankford, Jr: Folk Music USA: The Changing Voice of Protest, Schirmer Trade Books
2016: Ronald D Cohen: Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America, University of North Carolina Press
- Read on hoopla
Neo-Nazi
2016: Mick Jackson: Denial, BBC Films
- Film depicts the late-90s trial, in an english courtroom of Holocaust denier David Irving’s unsuccessful libel case against historian Deborah Lipstadt.
- Watched on netflix
Street Art
2017: Colin Day: Saving Banksy
- A blend of Banksy in New York and How to Sell a Banksy - details Banksy’s visit to San Fransisco and the sitework he produced there as well as the attempt of a collector to extract a piece from its location, preserve it, and donate it, with a side trip into the art market
- Interview subjects include some notable street artists
- Many of the usual attitudes regarding Banksy vs other street art are expressed, and the repetition of the market values of his work
- Watched on netflix
1988: Dick Fontaine: Bombin’, CIT
- Documentary about graffiti in England, although much of it is about a Bronx artist, BRIM, visiting and touring England to talk about, and demonstrate, graffiti techniques
- Goldie and 3D from Massive Attack appear. 3D is shown rapping at a party and Goldie is later shown visiting Afrika Bambaataa in New York City where they discuss social issues
- On youtube
Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs
2017.06.17: Outlaws MC United States: http://www.outlawsmc.com/
Hip Hop
1984.06.29: Graffiti Rock: Pilot, SkyWise Productions
- Early attempt at a Hip Hop themed TV series based in format on American Bandstand
- Sampled by Beastie Boys
- Features breakdancers, Run DMC appears to do Sucker MCs. Vincent Gallo appears as ‘Prince Vince’, introduces Run DMC
- Battle between Treacherous 3 and Run DMC - they just do their rhymes from their songs
- Watched on youtube
17.06.19: Beyond Belief: Religion and Hip Hop, BBC
Punk
2016: Randy Rampage: I Survived D.O.A., BookBaby
- Autobiography of the original bassist for DOA.
- Was kicked out of DOA for much of the band’s existence. Did heroin, worked on the docks, and played in a metal band I never heard of called Annihilator which apparently was the best-selling Canadian metalband ever.
- Read on hoopla
Utopian Societies
1870: AJ Macdonald Writings on Utopian Communities, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven CT