VIDEO TAPES

Learn how to turn your values into actuality with these FUN, socially-conscious,
edge-ucational "how-to" tapes. The closest thing you'll ever get to anarchist home-economics!

All video tapes come packaged in full-color hard plastic cases.

"Cha Ching" (video tape)
BIG TEA PARTY episodes #31 - 33

Episode 31
Sk8 B-Lo I-95
Big Tea Party traces the history of the skateboard ban in internationally renown Love Park and the rise of FDR Skate Park, a park built by & for the skaters. Shot on location in Love Park and FDR Skate Park – featuring interviews with skaters and action footage. [6 minutes]

Episode 32
ENDING AN EPIDEMIC: ACT UP, FIGHT BACK!
ACT UP Philadelphia is a unique and special group that stands almost alone in its use of empowerment-based grassroots organizing, aggressive non-violent direct action tactics, and its analysis of the AIDS epidemic as a political crisis that can be solved. Meet some of the members of ACT UP Philadelphia and see them in action. [6 minutes]

Episode 33
CHEW ON THIS!
Chew On This! is full of Philly food facts and fun fur hats, plus a visit from one of America’s greatest thinkers (and eaters) Benjamin Franklin. Part game show, part food show and all parts fun, this episode is a feast of eye candy and an earful of information.
[15 minutes]

$20 (30 minutes)
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"PICO" (video tape)
BIG TEA PARTY episodes #11-20

Based on the DIY (do it yourself) concept of the underground, host Elizabeth Fiend is punk's answer to Martha Stewart! The visual cornucopia of striking projects, colorful foods, dizzying wardrobe, wacky editing style and graphics jumping off the screen mask that this show IS also politics in action. 3 minute shorts deal with topics as diverse as urban composting, making a vegetarian Philly cheese steak, bicycle repair, cancer prevention, creating a stamp art coat and a necklace out of Colt 45 bottle caps! It's cooking. It's crafts. It's anarchy!

$20 (10 three-minute shorts)
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"OOLONG" (video tape)
BIG TEA PARTY episodes #21-30

Journey with healthful yet hedonistic host Elizabeth Fiend to the world of anarchist-home-economics with more PROJECTS, COLORFUL FOODS & POLITICS in ACTION. Turn plastic bottles into a 'stained glass' candelabra; rock out at More Fiends record release party; swap clothes; make vegan French toast & a checkerboard cake; conserve & preserve water; visit an anarchist bookstore & tour Elizabeth's new house! Turn your values into actuality with these how-to tips. Communities not commodities!

$20 (10 three-minute shorts)
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Unconventional Coverage: the Message and the Means

"Unconventional Coverage: the Message & the Means" (video tape)

This tape is a blueprint to the modern protest movement. The video actually tells you how & why the protests, which started in Seattle against the World Trade Organization, happen. Filmed on location at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, you'll see the protests from ground zero. Unblinking looks at the action on the streets, healthcare, gun violence, jail, cops, & puppets, not to mention red white & blue outfits. Plus appearances by rockers Johnny Rotten and Jello Biafra, poets Lamont Steptoe and Allen Fiend, Physicians for Social Responsibility's Dr. Joel Chinitz, MOVE spokesperson Ramona Africa, ACT UP's Julie Davids, Philadelphia Mayor John Street, Police Commissioner Timoney and many more. Hear the truth about the action on the streets. ACTIVISM IS NOT A CRIME!

$25 (1 hour presented in 2 half-hour segments)
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MUSIC

"Big Tea Party" (cd or cassette tape)
The MUSIC from BIG TEA PARTY

Fans of Big Tea Party will jump for joy over this release. FINALLY you get to hear full length versions of the songs featured in episodes of the hit cable tv show Big Tea Party. MORE FIENDS the psychedelic-hardcore-activist band who provide the musical backdrop to the tv show, come to the foreground on this cd. The band features Big Tea Party's music editor Allen Fiend on bass & guitar & none other than Big Tea Party host Elizabeth Fiend on slide guitar!

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CD $15 *see chart below for shipping and handling charges
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"Nibble" (cd or cassette tape)
Studio and live recordings from More Fiends.

Like a seizure, a lingerie slumber party and the Gong Show all rolled up into a smokey dive crash full of acid trip laced alcoholic frenzy.

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"The Dark Side of Genius" (cd or cassette tape)

Like an explosion through a maze of sound with jagged schizophrenic convulsions.
The weirdest of all More Fiends music. Demented and abrasive lo-fi basement recordings. Your Mother won't like this one!

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