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This episode was recorded on Oct 8th 2021

This week on the show we are joined by Dr Jenna Ashton (@heritagemcr). Jenna is a Lecturer in heritage studies at the University of Manchester and her current project, Community Climate Resilience,  is working with working class  communities in Miles Platting and Newton Heath through folk pageantry (@CreativeResMcr).  We look at what folk pageantry actually is, how art can help develop working class spaces and galvanise communities, and how we should use art and crafting to help imagine future utopias.  

Links

• Creative Climate Resilience 
• Eco Village Report 2019
• Chroma- Derrick Jarman

Shoutouts:

• Save the Hulme Hippodrome campaign - @savehulmehip
• Kate Wilson for her 10 year battle for justice against the Met Police - @fruitbatmania
• Forrest Fleisch -thread on the issues with tree planting to defeat climate change - @ForrestFleisch1
• Councillor Nathan Boroda - @NathanCBoroda

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If you've seen the news in the UK in the last month, you'll be well aware that our old energy system is having a bad time.

With gas prices spiking, all the noise from COP26, and the public's temperament towards climate activism cooling, it's probably worth figuring out what the hell is going on with our energy supply, and how we make it equitable and  sustainable for generations to come.

This week on the show we are joined by Jan Rosenow (@janrosenow). Jan is the European director of the Regulatory assistance project (RAP) which is dedicated to speeding up the transition to clean and green energy. He also is a special advisor to the UK government's Department of Business, Energy and industrial Strategy (BEIS).

We discuss what is causing the current energy crisis,  who has a stake in for the UK's future energy mix (and what measures they'll go to to defend those stakes,) what politics is created by energy production, and the viability of community energy systems.


Shout outs
Louise Sunderland  (@sunderlandlouis)

Ellie Radcliffe and Laura Williams for their work on the community wealth building tool kit with CLES (@ellieradcliffe9)

Links
CLES Community wealth building toolkit
https://t.co/i7IhBNtewA?amp=1

Rhiannon Osbourne (@rhiannon_osborn) confronting Kwasi Kwarteng
https://twitter.com/StopCambo/status/1456271753223671810

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This week on the show we spread our wings with a deep swan dive (I'll stop) into all things ornithological  with our guest James Walsh aka Mancuian Birder (@MancunianBirder).  We discuss how Andy Burnham's Green Summit deals with ecology, the possibilities of a People's Summit, and how we build civic pride around our wildlife.



Shout outs
Marj of Friends of Carrington Moss
@FriendsMoss
Manchester festival of Nature
@MancNature

Northern Roots projects
@NorthernRootsOL
mark champion
@MarkHChampion

Jubliee debt campaign
@dropthedebt
Manchester Oxfam
@oxfammcrgroup
XR mancehster
@XR_MCR
Councillor Ekua Bayunu
@Ekua4Hulme

Global day of justice on 6th of November

Links
Stephen Pennell's Meteor report on the Manchester campaigns taking place during COP26:
https://themeteor.org/2021/10/27/manchester-climate-justice-cop26/

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This is the last in our series on Labour conference 2021. We sent Andrew (@glassyeti) down to Brighton to follow the Green Jobs Revolution motion through conference. From being cancelled by the CAC to fighting with the unions over fossil fuels in the composite here the full story of that weekend.

We catch up with Clive Lewis MP (@Labourlewis) on what is going on in the party,  Olivia Blake MP (@_OliviaBlake) and Richard Burgon MP (@RichardBurgon) about the need for a green new deal and Rhiannon Osborne (@rhiannon_osborn)  from students for global health(@WeAreSfGH)  on how the climate crisis and the global health are interlocked.

Thank you to our patreons for their wonderful support we couldn't of made this episode without your backing!

Links 
Health for a green New deal
https://health4gnd.uk/
Green NHS program
https://www.england.nhs.uk/greenernhs/


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It's been a big news week in Manchester, so to kick off the show the whole gang discuss our new incoming council Leader councillor Bev Craig. Will this be a glorious green future for Manchester, or business as usual with a Sir Richard Leese 2.0 at the helm?

In the second half of the show, Ads is joined by podcast veteran Chris Saltmarsh (@Chris_Saltmarsh), co-founder of Labour for a Green New Deal, to discuss his new book Burnt, Fighting for Climate Justice. Ads is also joined by local legend Sean Benstead. We discuss what went down with the GND motion at Labour conference this year, the strength of the climate movement in the Labour party, the power of the state in affecting capitalism and climate, and why trade unions should be at the heart of the  fight to save the planet.


Links

Chris's book: Burnt Fighting for Climate Justice
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341828/burnt/

China Mieville: October
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2731-october

Shout Outs
Fire brigades Union 
@fbunational

Labour GND delegates 
Aden Harris
@aden_harris

Diarmaird Kelliher
@Kelliher_D

Mick Ekers
@mick_ekers

Happy Birthday to Andrews dad who turned 60 last week!

