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Big Gene Gathering +20 – December 2017 – Afternoon sessions – Videos

See below for embedded videos, or to watch all the talks in order, see the Youtube playlist. Are you eating GM food? The fact that you are mostly* not is down to 20 years of inspiring direct action and pressure … Continue reading

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Big Gene Gathering +20 – December 2017 – Morning sessions on anti-GM campaigns 2004-2017 – Videos

See below for embedded videos, or to watch all the talks in order, see the Youtube playlist. Are you eating GM food? The fact that you are mostly* not is down to 20 years of inspiring direct action and pressure … Continue reading

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Big Gene Gathering +20 – December 2017 – Morning sessions on anti-GM campaigns 1997-2003 – Videos

See below for embedded videos, or to watch all the talks in order, see the Youtube playlist. Are you eating GM food? The fact that you are mostly* not is down to 20 years of inspiring direct action and pressure … Continue reading

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Digital technology and automation: the end of capitalism or a new Lucas Plan? – November 2017 – Audio

Digital technology-driven automation and restructuring has been ongoing since the 1960s, most notoriously in the destruction of the printers’ unions by Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s.  Now, the impending ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ is creating widespread public anxiety about massive job … Continue reading

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Digital Technology as Heavy Industrial Technology: iSlavery and Environmental Destruction — September 2017 — Videos

Digital technology is often seen as ‘immaterial’ and ‘smart’, defining a new industrial and social paradigm. Yet digital gadgets are produced within an ‘old-fashioned’ highly exploitative regime that has been likened to slavery, whilst the industry creates massive environmental destruction … Continue reading

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Breaking the Frame Summer Get-together – August 2017 – Photos

The Breaking The Frame Summer Get-together at Dolwion Mill in Felindre Llandysul, Wales, in August 2017 was an informal opportunity to meet and talk about technology politics in a relaxing and picturesque setting. The programme was dependent on what the … Continue reading

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Digital Technology and Neoliberalism: the Basics – July 2017 – videos

How does digital technology function in, and shape, neoliberal capitalism? Is it just a question of corporations using technology to their advantage, or has digital technology fundamentally reshaped the whole system? Are we already, as a key anarchist critique ‘The … Continue reading

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Breaking the Frame Summer Get-Together – Wales – 26th-28th August 2017

Book online now On the weekend of 26th to 28th August Breaking the Frame is holding a ‘get-together’ / holiday at a small conference venue in a small village, 1 hour from Camarthen (by bus), in mid-Wales. This event will … Continue reading

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Lucas Plan 40th Anniversary Conference – November 2016 – Closing Plenary – videos

Closing plenary Chaired by Romayne Phoenix (People’s Assembly Against Austerity) Chris Baugh (PCS): Molly Scott Cato (Green Party): Julie Ward (Labour Party):

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Lucas Plan 40th Anniversary Conference – November 2016 – Afternoon sessions – videos

Gender and technology – Marisol Sandoval (City University) – Gail Chester (Feminist Library) Sorry, no videos available What is appropriate / alternative technology? Corporate and military technologies are designed in the interests of those who own them, and are key … Continue reading

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