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https://ungagged.podbean.com/mf/play/b289jv/RIC_Conf.mp3 Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean On Saturday 26th of October, the Radical Independence Campaign held a conference. The Speakers included Ungagged’s Nathalia Urban from Resist Brazil and Scottish Green MSP, Ross Greer. Nathalia starts the podcast off, followed by Ross at, 6 mins 25 sec and then Nathalia again at 15 mins 20 secs. […]
Since the beginning of the year, the Brazilian government has granted the registration of 382 pesticides in addition to all harms to the health of humans and the environment, is killing millions of bees in Brazil. Fipronil-based products used mainly for planting soy are particularly dangerous to bees, and soybeans illegally occupy over 50,000 hectares […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
I just finished watching The Edge of Democracy (Netflix) directed by the filmmaker Petra Costa, in short the film shows the critical points that led to the rise of the extreme right in Brazil today, but not forgetting its painful past with the military dictatorship. I could try to keep myself impersonal while I’m writing […]
https://ungagged.podbean.com/mf/play/8ahs9m/June_pod_pt1_Mixdown2.mp3 Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean We have 5 pieces for you: From Liz Olson who talks about immigration in the UK and is titled “Goodbye you bigoted woman – The tears of Theresa May’s victims should get far more attention that her’s did”. Mhairi Hunter muses on Trump’s State Visit to the UK, Philip Hammond’s seeming […]
Interview of Áurea Carolina by Nathália Urban (@UrbanNathalia) The world is aware of the absurdity and outbursts of Jair Bolsonaro’s government, but perhaps people do not know that many of their mistaken decisions are facing strong resistance, mainly in the Chamber of Deputies. One of the main voices of this resistance is Deputy Áurea Carolina, […]
Available FREE on iTunes and Podbean In this episode, self confessed bald white guy, Neil Scott, lectures us on racism, Brexit and the media of the billionaires; Nathália Urban on the rise of femicide cases in Brazil Music; the Scottish Socialist Party’s Richie Venton on 1919 – revolt on the Clyde and Lagan, The Wakes lead singer, Paul […]
News, Articles, Reviews and Opinion Open letter from #ResistBrazil Scotland Trans visibility in Brazil Dam disaster in Brazil Brazil, Bolsonaro, Liberation Theology and the new attacks on the Church Colombia Attacks, Venezuela Brazil: Teacher Illegally Detained During Class by Police Áurea Carolina speaks out: “Brazil has become an even more threatening country for those who […]