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A Poison Like No Other – Matt Simon – TUC Archives

How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
Welcome to this program from TUC Radio’s Archives, first broadcasts on Jan. 3, 2023.
Almost all plastics in use today are so called “petrochemicals,” products made from fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas. This industry is booming and plastics are showing up not just in manufacturing, construction and road building, but in our personal environment, our homes, households, clothes, furniture, and the food distribution systems we depend on.
The very thing that makes plastic so useful – its toughness – means it never really goes away. It just gets smaller and smaller: eventually small enough to enter the atmosphere and be inhaled, or be absorbed by food crops that are watered with sewage sludge. [ . . . ]

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Yanis Varoufakis – The European Union and the War on Gaza

Excerpts from an interview by 99ZuEins – a podcast on the channel 99ToOne Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. He has been an outspoken dissident voice in the western discourse on the ongoing war in Gaza.
Since 2018, Varoufakis has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement, DiEM25, a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016.
Nadim, from 99ToOne, spoke with him about the nature of the war, the purpose and function of international institutions and humanitarian law, as well as the peculiar stance of the EU and Germany towards the war.
These are excerpts from a 45 minute interview,recorded on Feb. 2, 2024. Thanks to Nadim at 99ZuEins – a podcast on the [ . . . ]

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Ambassador Craig Murray and Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the International Court of Justice ruling on Genocide in Gaza

They are guests on Judging Freedom, hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano
On January 26, 2024, The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip but stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Craig Murray is a Scottish author, human rights campaigner, journalist, and former diplomat. He is a political activist, campaigning for human rights and for transparency in global politics.
Jeffrey Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He is an SDG Advocate for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals
Judge Andrew Napolitano is an American former [ . . . ]

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George Galloway – Viva Palestina, Historic Aid Convoy to Gaza

Israel’s War on Gaza waged from Dec. 27/2008 to Jan. 18/2009 – TUC Radio Archive
The story of an international campaign to bring aid to Gaza and break the blockade is inspiring at this time – and here is the audio from a film I made of a talk given by George Galloway in Berkeley, CA, in 2009.
Israel’s war on Gaza from Dec 27, 2008 to Jan 18, 2009, made more than 100,000 people homeless. Both Israel and Egypt had closed the borders to Gaza, preventing all aid from coming in.
British Member of Parliament George Galloway broke the siege of Gaza with a 2 mile long humanitarian aid convoy in early 2009. They entered through the Rafah gate [ . . . ]

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Fred Gray – Civil Rights Attorney for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, TUC Archive

Fred Gray, just out of law school, had made a commitment to destroy everything segregated in his home state of Alabama
Rosa Parks was only Fred Gray’s second case, after Claudette Colvin, a teenager, who nine months earlier had been the first to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and in turn inspired Rosa Parks.
When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance, 26-year-old Martin Luther King was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray became his and the movement’s lawyer. Gray’s legal victory in the federal courts ended the boycott 381 days later.
Fred Gray won scores of civil rights cases in education, voting rights, transportation, and health. [ . . . ]

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The Unsustainable Green Transition – Simon Michaux – Part TWO of TWO

Interview by Rachel Donald on PlanetCritical
Simon Michaux is associate professor at the Geological Survey of Finland. He and his team advise the Finnish government on how to phase out fossil fuels. As former mining engineer Michaux warns that we just don’t have enough minerals and materials in the Earth’s crust to develop a fully renewable economy along the standards we have come to expect – and he offers solutions.
Thanks to Rachel Donald, who engaged Michaux in a conversation on PlanetCritical.
DATE: April 19, 2023
LOCATION: Internet
CREDIT: Rachel Donald, PlanetCritical

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WWI – The Christmas Truce of 1914 – TUC Archives

Silent Night in trenches of the Western Front
The Christmas Truce was an unofficial cease-fire on parts of the Western Front. Guns fell silent for one to several days. Soldiers emerged from the trenches and talked, exchanged gifts and kicked around a soccer ball. Trenches were close in some places, separated by 50 yards or less.
The Story of the Christmas Truce WWI is a documentary film about this spontaneous cease-fire. Thanks to historians Peter Hart, Taff Gillingham and Robin Schaefer, and their choice of rare documentary photos, footage and archived letters from soldiers of both sides.
This archival TUC Radio program first went into distribution on December 13, 2022. By coincidence on the same day that nearly 1,000 faith leaders called for [ . . . ]

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The Unsustainable Green Transition – Simon Michaux

Interview by Rachel Donald on PlanetCritical
When I found this conversation and decided to re-broadcast I was intrigued by Simon Michaux’s rare expertise in mining – and by the premise that we can’t go green without going small. Our fossil fueled economy is destabilizing the planet. But a renewable economy as it is designed now makes unsustainable demands on minerals and materials of the earth.
Simon Michaux is an associate professor at the geological survey of Finland. He is a problem solver in the mining industry and now the industrial recycling industry. Most of his current scientific papers deal with the tasks to completely phase out fossil fuels in Finland.
Credit and thanks to Rachel Donald – host of PlanetCritical, lecturer and [ . . . ]

