More from Sean, Peter and John of the Greencastle

Peoples Office on, among other things, how much of a fucking head-melt it is to stand up to the power of the extractive industry.

Are you fed up of greedy cunts wrecking the buzz? Me too. Have a listen to this first of two episodes on gold mining and the many problems wrapped up with it.

Music provided by the not-gold-but-still-glittering Woven Skull, taken from their album The Lair of the Glowing Bantling:

https://wovenskull.bandcamp.com/album/lair-of-the-glowing-bantling-3

Image drawn by Gareth Curtis.

Joined this time for the Joint Committee by Rachael from Not Here, Not Anywhere. NHNA are a campaign group organising against any and all new oil and gas infrastructure in Ireland and internationally. At the same time Fine Gael, the leaders of the minority government, are using technicalities to block bills that are passed by majority vote. Guess what bills they target? Workers rights, environmental justice and housing are all in the firing line. Have a listen and find out how.

More moaning about things that are bad. Election ennui. Media nonsense-merchants. We've got the lot.

The first in our new, bare-bones series of current events and news analysis podcasts! Join Tommy and Eric having the chats about Extinction Rebellion, local elections, the notions of radicalism, the recent victory of the Waorani tribe in protecting their part of the Amazon from destruction aaaaaand loads more probably. BANTS NOT RANTS!

This time Eric and Tommy get deeper into the separation of humanity from the rest of nature. Tommy also talks to Lucy O'Hagan from Wild Awake about getting back in touch with our roots.

As usual there's a decent amount of lefty belligerence. Bakin' n' snowflakin'.

Music:

Wild Rocket - Blowholes [ wildrocket.bandcamp.com/ ]

Illustration:

Gareth Curtis [ [email protected] ]

Food Sovereignty: The right of peoples to define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries systems.

This time Tommy and Eric have a good ramble about food, where we get it from, how it's produced, how we as a species have become separated from the life systems that sustain us. Tommy had a chat with Fergal Anderson from Talamh Beo and Food Sovereignty Ireland.

Also includes some moaning about politics, so watch out for that.

Music:

Wild Rocket - Blowholes [ wildrocket.bandcamp.com/ ]

Illustration:

Gareth Curtis [ [email protected] ]

Our second anniversary! Kind of. In this episode we give a run down of the the year 2018 with all it's highs and lows, we also got to catch up with some of the issues we missed out on covering throughout the year.

Extinction, pollution, habitat loss, government corruption, corporate psychopathy, the death of the oceans. It can all be stopped, and it will be. The movement is growing.

Music:

Wild Rocket - Blowholes [ wildrocket.bandcamp.com/ ]

Illustration:

Gareth Curtis [ [email protected] ]

For this episode on fossil fuels, Tommy had a chat with Richard Curtin and Aideen O'Dochartaigh from the campaign group Not Here Not Anywhere, who are resisting the construction of new oil and gas infrastructure here in Ireland.

We discussed the danger of these proposed projects and what we can do to stop them. We brought up some scary problems in the last episode when we briefly discussed the UN IPCC report - with this episode we hope to shine a light on some of the solutions.

Eric and Tommy's rambles this month covered:

Countries shifting to renewables, Shell boasting about their influence on the IPCC report, the need to challenge corporate power and to get rid of the profit motive, Bord na Móna being a pack of liars, the yellow vest protest movement and how state governments use half-baked "environmentalism" as a cloak for austerity.

Music:

Wild Rocket - Blowholes [ https://wildrocket.bandcamp.com/ ]

The Pox Men - Bog Surfer [ https://www.facebook.com/ThePoxMen ]

Illustration:

Gareth Curtis [ [email protected] ]

"Question the authority of the authorities" - Fritz Schult

In this episode we're discussing police, specifically the Irish police force An Garda Síochána. We're asking questions: Why do they exist? Who do they serve? How can we keep ourselves safe?

This episode is dedicated to the memory of Fritz Schult, a resident of Erris, Co. Mayo and long time campaigner against the Shell Corrib gas project.