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In today’s episode we sit down and talk with Benedik Kern, about the asylum system in Germany and the EU. Our guest tells us about the work that his organization is doing organizing so-called “church asylums” and “citizen asylums”, wherein churches and individual citizens offer safe places for people avoiding the Dublin system to hide from authorities. The main topic of the discussion is the coming change in the EU asylum system. It entails the outsourcing of the entire asylum procedure outside the EU, to camps in bordering countries that are considered safe. With this, there will be no more asylum procedure within the EU borders per se, fundamentally changing the whole movement landscape. The new law first has to be voted in the EU parliament and then implemented by individual countries in their national legal system, thus taking some years to come into effect. We talk with Benedikt about ways we can fight the consolidation of Fortress Europe, and how this must necessarily entail at least regional cooperation between groups and movements.

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Re(Sources):

Institute for Theology and Politics
https://www.itpol.de/

Church Asylum homepage
https://www.kirchenasyl.de

Citizens' asylum affinity group (in Münster , Germany)
https://buergerinnenasylmuenster.blackblogs.org/

Materials on the asylum situation (via PRO ASYL, an organization fighting for the rights of asylum seekers)
https://www.proasyl.de/thema/eu-asylpolitik/
https://www.proasyl.de/news/faq-zur-geplanten-reform-des-gemeinsamen-europaeischen-asylsystems-geas/
https://www.proasyl.de/en/news/ceas-breaches-of-core-legal-principles-are-going-to-become-the-new-normal/

Benedikt’s article on church asylum and an interview about its 40th anniversary in August 2023
https://www.buergergesellschaft.de/fileadmin/pdf/gastbeitrag_kern_210520.pdf
https://www.katholisch.de/artikel/46751-theologe-kirchenasyl-entscheidend-fuer-relevanz-der-kirchen

About the deportation of Moldavian workers from Germany
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/warum-so-viele-moldawier-aus-berlin-abgeschoben-werden-5046916.html

Artwork by Saad Shahriar of postcolonial cafe and unrest radio
flickr: @unrestradio
apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/unrest-radio/id1659525221

Music: Comunitate, by Sofia Zadar
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3F4Ec4iFdVp4Pmzhw2Zrd1
fb: @sofiazadar

In today’s episode we talk with human rights activist Jamal about the colonial occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco and the decades-long decolonial struggle of the Sahrawi people. We start the discussion by going over the chronology of the occupation, discussing the main international actors and their interests in the region, and how these interests ignore the rights and demands of the majority local Sahrawi population. We talk about the imperial and extractivist logic that drives Morocco, and how the EU is failing to uphold international law in exchange for access to fisheries, green energy and other benefits. In the second part we talk about the Polisario Front, the organization leading the resistance of the Sahrawis, and how people can support the cause.

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Re(Sources)

Cultures of Resistance Films: Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara [Documentary]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QzRzm4uFxU

ARSO - Association de soutien à un référendum libre et régulier au Sahara Occidenta
https://www.arso.org/index.htm

Sahrawi Association in the USA
https://sahrawiusa.com/

Vice News: The Sahara's Forgotten War (Full Length)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju4WrjiJbGc

The Sahrawi art of resistance
https://emmausstockholm.se/the-sahrawi-art-of-resistance/

Spain switch to legitimizing the occupation
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2023/2/3/will-spains-new-position-on-western-sahara-make-a-difference

Dirty green energy on occupied land
https://wsrw.org/en/news/renewable-energy

Ex-MEP charged in EU corruption scandal admits links to Morocco
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/01/18/ex-mep-charged-in-eu-corruption-scandal-admits-links-to-qatar-morocco-lawyer-says

About phosphate and its role
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-desert-rock-that-feeds-the-world/508853/

About the Moroccan wall in Western Sahara
https://book.stopthewall.org/the-moroccan-wall-in-western-sahara-a-silent-crime/

Artwork by Manolo Mesa
flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/el_messa/
ig: @manolo_mesa

Music: Sahara a pesar de las heridas, by Adel Larbi & P Solver
song: https://youtu.be/_LWhfOFt2K0
ig: @adellarbipsk
yt: @graffandstuff8156

În episodul de azi vorbim despre situația generală din învățământul Românesc, și în particular despre protestul sindical din 10 mai și greva generală anunțată începând cu 22 mai. Episodul este înregistrat la cald după participarea noastră la protest. Discuția începe de la reflecții personale asupra sindicatelor din mediul universitar, unde activează unx dintre noi. Continuăm cu experiențe de la fața locului de la protestul din 10 mai organizat de federațiile mari de sindicate din învățământul preuniversitar și universitar. Discutăm apoi despre cauzele, legate mai ales de nivelul de salarizare, care au generat situația actuală și citim revendicările sindicatelor. La final, atingem și tema personalului care asigură curățenia și pază, trendul de a externaliza aceste servicii către firme private și efectul pe care l-ar avea externalizarea asupra acestor muncitorx.

