Podcasts about new left project

This week we speak to Jamie Stern-Weiner about reports of antisemitism at the Labour conference. Jamie is a graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies. He was co-founder of New Left Project and is the editor of 'Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine's Toughest Questions', forthcoming from OR Books.

The Next System Project: Life in the United States After Capitalism by MFlowers We speak with Joe Guinan and Dana Brown of the Next System Project about their ambitious work to draw from new economic institutions that are being used in the United States and around the world to build real alternatives that solve the crises of economic, racial and environmental injustice. They just completed a series of teach-ins across the country. They share with us what they’ve learned so far and what exciting new initiatives are developing out of the teach-ins. Relevant articles and websites: Wealth Belongs to All of Us, Not just the Rich by Dariel Garner The Next System Project Winter 2015 two-pager: NSP two pager Winter 2015 2016 The Next System Report #1: NSPReport1_Digital1 Democracy Collaborative The Next System The Next System Teach-ins     Guests: Joe Guinan is a Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative and Executive Director of the Next System Project. Having first worked with Gar Alperovitz and The Democracy Collaborative ten years earlier, he returned in 2012 to help design, launch and implement the Collaborative’s work on alternative political-economic systems. A former journalist, he was previously a program director at the Aspen Institute and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and has served as a consultant to the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. With a decade of experience in international economics, trade policy, global agriculture, and food security, he has been a frequently cited expert on globalization and economic development in major news media, including the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, BBC News, and Al-Jazeera. Born in England with dual Irish and British citizenship, he grew up in British labor movement circles and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He writes regularly for progressive outlets in the UK, including open Democracy and the journal Renewal, and is a member of the editorial collective of New Left Project.   Dana Brown joined the Democracy Collaborative in September 2015 for the launch of the Next System Teach-Ins program. She is an activist, popular educator and human rights advocate that has worked throughout the US, Latin America and the Middle East supporting communities organized in resistance to neoliberal economic reforms and military intervention. A board member of Peace Brigades International, she maintains a foot in international solidarity, assisting projects to protect human rights defenders from Colombia to Kenya, while thrilled to be based in the US working to change our political economy for the benefit of the 99%. Dana holds a B.A. in Sociology from Cornell University and a Masters in International Relations and Peace Studies from the Universidad del Salvador (Argentina). She is a founding member of Witness Against Torture, a movement to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and end the use of torture and indefinite detention at all US-run facilities. She is delighted to be the first Mississippian and third tango dancer to join the Democracy Collaborative staff.

This week we have the second part of our interview with Professor Andrew Kliman. We continue our discussion about his latest book - ‘The Failure of Capitalist Production’ - and in particular focus on Andrews critique of the Underconsumptionist Theory of Crisis, which is pretty dominant on the Marxist and non-Marxist left alike. We hear how the empirical evidence sits squarely in the face of this theory, what role financialisation has actually played in the economy, and the similarities between Keynesianism and Underconsumptionism. We also talk about the new book Andrew is working on, and just how impressed I am by how well Marx’s theories are able to explain the world around us today. You can find the article for the New Left Project that Andrew mentions in the interview, critiquing Sam Gindin's view of the crisis as financial, here: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/clarifying_secular_stagnation_and_the_great_recession And you can find Sam Gindins response to Andrew here: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/underestimating_capital_overestimating_labour_a_response_to_andrew_kliman Enjoy!

In GBA 115 we get better acquainted with Alice Bell. She talks Crystal Palace dinosaurs, working in the Science Museum, knitting, academia, blogging, science communication, teenage politics, how children's non fic communicates ideas, Captain Planet, communicating on the internet, and so much more. Alice is a science/media blogger for The Guardian, The New Left Project and also has her own blog on science communication and politics. http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alice-bell http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/authors/tag/Alice+Bell http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com/ Alice plugs: The Brain Train: https://soundcloud.com/brain-train-podcast https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/brain-train-podcast/id567550209 http://braintrainpodcast.wordpress.com/ Her twitter: https://twitter.com/alicebell I plug: The Stand Up Tragedy IndieGoGo campaign: www.indiegogo.com/projects/stand-u…oes-to-edinburgh We mention: Crystal Palace Park: http://www.crystalpalacepark.org.uk/ GBA Road Trips: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/cities/ Helen Zaltzman: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-65-helen-and-olly http://helenzaltzman.com/ Darwin and the Dinosaurs audio trail (Crystal Palace): http://www.audiotrails.co.uk/dinosaurs/ Richard Owen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Owen Natural History Museum: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ The Great Exhibition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition Victoria and Albert Museum: http://www.vam.ac.uk/ Jurassic Park: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/ Gideon Mantell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Mantell Science Museum: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ Martin Austwick: http://martinzaltzaustwick.wordpress.com/ https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-67-martin-the-sound-man The Story: http://thestory.org.uk/ Captain Planet Episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwUHHw7GL3A Doctor Who: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who Pokemon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon Blue Peter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peter Tiswas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiswas Captain Underpants: http://www.scholastic.com/captainunderpants/ Horrible Science: http://www.horrible-science.co.uk/ Infinite Monkey Cage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc Brian Cox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist) Robin Ince: http://robinince.com/ Horrible Histories: http://horrible-histories.co.uk/ BlackAdder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder Terry Deary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Deary CND: http://www.cnduk.org/ Ken Livingston: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Livingstone Militant Labour / Socialist Party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(England_and_Wales) SWP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(UK) new left project - stop the war movement debate: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_stop_the_war_coalition_the_socialist_workers_party_and_iraq Andy Warhol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol Emmerdale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmerdale Call the Midwife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_the_Midwife https://soundcloud.com/brain-train-podcast/brain-train-8-vincent-plagnol You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?