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A four day festival of music, art & politics building power to Transform the World. Debates, discussion & other sounds from Liverpool & Brighton. If you have audio from previous festivals please get in touch so we can share it here.
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Bringing spiritual principles to everyday life... With special guests and current topics, this podcast from Unity on Cape Cod will help inspire your awakening and bring us all closer to the reality of a world based on Love and not fear.
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How to live?In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live?Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflin…
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How to live?In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live?Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflin…
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How to live?In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live?Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflin…
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How to live?In the face of the unfolding chaos of climate change, how are we to live?Three Sisters: The End of the Project is an audio play from the future. Set in four acts between 2035 and 2038, the play explores how it is that we may live in the coming world of storms and restrictions. It imagines a future close enough to be real. Looking unflin…
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In this episode Rev. Tony interviews Jackie Woodside, one of the pioneers in the realm Conscious Living. Jackie is an award winning author, professional life coach, creator of the money vibe and life design programs, spiritual teacher, speaker and one of the driving forces in the New Thought movement. Jackie shares how changing our consciousness an…
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At a time when the threat of war dominates the headlines, Rev. Tony discusses the choice for peace as a personal choice and an expansion of Christ consciousness. Reading from Eric Butterworth's, Discover the Power Within You and The Revealing Word as a foundation to explore this extremely important topic.…
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Week 4 advance viewing for TWT's "Know Your Enemy" course. In this session, Gargi and Richard Seymour discuss: - In what way are the Tories trying to recompose the state? Is the party a unified actor?- Does the Ruling Class really rule? And if so, how do they do it?- Does Nationalism serve to build an alliance of the different parts of the right in…
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Week 3 of The World Transformed's "Know Your Enemy" course.In this interview, Gargi Bhattacharya talks to Sita Balani about how the right is changing today, starting with Stuart Hall’s essay The Great Moving Right Show on the emergence of Thatcherism and tracing the current terrain with “Johnsonism”, the new authoritarianism and the differences bet…
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Week 2 advance watching for TWT's "Know Your Enemy" course. Gargi Bhattacharyya and Tom Mills discuss: - Who are the elite in this country?- How should we understand the state?- What is corporate power? How does it relate to other forms of power? - What techniques of power analysis might be useful to us?…
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For people today, hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation. In response, we've seen increased demand from the left for workers to join a union.But what can workers achieve when they unionise their workplace and rally …
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In this week's episode of Understanding TWT, we spoke to Red Pepper co-editor and co-founder Hilary Wainwright.Hilary spoke to us about the history of the ‘new left’ from the Hungarian revolution of 1956, how the Soviet Union’s domination of its bordering countries led many socialists to re-evaluate their understanding of Marx and relationship to t…
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Introducing "Understanding TWT" - a series on the ideas and concepts that have inspired our work. First up, a presentation on the role of 'affect' (bodily emotion) in political practice, what we mean by 'collective joy', why these are essential for building a mass political movement, and how TWT has and can continue to embed this thinking in its wo…
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Grenfell must be a 'never again' moment in the history of this country. The fire has exposed incestuous relationships between local, as well as national government, and the construction industry. In or out of government, how can Labour effectively engage with this issue, beyond superficial lip service? How can Labour act now to put the party at the…
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A discussion of a new report from Common Wealth looking at the economic gap between private and state schools across England.The report by Dr Sol Gamsu shows how English private schools receive four times as much money per pupil as local state secondary. In some schools this figure is much higher with the wealthiest schools in the South of England …
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In 2020, writer Owen Hatherley published two books about London. One, Red Metropolis was a polemical history of municipal socialism in Britain's capital. The other, was an alternative guide to London's boroughs featuring 33 activists, historians, architects and politicians exploring stories and neighbourhoods from across each of the city's 33 borou…
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The shocking scenes of the MET’s violent response to those seeking to mark and protest the death of Sarah Everard made visible the kind of state violence that has been meted out to communities since the force’s inception. This week, the government plan to rush through parliament a significant increase in police powers over public demonstration. The…
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Rev. Tony interviews past board president of Unity on Cape Cod and founder of the Center for Family Therapy, Kathy Smith-Brown. They discuss the idea that our work in the world is an expression of God, and look at the keys to creating a more evolved sense of connectedness in our family, our community and the world.…
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Common Wealth and The World Transformed are pleased to present the launch of 'Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone', the latest book from labour journalist Sarah Jaffe.'Work Won’t Love You Back' is a thoroughly reported investigation into the persistent myths around a “labour of love”, where wo…
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Transphobia is on the rise across society and within the left. A recent report suggested four in five trans people in the UK have experienced a form of trans hate crime over the last 12 months. Meanwhile public figures including MPs have been able to use their platform to express transphobic views, often without consequences.But what even is transp…
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As part of Disability History Month 2020 TWT and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) teamed up to create this introduction to disability oppression. In it DPAC activist and Labour NEC member Ellen Morrison speaks to author and DPAC activist Ellen Clifford about: Who disabled people are? The difference between deaf and disabled people? The specific …
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What has lockdown taught us about ‘freedom’ under capitalism? Whose freedom is more important: the freedom of businesses to make money, or the freedom of workers to stay healthy? Is freedom a question of personal rights and privileges, or the shared ability to decide what kind of world we want to live in?…
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For the past 40 years, we’ve been told that governments can’t do much to change our lives: they can’t fix climate change, they can’t make housing cheaper, they can’t care for the old or educate the young properly. Suddenly this year, we learned that they can manage a complete alteration of every aspect of our lives in a matter of weeks. How come?…
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Why have renters been hit so hard by the Covid crisis? Why are so many young people forced to rent? Why is rent so expensive and why do renters in the UK enjoy so few rights? Why have governments become obsessed with maintaining property prices and is there an alternative?Door The World Transformed
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Why are your chances of dying of this virus much lower if you are rich or white? Who gets to decide what measures are taken to protect people and what counts as ‘healthy’? And why do some lives seem to matter more than others?Door The World Transformed
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Living under Covid-19 and a lockdown has taught us many things about ourselves and the society we live in. But what has it taught us about capitalism, the system that underpins and dominates life across the globe? Lockdown has seen millions of us withdrawn from our usual patterns of work, while the work of a few essential people has been widely rec…
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With UK politics gripped by a “culture war” - which the right is winning - how should the left understand and respond to these dynamics? This session will explore what is driving this “culture war”, how it impacts class struggle, whether it’s possible for the left to avoid it and, if not, what an effective strategy for engaging with it looks like.W…
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At the 2019 General Election, the Conservative Party achieved 43.6% of the popular vote - the highest percentage of any party since 1979. This electoral coalition has been decades in the making. The Conservatives have increased their share of the vote in every election since 2005. In contrast, Labour’s vote share declined considerably between 1997 …
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With recent defeats for the UK and US Left, it is vital we address how we build power post-Corbyn and Bernie. What can we learn from challenges of competing for state power and building movements? How can we maintain the energy and infrastructure built during that period? Are our organising methods still relevant in this new context and how can we …
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Decades of cuts and privatization in health care left us vulnerable to coronavirus. How can we ensure that health care workers have the protections they need and ensure that testing, treatments, and a future vaccine are available to all? Join us to hear how nurses and health justice activists around the world are fighting back to protect themselves…
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During the Labour leadership election, Keir Starmer warned against the party lurching to the right. Five months into his leadership and it remains unclear where he plans to take Labour policy. Polls show that a large majority of members want the party to continue supporting a radical economic agenda and progressive domestic and foreign policy refor…
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