On this episode is Jon Wedger. Jon is a retired Metropolitan Police detective constable, who specialised in cases of child abuse. Jon talks about the cover ups and collusions between childcare services, the police and the ruling class criminality.
Yodet also reads from Plato’s Symposium & consciousness.
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An exclusive interview with Professor Jane Somerville professor of cardiology.
During her career that spanned over 40 years, Jane worked at both the National Heart Hospital and the Royal Brompton, helping to establish the grown up congenital heart disease service (GUCH) at both hospitals.
Jane became the second woman to enter the Paediatric Cardiology Hall of Fame, founded the GUCH Patients Association (later renamed the Somerville Heart Foundation) and the inaugural World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology.
Now in retirement, she is dedicating her time campaigning with whistleblowing practising doctors, in the uk who have found themselves centre stage of a widespread culture of institutionalised coverup, that stretches from their places of work, up to the highest levels of power.
Also featured on the show poetry and song from artist Olie Martin.
Olie Martin is an artist, musician, writer, researcher, activist and co-founder of RIGD Media, an independent platform for citizen journalism and creative content. Originally from the South East of England, he is now based in Argyll & Bute, Scotland following a few years in Manchester & then Liverpool. After leaving school at sixteen, Olie worked in carpentry before discovering his love of books and words and returning to education to study Sociology and Politics at Goldsmiths University. Olie’s relocation ‘up North’ included some personal turmoil and a period of street homelessness. Building on his experiences, Olie created ‘The Sounds of the Streets’, an immersive sonic and sculptural piece capturing the ambient sounds of Manchester’s urban street subculture. The piece featured in the International Arts and Homelessness Festival (Manchester, 2018) and the International Sonic Arts Forum (Huddersfield, 2019), and was showcased at Liverpool’s ‘Light Night’ Festival in May 2020. Olie is a prolific writer, whose published work includes a well-received investigative journalism series for independent publication ‘The Manchester Meteor’, fictional short stories in ‘The Lumpen Journal’ (January 2020) and a collection of selected poetry as ‘The Black Fox’. He is currently in discussions around publication of his first novel, ‘A Gust of Wind’ as well as working on new poetry collections for publication and various sound & music projects. To contact details; olie@oliemartin.com.
We pay tribute to the whistleblower following the release of Julian Assange.
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On this show Yodet Gherez interviews a long standing Activist who was involved with the Anti Globalization Movements of the late 90’s and early 2000’s. We talk about old and new groups he has been in or is a part of like The Wombles, Plan C, Anti-Fascist organising, varies campaigns and more!
Music by the band 52 commercial road .
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Arthur is a working class Anarchist, anti fascist and one of the key organisers of the Fuck Parade, a demonstration against the increasing gentrification of London UK. We talk about their previous protests, identity politics, Hipsters, The Tories, Class War politics Anarchism and more.
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Parts 1 & 2 of an interview with co-author Rob Evans.
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In the last two years, details of undercover police pretending to be activists have slowly emerged. A new book by Paul Lewis and Rob Evans, Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police, provides the latest information about police sleeping with activist women while pretending to be someone else and officers using the names of dead children. The case that has outraged the public and led to promises of political action has been the revelation that police spied on the Stephen Lawrence campaign.
Donnacha talks to veteran activist Ellenor Hutson, who knew some of the police spies in their activist cover, about what’s happened and what should happen next.
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Mr G discusses the recent undercover police scandal, Mandela, protests in Turkey and a tale of King Arthur.
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Donnacha talks to two journalists and trade union activists, Ewa Jasiewicz – still under injunction over her arrest at the No Dash for Gas protest at the EDF West Burton power station – and Jason N. Parkinson – who has just settled his second fight against police production orders – about their successful court battles and how their fight continues.
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From the SWP to the police, the Catholic Church to the Lib Dems, hierarchical organisations are in crisis over how they’ve dealt with – or failed to deal with – allegations of sexual impropriety: rape or sexual assault. Donnacha DeLong talks to Zoe Stavri (@stavvers) and Laurie Penny (@pennyred) about the current crises, the unofficial hierarchies within even autonomous and anarchist groups and whether equality is possible in hierarchical organisations.
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Debbie (lecturer, Activist and an Anch0-Fem) , who has been organising free universities at occupy sun street, talks about New Movements and Emily (in Fit Watch and Activist) about Total policing. It’s a corker!
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