Skip Navigation | Sheffield IMC | UK IMC | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Support Us

Sheffield Analysis Newswire Archive

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

Robin Upton | 14-05-2013 15:37 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Audio

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.

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

Robin Upton | 13-05-2013 16:21 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield | World

Audio

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.

UG#636 - Bilking The Afflicted (Addiction, Drugs & Capitalism)

Robin Upton | 11-05-2013 15:33 | Analysis | Health | Repression | Sheffield | World

Audio

This episode we turn our attention to the 'War on Drugs', which as addiction specialist Gabor Maté points out is of course a war on drug users. We start with a hour on "The Science of Drug Politics" by former UK Government Chief Drugs advisor, Professor David Nutt whose testimony clearly suggests that scientific considerations were of minor interest to the politicians he was supposed to advise. Next we hear Dr. Maté who touches on some of the reasons why the War On Drugs may not be failure after all...

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

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

Audio

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.

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

Robin Upton | 07-05-2013 03:13 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Audio

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'.

Read more | 1 comment >>

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

Robin Upton | 05-05-2013 02:11 | Analysis | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Audio

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.

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

Robin Upton | 01-05-2013 03:12 | Analysis | Education | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Audio

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.

UG#631 - John Taylor Gatto, Genius (Extended Childhood and Western Spirituality)

Robin Upton | 24-04-2013 18:01 | Analysis | Education | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Audio

This week, exceptionally, we hear two pieces from a single speaker, John Taylor Gatto. After a period of neglect following a stroke in 2011, Gatto is steadily recovering. We reflect on his genius with two classic talks: "Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!" and "The Neglected Genius of American Spirituality".

UG#629 - Speaking Forbidden Truths (The Poor Had No Lawyers, Monetarism's Fail)

Robin Upton | 11-04-2013 18:26 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Audio

This week we conclude our reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years with a focus on the fraud of land 'ownership' and economics. A mix of new and familiar speakers include a reading by Lyn Gerry from episode 90 and a radio adaptation of an Adam Curtis film, The League of Gentlemen.

Land.

Emilio José Lemos de Lima | 01-04-2013 19:07 | Analysis | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Do more, I continue, is at the heart of our proposal, putting under increasing national and citizen control all the vast and complex productive chains of agriculture and agro-industry of the XXI century, with invaluable impact on what we call productive intelligence per capita.

UG#624 - The Vast Machine To Perpetuate Hopelessness (Marxian Class Analysis 1)

Robin Upton | 29-03-2013 17:46 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Audio

As we approach the climax of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, we begin a series of talks by Economics Professor Richard Wolff introducing Marxian class analysis.

UG#625 - Jettisoning Accustomed Categories of Thought (Marxian Class Analysis 2)

Robin Upton | 29-03-2013 17:39 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Audio

This week is something of a continuation of episode #624, featuring the second part of economics professor Richard Wolff on Marxian class analysis, and we approach the end of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. I hope it works as an aid to help to rethink what you think you know about economics and politics and to jettison any categories of thought which you find unhelpful.

UG#627 - The Progressive Process of Desocialization (Marxian Class Analysis 4)

Robin Upton | 29-03-2013 17:28 | Occupy Everywhere | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Audio

This week, two Marxist professors speak on the social impact of capitalism and especially in USA. First, Silvia Federici speaks on 'The Progressive Process of Desocialization', how capitalism breaks down communities and people's human relationships of care. Next it is the turn of Richard Wolff who applies his Marxian class analysis to the US household, noting that more and more adults are rejecting the traditional (feudal) model of domestic exploitation and either living alone or in more egalitarian patterns.

UG#623 - Waking Up And Smelling The Kool-Aid (Finance Capital & Dictatorship)

Robin Upton | 12-03-2013 12:59 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Audio

We accompany our continued reading of David Graeber with Richard Peet on the Rise of Finance Capital. In our second hour, an outspoken Chris Hedges gives his own account of the rise of neoliberalism and reports on the America you won't have heard about on Commercially Controlled media, which he researched for 2 years to write his latest book.

