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Sheffield Indy Radio Show #1

Sheffield IMC | 17.06.2010 14:01 | Sheffield

Welcome to the first, and possibly not the last, Sheffield Indy Radio Show from Sheffield Indymedia.


The show starts with a ZKT Gaza solidarity mix with audio from Lowkey, recorded by ftp in London on 31st May 2010, Norman Finkelstein speaking on Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion on 16th April 2010, recorded by Dale Lehman/WZRD, via the A Infos-Radio Project and Noam Chomsky speaking on Gaza, One Year Later, recorded chuck u. rosina on 15th December 2009, again via the A Infos-Radio Project and Musheir talks about his visit to Gaza, recorded by ZKT on 12th October 2008, then Craig Murray, again speaking at the London protest on 31st May 2010, with background music from Songs For Freedom.

After the intro to the show there is upcoming Sheffield events from Alt-Sheff from Bob and Old Boy and then short blast of Televison by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy before news of the Sheffield Bike Fest which is taking place on 19th July which was recorded by Chris on 14th May at the Sheffield Temporary Autonomous Arts event.

Next up is an edited version of a talk, What is a Social Centre? recorded by Chris on 22nd May at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair, for more information about this project see the Sheffield Social Centre website.

Then we have Michael Parenti speaking on CONSPIRACY & CLASS POWER, from 1993 via the amazing TUC Radio: Time of Useful Consciousness Radio, followed by Gore Vidal and Peter Philips from Project Censored, via the latest The Boiling Frogs Podcast Show #29 from 4th June and then we cross the Invisible Line...

The show ends with Bollox Chat and an explicit dub mix from Old Boy.

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Really excellent show

18.06.2010 11:20

Entertaining because the content is highly intelligent and well produced and the musics great. Starts with well selected sound bites from Gaza demo's. Goes on to "bollocks chat" which looks at conspiracies and class power.

A critique of unions was put forward which I don't think looked at the reality of struggles in enough depth. Union leaders shared interests with the bosses were identified but I think that unions can also be a "weapon in the hands of the workers". Grass routes power can be built within them. This position is well articulated by Dave Douglas so I think you should invite him to put the case for unions in a debate with those arguing against them. He might also plug his new autobiography on the miners strike, where he organised the Hatfield Flying Pickets.

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Flying Pickets

18.06.2010 22:51

Thanks for the positive feedback.

As for criticism of Unions I think the criticism was more about leaders and the hierarchic structure and were directed towards todays unions rather than the NUM in the miners strike though the NUM suffered from these problems too, to some extent, which I think Dave Douglas would agree with.

Can you contact Dave Douglas I'd like to interview him?

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