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To kick off our coverage of Labour conference 2021 we have a panel chaired by Labour for a Green New Deal' very own Chris Saltmarsh (@Chris_Saltmarsh). The most successful of recent climate solutions have been the global campaign for a Green New Deal and also the Degrowth movement. But are we sending mixed messages, undermining each others’ work, or can these two streams of progressive environmentalism be reconciled?

Chris is joined on the panel by Harpreet Kaur Paul (@HarpreetKPaul)  and Gareth Dale (@Gareth_Dale)

This panel was recorded on saturday the 25th of September 2021 in Old Stein Gardens

Thanks to the Ecologist for letting us record their event.

Links
GM Labour for a GND council leader election video 
https://twitter.com/mcrLabGND/status/1444258865596534784?s=20

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This week on the show we are joined by Kai Heron (@KaiHeron). Kai is a lecturer in  Politics at Manchester University, writing on political economy with a focus on land struggles and climate change.  We discuss why Land use and public ownership of land is a key plank of a meaningful GND, How a GND could be jumping off point for our socialist utopias and if theological frameworks are necessary to build lasting social movements.

Links

GasLand : Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvz_m5uPV4s

Corbyn era Land policy document- Land for the Many
https://landforthemany.uk/

Brecht poem: A worker reads history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o_8aoyWMMA

Anthropology of Marxism by Cedric Robinson
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339818/an-anthropology-of-marxism/

Out of the Woods collective: Hope against hope Disaster Communism
https://www.commonnotions.org/hope-against-hope


Shout outs
Land in our names 
https://www.instagram.com/landinournames/

Happy Birthday Producer Andrew!
@Glassyeti

Sean Benstead Labour GND legend.
@SigmaAuto420


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You cannot move for environmental activist groups in the world today. From hyperlocal save X park groups, to clean streets organisations, to the giants of Extinction Rebellion and Friends of the Earth. How are these different groups successful? How do you keep a group going to secure the future of the planet pressure groups need longevity?

This week on the show we are joined by Martin Porter (@dassnufkin) who spoke to us about OGs Greenpeace – which this month celebrates 50 years of environmental activism. Martin is a local group co-ordinator for Greenpeace based in Glossop. 

We get into the anti nuclear testing origins of Greenpeace, how the organisation is run, what's kept it going for so long and we examine its relationship with the other big environmental groups. 



links

Roger Hallam conversation with Greenpeace Executive Director John Sauven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nXRk9-Y3NM


Greenwire - Greenpeace social media platform.
https://greenwire.greenpeace.org.uk/s/

Shout outs

Charlie Baker at Red Co-op
@RedCooperative

Jonathan Atkinson for using "Arse" in the Guardian and for there work at Carbon Coop
@lowwintersun

Clean team Prestwich
@cleanteamprest

The "Rosa of Rochdale" Angela Brown
@Angel4brown598


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This week on the show we are joined by two Green councillors from Greater Manchester, newly elected Rob Nunney and Trafford stalwart Geraldine Goggins. We discuss life as a minority party Councillor in the Manchester Labour behemoth, How the Greens campaign and approach democracy as well as what the Green Party needs to do to  appeal to people outside of the white middle class.

Shout outs
Shon Faye 
@shonfaye-
the Transgender Issue
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-transgender-issue-an-argument-for-justice/9780241423141

Fossil Free Manchester
@FossilFreeGM
School strikes for Climate
@Youthstrikemcr
Friends of the earth Manchester
@foemcr
Extinction rebellion Manchester 
@XR_MCR
3 Acres and a Cow
Wythenshaw Waste Warriors
@WarriorsWaste 

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This week we’re diving to the very core of the capitalist economy and well most economics- Work. Your 9-5, that zero hours contract your bread making, back breaking labour. We spend alot of time wondering what work we can do to save the planet but do we need work in the traditional sense at all?  And does our emotional response to work make it harder to demand better conditions?

This week on the show  we are joined by Labour Journalist and author of the fantastic book “ Work wont love you back” Sarah Jaffe. We discuss what Labour Journalism is,  why  "work" is defined by some labour and not others and is the Green New Deal just trying to revive the Fordist bargain for white men?

Links
Mariame Kaba
http://mariamekaba.com/


US Representative Cori Bush on the eviction moratorium and the shame and power of poverty
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/06/deconstructed-cori-bush-eviction-poverty/

farewell to the factory by Ruth Milkman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/617394.Farewell_to_the_Factory

Shout outs
Amelia Horgan- Lost in work 
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340913/lost-in-work/
@AmeliaHorgan

Phil Jones- work without the worker 
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3869-work-without-the-worker
@philjones7771

Rubicund- radical book shop in Falmouth 
@larubicund

George Julian - who is a campaigner for open justice and tweets from inquests. She is currently tweeting from @PeterInquest (inquest for Peter Seaby)
@GeorgeJulian

 

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