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The Schumacher Lectures

The Schumacher Center for a New Economics

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The 1st Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures of October 1981 emphasized the importance of vibrant regional economies at a time when the focus of the nation was on an expanding global economy. Much has happened since then. The promise of the global economy has faded in face of ever greater wealth disparity and environmental degradation. There is growing interest in building a new economy that is just and recognizes planetary limits. The speakers of the Schumacher Lecture Series continue to be at ...
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Planet Pulse Pacific

The Lentil Intervention

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The climate and health crises are two of the most urgent issues of our time. Change must happen, and it needs to occur sooner rather than later. Join your hosts, Ben Eitelberg and Emma Strutt, for conversations about people and planet. Find more details at www.athletesfornature.org
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Postcapitalism Podcast

Postcapitalism Podcast

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The Postcapitalism Podcast imagines how the world might look after capitalism. (And clings to the hope it may actually turn out to be good.) Each episodes features an in-depth interview with a leading academic, journalist, activist or political figure.
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A podcast to challenge your assumptions and inspire you with ideas from the periphery, the margins. We live in times of unprecedented change. The systems - financial, social, ecological, environmental - on which we depend are stretched to breaking point. Professional, personal and organisational ‘norms’ increasingly less normal. We are in transition. The ideas to shape tomorrow exist today at the margins. What might we learn from ancient wisdom, eastern philosophy or indigenous thinking? Or ...
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I’m Miranda Black, the DeGrowth Diva. In this podcast I talk about my real life Degrowth journey with retailers, businesses and fashion influencers. How do we reduce our carbon footprint in retail? What alternatives are there...what are some easy solutions we can realistically apply to our lives without sacrificing style?Turns out, there are tons of lower carbon choices right here in Canada. Shopping is hard. Acquiring and ethically disposing all our STUFF has never been so complex and fraug ...
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Space Commune

Space Commune

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Space Commune is a media project by two Upstate New Yorkers seeking an alternative to the degrowth and deindustrialization paradigm being thrust upon us through The Great Reset agenda. We love our country, the United States of America and take inspiration from our revolutionary founding. We want win-win cooperation with Russia and China in developing the world economy for all of humanity, and to Make America Great Again.
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A Radical Podcast

A Radical Guide | Jason Bayless

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A Radical Podcast brings anarchism, radical politics, and global struggles into focus. Hosted by Jason Bayless, it shares stories and ideas that challenge the myths upholding domination. Each series offers a mix of current events, histories of resistance, updates from A Radical Guide, and conversations with people organizing for liberation today. https://www.radical-guide.com/ Support: https://www.radical-guide.com/?form=donate
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Spectre of Communism

RCI - www.marxist.com

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Are you a communist? Think we need a revolution? Tune into the official podcast of the Revolutionary Communist International, for communist theory, analysis and history, every week! Under the crisis-ridden capitalist system, humanity lurches from one disaster to another. War, poverty and precarity are facts of life for millions. Given the circumstances, it is no surprise that an unprecedented number of workers and young people are being drawn to the revolutionary banner of communism. But wha ...
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Sustaining Sport

Benjamin Mole

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Sport is one of the great joys of the human condition for athletes and spectators alike. It can bring happiness, livelihood, physical health, and mental well-being, and it provides an education in teamwork, discipline, maturity, and humility. If that is to continue, sport must face up to serious structural challenges, both within and around it. It doesn’t simply inherit society’s problems; it can reinforce and broadcast them, or, handled differently, help to dismantle them. But what are the ...
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Science, music and psychology for the end of the world. Although we, humanity, as a whole surely understands that we are in the sixth mass extinction I am fascinated by how people's perception and response to this existential phenomenon varies. I have had hundreds, no thousands, of conversations around this topic over the last few years online and in person and it turns out the possible root cause may be even harder to grasp than we could have anticipated. This podcast will cover all of the ...
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GrowthBusters

