Stories and collaborations with musicians and communities from around the World, living and working in the UK, plus the occasional soundscape recording from our travels.
Monstrous Anger of the Guns. Jeremy Corbyn: In Conversation with Rhona Michie & Carmen Wilson. Chaired by Laila Kadiwal.
Sound recording of the conversation chaired by Associate Professor Dr Laila Kadiwal, with Jeremy Corbyn MP, Rhona Michie, Carmen Wilson. Palestinian author and activist Ahmed Alnaouq was also meant to be in attendance, but further members of his family had been murdered earlier in the day of the event, in the ongoing Genocide in Gaza. Andrew Feinstein had also been originally booked, but was unable to attend due to other commitments.
Thanks to Laila, Asma, Laura and all the team for organising this important conversation.
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers (https://wearenotnumbers.org/), a collective that trains the next generation of Palestinian writers to publish their stories in English. Ahmed is also is a co-founder of Across the Wall (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-02/ty-article-magazine/.premium/ahmed-wanted-israelis-to-listen-to-gazans-then-23-of-his-family-members-were-killed/0000018b-8fb6-db7e-af9b-eff7d71f0000), a media platform that tells Palestinian stories in Hebrew (https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-geschichte-von-yuval-und-ahmed-isr-palaest-leben-dlf-2b7f5a7f-100.html). Ahmed obtained a Chevening Scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in international journalism from Leeds University (https://courses.leeds.ac.uk/e135/international-journalism-ma) before serving as an advocacy and outreach officer for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. His writings have been published in many publications, including The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/), The New Arab (https://www.newarab.com/) and Arab News (https://a2237d6b-c030-4ce9-ab47-d16358fe4625/Arab%20News). He has appeared live in interviews across the Western media, speaking on channels such as Sky News, the BBC and MSNBC (https://www.msnbc.com/). During an air raid by Israel’s military on the home of his family and relatives in the south of the Gaza Strip on October 22 2023, 21 of Ahmed’s relatives were killed (https://a2237d6b-c030-4ce9-ab47-d16358fe4625/2023): his father, two brothers, three sisters and 14 nieces and nephews.
https://wearenotnumbers.org/ (https://wearenotnumbers.org/)
Carmen Wilson is Director of Operations at Demilitarise Education, a community and nonprofit organisation that envisions a world where universities champion peace.
https://ded1.co/ (https://ded1.co/)
Rhona Michie is the Director of Projects and Planning at Shadow World Investigations. She is a co-editor (with Andrew Feinstein, Professor Paul Rogers and Jeremy Corbyn) of Monstrous Anger of the Guns: How the Global Arms Trade is Ruining the World and What We Can Do About It. She is a co-founder and coordinator of the Corruption Tracker and was listed as an Emerging Expert by the Forum on the Arms Trade in 2022.
https://shadowworldinvestigations.org/team_member/rhona-michie/ (https://shadowworldinvestigations.org/team_member/rhona-michie/)
Jeremy Corbyn is Director or the Peace and Justice Project and has been the Member of Parliament for Islington North since 1983. He is the 6th longest serving MP in Parliament. In the 2024 General Election he stood as an Independent and won by a clear majority of over 24000, compared to the Labour candidate of 16800. He has a long track record of community involvement and campaigning for justice, often using his position to fight for marginalised people and taking a stand against corruption.
https://thecorbynproject.com/ (https://thecorbynproject.com/)
Also speaking is DR Rodrigo Martinez Lecturer in Economics and Finance of Real Estate at University College London and member of BDS at UCL.
https://bdsatucl.com/ (https://bdsatucl.com/)
6 Oct 2024
Voices from the Protest. 05th/10.24. Professor Haim Bresheeth
Recorded at the London Palestine march, on 5th October 2024.
Talk by Professor Haim Bresheeth, discussing the origins of Zionism, the decline of the British Empire, Antisemitism and Islamophobia.
As he says at the start, this is an overview, please see Haim's website for further reading.
"Professor Haim Bresheeth is a filmmaker, photographer and a film studies scholar, retired from the University of East London (http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/staff/haim_bresheeth/index.htm), where he worked since since early 2002. He now teaches at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
His books include the best-selling Introduction to the Holocaust (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introducing-Holocaust-Introducing-Haim-Bresheeth/dp/1840461217/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203628433&sr=8-2) (with Stuart Hood, 2 reprints since 1997), the first version was titled Holocaust for Beginners (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Holocaust-Beginners-Haim-Bresheeth/dp/1874166161/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203628479&sr=8-1)(1993) and was also reprinted a number of times; This title was also published in Turkish, Croatian and Japanese translations, and is being translated into other languages."
https://www.haimbresheeth.com/ (https://www.haimbresheeth.com/)
The discussion is approx 27 minutes, followed by 3 minutes of soundscapes from the protest on the day.
https://palestinecampaign.org/
https://www.stopwar.org.uk/
21 Aug 2024
Laila & Phill Euro-rail Adventure Summer 2024 Part 02
00 Sighisoara
23.16 Cluj to Budapest Train
24.20 Budapest to Munich Train
27.00 Munich
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