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While we are on our summer break here's a taster of the extra content that goes out on our Patreon.  Ads is hearing the stories of how people have personally fought back against the never ending grind of capitalism to reconnect with nature. 


For this months bonus content Adam speaks to his old friend Rob Carroll who he first met at their previous job, working for a bank.  Rob shares his story about how he went from being a young senior manager, a role that filled him with anxiety and left him feeling disconnected, to the moment when he was given an opportunity to leave and go on a journey that has given him a deep love of nature and kept him in balance ever since.

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With our good friends at Partisan Collective (@PartisanCollect) we hosted our very first live episode of the show! This week on the podcast we weclome Max Ajl (@maxajl) to discuss his new book " A peoples green new deal". We get into the critiques of GND and the movements around them,  how the left has to dig back into agriculture and we take questions from the audience on how capitalism has changed the working class. 




Shout outs and Links 

Keston K Perry
@radical_carib

Cochabamba Peoples agreement 
https://therightsofnature.org/wp-content/uploads/Cochambamba-Peoples-Agreement.pdf

Dino Gilio Whitaker- As long as the Grass Grows 
http://www.beacon.org/As-Long-as-Grass-Grows-P1568.aspx

Natures Matrix by Ivette Perfecto, John Vandermeer and  Angus Wright
https://bit.ly/2TK6A3x

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We are merely weeks into the summer and the catastrophic affects of climate breakdown are awash across the news. Wildfires, flash floods, heat waves and biblical storms all demonstrating that we have no time to waste and only time to act to save the planet. In this context it seems local councils are not  quite getting the picture yet when it comes to saving our green spaces to save the planet and more local campaigns are being setup to challenge power and save the environment.

This week on the show we are Joined by Jon Martin from the Save Hough End Fields campaign to discuss what the councils plans are for this large public green space and what they plan to do to protect it.


This episode was recorded on the 4th of June 2021

Shout outs
Save Hough End Fields Facebook group
@SaveHoughEnd

Rivercide documentary with George Monbiot
@GeorgeMonbiot
@rivercide_live
you can watch the documentary at this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ID0VAUNANA

Plastic Free Prestwich  and village Greens for coming along
@VillageGreensUK

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Labour's 2019 manifesto was one of the most radical platforms put forward by any major political party in modern european history.  At the heart of  the project was the Green Industrial Revolution. The plan to decarbonise the economy while providing jobs for millions of people across the country and supporting those transitioning from the fossil fuel sector.  As we all know Labour didn't win in that election but the radicalism of that platform is what informs this podcast and if it wasn't for the large commitment to decarbonisation this podcast probably wouldn't exist. 


This week on the show we are joined by one of the architects of that platform  MP Rebecca Long Bailey. We discuss the foundations of Labour's Green Industrial Revolution,  Why that name was chosen over Green New Deal,  Long Baileys journey to eco socialism and where the Party is now on greening the economy. 

Shout outs
Salford Litter Heroes
@SalfordHeroes

Prestwich Environmental Forum
@PrestwichForum


Chris Northwood 
@cnorthwood

Clean Air Piccadilly 
@CleanAirPicc

Clean Air Oxford Road
@CleanAirOxfRoad


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This week on the show we are joined by 3  Labour councillors fresh off the back of their local election victories  Ekua Bayunu,  Emily Rowles and Linda Foley.  We discuss their  motivations of getting into local politics,  what power they think local government can hold and how we can be radical enough to tackle the climate emergency at a local level.

Today GM Labour for a Green New Deal launches the 'GND Cllr Support Network'. After speaking with progressive Cllrs, GM LGND have created a network of experts that are ready and willing to give advice and support on environmental matters as and when it is needed. The fight against Climate Breakdown is one in which we must all support each other and the GND Cllr Support Network is GM LGND's contribution to that fight. Any Cllr in GM that wishes to access the network or would like to know more about what is being offered, email [email protected]



Shout outs

creative climate resilience project  
@CreativeResMcr

upping it
@UppingIt

moss side eco squad
@moss_side_eco

84 youth
@84Youth

Climate emergency Manchester
@ClimateEmergMcr

Local government Association 
@LGAcomms

Carbon Literacy Trust
@Carbon_Literacy 

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On the show this week we  are bursting at the seems with  guests from all across the country who are fighting against dodgy developers and trying to protect our ancient wild life.  We are joined by Claire Baker from Owlthrope field action Group, Rosie Pierson from Better Braintree Together and Marge Powner from Friends of Carrington Moss. Together they  form the Community Planning Alliance (@CommunityPlann1).  A coalition  of hundreds of community groups across the country trying to preserve local wild life.

We discuss why the planning system so favourable to developers, How the Tories plan to make it more so, the friction between decarbonizing, planning and the Green Belt and building local groups that can network nationally.

