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UG#642 - Living a 3-Dimensional Life (Living Moneyless, Walden #1)

A poem by Wendell Berry starts us off on a differently paced, more musical set of episodes this episode. As a counter to what Jacques Fresco terms 'base articiality of materialism and mindless consumption' we weave a tapestry of thoughts including those from iconoclastic earthy thinkers including Suelo, the moneyless resident of a Utah desert from whom we heard in episode 600 and the American Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

UG#640 - The Making Of The National Security State (The Power Principle 1)

We devote the whole show to the first part of a radio adaptation of the 2012 Metanoia film, The Power Principle. Using examples of Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Chile and Greece a wide range of insiders and historians unmask the Cold War as a propaganda cover for the war between the rest of the world and resource hungry US corporations.

UG#641 - The Making Of The National Security State (The Power Principle 2)

We continue where we left off last in episode #640, with a radio adaptation of the remainder of the most recent of Scott Noble's 2012 film, The Power Principle. This half focuses on the sequence of fears used by the ruling elite to keep the 99% submissive and afraid, whether of communists, nuclear war or Muslim fundamentalists. Insiders and other commentators reveal a bigger picture of US Foreign Policy driven by an aggressive and ruthless clique using organisations such as the CIA, the arms industry and big media to exploit and oppress the 99% both at home and abroad.

Facebook Bans Message to Peter Jackson About Filming Bilderberg Protests

Eco-warriors and other anti-capitalist protesters are preparing for massive protests against the Bilderberg Conference at the Grove hotel at Watford England from 5 to 9 June 2013 where presidents and prime ministers will secretly meet the bankers and corporate leaders who illegally employ them just one week before the G8 summit in Ireland.
Most of the mainstream media is refusing to publish or broadcast any news about the protests against the secret world government of the Bilderberg Group and even Facebook has banned a message to Peter Jackson proposing the filming of the reality TV show for the children about the imminent extinction of the human race by global warming as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.

UG#639 - Grave Reflections on Technology & Freedom (Techno-totalitarianism)

We hear the voices of three now deceased authors on the topics of technology and Social Control. First a vintage 1962 recording of Aldous Huxley speaking on the prospects for technototalitarianism. Next it's a more relaxed interview with science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut and we conclude with a musical collage of 1970's wisdom from E. F. Schumacher.

Urgent action for Abdul Rajabali

Abdul scheduled for deportation next Wednesday. Step up the action. Abdul must stay!

Boris Johnson needs to stop uttering rubbish for Big Biz agenda

14-05-2013 16:09 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | London | World

The Plug for Boris Johnson via BIg Biz agenda hype Xrail 2 has got to be seen in
the context of the severe economic hardship that so many people across London and the South East are experiencing.

UG#638 - Modern Human Self-Enslavement (Addiction To The Consumer Treadmill)

This episode two speakers give us a new angle on why so many people seem addicted to living lives that leave them unfulfilled. Firstly, doctor and addiction specialist Gabor Maté gives a personal reflection on the question "Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted?". After a musical break we hear a radio adaptation of Consumed - The Human Experience, which looks at how marketing is finely tuned to hijacking human evolutionary drives.

Support Abdul Ghafar Rajabali

Release Abdul Ghafar Rajabali and halt his deportation.
Please click on the website and sign the petition.

UG#637 - The Preliminaries Of A Vision (Of A World We Might Want)

This week an invitation to reflect on capitalism in crisis not as an economic but a political phenomenon. We hear two 'bigger picture' talks on the interrelationships between Economics and Politics, one with a European focus, one which concentrates on USA. First Tariq Ali gives us "The Rotten Heart of Europe" summarising the machinations of the political elite in Europe. Next it is Gar Alperovitz, author of "America Beyond Capitalism", on the growth of US movements to decentralize wealth and ownership.

Is a most deprived Tower Hamlets COUNCIL, right to carry out Tory attacks?

11-05-2013 15:54 | Other Press | Social Struggles | London | World

Tower Hamlets is notorious deprived, crisis-ridden, wrong-headed local Borough Council. Right now, its head of legal is involved in a most secretive employment tribunal tussle being very strangely held only yards from the main Council Town Hall. The Central Govt has repeatedly condemned the Council Administration for wasting public money on running a propaganda organ called East End Life, aka 'Tower Hamlets Town Hall's very own pravda'.

