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Bristol TransformedTalking Union w/ Saif Hussain (Taxi Protest Organiser)An interview with Saif Hussain chair of the Bristol Blue Licensing Taxi Association who organised the Taxi protest around the bear pit in April and October.
Saif discusses the changes in the taxi industry, the struggles for taxi drivers during coronavirus and the way that technology companies are sidestepping council legislation and undercutting Bristol drivers.
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Bristol TransformedShuddup About Politics 001 Shona Jemphrey On TheatreHow do you tell if someone's a good actor? Is Tik Tok more radical than Brecht? What can theatre can teach us about political communication? Are the cats in Cats in an uncanny valley? Producer and socialist activist Shona Jemphrey takes centre stage for the opening night of our new podcast series.
Shuddup About Politics is a new series from Bristol Transformed where we take a break from the political agenda to chat about literally anything else.
2020-06-1600 minBristol TransformedCommunity Wealth BuildingFrom Bristol Transformed 2020: Martin Parker, Malu garcia, Anita Mangan, Jules Peck, Neil McInroy
After the 2019 election many of us were left wondering - where do we go from here?
We may have lost the battle but the war isn’t over. We have a network of activist ready and rearing to go. What better way to channel that energy than into community wealth building projects?
But what is community wealth building (CWB)? It's predicated on the idea that the best way to reduce excessive wealth inequality, and promote universal prosperity, is to build a system where people share in the we...
2020-05-2400 minBristol TransformedImperialism Isn't Dead(Note recording starts as Shabbir Lakha is speaking due to technical error of not pressing the record button in time. )
From Bristol Transformed 2020 Alice Proctor, Shabbir Lakha, Narzanin Massoumi
Imperialism as we know it — central to the destruction and exploitation of autonomous states and peoples — did not end centuries ago. Instead of colonising through brute force, today’s imperialism has the face of capital along with the threat of colonial rule. From debt and arms sales to cultural domination and biased curriculum, imperialism is embedded in our society in all forms. What are the available tactics for resistence, and how can we...
2020-05-2400 minBristol TransformedNo Human Is IllegalSabrina Huck, Alena Ivanova, Nadine El-Enany, Ben Smoke
With the rise of disaster nationalism, the climate emergency, devastating conflicts, children in cages on the US border and tragic deaths from human trafficking in the UK, all this and more surely goes to show that borders equal violence and discrimination in the 21st century. In this session we explore the possibilities of a world free from the violence of borders, and how we can get there.
2020-04-2800 minBristol TransformedNational Food Service: What decommodified food provision looks like.Louise Del in conversation with Carys Kettlety on the origins of the national food service in Sheffield, and how the concept could transform our relationship with cooking and eating for the better.
This is a brilliant talk that ranges from how we cure loneliness, to reclaiming under-utilised retail space, to cutting food waste and eliminating malnutrition.
2020-04-1100 minBristol TransformedGetting real with strategySpeakers: James Meadway, Sarah Jaffe, Archie Woodrow, Kulsoom Jafri
There has been a resurgence of leftwing organisations, think tanks, activists, politicians and ideas in recent years, and in America it seems the left is on the brink of power. But all of this happened almost accidentally, and without serious strategic thought. In this session we ask activists from the UK and the States how the left can coordinate with effective strategy to win power.
2020-03-2500 min
Podcasting is PraxisEpisode 29 - Bristol TransformedOne of the organisers of Bristol Transformed, a left-wing festival of politics and culture, joins us to discuss the importance of community organising. We also have a brief round up of the week's news.
Cast:
Seb @PCSocialism
Ben @doesntusetwitter.com
Jamie @wizardcubes
Josh @JCnutter
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2020-02-211h 16Bristol TransformedEp 1. The credit crunch caused polyamory.Pilot episode of the Bristol Transformed podcast.
Topics DEALT WITH: Boomers v busters, people love paying for broadband, did the credit crunch cause polyamory?, should we turn the economy off and on again, welsh breakfasts, organising amongst the apocalypse and the Labour leadership contest.
With @charlie__oC @isaac_kh & @tinhinz88 doing hot takes duty.
2020-01-2800 minBristol TransformedCallum Cant - Riding for DeliverooCallum Cant - Riding for Deliveroo by bristoltransformed
2019-10-1400 minBristol TransformedHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Brexit with Costas LapavitsasNB For technical reasons we had to use a fall back recording.
Costas Lapavitsas is one of the foremost left critics of the EU. He was elected as an member of the Greek parliament for Syriza in 2015 before defecting to Popular Unity in defiance of the government's concessions to the Troika later in the year. Since 1999 he has taught economics at SOAS, where he now holds a professorship.
The event is chaired by Bristol Transformed's own Raven Hart. Raven works as a data analyst in tax, has lived in Athens and produced research on the economic effects of austerity in...
2019-09-0600 minBristol TransformedMcMindfulness - Ronald Purser in Conversation W/ Hettie O'BrienFrom celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have even called it a revolution.But what if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo?
Writer + Academic Ronald Purser joined us in conversation with Hettie O'Brien to debunk the so-called “mindfulness revolution,” exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have co opted it as technique for social control and self-pacification.
