Parliament's climate emergency, digital consent, and Venezuela

Podaganda

English - May 03, 2019 15:03 - 44 minutes - 35.2 MB
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Previous Episode: A victory for renters, Kurdish hunger strikers occupy Amnesty International and Global Witness warns investments in fossil fuels will exacerbate climate change

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In episode 2 of Podaganda journalists Ben Cowles and Steve Sweeney are joined by Ceren Sagir to discuss:

Jeremy Corbyn forcing Parliament to be the first in the world to declare a climate emergency. What does this mean and is it enough? And what about Heathrow’s third runway? (2:17) The digital consent forms allowing police forces to download data from rape victims’ phones. What does this mean for privacy and women’s rights? Can the police be trusted with this power? (10:27) And what the hell is going on in Venezuela? Who is Juan Guaido? Is he leading an uprising or a military coup? (17:51)

Brace yourself for profoundly left-wing views and plenty of bad language

Show notes

For more on Parliament’s climate change emergency declaration see here: mstar.link/ClimateEmergency

See here for more on the digital consent forms story: mstar.link/digitalconsent

Steve, Ceren and Ben have all written on Venezuela from an anti-imperialist perspective. Check that out here: mstar.link/Venezuela

As mentioned in the show, Steve and Ceren went to Venezuela earlier this year as delegates to the international people’s assembly. Listen to that here: youtube.com/watch?v=JkUYtLVXj7I&t=1s

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