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Re(Sources)

Legea 153/2017 (vezi art. 12, al. 2)
https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/190446

Revendicările sindicatelor
https://www.fsespiruharet.ro/fsli-fse-spiru-haret-si-fns-alma-mater-acest-an-scolar-ar-putea-sa-se-incheie-luna-viitoare/
https://web.facebook.com/100070133469285/posts/pfbid02r54XMQ1VJ8aBupSjYbbwv5hjC8yoJWFUdE9BGgHcUq8tVtQ9QKHMYEsAo6toPiPl/?app=fbl&_rdc=1&_rdr

Federația Sindicatelor Libere din Învățământ
https://www.fsli.ro/

Federația Sindicatelor din Educație „Spiru Haret”
https://www.fsli.ro/

Federația Națională Sindicală Alma Mater
https://www.almamater.ro/

Sindicatul din UVT: Sindicatul „Universitas Timisiensis”
https://sindicat.uvt.ro/
https://web.facebook.com/universitastimisiensis.sindicat

Arta: photo by lenesx (& editat de Grecu)

Muzică: There is Power in a Union, de Intellectual Dark Wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irkzPrvzLzc
https://intellectualdarkwave.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/intellectualdarkwave

În episodul de azi vorbim cu Cosmin Popan despre munca de livrator în cadrul gig economy. Discuția pornește de la munca de cercetare făcută de Cosmin în trei orașe: Manchester, Cluj și Lyon. Perspectiva alternează între observații teoretice, conceptuale despre modurile în care acest tip de muncă afectează conștiența lucrătorilor și câmpul muncii în general, respectiv observații pragmatice de pe teren. În cursul discuției atingem subiecte precum tipul contractelor sub care lucrează livratorii, inițiative legislative la nivel național și EU și tipurile ascunse de coerciție care vin la pachet cu felul acesta de muncă. Discutăm, în particular, despre felul în care expansiunea acestui model de muncă ne constrânge nu doar posibilitățile economice dar și capacitatea de imagina lumi diferite.

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Re(Sources)

Cosmin Popan:
twitter: @cosminpopan

Proiectul de cercetare al lui Cosmin
https://gigwork.city/https://mmuperu.co.uk/blog/projects/doing-gig-work-social-implications-of-platform-based-food-deliveries/

Platform Struggles (zină, Ed. Pagini Libere)
(I) Manchester: https://pagini-libere.ro/en/brosuri/manchester-platform-struggles-issue-1/
(II) Cluj: https://pagini-libere.ro/en/brosuri/cluj-platform-struggles-issue-2/

Delivering precarity (poveste grafică despre livratorii din Cluj)
https://www.otherwisemag.com/delivering

Publicațiile academice ale lui Cosmin
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=DPwEIboAAAAJ&hl=en&fbclid=IwAR0OBZMBryKaq7leVCCy9pyZ8-0lP9OUAuyCLcxU5xuDPLwDb3lL2Lb9npg

Inițiva legislativă EU discutată
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230130IPR70206/digital-workers-meps-ready-for-talks-on-new-law-to-improve-working-conditions

https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-register/detail?ref=SWD(2021)397&lang=en

Arta de Cristian Grecu
https://www.instagram.com/grecucd/

Muzică folosită în episod: Avoid Evrthn -- Altfel
https://www.instagram.com/avoidevrthin/
https://www.youtube.com/@avoidevrthin4600/featured
https://soundcloud.com/avoid-evrthin

În care vorbim despre gripa aviară și modurile în care capitalismul generează pandemii, pe baza cărții The Monster Enters a lui Mike Davis.

