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UG#606 - Flight From Meaning 1 (The Superior Human, Debt in The Axial Age)

Robin Upton | 12-01-2013 12:21 | Analysis | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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The first of a two part series, we consider the bigger question of meaning in life. In our first hour we look at a prejudice shared by many people of differing backgrounds and inclinations - the notion that human beings are somehow innately superior to all other life forms - with a radio adaption of the 2012 film The Superior Human. We conclude our second hour by resuming reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years where we left off in episode 597.

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UG#607 - Flight From Meaning 2 (Money = Competition = Psychosis)

Robin Upton | 12-01-2013 12:17 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Although in the 'Flight From Meaning' series, a rather traditional show concludes my second year of making Unwelcome Guests. First, a regular speaker, Alfie Kohn, speaking on why he believes that any competition is too much. We conclude with the end of chapter 9 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, on the introduction of coinage in India, Greece and China.

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UG#608 - Flight From Meaning 3 (Science, Chimpanzees and The Monongahela)

Robin Upton | 12-01-2013 12:12 | Analysis | Health | Sheffield | World

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I start my third year with an unusually open ended love-it-or-hate-it next episode in the 'Flight From Meaning' series, centered on an essay by philosopher Steve Talbott on how biologists contrive to study life itself as if it were merely a lifeless mechanism. We also hear from Jane Goodall about chimpanzee society and read some of Underground History of American Education on John Taylor Gatto's boyhood.

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UG#609 - Flight From Meaning 4 (Crazy Like Us,Instructed Organism,Peace Pilgrim)

Robin Upton | 12-01-2013 12:07 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Three contrasting pieces for you which all hint at the inadequacy of limiting self as the skin-encapsulated ego. Firstly, Ethan Watters on socially defined aspects of madness, including how Glaxo Smith Kline aggressively globalized Western ideas of depression in Japan. Next, I summarize Steve Talbott's essay on problems of the 'man as machine' metaphor. Finally, an hour on Peace Pilgrim, whose 'retirement project' was to walk across USA for over 25 years without using money or asking for food or shelter.

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**New venue** Doris Banham Dog Rescue Benefit Gig - Sheffield - Sat 12th Jan

Doris Banham Dog Rescue | 10-01-2013 18:08 | Sheffield

A night of punk, acoustic and spoken word, along with vegan pizza and cake to raise much needed funds for the awesome Doris Banham Dog Rescue.
This charity works tirelessly to save abandoned dogs awaiting death at council pounds each day in the UK.
Come and help raise funds for the Doris Banham dogs!

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BNP to hold Day of Action in Skegness

anon@indymedia.org (EMAF) | 09-01-2013 16:55 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

Lincolnshire Coastal branch of the BNP have announced that they will be holding a "Day of Action" against the Skegness halal abattoir this weekend. They are meeting at 11.30am on Saturday 12th and advise interested parties to call 0771 4009285 to receive re direction point details.

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State Using ‘Secret Evidence’ To Try And Keep John Bowden Behind Bars

John Bowden (posted by Leeds ABC) | 08-01-2013 20:51 | Policing | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield | World

For the past 30 years John Bowden has been at the forefront of the British prison struggle, and is by far our most prolific prisoner writer. Time and again, John’s articles have shone a searchlight into the State’s murky dungeons, exposing brutality and repression, and challenging the very nature of prison. For many years now, John has been held in jail because of his political views and his willingness to challenge injustice. That has never been clearer than now, as the State attempts to use ‘secret evidence’ to keep him behind bars.

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Burning the Future

Alex Smith | 08-01-2013 07:03 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Fires in Tasmania, extreme heat Australia, typhoons in the Philippines, Mexican coal criminals - another work week for Radio Ecoshock. Environmental journalist for the Nation, Mark Hertsgaard on book "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth". Robert M. Hirsch of U.S. Geological Survey on real cause of floods.

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Can of Worms Opened: The EDL Conspiracy Theories Start Here

FashWatch | 08-01-2013 05:04 | Anti-racism | Policing | Social Struggles | Liverpool | Sheffield

The judge sentencing in the Tommy Robinson false passport case today opened a wriggling, purified can of worms. Stephen Yaxley Lennon of Luton was, as expected, sentenced to a jail term as almost everybody had expected (albeit a short and unsatisfactory one). That is no surprise, as passport fraud involving the United States, meant the UK felt compelled to act. What was not not expected, was the judge's strange but honest remarks about Tommy's actual identity.

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Doris Banham dog Rescue Benefit Gig - Sheffield - Sat 12th Jan

Doris Banham Dog Rescue | 07-01-2013 14:41 | Sheffield

A night of punk, acoustic and spoken word, along with vegan pizza and cake to raise much needed funds for the awesome Doris Banham Dog Rescue.
This charity works tirelessly to save abandoned dogs awaiting death at council pounds each day in the UK.
Come and help raise funds for the Doris Banham dogs!