UG#622 - Resisting The Military Financial Complex(Just Say No To Debt Repayment)

Robin Upton | 08-03-2013 15:24 | Occupy Everywhere | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Audio

Our first hour is a presentation by Noam Chomsky on the emerging world order in which USA is dominating the world's remaining energy resources in the Middle East and in which this same militancy is being aggressively visited on resistance at home. In our second hour, we look at the anniversary of the occupy movement and the efforts underway to build grassroots resistance to the stranglehold of the predatory elite financiers.

The film industry is the way?

Emilio José Lemos de Lima | 05-03-2013 19:02 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | Sheffield

More than anything, the Brazilian Cinema Company will need to be able to conduct in mutually fertilizing and creative parallel, these two lines of distribution and exhibition here outlined and proposed, to ensure the best use of every penny invested in the film industry, reaching the best results in generation of employment opportunities, the flowering of intelligence, national identity and profitability.

UG#620 - Sex And Drugs And Mental Health (Sex 'Addiction' and Broken Brains)

Robin Upton | 03-03-2013 05:35 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Audio

We hear three different perspectives on the Mental Health of the US population - and indeed upon the American concept of 'mental health. Is it a matter of fixing broken brains with carefully targeted drugs? Our speakers agree that the US public have been profitably misinformed by professional experts full of ideas about how they should and shouldn't behave.

UG#619 - The Financialization of Nature (And the Nature of Financialization)

Robin Upton | 24-02-2013 07:24 | Analysis | Free Spaces | Globalisation | Sheffield | World

Audio

A range of material for you this time as we return to our continuing reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years: Joan Baxter on land grabbing in Africa, William Black on financial control fraud and the soundtrack of a short video on the Financialization of Nature.

UG#618 - Consolidation of Police State USA (The Ongoing American Military Coup)

Robin Upton | 22-02-2013 06:22 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Audio

A 'bigger picture' show this time, with two hour long pieces which outline the stark contours of the rapidly emerging police state that is the modern USA. Our main speakers are Peter Dale Scott, Peter Phillips and Frank Morales.

UG#617 - Money, Power and Sociopathy (Competition, Randroids, Economists)

Robin Upton | 18-02-2013 11:14 | Analysis | History | Sheffield | World

Audio

We start the final chapter of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years this week by going beyond the 'bad apples' line at the deeper, systemic truths which underlie the rottenness of finance capital and indeed of the idolization of competition. Gary Weiss speaks on his book, Ayn Rand Nation and entrepreneur and journalist Margaret Heffernan speaks on Money, Power and Competition.

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Sheffield Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Sheffield [navigation.actions2016]

Sheffield [navigation.actions2015]

Sheffield [navigation.actions2014]

Sheffield Actions 2013

Sheffield Actions 2012

Sheffield Actions 2011

2011 Census Resistance
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Occupy Everywhere

Sheffield Actions 2010

Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands

Sheffield Actions 2009

COP15 Climate Summit 2009
G20 London Summit
Guantánamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
University Occupations for Gaza

Sheffield Actions 2008

2008 Days Of Action For Autonomous Spaces
Campaign against Carmel-Agrexco
Climate Camp 2008
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Smash EDO
Stop Sequani Animal Testing
Stop the BNP's Red White and Blue festival

Sheffield Actions 2007

Climate Camp 2007
DSEi 2007
G8 Germany 2007
Mayday 2007
No Border Camp 2007

Sheffield Actions 2006

April 2006 No Borders Days of Action
Art and Activism Caravan 2006
Climate Camp 2006
Faslane
French CPE uprising 2006
G8 Russia 2006
Lebanon War 2006
March 18 Anti War Protest
Mayday 2006
Oaxaca Uprising
Refugee Week 2006
Rossport Solidarity
SOCPA
Transnational Day of Action Against Migration Controls
WSF 2006

Sheffield Actions 2005

DSEi 2005
G8 2005
WTO Hong Kong 2005

Sheffield Actions 2004

European Social Forum
FBI Server Seizure
May Day 2004
Venezuela

Sheffield Actions 2003

Bush 2003
DSEi 2003
Evian G8
May Day 2003
No War F15
Saloniki Prisoner Support
Thessaloniki EU
WSIS 2003

Server Appeal

Encrypted Page

You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.

If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

IMCs

www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india

United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech

Page 30 of 33

33 | 32 | 31 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1

<< Page 31 | Page 29 >>