john pilger at the anarchist book fair
i first heard about john pilger quite by accident. for years ive been saying how there was no independent media in the uk (as growing up in yugoslavia makes you gain the 'state-propaganda-radar' i think) and a south african journalist who was working at the same place where i was could not stop talking about john pilger. i still havent read any of his books but have seen the films. not the same thing i know.
we got to the bookfair in plenty of time to nose around and pick up lots of interesting things, such as the chickweed fanzine (all about using the wild food for eating and medicinal purposes), a few interesting local history booklets, etc
the talk itself is a q&a really, where the organisers kicked things off with a couple of questions about chavez, venezuela, nicaragua, then onto the audience whose questions were about the £50 billion bailout by which the state again protected itself (not the tax-payer, never the tax-payer), the increased surveillance society, the new cold war, imperialism, american presidential election...
it was an interesting one, especially as a couple of people by the end of the session told pilger off for thinking that barak obama is just another man in the system.
we got to the bookfair in plenty of time to nose around and pick up lots of interesting things, such as the chickweed fanzine (all about using the wild food for eating and medicinal purposes), a few interesting local history booklets, etc
the talk itself is a q&a really, where the organisers kicked things off with a couple of questions about chavez, venezuela, nicaragua, then onto the audience whose questions were about the £50 billion bailout by which the state again protected itself (not the tax-payer, never the tax-payer), the increased surveillance society, the new cold war, imperialism, american presidential election...
it was an interesting one, especially as a couple of people by the end of the session told pilger off for thinking that barak obama is just another man in the system.