Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean The UK Christmas Election is highlighting how awful the binary sloganeering of the right really is – and how much the power of the Billionaire owned press and media still is killing democracy. Let this be your antidote. Help us continue to podcast, publish and campaign… a few quid keeps […]
Racism
Inertia to the Left of me Zombies to the Right
As Halloween approaches and Johnson’s ditch digging bulldozer is nowhere in sight, nor is his Brexit, it seems that the joke is still on us all the same. It looks like the Brexit debacle will run and run. It has been extensively analysed, but with the permutations and possibilities that could lead to a selection […]
A Spoonful of Blood
A Spoonful of Blood I don’t want to repeat the bile spewed from the mouth of the rogue PM, following his unrepentant return to Parliament after the unlawful proroguing. We all heard it. It’s not the first time we’ve heard it, and it seems that every utterance from the pick of Westminster’s most depraved and […]
Brazil – “Tinder of Books”, How Donating a Book Can Be an Anti-Racist Action
Pic: Winnie Bueno – Founder of “Tinder dos Livros” In Brazil, the presence of black people in higher education has made some recent advances with the introduction of affirmative actions and other social programs, but in academia the racial portrait is one of greater inequality. According to a survey on the Socioeconomic and Cultural […]
The Dance
The Dance. Linda Devlin. Fascism doesn’t come snarling and slobbering to your door, He’s genial and sociable with an air of troubadour. He won’t go marching to the dance in jack boots and brown shirt He’s charming, suave and smiling and he’ll cajole and flirt. He’ll entice you smoothly into an exotic dance […]
Gleichschaltung – or, “How the Left Helped Unite the Racists.”
During the forced Westminster closure, the fascists, the far right populist and various idiots will be supporting their leaders as they plan the next phase of Gleichschaltung. The right hate each other, every bit as much as they hate sharing this world with other h man beings. But, they will support each other and support […]
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”
…Quote – Paulo Friere. https://ungagged.podbean.com/mf/play/kuu2t6/Pod_1_take_2_Mixdown_1.mp3 On this Podcast… PLEASE SUPPORT US – we need to pay bills. A cup of coffee keeps us ungagged! Paypal.me/ungaggedleft On this Podcast: George Collins – Interview with Shawna Hawk Part 1: Media Island and claiming space for the empowerment of women of color. Part 2: Reparations and […]
Protesters Targeted by High Speed Car – One Protester Killed.
Protesters demonstrating for a water supply were targeted by a terrorist today (18th July 19). Today , the Landless Movement members (MST) of “Camp Marielle Vive” in Valinhos, Brazil, held a peaceful demonstration on Jequitibá Road, km 07, in front of the Camp, when they were surprised by a man with a pickup truck at […]
Caiçaras Traditional Lifestyle, and Livelihood, Under Threat from Bolsonaro’s Brazil
Bolsonaro’s policies threaten the traditional inhabitants of the coastal regions of the south eastern and southern Brazil. Yesterday, three houses of Caiçaras in the ecological station Juréia- Itatins, Brazil, were demolished by state agents on the grounds that they occupied an illegal area. Caiçaras are the traditional inhabitants of the coastal regions of the southeastern and southern Brazil, […]
“We Just Want People to Listen to the Science…”- June Podcast Pt2
Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean We have three individual pods in our part 2 for June. Nathália Urban – About her application for settled status in the UK and all the hoops she had to jump to have her visa granted. Rachael Horwitz – Telling us of her visit to Crete and her impressions of the place […]