Dublin-based podcast talking about the environmental justice, climate change and all the issues intertwined with these. We want to make these kinds of conversations easier to have. Break the ice before we break the ice.
The final episode in this series! More discussions on community organising and movement building. Hear Lucky Khambule tell the story of the strike and occupation that started MASI, as well as more chats with Eoghan O'Ceannabhain, Donal O'Kelly, Eddie Mitchell, and finishing off with Enda McHugh introducing CATU, how it works, and how you can join.
Conversations about organising and community building, with Maureen O'Connor from XR, Eoghan O'Ceannabhain from PBP, Donal O'Kelly, Laura Kehoe, Emma Mincks, and Jacintha and Thomas from Abhainn an Olfhia.
Interviews with Ed Horgan of Shannonwatch, Eoghan O'Ceannabhain from PBP, Donal O'Kelly and Ted Cook on Ireland's neo-colonial status and relationship to imperialism. Reflection and analysis of increasing anti-migrant agitation in Ireland.
Hear perspectives on the Green betrayal and the corporate hold on government, from activists in Leitrim, Clare, Tyrone and from across the Atlantic.
This episode examines the effects of capitalist imperialist exploitation on communities in Ireland and around the world. Hear from Raymond Kemble about the destruction and death caused by the fracking industry in his hometown. Maureen O'Connor of Extinction Rebellion discusses the colonial commonalities between Ireland and Uganda. Environmental scientist Laura Kehoe discusses the difficulties and ultimately the futility of working within the system. And finally you'll hear again from Fergal Anderson and Fidelma O'Kane.
Capitalism creates and depends on upon sacrifice zones for its existence. How do communities who live in these areas respond? In this episode you will hear from activists from Treasure Leitrim, as well as some of the contributors from earlier episodes. Newcomers include Jacintha & Thomas, representatives from Keep Tulla Untouched.
The housing crisis and the biodiversity crisis share a common ancestor: privatisation. A brief history of land enclosure in Ireland, to explain how we got into this mess. Interviews with Ted Cook, Eoghan O'Ceannabhain, Enda McHugh, Eddie Mitchell, Brian Smyth, Fergal Anderson and more.
Take a walk through The Gearagh with Ted Cook, and around Leaf & Root Farm with Fergal Anderson. Hear from Nuala McNulty and Joe Sheerin of Save Dough Mountain, Brian Smyth of Save Leitrim and Eddie Mitchell from Treasure Leitrim.
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RTÉ tell us "The Truth Matters". The Washington Post carries the tagline "Democracy Dies In Darkness". What do these statements mean? How much do our actions align with our values? How does the news work?
An interview with William Hederman from Futureproof Clare. William explains the dual threat of Liquified Natural Gas and the runaway construction of data centres in Ireland. We are facing a future of energy shortages and catastrophic climate change. The Irish government, instead of tackling the issues, are trying to preserve business as usual and sacrificing our stability and safety in the process. Have a listen to this episode, to hear from just one of the groups resisting this lunacy. https://www.facebook.com/futureproofclare
A short episode exploring the ecological and social issues surrounding the construction of data centres in Ireland.
This episode is an interview with independent researcher and activist Mark Malone. We take a look at how the far right use social media to organise, and how social media platforms benefit from hosting extremist content. https://farrightobservatory.medium.com/remembering-the-utoya-massacre-as-facebook-hosts-calls-to-kill-irish-president-cf10790af67a
The Principle of Charity is based on the idea that 'arguments should aim at finding the truth, not winning the fight.' We can use it as a tool: to fully understand the opinions and feelings of people we disagree with, and to fully understand our own worldview. To challenge and refine our own views and opinions, to keep an awareness of what feelings they are based on. Ultimately, to get closer to the truth. But it's not applicable to every situation. Sometimes someone is just so full of nonsense that they'll have you wound up like a spring before you know what's going on. Join me for a wee while as I try to suss this out. https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-the-principle-of-charity/
"The heartbeat of critical thinking is the longing to know - to understand how life works." - bell hooks Thinking is an action. Thinking about the world and how it works is a practical act. Thinking about how we think will make us better thinkers. Every child is born with this wonder in their minds and somewhere along the way life beats it out of us. We lose our ability to ask questions and we associate it with drudgery and punishment. We get stuck. We can get unstuck. Part 3 of Psychic Self Defense: how we can train our mind to be a better truth-seeker and avoid getting fooled, the differences between criticism and critique, the education system doesn't want us to be active thinkers, logical fallacies, identifying ideologies.
Moving deeper in to Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World, we'll have a think about how we can use the scientific method to tell if we're being lied to. Who's telling us the most real story of reality, or who's trying to confuse us, to lead us astray, or to exploit us?
An audio essay, some sonic rambles and worried mumbles, wondering about how do we know the truth, who can we trust, who's being a nonsense-merchant and who's pointing us in the right direction? Guided by Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World, I'll try to drown out some of the noise with some mostly sensible sense.