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War and Peace, The Climate Toll

https://tucradio.org/audio/30secPromo_climate_toll_of_war_TUC.mp3

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British Iraqi Activist Lowkey on Palestine and Gaza

From Las Vegas, Nevada, the US podcaster Cyrus Janssen spoke to the British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey for an extraordinary history lesson on Palestine and Gaza
Hip hop artist Lowkey, AKA Kareem Dennis, is also an academic and holds a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS University of London, the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies.
He is also a political campaigner, patron of the Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Peace and Justice Project.
This interview was posted on December 3, 2023, by the US podcaster Cyrus Janssen on YouTube under the title: British Iraqi Activist Lowkey Reveals TRUTH About Israel and United States.
DATES: Dec. 3, 2023
Location: Internet
CREDIT: Podcaster Cyrus Janssen’s YouTube channel

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Al Gore on Big Oil, COP28, and the fight for climate action

This year’s UN climate summit will be the biggest in history – and the first held in a major Petrostate – which is ironic since, according to current climate science, phasing out fossil fuels is our most urgent task.
Dr. Sultan al-Jaber has been nominated by the rulers of the United Arab Emirates to preside over COP28. He is the managing director and group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).
Al Gore, the former US vice-president, tells Simon Mundy in a Financial Times interview why he thinks this year’s COP28 climate change talks are likely to fail. The interview was published on October 24, 2023 under the title: Al Gore on Big Oil, COP28, and the fight for [ . . . ]

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The Colonial Urge to Make Money out of the Climate Crisis, Part TWO of TWO

False Solutions on the agenda of the upcoming Climate Change Conference, COP28, in Dubai
This is a report from the webinar held on October 26 by the Indigenous Climate Action. Panelists from Hoopa Valley, Bear Clan, Sandia Pueblo and Yuchi presented their in-depth research into false solution to the climate crisis.
By now there is agreement that the burning of fossil fuels is the major cause of global heating. In spite of 28 years of annual meetings of the UN Climate Change Conferences heating has increased.
In July, 2023, the global average temperature was the highest on record. And the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, announced in August 2023 that Fossil Fuel Subsidies surged to a record $7 Trillion.
In response members of [ . . . ]

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The Colonial Urge to Make Money out of the Climate Crisis

The Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) and Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) are Unpacking False Solutions
ICA held a webinar on Oct. 26, 2023, to warn us of false solutions to global heating, such as carbon pricing, natural gas, hydrogen, hydroelectricity, geo engineering, carbon capture and net zero emissions.
The moderator is Carol Monture, the climate leadership Coordinator at the Indigenous Climate Action (ICA). She is Mohawk, Wolf Clan, from Six Nations of the Grand River territory.
 
The panelist are:
Julia Bernal from the Indigenous Nations of Sandia Pueblo and Yuchi, is the executive director for Public Action Alliance, Albuquerque, NM
Sage Goodleaf-Labelle was born to the Bear Clan of the Kanien’kehá:ka nation, in what is now Canada. She is a student at McGill University.
Thomas Joseph is [ . . . ]

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Ralph Nader calls for Ceasefire Now in Gaza

On November 3rd, 2023, The Ralph Nader Radio Hour issued this urgent appeal
This is a 25 minute excerpt from a one hour special edition of Nader’s weekly talk show broadcast on the Pacifica Radio Network and as podcast.
Ralph Nader, former head of Public Citizen, is an author, lecturer, attorney and talk-show host. Nader’s regular co-host Steve Skrovan introduces this special edition calling for Ceasefire Now in Gaza.
Nader is in conversation with Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. She is a former officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, with diplomatic postings in Jerusalem, Washington, Tunis and Beirut.
Please go to the website www.ralphnaderradiohour.com to listen to the full one hour version of Ceasefire Now.
DATES: Nov. 3, 2023
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Ilan Pappe: Crisis in Zionism, Opportunity for Palestine? (Part TWO of TWO)

UC Berkeley lecture by the Israeli historian, held on October 19, 2023
Ilan Pappe begins with declaring that to understand the situation today we need an accurate definition of Zionism since it was the leading ideology of the settler colonial movement that took over Palestine. Pappe compares the US history and the elimination of the Native inside what is now the US and the post 1948 conquest of Palestine.
There is now growing criticism of racism and land-grab by settlers in the US, while the world tends to excuse the Israeli settlers for their ongoing land-grabs. And expulsions did not stop with the 1948 war that established Israel. Pappe says that Israel removed 300,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza [ . . . ]

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