Dave Gardner and Stephanie Gardner on sustainability

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Humankind has outgrown the planet, so we explore ways to recover from growth addiction. We dig into the more fascinating and hard-hitting aspects of public policy and the joy of living sustainably. It's all about ending our culture's love affair with "more," which is not making us happier and is killing our planet. No half-hearted greenwashing here; we share the brutal and joyful truth! Co-host Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Pa ...
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Bringing bubbles of microbe-related discourse directly to your earholes, Fermenters Guild founder Robin Sherriff hosts conversations with fermenters from across the fizzosphere. We cover topics from food waste to nutrition to book publishing to seasonality, discussing everything which fermentation lands upon (which, like so much wild yeast, is almost limitless).
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City & Crumpets

Hikmat Jamal

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City & Crumpets is an interview-based podcast that draws on the expertise of academics, community activists, entrepreneurs, and others who are involved in the changing fabric of Toronto and the GTA.
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This Must Be The Place Podcast

This Must Be The Place Podcast

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This Must Be the Place is a podcast-in-the-offing with occasional installments, hosted by David Nichols (University of Melbourne) and Elizabeth Taylor (Monash University). It’s a podcast about space, place, culture and society. It’s kind of like the Urbanists (a community radio show on RRR, about urban planning type issues in Melbourne) but it’s a podcast.
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Tøyen Podcast Village

Tøyen Startup Village

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Tøyen Podcast Village is an open podcast platform. We record live in front of an audience several times a month in Tøyen Startup Village, a co-working space and coffee bar in Tøyen, Oslo We want to have real conversations and spread ideas about a whole range of different topics that all relate to urban life, innovation and sustainability.
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Go Simone

