The ABCs of Green Politics John Barry

In this episode, host John Barry is joined by Stiofán Ó
Nualláin from The Worker's Guide to Everything podcast to talk about the rise of the far right, farmer protests across Europe, climate politics, austerity and how the left needs to connect the planetary crisis to the cost of living
crisis.

We talk to Mary McGuiggan and James Orr all about Water - Lough Neagh, Mobuoy dump, neocolonialism, mining, industrial agriculture, Rights of Nature, Seamus Heaney, dancing, art, climate camp...

Podcast series on Mobuoy dump: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001hf1w

Rights of Nature:

https://vimeo.com/773336092

https://ejni.net/rights-and-nature/

The Gathering: https://twitter.com/0thegathering0

Sli Eile (Climate Camp): https://twitter.com/sli_eile_

FoENI: https://twitter.com/foe_ni

Save Lough Neagh campaign: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557091190629

Save Our Sperrins: https://www.facebook.com/SaveOurSperrins

In this episode, host John Barry is joined by Dr. Ross Mittiga, researcher and lecturer at the University of Graz's Department of Philosophy. The conversation ranges from how few of us want to talk about the issue of violence and social change; philosophical and practical arguments about how given the worsening climate and ecological crisis is causing multiple harms, including the deaths of millions of people, that violence for social transformation to end those harms may not only been legitimate but obligated; to the distinction between ‘rebellion’ and ‘revolution’; and why in relation to the fossil fuel industry and financial capital we need to make them ‘bleed green’ and ‘run yellow’. Enjoy!

His latest book has just been published, Climate Change as Political Catastrophe: Before Collapse with Oxford University Press.

As Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, enabled by Western governments, we hear the testimony of Dr Saeb Sha'ath, a Palestinian writer living in Belfast. Saeb's family in Gaza have been forcibly displaced multiple times and are now living through a deliberately-imposed health pandemic, with their lives constantly at risk.

On a day such as this, as the ICJ rules that the case for genocide is plausible and that those who incite it must be punished, we call for a Ceasefire Now, and a Palestine that is free, from the river to the sea.

In this episode we ask 'If the planet is on fire, how can universities and academics continue in a business as usual manner?'... this week host John Barry is joined by three academic-activists, Dr. Laura Horn, Dr. Aaron Thierry and Prof. Jennie Stephens to discuss the views on how and in what ways the higher education system needs to change, what we need to unlearn as well as learn, why so many of our colleagues seem not to be affected by the polycrisis we are now in, the emotional and psychological dimensions of teaching and researching this issue and the challenges and benefits of being an activist and sometimes (well often!) being as 'welcome as a fart in a space suit' for asking awkward questions! Knowledge is power...so arm yourselves...enjoy!

In this episode we are joined by Emma River-Roberts, a working class environmental activist based in England, to talk about the middle class character of the mainstream green movement, its tendency to moralistic and scientistic forms of analyses, degrowth and how to communicate green politics, the importance of a class analysis to understanding the planetary crisis and how to connect solutions to that crisis to improving the lives of working class people and winning their support for a just transition. And why most working class people don't want to know about the recipe, they just want the cake!