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Cuprins

3:00 - intro: cartea Monster Enters & simping for Mike Davis
4:35 - despre virusuri, gripa aviară și H5N1
12:53 - despre guverne falimentare și molimele capitalismului
24:05 - epidemia curentă de H5N1 și COVID-19
25:34 - more simping for Mike Davis
27:06 - outro: despre oroarea industriei animaliere

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Mike Davis, Monster Enters: Covid-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism, OR Books (2020).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53237780-the-monster-enters

despre pandemia de gripă aviară H5N1 din 2021-prezent
https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20230113-largest-global-bird-flu-outbreak-in-history-shows-no-sign-of-slowing

despre cum H5N1 se răspândește printre mamifere & riscul unei pandemii umane
https://theconversation.com/as-bird-flu-continues-to-spread-in-the-us-and-worldwide-whats-the-risk-that-it-could-start-a-human-pandemic-4-questions-answered-200204#:~:text=An%20outbreak%20of%20H5N1%20avian,killed%20thousands%20of%20wild%20birds.

*Erata: Am zis 1000 de coronavirusuri nedescoperite. Estimarea este de fapt pt 1million+ de virusuri (de toate felurile) nedescoperite.
https://theconversation.com/un-report-says-up-to-850-000-animal-viruses-could-be-caught-by-humans-unless-we-protect-nature-148911

Resurse suplimentare:
Rob Wallce, Big farms make big flues: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science, Monthly Review Press (2016).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29381976-big-farms-make-big-flu

Talk by Ashley Dawson: Disaster Communism in a Time of Coronavirus, Industrial Agriculture, & Climate Change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXB47wGQLKg

Mai în detaliu despre biologia și epidemiologia diferitor virusuri vorbește Dennis, în primul nostru episod (evăr), la începutul pandemiei COVID-19 (primăvara 2020)
https://lenesxradio.ro/episodes/-01/lenesx--01-covid-EN.html

Arte episodului de Alis Balogh & editat de ioni
Muzică: Profit is the Virus, de Sofia Zadar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgB0GwQZiM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3F4Ec4iFdVp4Pmzhw2Zrd1

In today’s episode we talk with author, professor, and activist Ashley Dawson about the neoliberal city in the context of climate change and the liberatory potential inherent in community solar energy projects. The first half of the episode follows our guest’s book, Extreme Cities. The discussion starts from observations on the usual scale of reporting and perception of climate change – global or national, but not the urban scale. We talk about how large climate projects are often designed with planned obsolescence in mind, and first of all serve the interests of the elites; about the unequal impact of climate change and how communities often respond through what Ashely calls disaster communism; and about community solar energy as an example of such a collective (preventive in this case) response in the face of crisis. The second half of the ep. is based on Ashley’s book, People’s Power, and makes a case for community managed solar energy projects as a progressive tool through which to tackle the issue of energy poverty and the looming climate apocalypse. The topics that we cover include the solar commons as an analytical and discursive tool, issues of accessibility (financial, technological etc) surrounding solar projects, and reflections on how the state fits into the picture.

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Re(Sources)

Vlad Zaha:
yt: @vladzaha806
fb: vlad.g.zaha
ig: zaha.vlad

Ashley Dawson
https://ashleydawson.info/

Ashley Dawson, Extreme Cities: Climate Chaos and the Urban Future, Verso Books (2016).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28952797-extreme-cities

Ashley Dawson, People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons, OR Books (2020).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52636876-people-power

People’s power discussion series
https://youtu.be/zIRen05iYSk
https://youtu.be/r1T5rzf1ndc
https://youtu.be/8uFujxQ-PJ0
https://youtu.be/tVwUw3H-6VE

Public Power New York
https://publicpowerny.org/

Community Renewables Podcast
https://soundcloud.com/user-528766714

Thea Riofrancos, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador, Duke University Press (2020).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51897844-resource-radicals

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Commonwealth, Belknap Press (2009).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6384328-commonwealth

Pierre Dardot & Christian Laval, Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century, Bloomsbury Academic Press (2019).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44175765-common

After Oil Collective (AOC)
https://afteroil.ca/

AOC, Solarities: Seeking Energy Justice, Univ of Minnesota Press (2022)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60615208-solarities

Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Harvard University Press (2011).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10429440-slow-violence-and-the-environmentalism-of-the-poor

Christoph Rupprecht (Ed.), Deborah Cleland (Ed.), Norie Tamura (Ed.), Rajat Chaudhuri (Ed.), Sarena Ulibarri (Ed.), Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, World Weaver Press (2021).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56906532-multispecies-cities

Artwork by Alis Balogh

Music: The Sound by Adelaide
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5JrWus8N8CfANNXBNDMAfK
ig: @_adelaide_band_
sotb podcast: https://www.seasonoftheb.com/