2019-08-1500 minBristol TransformedFully Automated Luxury Communism in BristolAaron Bastani, co-founder of Novara media visited Bristol to discuss his new book, Fully Automated Luxury Communism (Verso). Sasha Sadjady (Labour, Acorn, PCS) interviews Aaron, and then we have more than 50 minutes of discussion from the room.
2019-07-2300 minBristol TransformedKatherine Connelly on Sylvia Pankhurst: A Suffragette in AmericaKatherine spoke to us about her new edited collection which is published by Pluto Press.
"This book is a collection of Sylvia Pankhurst's writing on her visits to North America in 1911-12. Unlike the standard suffragette tours which focused on courting progressive members of America's social elite for money, Pankhurst got her hands dirty, meeting striking laundry workers in New York, visiting female prisoners in Philadelphia and Chicago and grappling with horrific racism in Nashville, Tennessee.
Adored by socialist students and progressive politicians, Pankhurst was also shocked by the dark underbelly of American society. Bringing her own experiences of...
2019-06-1100 minBristol TransformedThe Environment (room recording)Please note all talks at Malcolm X centre were recorded 'in the room' & so are somewhat noisy. Support Bristol Transformed so that next year all our recordings will be extremely high quality.
Panel on the Environment from Malcolm X Centre. Chaired by Rob Wotherspoon, panelists - Kerry McCarthy MP, Skeena Rathor, Chris Saltmarsh & James Meadway,
2019-04-0700 minBristol TransformedRethinking Education (room recording)George Angus chair's this discussion on rethinking education. With Dani Wijesinghe, Nina Franklin, Ollie Turnbull, Amelia Horgan & Leo Nikolaidis
Please note all talks at Malcolm X centre were recorded 'in the room' & so are somewhat noisy. Support Bristol Transformed so that next year all our recordings will be extremely high quality.
2019-04-0700 minBristol TransformedAlternative Media & Narratives (room recording)Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley Chairs this discussion of Alternative Media & Narratives.
With Ronan Burtenshaw, Dawn Foster, Matt Turner, Steve Howell & Alon Aviram
Please note all talks at Malcolm X centre were recorded 'in the room' & so are somewhat noisy. Support Bristol Transformed so that next year all our recordings will be extremely high quality.
2019-04-0700 minBristol TransformedThe future of work*Apologies, due to a technical hitch the end of Grace Blakeley's and the start of Aaron Bastani's opening remarks are cut off.*
We judge our economy not be the presence of billionaires but by the absence of poverty." -Jeremy Corbyn
This panel will explore how the challenge of neoliberal capitalism can be overcome with an effective socialist economy that looks toward the future of work.
Chair: Harriet Bradley. Panel: Aaron Bastani (Novara, FALC), Grace Blakeley (IPPR, New Statesman), Susan Newman (UWE), Maud Perrier (University of Bristol), Will Stronge (Autonomy)
2019-04-0600 minBristol TransformedShould we turn Bristol into Preston? Municipal socialism today*Note on sound quality* The first few minutes sound a bit odd because of lag between two different mics picking up the same voice - this problem gets sorted out so if it bothers you a lot, skip to five minutes in.
In recent years many have been calling the prevailing Neoliberal order of politics and economics into question. We were told by the people in charge that this was the most efficient and equitable way to organise a successful society and economy, but we are surrounded by evidence that this isn't so and people are increasingly challenging this narrative...
2019-04-0600 minBristol TransformedRace and EmpireChair: Edson Burton, Panel: Sado Jirde, Madge Dresser, Sasha Josette, Dalia Gebrial
Bristol has played a particularly central role within the history of British Empire and racism from Bristol's growth and enrichment fuelled by the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, to the Bristol Bus Boycott and the St Paul's riots. Racism continues today - as evidenced through police harassment, anti-immigrant attitudes and legislation, the Windrush deportations, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism and the rise of fascism - and we are still discussing the status of Winston Churchill in history and removing slave-trader Colston's name in Bristol. Our panel will discuss the consequences of Empire and...
2019-04-0600 minBristol TransformedTransforming HousingTransforming Housing - The opening panel from Bristol Transformed held at Malcolm X Community Centre.
Housing panel with Owen Hatherley, Sasha Sadjady, Oona Goldsworthy, Paul Smith, Ben Beach, chaired by Zoe Goodman.
2019-04-0600 minBristol TransformedInternational solidarity: lessons from home & abroadMarcus Barnett, Susannah O'Sullivan, Sasha Josette, Nina Franklin, Alia Malak.
What lessons can we learn from socialism's struggles and solutions across the globe? This panel will examine international movements and consider the ways in which we can stand in solidarity with our comrades abroad, while also using their tactics of resistance here at home.
2019-04-0600 minBristol TransformedCulture, art & ownership: making the linksChair: Annie McGann. Panel: Melissa Chemam, Dave Randall, Viki Browne, Soweto Kinch
Arts and culture are the lifeblood of a healthy society. How can we not only ensure their survival during austerity, but organise to build for the future? This panel will bring a wide variety of artists, educators, practitioners and venue operators together to discuss the past, present and future in Bristol and beyond.
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