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On our Burn's themed podcast:

Max Newland on the anti-Trump protests in Idaho, his fears and the difficulties in reaching those who are supporting Trump and working together to create a better politics.

Victoria Pearson on the political gobbledegook now legitimised by Mays Brexit and Trump.

Chuck Hamilton raging on what is going on in Neverland and May’s visit… and his hopes for Scotland.

Mara Leverkuhm on the hijacking of the Labour Party and the Scottish Labour Party – (Mara mentions this link-

http://momentumunofficial.freeforums.net/thread/70/nec-hijack-paddy-lillis )

BURNS SECTION

Debra Torrance recites one of Burns best.

Steve Macauliffe in a tribute to Burns tells us of Liberty - do or die.

Paul Sheridan, lead singer of the Wakes, on what Burns means to him.

Wee Red Raiph tells us about the less painful burns night and no fond kiss and a wee poam for Trump…

Music – The Babel Fish Project – Ae Fond Kiss; The Wakes -Venceremos; Jackal Trades -Need the Character (s);  The Hurriers Faith to Fight; Kes’s Conscience – Fluid; Guttfull; Arsehole; Huskytones - One Good Reason.

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The theme for our first podcast of 2017 is Hope and, as usual, the Ungagged team have come up with a vast array of different interpretations.

In this episode Max Newland reminds us that the tide always goes out before a tsunami, Debra Torrance talks about the hopeful start to 2017 in Scotland, and Andrew McPake asks what the real aims of unionism in regards to Scotland are and we have an update from Ruth Hopkins.

Joe Solo talks about the erosion of hope through the politics of despair, Chuck Hamilton reminds us that white + poor does not = bigot, Matt Geraghty discusses hope in hopeless times and Victoria Pearson urges us to fight to regain our home ground in Hope is a Revolutionary Act.

We have Steve McAuliffe with his poem Rejecting Soma,  Oor Raiph, Eric Joyce,  Tommy Ball and Allan Grogan also talk about hope, and we have music from Husky Tones, Chess Smith, Pilgrims, Argonaut, Babelfish Project, Victoria Långstrump, The Agitator, Dream Nails, The Kara Sea, Colour Me Wednesday, and Thee Faction.

Keep an eye on our twitter and facebook over the next couple of weeks for Partially Ungagged - bitesize pieces of this pod for when you're in a hurry!

In this bumper festive episode, Roy Møller interviews Stiff Little Fingers singer Jake Burns, Chuck Hamiltontalks about what Jesus would be like were he around today, Red Raiph treats us to anite afor chrismas (Scottish style), and Victoria Pearson fixes the rip in the fabric of space-time to restore normality before 2017.

Debra Torrance discusses the redistribution of reality, Fuad Alakbarov speaks about Syria, we hear from Amber Daniels, And  Steve McAuliffe treats us to his poem Toasting the Bloody Queen.

Matt Geraghtytalks the joyless joy of commercialmas, Mara Leverkuhn discusses the Snoopers Charter, we hear from Beinn Irbhinn with a message from Kazakhstan, and John McHarg tells us the true story of the time he ended up in a jail cell in San Phillips, Mexico.

With music from Attila the Stockbroker, Steve White and the Protest Family, Roy Møller and Sporting Hero, Victoria Långstrump, Frank Waln,  Argonaut , David Rovics and The Wakes, The Kara Sea, Jackal Trades, and Thunder on the Left.

The death of a year of deaths... and we look at Liberty!

It's a bumper December episode... take your time, savour and reflect and then troll us on Twitter - where we are opening our Activists Advent...

On this episode, themed around Liberty, we have the former guitarist with Stiff Little Fingers, Henry Cluney, on the politics in his and the bands songs, Debra Torrance on Takening a liberty, Eric Joyce and Neil Scott on Fidel, Matt Geraghty with "A Monster Calls”.

Dr Bruce Scott talks to us about Free Speech and the Liberation of the Psyche, Joe Solo on a song that should be in your Christmas songlist, and on liberty.

Julie Bindel discusses the international sex trade, Chuck Hamilton talks about bisexuality from the point of view of a bisexual, Amber Daniels on the liberation of extreme self consciousness, Mara Leverkuhn on fake news.

We have Raiph talkin aboot tryin tae lissen tae uvvars views oan twittar, an no jus bein insultin!, Steve McAuliiffe with A Full Scale Apocalyptic Meltdown, Ruth Hopkins gives us an update on the stand off in North Dakota between Native American water protectors and the state working on behalf of the oil companies, Fuad Alakbarov speaks about the dreadful reality of the immigration crisis, Tommy Ball on the disasterous 2016 and the rise of racism and the right, and Victoria Pearson asks what it means when we say "It's a free country", and Atilla the Stockbroker treats us to Prince Harry's Knob.

"When in possession of facts and the anger that truth brings, we find ways to change our unequal world."

