History & Politics

Editor: Matt Meyer
Collecting dozens of documents from the past three decades of struggle to free US political prisoners, this resource book is designed for action!

Sílvia Leindecker and Michael Fox
Beyond Elections is a journey that takes us across the Americas to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is democracy?

Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubačić
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions.

Editors: J. Smith and André Moncourt
The first in a series, this is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction ever made available in English.

Editor: Lois Ahrens
One out of every hundred adults in the U.S. is in prison. This book provides a crash course in what drives mass incarceration, the human and community costs, and how to stop the numbers from going even higher.

Diana Denham and the C.A.S.A. Collective
In 2006, in Oaxaca, what began as a teachers' strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy.

Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity.

From the front lines in Iraq, to the legal lynching in Jena, LA, to the growth of a new poor people's movement in the streets of Philadelphia and Nashville --Dispatches 02 takes you where the mainstream media cannot go.

Dispatches 01 collects 72 minutes of radical investigations, analysis and on the ground video from the Big Noise team working on four continents.

Clifton Ross
Take a voyage into Latin America's most exciting experiment of the new millennium, exploring the history and projects of the Bolivarian Revolution through interviews with a range of participants.

Big Noise Films
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon.

Big Noise Films
Deserter is the journey of Ryan and Jen Johnson--a deserting soldier and his young wife--as they flee across the country to seek refugee status over the Canadian border.

Big Noise Films
In 1994, the Latin Kings became the Latin King and Queen Nation. They claimed to have abandoned their criminal past and to be following in the footsteps of the Black Panthers and the Young Lords.