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No Home, No Homeland: Israel’s Policy of Demolishing Palestinian Homes

The demolition of Palestinian homes in order to push the Palestinian population into disconnected enclaves is crucial to what major human rights organisations call Israel's apartheid system. Who...
Speaker(s): Jeff Halper

Green Pop – In Conversation with Jeremy Loops

Before ever he was a global music star, Jeremy Loops was busking the streets of Cape Town to raise money for local environmental projects. As the co-founder of Green Pop – focussing on sustainable...
Speaker(s): Jeremy Loops

Church – The Two Thousand Year Experiment

If you've ever been part of a church then you've been part of a long-running mass experiment which many say has now run its course. Have we learned all we can from this extended test of faith? Is...
Speaker(s): Jane Shaw, Linda Woodhead, Brian McLaren

Lost In Trans-lation

A panel of trans and non-binary Greenbelters share their perspectives and invite your questions on what, in media discourse, has become one of the most weaponised and politicised of culture wars, but...
Speaker(s): Jay Hulme, Sambambo

One Democratic State In Palestine/Israel: It’s Time

One country, one citizenship, one parliament and one shared civil society, in which the national, ethnic and religious identities of all the country's peoples also find expression. What would such...
Speaker(s): Jeff Halper

The Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy’s Journey of Escape to a New Life in Britain

Former child refugee Gulwali Passarlay tells how he miraculously survived the harrowing year-long journey from Afghanistan to the UK on his own. Young and old alike will come to understand the...
Speaker(s): Gulwali Passarlay

Joined Up Thinking: The Power Of Collective Intelligence

At a time of existential global challenges, we need our best brainpower to solve them. So how do we create genius environments, help our brains flourish, cope with wildly differing opinions, and...
Speaker(s): Hannah Critchlow

Genz, Explained

Drawing on recently-completed research, Linda and Jane offer a portrait of Gen Z (born after 1995), the first generation who grew up with social media and mobile devices. They are intensely concerned...
Speaker(s): Jane Shaw, Linda Woodhead

Prison is not the Solution; It’s the Problem

We have a justice system based on two-thousand-year-old principles of proportional revenge. It hasn't worked and it's not fair. It is time to abolish prisons and develop a new system of...
Speaker(s): Frances Crook

Nomad Century: How To Survive The Climate Upheaval

Migration is not the problem, it is the solution The climate crisis is upon us and billions of people are at risk. Gaia Vince's book Nomad Century, for the first time, promotes the idea of...
Speaker(s): Gaia Vince

Meat And Our Planetary Future

It is well established that burning fossil fuels is incompatible with a habitable future for humanity. But what about meat consumption? Should we treat meat like fossil fuels, given that globally...
Speaker(s): Greenpeace

Transgender Marxism

Spotlighting the pressures, oppression and persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, this session will help you understand the tenuous positions trans people hold in the...
Speaker(s): Elle O'Rourke

The Selfish Green?

"More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crisis until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one." So wrote Lynn White in 1967. Join this Faraday...
Speaker(s): Faraday

Science And Spirituality: How Do We Respond To Experiences Of Awe?

Scientists feel awe at the vastness of intergalactic space, the complexity of living things, or when data fit together and make sense in an unexpected way. But how do they process these...
Speaker(s): Faraday

Finntopia

Finntopia - what can we learn from the world's happiest country? Danny Dorling works at the University of Oxford as a professor in the School of Geography and the Environment.
Speaker(s): Danny Dorling