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"UK Coal says "Business as Usual", Shame about the Debt

Steve Leary | 07-08-2013 15:12 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | London | Sheffield

Following a news story in today's Financial Times about the collapse of UK Coal Operations and who money was owed too, the Loose Anti Opencast Network in this press release has more information on this topic, especially which local authorities have taken a hit.

UG#656 - Secret Wars Of The CIA (A Classic Speech by John Stockwell)

Robin Upton | 26-07-2013 09:38 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This time a radio adaptation of the video, "Secret Wars Of The CIA", by winner of the CIA Medal of Merit winner turned CIA whistleblower, John Stockwell. In this vintage video, before the advent of WWW, an earnest Stockwell gives an overview of CIA activity and cites dozens of books to supporting material by other researchers.

UG#654 - State Crimes Against Democracy (The Secret Government's War Of Terror)

Robin Upton | 19-07-2013 08:06 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | Sheffield | World

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Most of the show is an interview with Lance deHaven-Smith, author of "Conspiracy Theory In America", who coined the term "State Crime Against Democracy" (SCAD) as a modern replacement of what used to be called a "high crime". Both speakers share an exasperation of the apparent credulousness of most of the US public, noting that November 22nd will mark a half century of emerging evidence about John F Kennedy's assassination, which the US government continues to maintain was the work of a 'lone nut'.

UG#653 -The Biopsychosocial Approach (The Growth Of Child Development Disorders)

Robin Upton | 11-07-2013 10:40 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Following on from last week, another show on a very important but commercially sidelined scientific backwater. Dr. Gabor Maté combines personal testimony, anecdotal evidence and a lot of scientific research to tell a story of child development very different to the one pedalled by institutions such as the Drug Industry, the criminal justice system or other profiteers of human disfunctionality. Increasing ill health, Maté suggests, is a natural response to an increasingly sick society.

The Rescue of UK Coal could be a Threat to Communities

Steve Leary | 10-07-2013 13:21 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Social Struggles | London | Sheffield

This press release reveals why certain communities across the UK are not jumping up and down with joy over the rescue of UK Coal. They are now threatened with the prospect of more opencast mining, just when the UK Coal's consumption is due to drop significantly

Fight workfare - Sheffield, Brighton, Glasgow, London and everywhere!

BW supporter | 04-07-2013 13:53 | Workfare | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | Sheffield

Boycott Workfare's national week of action is coming up soon, with events confirmed for Sheffield, Brighton, Glasgow and London, and more on the way.

UG#651 - Deep Green Resistance (Earth At Risk Conference)

Robin Upton | 02-07-2013 22:48 | Occupy Everywhere | Analysis | Ecology | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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A trio of speakers this time, two of whom have been regular contributors to the show. We listen in on a conference that happened in California in 2011 entitled Earth At Risk. While they outline contrasting approaches to resistance, the speakers are united in their conviction that the culture of capitalist golobalisation has no mechanism for self-regulation and so Direct Action is necessary to stop its ongoing ecocide.

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UG#649 - Why Money Will End (And How To Prepare)

Robin Upton | 21-06-2013 07:30 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This week, a special show featuring a 2-hour made-for-radio commentary on a recent presentation entitled Why Money Will End — And What to Do About It. Does a life beyond money have to be unthinkable? Or is it just that a highly funded campaign is trying to make it seem so? What if it was "bu$ine$$ as usual" that was in reality unthinkable, and there was a more beautiful world of abundance awaiting us, once enough people have the courage to say goodbye to money and its scarcity-inducing story of selfishness and separation?...

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UG#647 - Making The Universe Your Employer (Giving Up The Burden Of Money)

Robin Upton | 15-06-2013 09:22 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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This time we hear a combination of voices contradict the story of the selfish-maximising skin-encapsulated ego. Aided by Mark Sundeen, we hear from Suelo on how he decided to 'make the universe his employer' and give up money. Then an interview with Charles Eisenstein on stepping into the gift, together with a short speech by Amanda Palmer on connecting with fans and the benefits of giving her music away free.

The assassination of Juan Vázquez Guzmán in Chiapas, Mexico

viva bachajon | 08-06-2013 05:32 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | Sheffield | World

“He gave his life for the land”

Another indigenous leader has been assassinated in the struggle to defend the land and natural resources from depradation and destruction.

Article from the June edition of Peace News

UG#645 - Potemkin Justice (Whistleblowers & Surveillance in 21st Century USA)

Robin Upton | 07-06-2013 09:03 | Policing | Social Struggles | Technology | Sheffield | World

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A stark contrast with UG#644, we look this week behind the facade of the separation of powers in USA. Do any effective checks remain on how the US government behaves itself? Or is the external threat of massive dissent the only check left to the ongoing rollout of the totalitarian state's surveillance and control grid.

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UG#644 - Living Here And Now (Having A Personal Philosophy, Walden 3)

Robin Upton | 06-06-2013 09:10 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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A carpe diem show this week which asks "Do you have a personal philosophy?" If you are one of the many people who have not given the matter much thought, Professor William Irvine cautions against accepting the 'default philosophy' of hedonistic consumerism. Now is the time to decide what you stand for and to refuse to stand for anything less!

UG#643 - Living A Higher, More Ethereal Life (Foreclosures, Monongahela, Walden)

Robin Upton | 30-05-2013 23:37 | Analysis | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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What would it mean to live 'a higher & more ethereal life' we ask this week in a successor program to last week's show. The quote is from Henry David Thoreau's classic Walden which we keep reading, and which details the shed he built by Walden Pond in 1845 at a cost of $28.12½ (i.e. around $1000 nowadays). Our main presentation is a 2013 interview about Direct Action to resist the US government sponsored armed gangs who are attempting to evict people from their homes. We supplement this with short readings from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education and from Suelo.

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

Robin Upton | 24-05-2013 03:16 | Analysis | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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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)

Robin Upton | 23-05-2013 02:51 | Anti-militarism | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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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)

Robin Upton | 23-05-2013 02:46 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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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.

Sheffield Workfare Protest, June 1st

Sheffield Unite Community | 20-05-2013 21:29 | Workfare | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

The government is running scared of protests over workfare. They've been to court to try and keep the names of workfare exploiters from being published because they're scared that protests will cause the whole scheme to collapse. If we keep the pressure on, we can turn their fears into reality.

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

Robin Upton | 19-05-2013 01:35 | Repression | Social Struggles | Technology | Sheffield | World

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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.

Sheffield Protest Against the Bed Room Tax

Chris | 18-05-2013 13:26 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Sheffield

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There was a protest in Barkers Pool, Sheffield, on 18th May 2013 against the Tory / LibDem changes to housing benefit which came into force on 1st April 2013.

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

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

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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.

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