Janey explores radical education.
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the masters house” Audre Lorde
A show looking at the political function of education in the UK and worldwide and possible alternatives. I’m joined by guests with experience of home-schooling and teaching abroad.
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Mostar school destroyed in the 1992 conflict ©Donnacha DeLong
While the world’s attention has shifted to the Ukraine, Donnacha DeLong talks to a revolutionary in Sarajevo about the recent uprising in Bosnia Herzegovina.
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Find out what motivated Trenton Oldfield to use civil disobedience to stop the 2012 Oxford and Cambridge boat race and much more!
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Rants and raves with Mr G on Scottish independence and Ukrainian revolution. Will this rising nationalism provide a path away from doom or just leave us all with bed sores?
The old school orgional Black Panther Party was Marxists and was founded by Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale. The Black Panther Party or BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s. To talk about that part of history our guests Lorenzo Kom’boa (Anarchist) and JoNina Ervin in the studio. We’ll be talking on a range of subjects including race, class and political community organising, their histories and experiences, Anarchism, the history of the US black power movement and the current resurgence of US racist organisations. Lorenzo KomBoa Ervin and JoNina Ervin have in the past talked to groups ranging from white anarchos to mass black meetings on police racism. Between them they have 70 years of political activity spanning lives that have included everything from teaching at a revolutionary community school to hijacking a plane and taking it to Cuba. Very cool. Both are now involved in the Black Autonomy Network of Community Organisers.
Lorenzo will be speaking on Anarchism and the Black Revolution; as well as the mass imprisonment of Black people in the USA, and police harassment.
JoNina will be talking about the Black Power Movement and her book “Driven By the Movement: Interviews with Black Power Era Activists.”
Thank you dissident Island for the show!
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Bonnie Newman with Syrian refugees in Lebanon © Bonnie Newman
In 2011, the Syrian uprising was celebrated as one of the most amazing examples of the uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East. Thousands taking to the street in one of the most repressive countries in the region was unprecedented.
Since then, many on the left have turned against the opposition, focussing on opportunistic Islamist elements rather than the majority. Worse, some have lauded the Assad regime as a bulwark of anti-imperialism.
In this show, Donnacha DeLong talks to two journalists – Bonnie Newman and Ewa Jasiewicz – who have visited the region in the last year about what’s really going on in Syria.
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The Circled A show has reached the 10oth show! To celebrate our anniversary we spend 30min talking to Class War Ian Bone, author of ‘Bash the Rich’!
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On January 1st 2014 the Zapatista movement in Mexico celebrated the 20th anniversary of the taking of Chiapas. On the show we’ll be talking over some of the history and the current struggles of the Zapatista’s.
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