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 On the show this week we are joined by Helen Woodcock and Chris Walsh from the kindling trust (@kindlingtrust) a Farming Co-op based in Greater Manchester.  We discuss the project and how they want to improve farming for farmers and consumers, How industrialised farming is hurting farmers and building solidarity with farmers across the world. 

Support the Kindling Farm here https://kindling.org.uk/InvestFarm

Links
Milan Urban Food Pact
https://www.milanurbanfoodpolicypact.org/the-milan-pact/

land workers Alliance
https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/

Via campesina- campaign for food sovereignty
https://viacampesina.org/en/food-sovereignty/

Shout outs

Ruth and Graham from the Oxford Real Farming Conference
@ORFC

Land workers alliance 
@LandworkersUK
Open Kitchen   
@OpenKitchenMCR

Luisa Neubauer along with Fridays for futures Germany for taking the german Government to court and winning!
@Luisamneubaue

@FridayForFuture

Go Northwest (@gnwbus) have been trying to slash worker conditions and push draconian fire and rehire contracts on bus drivers. Unite  drivers have been on strike for over 9 weeks to battle this cruel and calculated move by the company. Solidarity to the striking workers!  @Unite_NorthWest

@gnwbus


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The political landscape of Britain has changed a lot in the last six years. You could be forgiven in early 2015 if you thought all the major parties were similar except for different coloured ties. With the surprise election of Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party that year, politics shifted up a gear,  the party of the working class digging deep into its socialist roots to make another Britain possible.  His election provided the political space for a eco-socialist vision of Britain.

The Labour Party, historically the party of heavy industry, now possesses a grassroots movement striving to make the party climate conscious. How did this come about? And what should the party do to achieve a transition to a post-carbon United Kingdom?

This week on the show we are joined by former Leader of the Labour Party and former Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn MP.  We discuss enfranchising the Labour movement, supporting workers in carbon intensive industries to transition away from them, and we ask, is Labour still the vehicle for progressive politics in the UK?


links

Isabella Trees' Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
https://www.waterstones.com/book/wilding/isabella-tree/9781509805105

The Peace and Justice Project
https://thecorbynproject.com/join-us/

Shout Outs
everyone who have been campaigning for the Shrewsbury  24 for so long. 
@Shrewsbury24C

Naomi Klein
@NaomiAKlein
Labour for a Green New Deal
@LabGND

Manchester Meteor 
@mcrmeteor

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We spend a lot of time on the podcast looking at the big picture; national carbon budgets, climate politics and so on. Even looking at Greater Manchester as a region sometimes can obscure some of the challenges when it comes to protecting our planet. Climate change isn't just about parts per million in the atmosphere, it's also about protecting and expanding biodiversity to support our ecosystem. Even the smallest thing can change the course of the future.

This week we are joined on the show by Jenifer Wood, Laura Nash and Stewart Fraser, organisers from the Willow Tit project based at Carrington Moss in Trafford. We discuss the importance of the scrubland habitats of the willow tit, the delicate balancing act of their ecosystems, the effects of development, and how people can get involved in supporting conservation projects in their own neighbourhoods. 

 
City Nature Challenge - get out there and spot some wildlife
https://citynaturechallenge.org/


Shout outs

Youth strike Manchester
@Youthstrikemcr

Geoff Densham for doing the pioneering work on the willow Tit project
Mark Champion - for his expertise and support of the project 
 
To all the Friends groups in Manchester

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This podcast was recorded on the 25th of February 2021, before the introduction of the Police, Crime, sentencing and Courts Bill and the subsequent protests.


This week we are joined by Labour MP for Norwich South Clive Lewis ( @labourlewis). We discuss climate politics and the Labour Party,  how to save British democracy and  does the left need proportional representation to succeed? 


shout outs
James Meadway - @meadwaj
Check out James recent episode on the podcast here-
http://ow.ly/jcWQ50DMoY1
Malcolm - Ads friend getting back on his feet.
GMB  - @GMB_union
IWGB  @IWGBunion

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for a piece of breaking news.

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has announced that the city region will bring its bus network back under public control.  Finally Manchester will have the connected fair transport service it deserves! 

It’s a huge win for Manchester’s communities and commuters, but most of all, it’s a victory for Better Buses GM who have campaigned tirelessly for years to reform the bus network.

On this bonus episode we welcome back Better Buses Greater Manchester campaigner Pascale Robinson (@PascaleRobinson). We talk through this hard fought victory, what happens next and take a brief moment to celebrate.

Here's our orginal interview with Pascale last summer 
https://www.buzzsprout.com/919177/episodes/4818593


Check out the Better Buses event on the 7th on how to win for your community

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-win-better-buses-for-our-communities-tickets-148318006149

Read Pascales' piece in Tribune
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/greater-manchesters-public-buses-are-the-future

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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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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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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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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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