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  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline with Andreas Malm

    How to Blow Up a Pipeline with Andreas Malm
    Mar 15 2021

    Peaceful protest could be seen as the hallmark of political movements in the late 20th and early 21st century, causing disruption to everyday life with mass gathering and turning the political headwind through chants, crowds and banners. From the Iraq War protests in 2003 to the Extinction Rebellion direct actions of 2019 turning the other cheek and love thy neighbour have been core tenants around a politics and respectability. The key questions is though, did they change anything? Does Capital listen to Labour without a threat?


    Our guest this week is author and associate lecturer at Lund University Andreas Malm. Andreas is a prolific writer on climate change and capitalism with titles including "Fossil Capital" Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency" and "White Skin Black Fuel". We discuss the sanitising of political and civil movements, the strategic value of property destruction for a cause and combating climate despair and fatalism.

    Links
    How to blow up a Pipeline
    https://www.versobooks.com/books/3665-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline

    kim stanley Robinsons' Ministry for the future
    https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-ministry-for-the-future/kim-stanley-robinson/9780356508832

    Ende Gelaende- the climate activsts Andreas has worked with
    https://www.ende-gelaende.org/en/

    Shout outs
    Ende Gelande- climate activists based on germany taking on lignite mining
    @Ende__Gelaende

    Low Carbon Homes- for supporting the retrofit Get-in Project
    @lowcarbonhomes

    Friends of Carrington Moss- defending local green space in Greater Manchester
    @FriendsMoss


    Trees not cars - Congrats on beating Manchester council on the building of a carpark
    @TreesNotCars


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    1 h
  • "We can't just outspend the Tories" James Meadway on Labour's economic future.

    "We can't just outspend the Tories" James Meadway on Labour's economic future.
    Mar 1 2021

    Keir Starmer had been enjoying a grace period. New characters gave the media new exciting things to talk about and with that came the praising of a forensic leader who could make Labour an electoral contender again. That sheen is beginning to wear off, the popular policies of Labour are not front and center anymore and there is worry on the left of the party that the radical eco socialist agenda has been put to the wayside and a return to neoliberal economics could be on the cards. So what is the policy direction of Starmers Labour? Is our new Shadow Chancellor returning to the center and will it be enough to tackle the twin crises of climate breakdown and economic inequality.

    On the pod this week we are joined by James Meadway (@meadwaj). James is an economist whos' previous work includes being the chief economist at the New Economic Foundation and also advising John McDonnell. We discuss if Starmer has abandoned popular Labour economic policy, what Labour has to do to stay relevant against the pro spending Tories and how a Green New Deal has to be about more than just state control.


    Shout out

    Manchester Bus drivers going on strike against Go north Wests fire and rehire program.
    @Unite_NorthWest

    Diem25, celebrating their 5th Birthday
    @DiEM_25

    Prestwich environmental Forum
    @PrestwichForum

    Big tech workers attempting to unionise like the amazon staff in Bessemer, Alabama.
    @BAmazonUnion

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    57 min
  • GMB for Green New Deal

    GMB for Green New Deal
    Feb 15 2021

    Note: We interviewed Declan before the decision was taken by the Haldane society to censure Keir Starmer, we also had a few problems with Alexs mic!

    If you believe it's going to take a mass movement to stir humanity away from a climate disaster , you're probably going to want the Trade Union movement involved in that. Trade Unions have a long history of mobilising workers for their rights and that's the expertise we need right now.

    This week on the show we are joined by Declan Owens (@owens_declan) for GMB for a Green New Deal. We talk about securing a just transition for fossil fuel dependent workers, organising inside a union and what it takes to be a socialist lawyer.



    Shout outs


    Farhana Yamin- lawyer and activist arrested at the shell XR action
    @farhanaclimate

    Lydia Meryll - educator and climate activist for her stirling presentation on the U.Ns treaty on the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
    @lydia_meryll-

    Clive Lewis MP- for just being a legend.
    @labourlewis

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    46 min
  • "If there is no point in a climate committee what is the point of the rest of them?" Climate emergency Manchester

    "If there is no point in a climate committee what is the point of the rest of them?" Climate emergency Manchester
    Feb 1 2021
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    2021 is hurtling in the same direction as 2020, crisis upon crisis upon crisis. That is not even mentioning the underlying behemoth that is climate breakdown. With the globe shadowed in unimaginable loss how are we to process it? to find the fight to carry on?

    This week on the podcast we are joined by Marion Grace (@maz_graz) and Pooja Kishinani (@Poojakishinani) from Climate Emergency Manchester (CEM) to discuss their recently published book "The Student Guide to the Climate Crisis". Marion and Pooja talk us through climate grief and the importance of understanding our emotions in regards the climate, the University of Manchester's slow movement on climate and CEMs campaign for a 7th scrutiny committee on climate for the city council.


