Politics and Protest
Lunar Poetry podcast interviews Janine Booth (2015)
In April 2015, the awesome Lunar Poetry Podcast interviewed Janine.
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Here's the transcript:
Host: David Turner – DT; Guest: Janine Booth – JB
Conversation:
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Video: Free Our Unions
Janine's video making the case for free trade unions, accompanied (with permission) by Billy Bragg.
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On the Level
Freeborn John was one
Coronavirus is not:
A great leveller
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Transport and democratic ownership (and Covid-19)
Janine speaks as part of a panel on Covid-19, democratic ownership and the future of the economy in May 2020. - organised by Another Europe Is Possible. Video plus text of speech below.
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One And All
When my team lost to a goal in the last five minutes of the match from a free kick that should never have been given and got relegated and my face went down with them, you didn't tell me that all football clubs matter.
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Bearing Down
The white
power cap
on the top
of the head
of the cop
with his knee
on the neck
of the man
on the floor
by the pass-
enger door
Who said please
I can't breathe
and who called
for his mum
stopped responding
went numb
but still
bore the knee
and the weight
and the hate
of the cop
who still
wouldn't stop
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Da Capa al Coda
They held a peaceful protest
People didn't notice
Nothing changed
Then they rioted and burned
The world watched and learned,
views exchanged
The respectable people said
Their cause is just,
but why must they riot?
Why don't they hold
a peaceful protest?
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Let Them Be Heroes
Teachers say:
Let Daily Mail writers be heroes
Let them walk naked through war zones
Let them battle with an invisible enemy
Let them fall on the battlefield
in even greater numbers than they already have
Safe in the knowledge that they will be
lionised at the Daily Briefing
And that Matt Hancock may
issue a badge in their honour
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How to Run a Daily Briefing
If you can, find figures that
make Britain look better
than other countries.
If you can't, then explain that
foreigners count differently
from us Brits.
If asked questions
about health and care workers,
say that they are heroes.
If pressed about their PPE, tests,
working conditions or isolation pay,
say again that they are heroes.
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