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UG#675 - What We're Not Being Told (BIS, CFR, TLC, Scientific Truth)

Robin Upton | 25-01-2014 15:01 | Anti-militarism | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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We continue our focus on the vast machine, looking this time not at the lies it tells but truths it leaves unspoken. First we hear Ellen Brown suggesting a BIS-Syria connection. Next for the first time on the show we hear professor and historian Anthony Sutton, who has a lot to say about the murky links between US big business and the development both of USSR and of Nazi Germany. We conclude with Chris Busby on scientific dishonesty in the area of radiation risk.

Stop G4S campaign convergence

Stop G4S | 24-01-2014 17:34 | Anti-racism | Migration | Policing | London | Sheffield

A campaigning convergence to Stop G4S.

UG#674 - Sane Methods but Insane Purposes (Angles On The Crescendo Of Violence)

Robin Upton | 16-01-2014 11:56 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Our title, the self-diagnosis of the Captain Ahab, applies just as fittingly to the US led corporatocracy says Chris Hedges in his allegorical reading of Melville's Moby Dick. A variety of material, including an unread chapter of Charles Eisenstein's Ascent of Humanity and an interview with gift economy pioneers Vic Button and Frank Bowman point the way to a more optimistic end for humanity than that of the Ahab's doomed whaling voyage.

No loan guarantees for deforestation and pollution!

Duncan Law | 06-01-2014 16:28 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | London | Sheffield

At 2pm on Wednesday 18 December representatives and supporters of Biofuelwatch, FOE, UK Without Incineration Network and the Campaign Against Climate Change gathered outside the Treasury building in Whitehall to protest at the huge subsidies the UK government is offering to hugely damaging and dangerous so-called renewable energy technology, biomass electricity and waste incineration.

Striking Orgreave Miners fitted up by the Police

A | 04-01-2014 19:00 | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

3 days in to 2014 and already we see what the police are...

Thirty years on from the miners' strike there are growing calls for a public inquiry into allegations of widespread miscarriages of justice

UG#673 - The Language of The Vast Machine (The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies)

Robin Upton | 27-12-2013 03:57 | Analysis | Other Press | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Similar in spirit to UG#670, we look at what Charles Eisenstein termed "The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies". We examine a range of lies spun by the vast machine as part of its efforts to perpetuate hopelessness, including a particularly obvious fraud from this August, a Nurse Nayirah style effort to drum up support for an attack on Syria. We focus loosely on war propaganda in Syria, but use a wide range of examples to illustrate the interwoven, interlocking nature of the matrix of lies while reflect on its implications for those determined to seek truth.

UG#672 - Mainstream or Extreme? (7-7, Islamophobia & CCM as Establishment Tools)

Robin Upton | 21-12-2013 09:03 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Terror War | Sheffield | World

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If asked to imagine a terrorist, do you see a mental picture of an Islamic suicide bomber? This episode we examine how the appearance - and quite possibly also the reality - of Islamic terrorism is cultivated by the UK political establishment. A wide variety of voices on this episode centered around the events of July 7th, 2005 explore David Miller's claim that the UK government uses the self-styled 'mainstream media' to promote Islamophobia through the security services.

SHEFFIELD GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY GROUP RECEIVES FUNDING

Gabriella | 18-12-2013 15:33 | Sheffield

Sheffield-based community group, R.I.V.A Project, is celebrating this week after discovering they are one of Skipton Building Society’s ‘Big 160, securing a slot as a winner in its Grassroots Giving initiative after winning the hearts and minds of the public and triumphing over nearly 1,000 other applicants across the country.

UG#671 - The Nuclear Fuel Pool of Damocles (Fukushima, Chernobyl and PBDEs)

Robin Upton | 04-12-2013 01:06 | Anti-Nuclear | Ecology | Health | Sheffield | World

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We hear a collection of speakers on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (which Wikipedia reports injured 39 and may result in anywhere from 0 to 1000 cancer deaths). We hear testimony that the real figures are many orders of magnitude higher, and that the crisis is far from over, with radiation leaks increasing and a pool containing over 400 tons of nuclear fuel suspended 100 foot in the air in a badly damaged building highly vulnerable to any further seismic disturbance.

#670 - Thinking Clearly About The Vast Machine (& The Hopelessness It Produces)

Robin Upton | 23-11-2013 07:01 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield | World

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This episode looks at one aspect of the machine referred to by Graeber in episode 624 - the propaganda that is churned out and which prevents people from clearly facing their dilemma. We begin with a 2009 speech by Sut Jhally on advertising, consumerism and what this has done to the US population. After contributions from Chris Hedges and Robert Jensen, we finish with an optimistic vision by Nafeez Ahmed.