Go Simone

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Exploring sustainable change and the women inspiring it. Women make up more than half the world’s population, and although they are often disproportionately impacted by climate change, their voices are not always heard due to lack of inclusion and representation at the decision-making level. Go Simone gives them a voice. Each episode, we meet with an academic, activist, artist, entrepreneur, politician, researcher or student who shares her story, roots, passions, and hopes for the future. Sh ...
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This podcast is organized on behalf of SPIDERS, the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on Equitable and Resilient Society, and funded by the Seoul Institute. The talks complement a series of original papers published on the SPIDERS platform, dedicated to outlining the building blocks of post-capitalist political economies and societies, not oriented around growth and profit, but rather autonomy, interdependence, good lives and a flourishing web of life in times of profound planetary ch ...
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A podcast dedicated to comprehending and cultivating the creative genius found only in Gifted Neurodivergence (ND). The time has come to finally take back the narrative of what being neurodivergent really is. Neurodivergence is creative intelligence. In this podcast we will explore the truth about what it means to be live in a system that resists cultivating differences. We will explore how we can cultivate our giftedness outside of the system. We will explore how new technology (such as AI) ...
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You want to change the world… We all do in one form or another. You might have taken that Gandhi quote to heart, to "Be the change you wish to see in the world." The challenge is creating a livelihood that allows us to be that change while finding growth for ourselves and our loved ones. Where do you start? How do you start? What is your unique path to a regenerative livelihood? Seeds of Tao is here to help you on your path beyond sustainability with tools and resources to help regenpreneurs ...
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Are we becoming a divided society? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this episode at:https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2026/ep-260101 The Listening Room - improve your listening skills here:✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningeng…
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“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism!” These immortal words from the Communist Manifesto (and the title of this podcast!) herald the most important piece of political literature ever written. In our final episode of the season, we go through the Manifesto chapter-by-chapter, and explain the ongoing relevance of this amazing docu…
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It's Christmas time in the UK. And like with celebrations around the world, people have lots of traditions that they do every year, and memories about Christmas from their childhood. But were the Christmases of the past as magical as we remember? Neil and Beth discuss a strange emotion we can feel at Christmas called nostalgia. Find a full transcri…
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‘Ik voel me depri’ en ‘Dat is traumatisch!’. Therapietaal is onderdeel van ons dagelijks leven geworden. Het past in een cultuur waar steeds meer openheid is over mentale problemen. Maar critici zien het als een symbool van de doorgeschoten ‘psychiatrisering’, waarbij mensen niet meer accepteren dat lijden bij het leven hoort. Historicus Gemma Blok…
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In Part 2 of this State of the World Forum “Code Red” segment, Jason Bayless is asked how to connect the dots across so many urgent issues. His response centers on liberation as a question communities return to, and a practice rooted in relationship with each other and the living world. Watch/read the full post (with both clips + full panel): https…
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Where do you get your fruit and vegetables – a supermarket, a greengrocer... or the wild? For our distant ancestors, foraging for wild food was vital for survival, while these days we tend to rely on farmed food, bought in shops. Pippa and Beth discuss foraging and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive qui…
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Jason Bayless speaks at the State of the World Forum panel “The State of Our World: Code Red” on animal cruelty as a lived “code red” condition—one tied to the systems shaping ecological collapse and normalized violence. This is Part 1 of a two-part segment. Watch/read the full post (with both clips + full panel): https://www.radical-guide.com/stat…
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The bestselling book Detransition, Baby was called 'perhaps the first great trans realist novel' by The Guardian. It exposes the dreams and sometimes harsh realities of the trans community. One character has an urgent desire to have children, another decides to reverse his transition - because he finds life as a trans woman too difficult. Gender sc…
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The term ‘postmodernism’ is thrown around a lot by right-wing shock-jocks like Jordan Peterson, often in tandem with Marxism: although these two sets of ideas are totally opposed. In this episode, leading comrade Hamid Alizadeh takes on some of the main luminaries of this obscure, impenetrable and ultimately reactionary school including Foucault, D…
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My guest today is Donnie Maclurcan, founder of the Post Growth Institute and a thinker who played a major role in my own journey. In this episode, Donnie breaks down why money accumulation under capitalism necessarily produces rising debt and inequality, leading to human suffering and ecological breakdown. We also go deep into possibilities for a b…
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Horses and humans have had a close relationship for thousands of years, but did you know that horses, along with other animals, are being used to help with physical and mental illness? Neil and Georgie discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this episode at:https://www.bbc.co.uk/lea…
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The academy awarding the Nobel Prize in Economics is still drinking pro-growth Kool-Aid, while spiritual leader Acharya Prashant is serving up a healthier recipe - insightful truth about ecological overshoot. We examine both in this episode. Technology headlines much of the conversation. "Technology is not a way out of overshoot; it is a slower way…
