Media: CD
Who: Radiohead, alternative British rock band
When: 1997
What: A well received follow up album to their first commercial success "The Bends". Although OK Computer is not a direct attack, it offers honest observations and criticisms of capitalist and Modernist values with a dry sense of humour. Urban life is skewered from transportation to pop psychology to business networking to politicians. More accessible than the more brooding, scathing and experimental "Kid A".
Lyrics:
Paranoid Android - "Ambition makes you look pretty ugly/Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy/You don't remember/You don't remember/Why don't you remember my name?"
Electioneering - "Riot shields, voodoo economics/it's just business/cattle prods and the I.M.F./I trust I can rely on your vote/When I go forwards you go backwards/and somewhere we will meet"
Links: greenplastic, official site

Media: book
Who: Dee Brown, an American novelist, historian, librarian, reporter
When: 1970
What: a history of America's colonization from the point of view of the Native Americans. A powerful story of institutionalized warfare and genocide.
Links: enotes

Media: short story
Who: Takiji Kobayashi, a Japanese proletariat writer who died as a result of being physically tortured by the police
When: late 1920s
What: Kobayashi's most famous work, The Factory Ship or The Cannery Boat details the struggle of exploited contract workers on a crab canning boat who eventually plan a strike.
Links: Encyclopedia Britannica article