#NovaraFM: Luddites, Hackers, Saboteurs

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🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

At the birth of industry in England, a movement of weavers gathered together to resist the imposition of technologies which threatened their way of life. Their actions – which ranged from petitioning government to direct sabotage and destruction of the new weaving frames – were done in the name of their fictional leader, the ‘mass […]

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0:00.0	I can't really remember when I last had a head of the old last had a head of the old last had a head of the old
0:10.2	I suddenly can't remember when anyone else did either
0:12.7	when I last had a head of the old last had a head of the old
0:15.3	Fear struck in society and its obsessive technology
0:20.4	technology
0:22.8	There's a time when the operation of the machine
0:26.6	I'm the machine, be the one still only,
0:28.9	I'm so only, I'm so over it.
0:30.8	Make sure, no, take it hard,
0:33.3	but you can't take part.
0:34.7	You can't even pass them least take part.
0:37.6	And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears
0:40.0	and upon the wheel on the gears and upon the wheel,
0:42.6	the gears and upon the wheel upon the levers,
0:45.5	upon the levers and upon the wind.
0:46.8	But all the apparatus that you've got to make it stopped,
0:49.1	and you've got to make it stop.
0:50.2	And you've got to indicate to the people who runne
0:52.6	into the people who own it.
0:54.8	But unless you're free, if you're free, the machine will be prevented.
0:59.2	We're working all, working all, working all.
1:02.4	Workers who felt they were liable to try to make a promise
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