Disc 1: Performances and readings. Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka) -- Dial-a-poem -- Aram Saroyan and poetry -- Suni Paz & Alice Walker -- James Joyce's The dead -- James Thurber's The 13 clocks -- Halloween fantasy: vampires -- The body snatcher -- Laughter from the left.

Disc 2: Science and environment/Gays and Lesbians. Darwin -- Tales of whales -- Jared Diamond: the collapse of civilizations -- Dr. Helen Caldicott: If you love this planet -- Pacifica's nuclear energy teach-in -- Wangari Maathai remembered -- Quentin Crisp, 1978 -- James Baldwin: The free and the brave -- Robert Duncan -- Jack Spicer -- Audre Lorde -- Harvey Fierstein and Charles S. Dutton: actors in conversation.

Disc 3: Society. Tim Robbins in conversation with Studs Terkel -- The criminalization of poverty -- Pacifica's labor teach-in -- Sister Helen Prejean and death row -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- Pacifica Radio in the United Kingdom -- Crime and capital punishment -- Gore Vidal: On the eve of war -- Ten-year 9-11 retrospective.

Disc 4: Civil rights/Native Americans. Edward Said -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The reverend Ralph Abernathy -- Manning Marable -- The Freedom Riders' 50th anniversary -- The Japanese in California, 1959 -- Women speak out against fascism-- Geronimo Pratt -- Peggy Berryhill's Why Wounded Knee? -- Ganienkeh, an Iroquois tale -- In the beginning: a Native American woman's view / Agnes Williams.

Disc 5: Artists. John Lennon's 70th birthday celebration -- Aldous Huxley -- Women in film 2 -- Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, and Julius Lester -- Sarah Vaughn and Esther Phillips -- Jane Fonda -- Master class in acting with Rod Steiger -- Bob Fass with Bob Dylan, January 1966 -- Bob Dylan and Cynthia Gooding.

Disc 8: Labor teach-in. KPFA, letters and politics: John Nichols and Philip Dray -- KPFA, hardknock radio: Angela Woodson -- WBAI, law and disorder: Richard D. Wolff, Daniel Gross & Bhairavi Desai -- KPFK, background briefing: Andy Stern, Harley Shaiken, Jeff Farmer & Leon Fink -- KPFK, truthdig: Dolores Huerta, Paul Schrade, Peter Dray, Mark Heisler, Bill Boyarsky, & Jim Mamer -- KPFK, Jon Wiener: Natasha Vargas-Cooper, Nelson Lichtenstein, & Harold Meyerson -- KPFK, Sojourner Truth: Arlene Holt Baker, Mahlon Mitchell & Maria Elena Durazo -- KPFK, uprising radio: Michael Honey, Amie Williams, Chris Bennett, Pablo Alvarado -- WPFW, metro watch: Josh Williams and Eddie Eiches -- WORT, workers independent news: this is what democracy looks like: Wisconsin's worker uprising -- Sprouts: Tony Schultz -- FTV 257: Pacifica talks union, Labor teach-in special.

Disc 6: Crime and capital punishment. The coming death of Caryl Chessman -- Steve Allen: meeting of the minds, 1960 -- Death house letters of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1967 -- The legal case against the death penalty, 1968 -- Rubin Hurricane Carter, 1978 -- The immorality of the death penalty, 1991 -- The $72 solution: the death penalty, 1991 -- Dead man walking: Sister Helen Prejean, 1993 -- The legal lynching of Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1995 -- Rubin Hurricane Carter on Democracy Now!, 1998 -- Michael Moore on Democracy Now!, 2011.

Disc 7: Nuclear energy teach-in. KPFA, letters and politics: Steve Kerekes, Jim Riccio, Tyson Slocum, & Dave Levinthal -- KPFT, if you love this planet: Arnold Gundersen & Dr. Helen Caldicott -- KPFK, background briefing: David Lochbaum, Dan Hirsch, Victor Gilinsky, & Mike Gray -- WBAI, Asia Pacific forum: speaking with activists in Japan and the U.S. -- WPFW, what's at stake?: Robert K. Wild, Greg Mello, Jonathon Granoff, Dr. David Krieger & Michael Mariotte -- KPFT, thresholds: George Reiter & John McNamara -- Poisoned power / Dr. John Gofman -- Nuclear snow job / reported by Bonnie Bellows -- Accidents will happen / produced by Alan Snitow and Aileen Alfandary.

Disc 9: Significant recordings. Rita Mae Brown with Kris Welch -- Inquest at Christiana -- Of resistance, disobedience, and objection: a Christmas celebration -- Seneca's Oedipus -- Pete Seeger, WBAI marathon -- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers -- Judy Chicago interview -- Sheroes and heroes, Maya Angelou -- The Barretts of Bleeker Street.