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MIR84

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Everyone who’s ever been to a protest in the UK knows it: the police are not there as neutral facilitators of your democratic rights, but to squeeze the joy out of protest and make it invisible to those with power. In the last few years, the police have expanded their powers further through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, which gives them the power to restrict protests they deem disruptive, or even just noisy. That is almost all effective protests.

To understand how we got here, filmmaker Morag Livingstone and solicitor Matt Foot researched the history of the policing of protest. In their new book Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest, they trace the slow-burn British approach to the destruction of this most fundamental of rights.

In this episode of Novara FM, Rivkah Brown continues her investigation into policing. How does the history of empire affect policing today? Why do journalists so often take the police line? Why is support for the police such a hegemonic part of British politics that even at the heady heights of Corbynism, the Labour party would still call for more of them? What does all this have to do with a secret policing manual written in 1983? And how can movements like Kill the Bill coordinate with legal challenges to defend the fundamental right of assembly?

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We sit down with special guest Viv, to tackle selections from History and Class Consciousness. In the episode, we struggle to get a handle on Lukacs and do justice to the complex (and problematic) theory and legacy of this figure.

#148 - Class Consciousness

The finest legal mind of his generation, the venerable Sir Bane QC @BaneNook, joins Jack and Geraint for an action-packed 2.5 hours to give the lowdown on the Forde Report & the latest crimes and/or misdemeanors (sic) of Keir Starmer. After a discussion of the hated Mister Kieth's (8x) run-in with the Parliamentary Standards Commission, the Forde discussion - drawing on all the legal expertise our boy Bane has to offer - begins in earnest at about 45 mins in. Song at start and close is Jack's official RP tie-in cover of the Everly Brothers' 1968 single MILK TRAIN.

Reel Politik

Episode 245 - Crimes and Misdemeanors (ft. @BaneNook)

Is colonial capitalism making us sick? From the vast outdoors to the depths of our guts, centuries of colonialism have reordered life on the planet. In its wake have come the dubious efficiencies of giant agriculture and the uneven advances of modern medicine. We humans as affected by this reordering as any other earthly creature. And our bodies have responded to this colonial condition, in many cases, with inflammation. The body’s innate short-term response to infection has become, for many, a chronic condition. The world we have inherited is making us sick.

In their new book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice, Rupa Marya and Raj Patel explore the history of medical inequity and environmental toxicity, our bodies’ responses to debt and night shifts, and the work of deep healing needed if we are all to become healthy again. In this conversation at once theoretical and highly practical, they discuss the 'exposome', how our metaphors of health prevent us from fully healing, and how we can make a world in which the whole web of life can start to heal.

This week’s episode of Novara FM, hosted by Eleanor Penny, surveys historical scars and shows a path to the recognition that the health of one is the health of all.

NovaraFM: Deep Medicine: Caring Against Capitalism

Jeremy Gilbert returns to PTO to talk about his new book - co-authored with Alex Williams -  Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back). 

In part one of our three part conversation we talked about Antonio Gramsci's notion of Hegemony and how, in the view of Jeremy and Alex, we live in an era in which an alliance between big tech and finance structures the global economy and whose values suffuse the cultural field. We talked about why tech and finance play the leading role in the global economy, in a way that does not characterise the energy sector or other extractive industries. We also discussed why - in contrast to tech and finance - neither the New Left of the 1960s, nor the New Right associated with the Reagan and Thatcher administrations got the world they wanted by the century's end, even if they achieved certain partial victories. We also talk about why Jeremy and Alex argue that the left should appeal to people on the basis of shared collective interests, rather than on the basis of moral values.

Politics Theory Other

Hegemony Now (part one) - w/ Jeremy Gilbert

Richard Seymour on why Lula's margin of victory was so narrow in Brazil's presidential election and how it is that Jair Bolsonaro maintained such substantial support, despite Brazil's poor economic performance and his disastrous handling of the covid-19 pandemic. We also talked about what to expect from Lula's third term in office, both domestically and regarding Brazil's foreign policy.

Interregnum - Lula's knife-edge victory

Matt Taibbi joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté to discuss his reporting on internal Twitter files exposing US government pressure on the social media giant to validate Russiagate propaganda — and censor dissenting voices.

Guest: Matt Taibbi, https://taibbi.substack.com/.

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Matt Taibbi on the Twitter files

It's one of the most shameful jobs in the entire world to spend your time doing critical reporting on the enemies of your government while ignoring your own government's far more egregious crimes. 

People talk about sex work as shameful, and in America they'll even shame you for working a low-paying job like McDonald's, when on all our screens every day we see people selling their own government's ugly foreign policy in a line of work that is entire universes more shameful.

That's why I dislike the use of the word "presstitute" to refer to these people. Not because it's insulting to the press, but because it's insulting to sex workers.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Word "Presstitute" Is Insulting (To Sex Workers)

Ryan and Todd explore the concept of the bottle episode from the production and analysis of television. They discuss a variety of its manifestations along with its theoretical importance as a form. 

Ryan's article:
https://www.academia.edu/82724525/The_Limitation_of_the_Bottle_Episode_Hegel_in_Community_preprint_

Bottle Episode

Guitar virtuosos Lezzy Duchamp (@intellegint), Rodney Roger (@necrobranson), Lupo Toscano (@charlesraustin), and Krep Lasagna (@thevillainjoel) swap backstage stories, discuss gear, and show off their chops.
E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

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