UG#669 - The Restless Energy of The Hunted Mind (Information/Social Dysfunction)

Robin Upton | 11-11-2013 09:15 | Health | Social Struggles | Technology | Sheffield | World

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We look at the relationship between stress, technology and the modern worldview's apparent disconnection from reality. We have one new speaker, William Powers, author of Hamlet's Blackberry, and Heather Menzies speaks for a second time after her first appearance three years ago when we first looked explicitly at this area in UG#514.

Photos and audio from Chelsea Manning's Family Fundraiser in Liverpool

Chris | 10-11-2013 21:42 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | Liverpool | Sheffield

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Attached are some photos and a Sheffield Indymedia audio mix of interviews from the fundraiser for Chelsea Manning's family at The Casa in Liverpool on Saturday 2nd November 2013.

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Drunk Attack on Chelsea Manning's Family Fundraiser in Liverpool

Chris | 05-11-2013 13:41 | Liverpool | Sheffield

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I attended the fundraising gig for Chelsea Manning in Liverpool at The Casa in Liverpool on Saturday 2nd November and witnessed the second physical attack that was launched against the event.

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Sheffield University Strike and Occupation

Chris | 31-10-2013 18:40 | Education | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

Last night Sheffield Autonomous Students, Sheffield RevSoc and the Sheffield campaign for a Living Wage Now united to occupy the Richard Robert’s Building at University of Sheffield in solidarity with todays University workers strike. Following are some photos of the march through Sheffield City Centre and the occupation from the afternoon of 31st October 2013.

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West Yorkshire Police admit breach of Human Rights of Yorkshire Peace Campaigner Lindis Percy

for CAAB | 29-10-2013 15:07 | Sheffield

The police have been held to account on this occasion but the problems with their behaviour at Menwith Hill (MoD police) continue.

UG#668 - Big Oil At Home And Abroad (How The 7 Sisters Took Us For A Ride)

Robin Upton | 28-10-2013 23:54 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This week, a successor show to episode 664, using 3 documentary films to trace a bigger picture carefully avoided by commercially-controlled media. Firstly, "Secrets Of The 7 Sisters" which retells the recent history of the Middle East focusing on its oil reserves. Secondly, we hear "Taken For A Ride", a 1996 documentary on how the logic of capitalism dictated the destruction of cheap mass transit in the US, in favor of a more resource intensive method:- the automobile. We conclude with the end of The Hidden Life of Garbage on the effect of petrochemical waste on the environment.

Yet another arrest at NSA Menwith Hill - call out for support next Tuesday

for CAAB | 24-10-2013 20:49 | Anti-militarism | Policing | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield

More trouble from the Ministry of Defence police at NSA Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire...

Please consider coming to the Tuesday pm demonstration at Menwith Hill – held each week from 6-8 pm.

This Saturday, you can join the growing movement in the US calling on the government to get out of our private lives, at the biggest protest yet against NSA spying. But we could do this on Tuesday next week: STOP SPYING ON US – please bring a sign.

UG#667 - Community Successes (Restoring Our Connection To The Land)

Robin Upton | 23-10-2013 09:29 | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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A cheerier show this week than last week's look at the issue of violence. A range of voices, old and new inform us of successful local initiatives to reconnect with the land and rebuild community in their neighborhood.

Sat 2 Nov in Liverpool & Sun 3 Nov in Wrexham: Solidarity gigs/events for US prisoner of conscience Private Manning

WISE Up Wales | 22-10-2013 10:48 | Anti-militarism | Culture | Terror War | Liverpool | Sheffield | Wales

PACK A SCRUM OF SOLIDARITY WITH US PRISONER & WHISTLEBLOWER PVT CHELSEA MANNING (FORMERLY BRADLEY MANNING)

Join us in Liverpool and Wrexham as the Rugby League World Cup gets underway

SAT 2 NOV 6pm - 11pm

Live music, films and speakers at The Casa, 29 Hope St, Liverpool
Entry by donation

SUN 3 NOV from 11.30am

Vigil outside the Wales vs USA match at Wrexham Racecourse, Mold Rd, followed by Social nearby in the afternoon.

MON 4 NOV from 9.30am

Join us at Bristol Crown Court where a police prosecution over display of FREE MANNING banners continues.

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LaDIYfest Sheffield 2013 - Saturday 30th November

LaDIYfest Sheffield | 19-10-2013 19:37 | Culture | Gender | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

Sheffield’s anti-capitalist, feminist festival LaDIYfest returns for its third Birthday this November, taking over the city for a day and evening of practical activities, discussion workshops and live music. All funds raised at the event will go to the National Ugly Mugs, a sex worker safety scheme.

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