Press release - Anti-Capitalists publish map of targets in the West End

PRESS RELEASE

Anti-Capitalists are targeting the rich in the West End of London in the
run-up to the G8 Summit next month.

Call for an Anti-Militarist Action against the G8 on June 12th

This is a call to all anti-militarists to join us in the West End of London during the week of action against the G8. - for more info see

https://network23.org/stopg8/

UG#635 - Apocalypse Postponed (Perspectives On A Progressive Future)

07-05-2013 14:46 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Last episode we reflected on whether people's penchant for doomsday predictions and tales of the living dead was connected to their common experience of life under capitalism. This time, given the absence of an apocalyptic Mayan doomsday event, we ask whether a conscious effort to reject such catastrophism is in order, and what a progressive future might look like.

Residents rally at 6 PM at Trahorn Close E1 focuses on Tower Hamlets Council

07-05-2013 13:34 | Health | Social Struggles | London | World

Tower Hamlets Council's transfer of Council housing stock was done under dubious
promises. One promise Tower Hamlets Council made was that tenants, residents would enjoy the same rights when their homes were taken over by the "social landlords" as they had enjoyed under Council control.
This evening, Tuesday 07 May 2013, residents at the Trahorn Close, near Vallance Road, are rallying to question Tower Hamlets Council's pledge.
They have already petitioned the Borough’s “executive Mayor” Lutfur Rahman demanding action over the “social landlord” outfit’s behaviour.

UG#634 - The Coming Apocalypse etc. (Catastrophism, Zombies, The "Fiscal Cliff")

On our last show before December 21st, 2012, we examine the spectre of 'catastrophe'. Does the popularity of undead imagery reveal anything about modern society? We begin by revisiting David Graeber's insights on Tiv mythology at the time of the African slave trade, then examine the underpinning of the modern university and schooling systems as a way to decode the barrage of modern day warnings of the 'Fiscal Cliff'.

UG#633 - Putting The 'Mental' Back in Environmental (Food Waste & FMNR In Niger)

Is planet earth facing a food crisis? Are there too many people here? Can humanity afford to tackle desertification in the Sahel? Filmmaker Mike Freedman, food activist Tristram Stuart, author Ronald Wright and finally permaculturist and aid worker Tony Rinaudo all contribute their voices to this week's challenge to simplistic and reductionist thinking on such matters.

On Known and Unknown Self (dis) Organisation.

01-05-2013 21:47 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The Asylum Strike is a historical moment of self-organisation where the undocumented and illegalised have manifest as a force on their own terms and shown the ability to go on the offensive against the state and racism in the heart of Western Europe and therefore on these same terms against international capitalism.

UG#632 - The War On Kids (The Youth Of Today's Toxic Legacy)

Whether in terms of biodiversity, Peak Oil, water shortages or whatever, we've looked many times on this show at the damaged and degraded planet earth that we are leaving for our children. This week we take another angle, looking at the damage done to the very brains and minds of our children.

Protest in London

Demand for an End to the Attacks on the Zapatista Support Base Community of San Marcos Avilés

World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

UG#642 - Living a 3-Dimensional Life (Living Moneyless, Walden #1)

UG#640 - The Making Of The National Security State (The Power Principle 1)

UG#641 - The Making Of The National Security State (The Power Principle 2)

Facebook Bans Message to Peter Jackson About Filming Bilderberg Protests

UG#639 - Grave Reflections on Technology & Freedom (Techno-totalitarianism)

Urgent action for Abdul Rajabali

Boris Johnson needs to stop uttering rubbish for Big Biz agenda

UG#638 - Modern Human Self-Enslavement (Addiction To The Consumer Treadmill)

Support Abdul Ghafar Rajabali

UG#637 - The Preliminaries Of A Vision (Of A World We Might Want)

Is a most deprived Tower Hamlets COUNCIL, right to carry out Tory attacks?

Press release - Anti-Capitalists publish map of targets in the West End

Call for an Anti-Militarist Action against the G8 on June 12th

UG#635 - Apocalypse Postponed (Perspectives On A Progressive Future)

Residents rally at 6 PM at Trahorn Close E1 focuses on Tower Hamlets Council

UG#634 - The Coming Apocalypse etc. (Catastrophism, Zombies, The "Fiscal Cliff")

UG#633 - Putting The 'Mental' Back in Environmental (Food Waste & FMNR In Niger)

On Known and Unknown Self (dis) Organisation.

UG#632 - The War On Kids (The Youth Of Today's Toxic Legacy)

Protest in London

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