All Time Favorites – TUC Radio

Over 24 years of TUC Radio production a few programs have become unforgettable. Here they are.

Who’s Counting – Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics – ARCHIVE

By MariaJuly 19, 2016All Time Favorites, Banking, Newest Catalog Items

Marilyn Waring was shocked and dismayed when she learned that all countries that are members of the UN are forced to keep their books and design their budgets under the system of National Income Accounting. This GDP system counts only cash transactions in the market and recognizes no value other than money. This means there is no value to peace and to the preservation of the environment.
At age 22 (in 1974) Marilyn Waring became the youngest member of the New Zealand Parliament. She chaired the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee and became familiar with the Gross Domestic Product system and decided to disclose its pathologies in a film, her teachings at AUT University in Auckland and really her life as a [ . . . ]

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The Earth Wants YOU! – Bill Talen

By MariaJuly 7, 20162016, All Time Favorites

AKA Reverend Billy
Reverend Billy in his smart white suit and Elvis Presley hairdo is preaching the stop shopping gospel while standing knee deep in the rising floods of climate change. That’s the photo on the cover of his recent book by City Lights: The Earth Wants YOU, a motivational handbook meant to inspire its readers to challenge the consumerism that is killing our planet.
Bill Talen moved from San Francisco to New York City in the early nineties after many years in Bay Area Theater and performance art. There he began preaching on street corners in Times Square in front of Disney stores and advertising bill boards. His solo appearances soon attracted crowds and sympathizers and the Church of Stop Shopping [ . . . ]

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Derrick Jensen – Bringing Down Civilization

By MariaJuly 5, 2016All Time Favorites, Amazing Speakers & Events

Derrick Jensen wrote in his early book: “Listening to the Land”: “We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide –all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.” And he follows that with a question: “Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of being? My work and life revolve around these questions. “
When I recorded him in the Oakland, California warehouse of AK Press, Derrick Jensen asked that [ . . . ]

Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent

By MariaJuly 5, 2016All Time Favorites, Amazing Speakers & Events

The New York Times Book Review states: “Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.” Filled with intriguing insights into the life of America’s leading dissident, this is a radio version of the documentary film by Necessary Illusions.
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