From Donegal and Clare, and Connaught and the Munster hills...... Your plea is remembered and we battle on, energised by your passion
Brian Anson - Architect, Story Teller, Poet, Revolutionary

Inspiration (1934-2009)

Brian Anson passed away over the weekend after being inflicted with a sudden illness.

Audio documentary; Stories of architecture and social struggle with Brian Anson
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37463

As conventional sources of oil become rarer the energy corporations have started the mass extraction of oil from the tar sands of Alberta. This is a filthy process that involves vast open cast mines, tailing ponds that can be seen from space and the use of huge quantities of water and energy making it a major cause of climate change. On Saturday Heather Milton Lightening of the Indigenous Environmental Network spoke to a national Shell to Sea meeting in Dublin about this struggle (last night she spoke in Inver, Erris). This is a 50 minute recording of that talk and the discussions that followed it.

Listen to WILD TIME host Thomas Janak in conversation with Ahmed Diab
- Footage to be re-aired on The Digital Hub FM -

An Audio Interview With The Man Himself.

When it comes to the public meeting, Arthur Scargill is one of the best performers around. He has it down to fine art. Perhaps this is down to his political up bringing as a member of the Young Communist League, where great stress was placed on the importance of making inspiring speeches. Or perhaps it has something to do with that fact that much maligned figure like Scargill needs the medium of the public meeting more than most to get across his points, and has thus has a particualr understanding of how to use public meetings to maximum effect.

During Noam Chomsky's recent visit to Ireland five members of the Workers Solidarity Movement met him over breakfast to talk over a range of issues from Palestine to the capitalist crisis to social partnership to Iran to Obama and the US Labour Movement. Notes on the discussion are below followed by the audio recording itself.

Marching Is Not Enough, Organise for a general strike

Recording of a WSM branch education that looks at 'what is class' and outlines many of the different classifications that have been used before asking whether this is right approach to the question at all. Followed by a brief discussion of class in relation to Joe Duffy phone ins demanding a public sector pay cut.

Yesterday evening the Cork branch of the Worker’s Solidarity Movement hosted a talk by South African anarchist and ZABALAZA Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) member, Jonathan. The ZACF is an organisation of anarchist individuals from South Africa who identify with the communist tradition within Anarchism. The front is organised around the principles of theoretical and tactical unity, collective responsibility and federalism. Their activities include study and theoretical development, anarchist agitation and propaganda, and participation within the class struggle.

On Saturday evening at Semora Spraoi RAG were screened two abortion rights documentaries, 'The Coat Hanger Project' and 'Abortion Democracy : Poland/South Africa'. The makers of both documentaries were present so the screenings were introduced by them and there was a wide ranging discussion after the films had been show. The audio of the introductions can be listened to below.

All photos © Michael Gallagher 2009

Sinêad Ahern of Choice Ireland and Dr. Geraldine Moane of UCD made the case for a woman's right to choose at a recent debate in Dublin.

Interview with Ann Kingston and Louise Kings
WILD TIME host Thomas Janak talks to Ann Kingston and her daughter Louise Kings about THE IRISH DOG JOURNAL. The journal enjoyed a lot of success in the late 1970s and early 1980s before it seized to exist. Now the time is right to bring it back and the first issue will be in shops nationwide on December 1st 2009.

Thomas Janak talked to exhibitors at the Pet Expo in Dublin
Part II of a series of interviews with exhibitors at the Pet Expo in Dublin

Thomas Janak talked to exhibitors at the Pet Expo in Dublin
Recorded on October 9th 2009. The EXPO itself runs between the 9th and 11th of October at the RDS in Dublin

WILD TIME attended a weight pulling event hosted by the Sled Dog Federation of Ireland on October 4th 2009 at the Equestrian Centre in Coole, where WILD TIME host had the opportunity to talk to Mandy Heynes and other members of the Federation about their activities.

New anti-Lisbon treaty music video i have released in aid of the No campaign.

Amy Goodman interviews Iraqi trade unionists Rasim Awadi and Falah Alwan. They tell how the invasion has esulted in the destruction of civil society and has unleashed an onslaught of privatisation and attacks on womens and workers rights. Full transcript of interview at link.

multi-prize winning documentary
The critically aclaimed documentary "The End Of The Line", which takes a closer and more serious look at overfishing and the state of our oceans, was screened at the Irish Film Institute on September 21st 2009.

canal cleaning to keep the swans save and the canal clean and beautiful
Tracey O'Neill, founding member of the PORTOBELLO CANAL PROTECTION GROUP, cleaned up a stretch of the canal in Portobello supportet by WILD TIME host/producer Thomas Janak and his girlfriend Nicole.

Last night saw the launch of a new history of the Offical IRA and the Workers Party called ‘The Lost Revolution’ by Brian Hanley and Scott Miller. Over 250 people including many ex and current members of the Workers Party as well as members of just about every other left and republican group crammed into the hall for the launch. This is an audio recording of the introduction to the book given by Diarmaid Ferriter followed by each of the authors speaking about the book.