A World to Win: The Radicalism of Hope w/ Mikaela Loach
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week, Grace talks to brilliant young climate campaigner Mikaela Loach about her work trying to shut down oil production in the North Sea, taking the UK government to court over fossil fuel subsidies, and the best ways to organize among Gen Z! Mikaela has been involved with campaigns such as Stop Cambo, Stop Jackdaw, and Paid to Pollute.
A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory, and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of A Well To Win. This week I am absolutely delighted |
| 0:17.2 | to bring you Michaela Loach who is a brilliant young climber activist and we just have an |
| 0:23.0 | amazing discussion. This has been one of my favourite conversations so far about organising |
| 0:28.8 | today within the climate movement in the wake of the Corbin moment, how Michaela engages young |
| 0:36.1 | people in organising online and offline and the benefits of a strategy that brings together |
| 0:43.1 | lots of different modes of organising. I think Michaela is so impressive and I'd really |
| 0:47.7 | encourage you to follow her and follow the projects that she mentions. I'll put some links |
| 0:52.1 | in the description to this episode. So thanks again to Michaela, thanks to all our listeners |
| 0:57.1 | for tuning in and thanks especially to our amazing patrons who make the show possible. |
| 1:02.3 | Please do consider supporting us on Patreon. We are patreon.com slash a world to win pod. There's |
| 1:08.0 | a link to that in the description. And then if you want to support the show in another way, |
| 1:12.3 | please consider sharing this episode or other episodes on social media, tagging at a world to win |
| 1:17.8 | pod on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. A quick word from our sponsors before my interview with |
| 1:23.9 | Michaela Loach. This episode of a world to win is brought to you by Haymarket Books, which has |
| 1:30.0 | loads of great left-wing titles perfect for listeners like you. One you might like is Palestine, |
| 1:35.2 | a socialist introduction, edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean. Palestine, a socialist |
| 1:41.6 | introduction, systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle |
| 1:46.2 | for liberation, examining both the historical and contemporary trajectory of the Palestine solidarity |
| 1:51.7 | movement in order to glean lessons for today's organizers and compellingly lays out the argument |
| 1:57.0 | that in order to achieve justice in Palestine, the movement has to take up the question of socialism, |
| 2:02.5 | regionally and internationally. As Nora Erichat puts it, the book connects the past to our present |
| 2:09.6 | and despite the daunting odds before us, sustains a commitment to a socialist future where all of us |
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