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How did Stalin outmanoeuvre Trotsky and take power following Lenin’s death? What do Marxists mean by ‘value’? And what does it really mean to ‘master the dialectic’? We went back to social media and asked for some more burning questions from our audience, for leading communist Niklas Albin Svensson to answer in a quickfire round! Watch our previous…
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Van wapenexport tot klimaatbeleid: burgers vragen de rechter steeds vaker om uitspraken te doen over beleid, of het gebrek eraan. Komen rechters daardoor te veel op de stoel van de politiek te zitten? Of laten politici gevoelige kwesties te makkelijk liggen? En heeft de rechter altijd het laatste woord? Een gesprek met rechtswetenschappers Janneke …
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You might know them as potato chips, but here in the UK we call them crisps... and we love them! With many different shapes, sizes and flavours, there's a lot to choose from, but why do we like them so much? And what are some of the other crispy snacks enjoyed around the world? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a fu…
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The 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture took place on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 featuring Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation. This virtual event was hosted and moderated by Alex Forrester, Board Member of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and Co-Founder of Rising Tide Capital.…
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Today’s conversation explores one of the most urgent questions of our time: What would our world look like if our economic system prioritized human and ecological wellbeing instead of endless growth? I’m joined by Omer Tayyab, researcher and collaborator with economist and author Jason Hickel (Less Is More). Omer works at the intersection of econom…
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Ted Grant is not widely known outside of revolutionary circles, but he was the most important Marxist theorist since the death of Leon Trotsky, who alone predicted the course of world politics after WWII. Amongst other things, he foresaw the post-war economic upswing; the expropriation of capitalism in China and much of Eastern Europe; Stalin’s cla…
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We've seen influencers on social media posting about all sorts of things – from lifestyle and fashion, to sports, travel, gaming and music. But did you know that some social media influencers are trying to get involved in politics? Beth and Pippa discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz …
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A decade ago, Greece became the epicentre of a political earthquake. Brutal EU and IMF-imposed austerity measures provoked a revolutionary struggle by workers and youth, who vested their hopes in the left-wing SYRIZA government to take on the institutions of European capitalism. But in the end, these reformist leaders prepared a betrayal. What are …
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Do you know the 'proper' way to behave during meals? And what would be the worst thing someone could do while eating? This episode is all about etiquette, what makes good table manners and what is considered rude! Phil and Pippa discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this episode a…
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Population growth is making headlines for the wrong reason or with a biased perspective. It's too easy to draw erroneous conclusions about dropping fertility rates around the world. A surge of news stories from NPR compels us to offer both praise and criticism. Population growth appears to be coming to an end, and that's getting all the oxygen, not…
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Has communism ever been a serious force in the Middle East? Are Marxists in favour of shrinking the economy to save the environment? Has there been a shift to the right in society? We took to social media and asked our viewers to send in questions about communism, Marxism and revolution for leading communist, Ben Curry, to answer in a quickfire rou…
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In de jaren 80 was er in Nederland veel verzet tegen kernenergie. Tegenwoordig groeit de steun voor de bouw van nieuwe centrales. Is het een duurzame manier om de klimaatdoelen te behalen? En hoe groot is het risico op een ramp? Atoomfysicus Wim Turkenburg vertelt over de voordelen en nadelen van kernenergie. Deze podcast is een montage van het liv…
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We all remember playgrounds when we were children – slides, swings, climbing frames. But have you heard of the new playgrounds which are designed to include things that others might consider junk... like old tyres and wooden pallets! Pippa and Phil discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive qui…
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Trotsky wrote in ‘The Tragedy of Spain’ (1939) that, despite the Spanish proletariat’s revolutionary heroism, they were “brought to ruin by petty, despicable, and utterly corrupted ‘leaders.’” In this episode, we chart the great triumphs and tragic demise of the Spanish Revolution in a complete timeline. Chapters listed below! The Spanish Revolutio…
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In this episode, Matthew Nagler and I discuss a bunch of things, after intending to focus on cognitive flexibility. That's pretty meta... We meander through various behavioral science "greatest hits," including the endowment effect, loss aversion, and altruism. We explore how these phenomena affect human behavior and social dynamics, specifically b…
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Robin is joined this week by Kenji Morimoto , author of Ferment and Instagram content creator extraordinaire behind KenjCooks, to discuss fermentation's connection to cultural preservation and spirituality. Kenji, a fourth-generation Japanese American, explains how his book focuses on demystifying fermentation basics and how to utilise ferments in …
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Live recording of Midland Highway Revisited: A Low-fi Investigative Musical from a Haunted HouseLive recording of Midland Highway Revisited: A low-fi Investigative Musical from a Haunted House. The performance was at the Motley Bauhaus in Carlton, Friday October 24th 2025. Written and performed by Liz Taylor and Sarah Taylor, with guests Ian Marks …
