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We bring you the opening act of our sell out event at the Union Chapel on July 26th, with our friends at MACRODOSE Podcast.
The discussion was hosted by writer and academic Dalia Gebrial and featured a panel comprising political scientist Thea Riofrancos, climate justice activist Asad Rehman, and economist James Meadway. They brought us a conversation on cutting-edge, climate focussed economics that ranged from the decline of the unipolar world, to the climate crisis and green colonialism.
You can listen to the second half of this show featuring Jeremy Corbyn MP and Laleh Khalili here, and co-hosted by The Dig, here:
The Verso Podcast: https://linktr.ee/verso_podcast
The Dig Podcast: thedigradio.com
Macrodose Podcast: https://linktr.ee/macrodosepodcast
See Verso’s post-election reading here: versobooks.com/blogs/news/things-can-only-get-wetter-verso-general-election-reading?_pos=1&_psq=starmer+government&_ss=e&_v=1.0&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_podcast
We bring you the opening act of our sell out event at the Union Chapel on July 26th, with our friends at MACRODOSE Podcast.
The discussion was hosted by writer and academic Dalia Gebrial and featured a panel comprising political scientist Thea Riofrancos, climate justice activist Asad Rehman, and economist James Meadway. They brought us a conversation on cutting-edge, climate focussed economics that ranged from the decline of the unipolar world, to the climate crisis and green colonialism.
You can listen to the second half of this show featuring Jeremy Corbyn MP and Laleh Khalili here, and co-hosted by The Dig, here:
The Verso Podcast: https://linktr.ee/verso_podcast
The Dig Podcast: thedigradio.com
Macrodose Podcast: https://linktr.ee/macrodosepodcast
See Verso’s post-election reading here: versobooks.com/blogs/news/things-can-only-get-wetter-verso-general-election-reading?_pos=1&_psq=starmer+government&_ss=e&_v=1.0&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_podcast


![We’ve Always Supported Each Other: Mutual Aid in the UK
The Coronavirus pandemic has seen two very different responses in Britain: a failure of the state to respond to the needs of its people, and an explosion of local mutual aid networks to support communities from below.
When thinking about the difficult but powerful work of community solidarity, it is vital to include and prioritise marginalised, stigmatised and excluded communities.
This event takes the conversation on mutual aid beyond the current crisis, to engage with the perspectives of those often at the edge of society, for whom mutual aid is a necessary practice. Sex workers, migrants, people with experience of homelessness, LGBTQ+ people, prisoners and their families, and drug users have been doing the essential work of community care and collective support for decades. In this discussion we aim to prioritise these perspectives, what they demonstrate for wider movements, and how we can learn from them.
Speaking on this panel will be:
Juno Mac, a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM) and co-author of Revolting Prostitutes; Juan Fernandez Ochoa, who works with the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) as the global coordinator of the Support Don’t Punish campaign, a decentralised social mobilisation initiative to end the “war on drugs” and promote harm reduction responses to drug [policy]-related challenges; Dania Thomas a first generation immigrant from Mumbai, law researcher and a Ubuntu Women Shelter trustee; Jodie Beck, a prison abolitionist and campaigner involved with the grassroots collective Our Empty Chair. It will be hosted by Tobi Adebajo (Purple Rain Collective, Femmes of Colour UK, Open Barbers), an anti-disciplinary creator whose practice draws from all the senses and relies upon meaningful collaboration to create work that centralises diasporic experiences whilst honouring the power of identity.
We are offering 50% off Juno Mac and Molly Smiths book Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights to all guests. We’ll send you a link to activate the discount once you register. We’ve Always Supported Each Other: Mutual Aid in the UK](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Y0sre8i0eY/mqdefault.jpg)







