Throughout the sixties artists and political activists aggressively sought to shift both the content of political discussion and its language; as Allen Ginsberg said, "The war is language." In reaction to the monolithic voice of the mainstream media, an alternative media arose and raised its many voices. Strikes on college campuses, antiwar protests, the black power movement were addressed in films imperfect by design, opinionated on principle; these works were a crucial linking of radical politics with radical culture. The collectively made alternative newsreels presented in tonight's program were shown in schools, at union meetings, and to political groups; the discussions that followed were seen as crucial to the changing of the American mind. Saul Levine's New Left Note uses footage similar to the newsreels and expresses very similar political arguments but through radical film form-rapid editing and juxtaposition-rather than discussion. Interspersed will be one- to three-minute shorts by experimental filmmakers excerpted from For Life, Against the War, made in response to an invitation from the Week of the Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam.-Kathy Geritz