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It makes our food tasty and our breath smelly, but what are some of the other uses of garlic...? Apart from warding off vampires, of course! Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this episode at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english…
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was the greatest event in human history. For the first time, ordinary working people were able to win power and hold onto it. Our new season of the Spectre of Communism podcast kicks off with a complete timeline of the revolution, from January to October, charting 10 months that shook the world! The Russian proletaria…
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Volgens de degrowth-beweging moet er een einde komen aan economische groei om de aarde leefbaar te houden. Tegenstanders noemen het naïef en politiek onhaalbaar: de overgang naar een duurzame samenleving vraagt om enorme investeringen, die we niet kunnen betalen als de economie krimpt. Milieugeograaf Crelis Rammelt neemt de voor- en tegenargumenten…
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How do you like your eggs in the morning? Or do you prefer toast, cereal, yogurt or something else? Maybe you usually don't bother with breakfast! Well, some experts believe that a large breakfast could be the key to maintaining healthy eating habits. Georgie and Phil discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet…
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Do you believe that life exists on other planets? Well, here's an even more mysterious idea: Have you ever considered that there might have been another civilisation with advanced technology on planet Earth... before humans? Beth and Phil discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this…
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My guest today is Grace Blakeley – UK-based political economist and author of three books, including her most recent: Vulture Capitalism. We discuss how political and corporate elites work together to protect their interests, why governments prop up monopolies, and how “the system” isn’t broken – in fact, it’s working exactly as it’s designed. We a…
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We know that protein is important for our health. It plays a crucial role in many of the body's functions, including growth, repair, the immune system and, of course, building muscles! But has our love for protein come at the expense of other important food groups, like fibre? Neil and Georgie discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a …
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Here’s a rough intro to Midland Highway Revisited: An Investigative Musical from a Haunted HouseThis Must Be The Place on the Midland Highway? Liz from This Must Be The Place podcast talks through some of the research, true stories and songs that are going into a project called Midland Highway Revisited: An Investigative Musical from a Haunted Hous…
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Is a good citizen someone who votes and follows the law? Or is there more to it? Neil and Georgie discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this episode at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2025/ep-251009 Real conversations in easy English: https…
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How have humans treated whales throughout history? Their sheer size, their ability to swim to great depths and their whale song have captured our imaginations throughout history. But have humans always had a positive relationship with whales? Phil and Georgie discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and inte…
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Many of us like to visit museums to see ancient artefacts in person – it's an exciting way to learn about the history and culture of different civilisations. But did you know that there are criminal networks which steal and trade these ancient objects? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet a…
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Peter Kropotkin exposed how capitalists used "survival of the fittest" to justify exploitation. 120 years later, we're fighting the same battle. This episode explores mutual aid not as charity or activism, but as our biological reality - and why understanding this changes everything about how we organize. In this episode: The 1800s debate between K…
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Many of us could use extra help around the house – but what if that help came from a robot? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary. Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this episode at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2025/ep-250918 THE LONDON LETTER CHALLENGE for e…
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The closing session, The P.I.T, wraps up the day’s international workshops with thanks and collective gratitude. Throughout the event, we heard from organizers, writers, artists, and movement builders across the world — sharing lessons on anarchism, collective care, food sovereignty, degrowth, zero fare transportation, anti-authoritarian publishing…
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This session features Felipe Corrêa and Victor Khaled, coordinators of the Institute for Anarchist Theory and History (IATH) (itha-iath.org) and militants of the Libertarian Socialist Organization (OSL) in Brazil. The talk begins with an exploration of the concept of anarchism, based on Corrêa’s book Black Flag, recently translated and published in…
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This session brings together mutual aid organizers for a virtual panel and teach-in on how to organize a weekly mutual aid space in your neighborhood. Panelists share practical experiences, lessons, and tools for building local networks of care and resistance. The session also includes the announcement of a new movement initiative to support the cr…
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This session with Antonio Román-Alcalá and the Agroecology Research-Action Collective (ARC) looks at the intersections, overlaps, and tensions between anarchism, food sovereignty, and degrowth — with some focus on land reform. The presentation is based on a recent article in the Degrowth Journal but framed to emphasize action, not just theory. Afte…
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