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UG#602 - Ancient Languages of The Future 1 (Piraha, Non-Violent Communication)

Robin Upton | 04-01-2013 21:31 | Analysis | Culture | Sheffield | World

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This show we take two very distinct looks at human communication. Firstly we hear half an hour from a recent talk from Professor Daniel Everett on Language, Culture and Being Human. Next psychologist and negotiator Marshall Rosenberg, describes NVC (Non-violent communication).

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ug#603 - Ancient Languages of The Future 2 (Piraha, Non-Violent Communication)

Robin Upton | 04-01-2013 21:28 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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A sequel to last week's show on human communication. We hear the rest of the talk by Professor Daniel Everett on 'Language, Culture and Being Human', with some Q&A. We hear more on NVC from Marshall Rosenberg.

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UG#604 - Occupy The Past (Gandhian Non-Violence and Direct Action Movements)

Robin Upton | 04-01-2013 21:26 | Occupy Everywhere | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Another show made with the ongoing Occupy movement in mind. Our main feature is author and researcher James Douglass on his book Gandhi and the Unspeakable, and we hear thoughts from Chris Hedges and Barbara Epstien also from earlier this year.

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UG#605 - The Institutionalized Shadows of Psychopaths (Histories of the CIA/FBI)

Robin Upton | 04-01-2013 21:20 | History | Policing | Sheffield | World

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In our first hour this episode we hear author Tim Weiner on the FBI and the 48 year reign of its founder, J. Edgar Hoover, whom Weiner describes as 'a Machiavelli'. In our second hour, a vintage recording of Alan Francovich speaking about On Company Business, his groundbreaking 1980 film on the CIA.

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EDL and NWI Will Come To Blows In Manchester #edl #nwi

Pampers For EDLers | 03-01-2013 01:48 | Anti-racism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Liverpool | Sheffield

The desperate minds of the EDL (Extremely Dim Louts) will be turning up in their handfuls to Manchester to stand around in the pouring Pennine rain, chanting racist, repetitive bullshit in the hope it will solve their middle aged erectile problems. Tommy Robinson banged-up in jail, Kevin Carroll bitching about non-EDL nationalists calling them "muggy mushrooms", and Hel Gower shopping to the cops, fellow members she has got sick and tired of, Windbag EDL are shrinking faster than a harpooned balloon.

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December 2012 Review of New UK Opencast Sites

Steve Leary | 01-01-2013 10:26 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | Wales

This edition of the review shows that 26 new sites are under consideration, 13 in England, 7 in Wales and 6 in Scotland. It also has information on what the implications of restructuring of UK Coal plc may mean for its surface mine operations, the implications of trying to rescue ATH Resources, the Hesley Wood Tip planning meeting and the Growth and Infrastructure Bill, Clause 21 - now clause 23.

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The New Normal Is No Normal

Alex Smith | 31-12-2012 06:27 | Anti-Nuclear | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

After a look at weird weather around the world, passionate pleas from people victimized by nuke waste & plutonium. Then Your Environmental Road Trip film director Ben Evans on great solutions found at the grass roots. Radio Ecoshock 130102

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UG#601 - The Psychopathology of Money (Nick Leeson, The Economics of Happiness)

Robin Upton | 27-12-2012 00:28 | Analysis | History | Sheffield | World

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We continue examining money with radio adaptations of 2 films. In our first hour, Adam Curtis' 25 Million Pounds narrates the rise and fall of financial fraudster, Nick Leeson. In our second hour, The Economics of Happiness which recommends relocalization as the urgent solution to economic globalization.

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Communities won't take the closure of nurseries and childrens centres.

concerned resident | 25-12-2012 19:00 | Education | Health | Public sector cuts | Sheffield

Around 100 parents and children under 5 arrived from Tinsley Green children's centre. Another 50 joined the protest from Darnall Community Nursery.

In total at least 250 protested outside Sheffield Town Hall against the Labour council's planned slashing of Sure Start children's centres and nurseries.

The council is aiming to cut £3.5m from these centres. Currently there are 36 centres, all Ofsted registered and providing childcare, health, education and family support. All would be downgraded.

Instead the aim is to have 17 children's centre 'areas', with each area having only one nursery. The council calls its proposals a 'redesign' and incredibly has claimed that the service will improve, reaching more children.

Yet, at the same time, it blames the government for forcing the cuts on it - thereby implying that the service will suffer.

19 of the 36 centres have been earmarked for closure. Five of the seven centres that received an 'outstanding' grade from Ofsted last year are amongst those under threat.

Many nursery workers and parents have been told that their centres will be closed by March 2013 at the latest.

Yet the council is saying that there will be no closures. What it means is that it will use all the sites for something - it's just that 19 of them won't have childcare services!



sharon milson

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Leeds EDL Organiser Dreams of A Final Solution

Anti-Fascist | 25-12-2012 00:12 | Anti-racism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Liverpool | Sheffield

On a serious note, since Tommy Robinson (Yaxley Lennon) was jailed, more and more EDL divisions have become openly racist. Today, while the spirit of Christmas cheer in the air, peace, love and goodwill to all men and all that, Yorkshire EDL (Leeds) were fantasising about an anti-Muslim final solution where ALL Muslim citizens living in the UK would be "removed", and all immigrants would be denied social welfare.

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