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As a nation, the Irish have always had a profound relationship with the people of Palestine.

“Whether born from our own history of British colonialism and occupation, which has cost thousands of innocent lives or through our Connexxion of struggle for civil and human rights, which came to prominence in the North of Ireland in the late sixties just about the time that 20,000 Palestinians were murdered in the 1967 6 day war in Palestine. Ireland will always stand with Palestine and with other oppressed people around the world!  Whether you’re Palestinian, South African, Jewish , African American, Indian, Vietnamese, Iraqi or Afghani – Irish people will always be on the side of good– fighting against oppression and the removal of civil liberties and rights. But at this moment in time, it’s not about nationality or religion it’s about humanity – as an entire people stand on the precipice of extinction. 
 

As a proud Irish man and a citizen of planet Earth, to be silent (as we all bear witness in real time to the genocide of the Palestinian people) is not an option. It’s estimated that to date 35, 000 people have been slaughtered – 15,000 of them woman and children not including the bodies under the rubble and with more than 600,000 are on the brink of preventable starvation.

Our own Irish ancestors experienced a devastating famine exacerbated by the British occupation – when 1 million people starved to death and 1 million more emigrated. So as the Israeli government uses starvation as a weapon of war, I am not going to forget our past, as those who do so and stand by, are surely doomed to regret their inaction.” David Holmes

ALL 3 CHAPTERS

David Holmes – Humanity As An Act Of Resistance - Chapter 1

Ripped In Glasgow - Radio Buena Vida 19.06.24

Drexciya Day Special w/ Nightwave - Radio Buena Vida 03.09.24

The Rolling Calf
Elaine Mitchener vocals, percussion
Neil Charles voice, misc. percussion, saxophone, looping pedals, fx
Jason Yarde double bass, misc. percussion, fx
Special Guest Pat Thomas piano, electronics

The Rolling Calf is a black power trio led by vocalist Elaine Mitchener, with core members saxophonist Jason Yarde and bassist Neil Charles. The trio’s performances combine texts by revolutionary African-disaporic thinkers with collective electroacoustic improvisation to strike a new bridgehead for the black British avant garde.

Second half
The Rolling Calf trio performs a programme titled Myths And Dreams in which they invoke African- diasporic texts to access an otherworldly surrealist realm of cosmic ritualistic ‘shredding’. The programme will draw on texts from poems by: Aimé Césaire, Kamau Braithwaite, Una Marson, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Jay Bernard and 
M NourbeSe Philip.

'Let me dislodge them finally like a night rainy with howler monkey cries from my chest as tender as fly agaric' (Aimé Césaire)

The Rolling Calf | Wigmore Hall 22.1.23

Pain, suffering and stress can be intolerable - but it doesn't have to be this way.

Mindfulness for Health reveals a series of simple practices that you can incorporate into your daily life to relieve chronic pain and the suffering and stress of illness. Clinical trials show that mindfulness is at least as effective as the most commonly prescribed painkillers such as Tramadol and codeine. A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience demonstrated that it is more effective than morphine. Mindfulness can also significantly reduce the anxiety, depression, irritability, exhaustion and insomnia that can arise from chronic pain and illness.
This new book shares the secrets of the Mindfulness-based approaches to pain and illness therapy, developed by Vidyamala Burch at the Breathworks centre in Manchester and which has its roots in the groundbreaking work of pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn from the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre in the US. The Breathworks Centre and its affiliates around the world have helped thousands of people cope with pain, illness and stress. Its pioneering approach is praised by Professor Mark Williams of Oxford University, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Professor Lance McCracken of King's College London.
The eight-week programme at the heart of this book takes just 10-20 minutes per day. It is particularly effective for the biggest causes of pain - back problems, arthritis, migraine and diabetes but works equally well for cancer (and its associated chemotherapy), heart disease, fibromyalgia, celiac disease, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, IBS, labour pain and even tinnitus. You will be surprised by how quickly your suffering melts away, leaving you able to live life to the full again.

Breathing Anchor meditation

Compassionate Acceptance meditation

This is a series of guided meditations led by Breathworks founder Vidyamala Burch to help relieve stress and anxiety.  This playlist is the guided meditations without the accompanying music.  If you would like to buy the CD with accompanying music please follow this link:

http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/cd-for-stress-music

Compassionate Breathing Anchor

Body Scan for Sleep by Vidyamala - Saturating The Body With The Breath

Meditating in midst of the Coronavirus pandemic is not easy. It can be particularly difficult because many traditional meditations rely on the breath as an anchor, or focal point, for your attention. So the breath becomes the place you return to when the mind inevitably wanders. 

When we meditate on the breath, we settle on a place where we feel the breath moving (such as the nostrils, the chest or the abdomen), or we follow the whole breath in and out. Many will continue to find the breath a great solace and support at this time. But for some people, the breath may be a relatively uncertain anchor: the sensations of the breath don’t feel quite strong enough to hold their attention. This is especially true if you have an asthmatic condition, or a history of panic attacks, or are experiencing symptoms of Covid-19. 

To help you deal with such issues, we have produced a new collection of meditations that will help you explore alternative anchors for your attention; the feet, seat or hands. There are three versions of the Finding Your Ground meditation of different lengths..... Read more here http://franticworld.com/coronavirus/

Frantic World 2.0

Bells only - every 5'

This was Eva Wiseman’s column in the Observer Magazine on 24 January 2021. I thought it was brilliant and told her so on Twitter with a load of clapping emojis. She liked my tweet so I then said how I’d love to record it. She tweeted back Do! So I did and here it is...👏♥️

CLAP by Eva Wiseman.m4a

Tam Dean Burn