Sad Wastelands Of The Free Protest Fuelled Folky Punk Rock Session  led by the likes of The Oysterband, Show Of Hands, Frank Turner, Iris Dement, Steve Earle and Crass. Tunes from across the years. The essense of the struggle never changes it has just shifted up a few gears recently in this new post-humane and science-phobic era. Spotlight on veteran US folk/punk rock artist Chuck Ragan with tracks from his brilliant 2007 LP Feast Or Famine.  Listen to Sad Wastelands Of The Free by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at    THE TEMPTING, GLITTERING MIRAGE THAT CAPITALISTS IMPOSE ON REALITY MASKS THE UGLY FACT THAT POVERTY, INJUSTICE AND MISUSE OF POWER ARE INTEGRAL, ESSENTIAL COGS IN THE MACHINERY OF MASS EXTORTION. They are building multi-billion £ football stadiums everywhere at a time when the use of charitable food banks, homelessness & poverty are on the rise. They take money from the poorest to pay for their international warmongering & interfering w...

  When protest is now longer allowed, what then?   Selection of protest music 1950s-present. The current crackdown on certain modes of dissident action in the West, particularly environmental protest, signals a new era of totalitarianism & suppression of expression. A whole series of legislation, beginning in the 80s, have eroded & removed many of the rights that were formerly taken for granted while the cursed tranfer of power known as privatisation has leeched society and bled regular people dry. That heads of governments are seen to overtly collude with commercial titans & media moguls only reinforces the prevailing mood of helpess futility & inevitability, a feeling reinforced by economic neccessity and, crucially, the law. Criminal injustice at every level & on all fronts.   Listen to High Up There In Gilded Boardrooms by Old Timer in Isan on hearthis.at Traditions of musical resistance that have roots stretching back into antiquity...