A last minute gift guide for artists, activists and the crazy folks who love them

For those of us who still have holiday gifts to purchase — and let’s face it slackers, that’s most of us — here’s our last minute gift guide for your politically inclined, arts-loving friends and family. Of course, some gifts here are also well-suited for those people us pinko commie types have yet to brainwash with our liberal, freedom-hating propaganda. You never know, you may even catch Glenn Beck questioning his convictions after watching the right documentary.

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Movies

• The Battle of Chile DVD set
• Rethink Afghanistan (US | Canada)
• Roadsworth: Crossing the Line
• NFB’s Filmmaker-in-Residence box set

Music

• K’naan’s Troubadour (US | Canada)
• Ember Swift’s folktronica collection, Lentic
• Johnny Cash’s seminal album Bitter Tears: Ballads of The American Indian (US | Canada)
• Propagandhi’s latest, Supporting Caste, on disc or in vinyl (US | Canada)

Books

• Dr. Seuss & Co. Go To War (US | Canada)
• Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism (US | Canada)
• Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico, by Peter Kuper (US | Canada)
• How to make trouble and influence people
• Che: A Graphic Biography (US | Canada)

Visual Art

• A subscription to Papirmasse
• eBoy’s pixeltastic poster for Amnesty International’s Poverty is Modern campaign
• An orginal piece of junk mail artwork by Sandhi Schimmel

Gadgets

• A Flip video camera to make video art or document human rights abuses (US | Canada)

• A nifty TV-B-Gone keychain
• Watch the hours in your studio fly by with this water-powered clock

Et cetera

• Tickets to see Fela! on Broadway
• Give a pair of Tom’s shoes, and a child in need will get a pair too.
• A political tshirt from Demockratees.
• Skip the gift altogether and donate to charity through Skip1

What have we missed? Tell us your gift picks in the comments below.

Image: detail from eBoy’s Amnesty International poster.

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