This is part two of the first episode in a new series, where we'll be thinking and talking about forests. In part two we delve a little deeper into the ideology behind the practice of monoculture, and what role government and big companies play. We also explore the alternative approaches and responses we can make as communities. This episode features excerpts from an interview with Natalia Beylis from the campaign group Save Leitrim: www.facebook.com/saveleitrim/ Music by Woven Skull: wovenskull.bandcamp.com/ Imagery by Gareth: www.instagram.com/probablygareth.art/ Production: lovelynoises.com/
The first episode in a new series, where we'll be thinking and talking about forests. In this episode we talk about monoculture, the many ways that it's jeopardising the basis for life on earth, and what we can do about it. This episode features excerpts from an interview with Natalia Beylis from the campaign group Save Leitrim: https://www.facebook.com/saveleitrim/ Music by Woven Skull: https://wovenskull.bandcamp.com/ Imagery by Gareth: https://www.instagram.com/probablygareth.art/ Production: https://lovelynoises.com/
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 [ probablygareth@gmail.com ]
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 [ probablygareth@gmail.com ]
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 [ probablygareth@gmail.com ]
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 [ probablygareth@gmail.com ]
"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.
In this episode we're talking about water! And gently freaking out about how we're going to access it in the near future. We had nobody to interview this time so it's just Tommy and Eric ranting at each other for an hour. Contents: Ireland drought and water shortages, water charges, Bolivian water wars, neoliberalism, capitalism, the psychopathy of the super-rich, silly people doing silly things. The title of this episode is an expression in the Tamasheq language, used by the Tuareg people of the Sahara (Libya, Algeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso). It is the title of an album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen. Listen to them! The theme music as usual provided by the wonderful Wild Rocket - https://wildrocket.bandcamp.com/ The intro features a sample of water drumming by the Baka people in the Congo.
In our latest episode we focus on green space in Dublin City, as well as our usual rundown of the latest environmental news. Tommy met with Tony O'Rourke, a community activist from Bridgefoot St and Tony Lowth, a guerilla composter who set up the NCAD community garden to discuss parks, community gardens and their impact. Following this Eric and Tommy were joined by Michelle from Dublin Central Housing Action and Amanda McKnight to discuss who controls the city. Theme music: Blowholes by Wild Rocket
The month's episode focuses on greenwashing: greenwash noun The practice of promoting environmentally friendly programs to deflect attention from an organization's environmentally unfriendly or less savory activities: Interview with Pauric Fogarty of the Irish Wildlife Trust, discussing Bord Bia's Origin Green campaign. We also discuss the citizens assembly, NGO and public pushback against foolish government policy, alternatives to mass dairy farming and much more.
This month we're yapping about climate change and flood resilience in the context of recent flooding in Donegal and Derry, we're wondering about the upcoming Citizen's Assembly on climate change and examining the events in Charlottesville, Virgina, and what the rise of white supremacy and organised racism means for us as environmentalists. We also have an interview with Sinead Mercier, a researcher for the Green Party, and with her we discuss liquefied natural gas, oil licenses, speculation, exploration and clueless post-colonial government gambling with our future.
This episode covers: Shell Ireland, the continued oil and gas giveaway, fracking north of the border, Preston New Road anti-fracking protests, rural neglect, debunking the urban-rural divide, the Irish state and climate denial, and a new data centre in Anthenry. Including an interview with Niall Bakewell from Friends of the Earth NI. Featuring the track Rural Juror by Headless Kross, from the album Volumes.
Fifth episode of environmental podcast Turning Earth. This episode focuses on Shell Petroleum and the egregious abuses they've been responsible for in Ireland, Nigeria and globally. Including an interview with Maura Harrington of Shell To Sea.
Two lads and a baby hanging out in the sitting room, talking about how scary and fucked up the world is. Recorded and edited in a rush of a January evening. CONTENTS: 2016 carbon dioxide bonanza, 400 PPM, climate change denial and disinformation, Trump's cabinet, Fine Gael and climate inaction, government messing, Enda's platitudes, energy production, bogs and biomass, farms and forests, Ireland's wonderful carbon sinks, finance vs environment, Coillte, thoughts on state (in)action, fossil fuel divestment bill, migration and climate change, racist disinformation. Including an interview with Leah Doherty of No Fracking Ireland. Featuring A Poem for a Kurdish Baker by Christy Gaffney
We're talking about fracking, a dangerous method of unconventional gas extraction. Including interviews with Aisling Cowan from Friends of the Earth NI and No Fracking Northern Ireland and Terrence Conway of Shell To Sea.
In this episode we discuss the gold mining industry in Ireland, with a specific focus on Inishowen, where exploration licenses have been issued for. This leads to a broader consideration of the industry across the island and its environmental impact. Interviewees for this episode are: Toni Devine, an Inishowen resident and anti-mine campaigner; John Teeling, chair person of Connemara mining, who hold exploration licenses for Inishowen; and Ian Lumley, a member of conservation advocacy group An Taisce.
This episode discusses the controversial Poolbeg Incinerator, a massive municipal waste incinerator being built next to Dublin port. Residents of the nearby suburbs of Ringsend, Sandymount and Irishtown have been campaigning for 18 years against the construction on the basis of potential health and ecological effects, coming up against the undemocratic arrangement of Dublin City Council in regards to waste management. We talk to local activist John Whipple, Green Party councilor Claire Byrne and Mindy O'Brien, coordinator of environmental charity Voice Ireland. This aired on the 10th July 2015.
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