"One poster for sale features a B-movie-style monster picking up a police car, poised to devour it.

"Outraged by [Mayor Rudy] Giulani's police-state tactics, the lizard takes a stand on the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality," the caption reads. The store carries information about the October 22 Coalition, an organization which protests police brutality.

The store also rents videos and has a television and VCR which they use for movie showings. They recently showed "A Case of Reasonable Doubt," and HBO documentary about the controversial imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a radio reporter jailed in Pennsylvania for the murder of a police officer.

Additionally, the front window displays a "Free Mumia" poster. Revolution Books is one of very few bookstores to carry Abu-Jamal's book, Live from Death Row, O'Leary says.

Inside, almost the entire front display table is devoted to Abu-Jamal's case.

"People are active in different things today," Bryant says. "[But] even the death penalty-people don't necessarily think of it as political, but as humanitarian."

"The case around Mumia Abu-Jamal-it isn't in the same breath as what was going on the '80s. It represents the embryo of what could be. There's a certain feeling of alienation and cynicism that people themselves don't identify with the same political concerns."

Bryant says a lot of people are apathetic about the presidential impeachment trial. He says the anti-impeachment rally at Harvard was a step in the right direction.

"The people don't buy into [impeachment], but there's no real broad resistance...Those kind of battles generate more of a political consciousness. That's what it takes to bring out more political movements," he says.