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Tag Archives: Videos
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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Tagged Biofuelwatch, Econexus, ETC Group, Events, Food, Genetic engineering, GM, Health, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, Synthetic biology, Technology, Videos
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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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Tagged Events, Food, Genetic engineering, GM, Health, Human Genetics, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, Synthetic biology, Videos
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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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Tagged Automation, Capitalism, Digital technology, Events, Neoliberalism, Robotics, Technocracy, Technology, Unions, Videos, Work
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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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Tagged Anarchism, Capitalism, Cybernetics, Digital technology, Events, London, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Power, Social control, Technocracy, Technology, Videos
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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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Tagged Appropriate technology, Birmingham, Events, Socially useful technology, Unions, Videos, Work
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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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Tagged Appropriate technology, Birmingham, Events, Socially useful technology, Unions, Videos, Work
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Lucas Plan 40th Anniversary Conference – November 2016 – Morning sessions – videos
Arms Conversion 1: Reflecting on Past Experience The workshop discussed arms conversion initiatives over the past 40 years. Facilitated by Ann Feltham (Campaign Against Arms Trade) 1: Hilary Wainwright. As Deputy Chief Economic Advisor to the then Greater London Council … Continue reading
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Tagged Appropriate technology, Birmingham, Events, Socially useful technology, Unions, Videos, Work
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Lucas Plan 40th Anniversary Conference – November 2016 – Opening Plenary – videos
Welcome, from Mary Pearson (Birmingham TC) Phil Asquith (Lucas Aerospace Combine): Hilary Wainwright (Editor, Red Pepper): Tony Kearns, Senior Deputy General Secretary of the CWU (Communication Workers Union): Following the opening plenary there was a screening of an excerpt from … Continue reading
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Diversification from Oil, Arms and Nuclear to Alternative Energy – March – Videos
Some cities have suffered more than others from oil price collapse, job-losses and economic downturn. With it’s engineering tradition and skills base Aberdeen could be at the forefront of a dynamic alternative energy economy but instead politicians and business leaders … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms conversion, Arms trade, Events, Scotland, Socially useful technology, Unions, Videos, Work
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