    The students guide to the climate crisis
    https://climateemergencymanchester.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Student-Climate-Handbook-Final-1.pdf


    Shout outs.
    Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
    @ayanaeliza
    Dr Kathrine Wilkinson
    @DrKWilkinson

    kindling trust
    @kindlingtrust

    Labour MP Olivia Blake
    @_OliviaBlake

    Lucas Clay
    @LTMClay


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    52 min
  • "We've been fighting the effects of climate breakdown for 15 years" Matt Wrack of the Fire Brigades Union

    "We've been fighting the effects of climate breakdown for 15 years" Matt Wrack of the Fire Brigades Union
    Jan 18 2021
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    We're back! Welcome to 2021 where the pandemic carries on the points don't matter! As long as Climate breakdown keeps happening we will keep talking and this week we are joined by the people who are down on the front line.

    Our guest this week is secretary of the Fire Brigades Union Matt Wrack (@MattWrack). We discuss the long left history of the FBU, what it's like taking on ever increasing natural disasters linked to climate change and what the trade union movement has to do to rebuild itself.

    Shout outs

    United Fire Fighters Union Australia dealing with bush fires this season
    https://www.facebook.com/ufuav.asn.au

    GMB gas worker who are striking against Fire and rehire contracts
    @GMB_union
    Go fund me to support the workers https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/british-gas-strike-fund

    David Oliver @mancunianmedic
    for his clear and concise info on Covid and slapping down anti-vaxers and covid minimisers

    Sarah Wilson @sarahirwilson2
    for her piece on rewilding Scotland
    https://www.scotsman.com/interactive/rewilding-scotland-natural-ecosystem

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    1 h et 1 min
  • GND Christmas Special 2020!

    GND Christmas Special 2020!
    Dec 26 2020
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    It's our Christmas special! We shoot the merry breeze and look back at the shows of 2020, picking our favourite guest of this year and line up our dream guests for 2021.

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    27 min
  • "I Don't Want to Live in a Green Version of 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 World" Global Climate Justice with Leon Sealey Huggins

    "I Don't Want to Live in a Green Version of 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 World" Global Climate Justice with Leon Sealey Huggins
    Dec 21 2020
    There is a sane man back in the White House, a Covid-19 vaccination is beginning to be rolled out and Bill Bailey won strictly, 2020 is really turning itself around. All that is left is to enact a Green New Deal that decarbonises the global powers and everything will be fine, right? As much as decarbonisation of the likes of the US and China is important, if getting to that point requires the global south to be metaphorically thrown under the bus is it even really a New Deal at all?

    This week we are joined by Dr Leon Sealey Huggins (@Leon_Ayo) Assistant professor at Warwick University. We discuss the racist underpinnings of capitalism, how international politics condemns the global south to a climate catastrophe and how do we design a Green New Deal that doesn't exploit those regions who are on the front lines of climate breakdown.

    Links

    Leon's article on green capitalism
    https://novaramedia.com/2020/12/13/green-capitalism-will-never-succeed-in-tackling-climate-breakdown/

    Leon's paper "The Climate Crisis is a Racist Crisis
    http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/103485/13/WRAP-climate-crisis-racist-crisis-structural-racism-inequality-climate-change-VoR-Sealey-Huggins-2018.pdf

    Climate Justice activists Wretched of the Earth. A grassroots collective for Indigenous, black, brown & diaspora groups demanding climate justice + in solidarity with UK & Global South communities @wretchedotearth

    Shout Outs

    COP26 Coalition . A coalition campaigning for COP26 to be built of a Climate Justice
    framework
    @COP26_Coalition

    UNICEF- for feeding our children where the state fails to do so.
    @UNICEF_uk

    Everyone working hard to keep Ancoats green.

    Alan Good- campaigning for saving city center green field sites
    @AlanGoodLD

    Save New Islington Green
    @saveNIgreen

    Trees not Cars
    @TreesNotCars

    Save Ryebank Fields
    @ryebankfields



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    1 h et 4 min
  • "There can be no socialism on a dead planet" Catching up with Councillor Jon Burke.

    "There can be no socialism on a dead planet" Catching up with Councillor Jon Burke.
    Dec 14 2020

    **Apologies for some of the audio issues, Andrew had a night off**

    As the nights draw in and the GND team snuggle up in our cozy, retrofitted, zero carbon house of the future (powered entirely by the hot air supplied by Andrew) it's time for a catch up with the low traffic neighbourhood Santa Claus himself, Councillor Jon Burke of Hackney.

    This week we discuss the on going campaign to make Hackneys streets for people not just cars, the climate impacts of catering the world to cars and we debunk myths about low traffic neighbourhoods.

    Links

    Jons' article in the Huffington Post on electric vehicles
    https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/electric-cars_uk_5fb64017c5b695be8300137c

    The Hackney Citizen article on the journey from against to for LTNS
    https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2020/12/08/ltns-from-horror-to-acceptance/


    Shout outs

    Claire Stocks- XR and Walk Ride GM campaigner
    @stocksyatlarge

    Chris Stark- chief exec at the Climate Change Committee (UK)
    @ChiefExecCCC

    Scarlett West- Climate activist
    @ScarlettOWest

    Alice Toomer McAlpine - Manchester Meteor Co-editor

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    52 min