This episode was not sponsored by Mad Max

shout outs
Sheffield and Rotherham wild life trust
@WildSheffield

CPRE Essex
@CpreEssex

Steven at Civic Voice
@civic_voice

Save greater Manchester Green Belt group
@SGMGB2017

Amelia Horgan and her new book "Lost in Work"
@AmeliaHorgan


Sarah Jaffe and also her new book "Work wont love you back"
@sarahljaffe


This show was recorded on the 7th of May 2021

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This week on the show we are joined by Dr Keston Perry. Keston is a lecturer in economics and political economy at University of West of England (UWE).

We discuss in practical terms what reparations would mean, the historical racism embedded into Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and how a Green New Deal must be designed in that context, as well as the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution and how taking a paternalistic approach to defeating climate change won't bring justice to those most effected by it.


Links
Sorting out the Mixed Economy by Amy Offner
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ehr.12988

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2785-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa

William Sandy Darity on reparations 
https://reparations4slavery.com/william-sandy-darity-jr/


Shout outs 
Professor Maxine Burkett 

Asad Rehman
@chilledasad100

Alex O'keefe- Ex Sunrise Movement leader for holding the movement to a higher standard
@_dotgov

Alex's Thread on the situation at Sunrise
https://twitter.com/_dotgov/status/1402249288818769920

Cycling UK- for their campaign Big bike revival 
@WeAreCyclingUK

The fantastic organisations supporting refugees across the UK to mark Refugee Week 2021
@RefugeeAction
@GMIAU
@AmnestyUK
@FreefromTorture
@AsylumMatters
@FootballMuseum

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This episode was recorded on March 18th 2021

This show is ostensibly about environmental politics. The grinding friction between our natural world and the citizens who have been chosen to act on behalf of society. It is important to remember though, even with all the fantastic powers and creations of humanity, we are beholden to nature and to the physics that govern it.  The planet doesn't care about what colour ribbon you're wearing, it cares about the PPM of CO2 in the air.

This week on the show we are joined By Professor Kevin Anderson, Chair of  energy and climate change at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering (MACE) at the University of Manchester and a researcher for the Tyndall Center. We discuss the hard facts and modelling around climate change,  what a 1.5 and 2 degree world looks like, the failures of the Paris agreement, who holds responsibility for decarbonising  and the timeline of the last 50 years that brought us to this precipice.   

Disclaimer: Andrew made a right meal out of some of the audio for this episode.  He's been shot and replaced with a better Andrew with even more luxurious hair, our sincere apologies.

Shout outs

Rosamund Kissi-Debrah : a clean air campaigner who has raised awareness on the dangers of the pollutions in our cities after the tragic death of her daughter Ella, being the first death officially linked to air pollution in the UK.
@rosamund_ElsFdn 

GMB for there tireless work for Uber Drivers
@GMB_union

XR Manchester- for putting their bodies on the line in defending Ryebank Fields
@XR_MCR

Sean Benstead for his excellent article on reclaiming the city
@SigmaAuto420
http://www.gmhousingaction.com/collective-right-manchester/

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Far right politics invariably comes to the fore in conjunctures of deep crisis.  Since the financial crisis of 2007-8, far right parties and fascistic groups have grown in strength in Europe and across the rest of the world.  Parties ranging from Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Marine Le Pen's National Rally in France, and dictators like Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil demonize immigrants and minorities, pinning the blame of all the nation's ills on those deemed "outsiders".  But what do these far right groups do and say on ecology? How do they interact with a global environmental calamity, and how do we fight back?

Acclaimed author Andreas Malm makes his triumphant return to the podcast this week to discuss his new book, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the dangers of Fossil Fascism, co-authored with the Zetkin Collective. We explore the connections between modern fascism and European interwar fascism, the tactics and strategies of these groups, what factors enable them, how we struggle with them and how we win.

Links
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3812-white-skin-black-fuel

Koalas heading towards endangered status.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/2 5/sliding-towards-extinction-koala-may-be-given-endangered-listing-as-numbers-plummet

Shout outs

Glasgow residents who resisted the deportation of their neighbours during Eid.

Ads Smith, Nicky B, Ste Smith and Adam Kay thanks for joining the patreon!

Climate Assembly UK
@NetZeroUK

and the documentary about the climate assemblies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p097sbzc

Palestine Solidarity campaigns
@PSCupdates

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On the show this week we are joined by Author and Journalist Paul Mason. Paul is a writer specialising in Labour politics and post capitalism. This week we discuss the fall out from the May elections and how the Labour party has to change to succeed nationally, the politics of the Green New Deal in the UK and how China fits in the equation when it comes to climate change and climate politics.

Links
Pauls Essay: The Left, the Party and Class
https://medium.com/@paulmasonnews/the-left-the-party-and-the-class-1ca7b6a959e6

https://www.paulmason.org/



Shout-outs
@TSSAunion- fighting to save Eurostar Britains flagship high speed rail project

@Autonomy_UK - UK think tank of former guest Will Stronge @w_stronge

@DemosHelsinki-  Finish think tank running UBI trails in Finland  

@paul4citymayor- Paul Dennett the "Sensible Socialist" newly re-elected Mayor of Salford.

@hubbubUK-  creative campaigns and everyday inspiration for greener living 


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