Speaking on the podcast are Feminist activist Julie Bindel on Surrogacy, Scottish activists Debra Torrance and John McHarg on equality, Eric Joyce on transgender rights; transgender activist Amber Daniels on gender equality, Roy Moller on the last man in Scotland to be hanged, Victoria Pearson with a confession, Sandra Webster on the fight for her local Children’s ward in Renfrewshire , Chuck Hamilton on Looking Backward, Raiph on the guaranteed basic income, Poet Steve McAuliffe, Allan Grogan on the rise of fascism, Thomas Swann on anarchist organisation social media and cybernetics and Tommy ball on reasons to be fearful.

As ever we have fantastic music – this podcast features Jackal trades, Roy mooler, Bratakus, Derek Stweart Macpherson, Grace Petrie, the Ethical Debating Society, Bastard Killed my Rabbit, Effa Supertramp, Suzen Juel,  Thunder on the left. desperate journalist and the amazing Wimmins Institute…

Details of all the artists and contributors plus more articles etc on our website HERE

This is an unscheduled broadcast for Ungagged, in reaction to the news that Donald Trump has won the American elections and will be the next POTUS. We didn't expect to put out a podcast today, so it is a little shorter than usual, and maybe a little more emotional.

 

These are our live reactions, as the news was breaking.

 

Speaking in this special will be Victoria Pearson, Chuck Hamilton, Amber Daniels and Steve McAuliffe.

 

As always, we at Ungagged don't always agree with each other, but we do respect each other'says right to speak and to be heard.

Music in this pod:

Mullen - The Devil is Innocent

Thee Faction - Who Benefits

Joe Solo - Last Man  Standing

Roy  Moller - Another Man's God.

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In this episode Debra Torrance talks about what emancipation means to her, Matt Geraghty asks if democracy in the UK and USA is shit or shite, and Ruth McAteer speaks about independence for disabled people.

With Victoria Pearson talking about remembrance, Red Raiph on Halloween, and Matt Carr from One Day Without Us talking about the planned day of action on February 20th in protest of the dangerous rhetoric surrounding the migration debate.

We'll also hear from Chuck Hamilton, Eric Joyce, and John McHarg and have some poetry from Steve McAuliffe.

With music from Blossoms, John D Revelator, The Hurriers, Colour Me Wednesday, The Tuts, Milton Star, The Girobabies, Steve White and the Protest Family, and Thee Faction.

With thanks to Neil Anderson for his work with the sound on Red Raiph and Steve McAuliffe's pieces, and Neil Scott for pulling everything together. Backing music in Red Raiph's piece used with permission from bensound.

In this episode, presented by Chuck Hamilton, we focus mainly on the US Elections,  with the Native American view from Ruth Hopkins, Allan Grogan giving the view from Scotland and discussions on Trump from Debra Torrance and Amber Daniels.

With John McHarg speaking about Scotland, Jagdeesh Singh on the ecological denigration of the Punjab and Eric Joyce on the anti-independence “professor” who isn’t quite what he seems...

 Featuring poetry from Red Raiph and Steve McAuliffe, fiction from Victoria Pearson and music from the Faslane Peace CampBenefit album - available from CND Scotland and from the peace camp. – call in!

With a hat tip to Neil Anderson for his work with sound effects, and Neil Scott for pulling the entire thing together.

Today we do something historical.

As a Scottish lefty media hub We are going to take NO editorial lead & allow you to make up your mind in #POTUS2016. Our contributers are going out unedited- their views- their analysis. Some agree, some don't. 

Different left views, Ungagged!

A new approach on the left. Respecting all left views and allowing them a voice. Passing no editorial judgement.

YOU decide. You hear the evidence, and if you are a citizen of the USA, you decide.

An Ungagged reaction to the Tory Party conference.  On this podcast (details on our blog HERE) :

Thee Faction - Conservative Friend

Neil Scott

Debra Torrance 

Eric Joyce

Vodun- Bloodstones

Victoria Pearson

Matt Geraghty

Dreamnails - DIY

Amber Daniels 

Poem- Address to the Tory Conference by Steve McAulliffe

On this Podcast:  

Eric Joyce on Labour and Independence; Ruth Hopkins on the North Dakotan Pipeline; Debra Torrance on the iniquity our society metes out on the disabled; Wee Raiph (wit cin go rang?), Jagdeesh Singh on the national struggle for freedom in the Punjab; Victoria Pearson's short story, "Finding God" read by Neil Anderson; Matt Geraghty on the desperate lies peddled within the Labour Party about about Labour Jewish activist Jackie Walker; Amber Daniels with her thoughts on the EU debacle; Dr Bruce Scott on Pseudotherapeutics, and Chuck Hamilton on the Presidential elections...

Presented by Neil Scott.  Recorded by the contributors... Edited by Neil Scott and Neil Anderson, with thanks to Victoria Pearson.

Do we take a stance.  Yes.  Do we agree with each other all the time?  No.

Music by inspirational women and women's groups:

Sharon Martin

Babelfish Project

the Wimmin's Institute

Petrol Girls

Desperate Journalist

Argonaut,

Foxcunt

Madame So

Fightmilk

Ethical Debating Society

Details about all of the contributions will be on our blog - HERE

Our Facebook page is HERE

we are on Twitter HERE