Protest | Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, Paul Mason, Aaron Bastani, Yassmin Abdel-Magied & more
54Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, Paul Mason, Peter Tatchell, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Aaron Bastani and Elif Sarican discuss protest and political progress.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Tariq Ali - Struggle has always involved violence
03:34 Peter Tatchell - Protest movements need clear goals
08:59 Yassmin Abdel-Magied - Politics needs transparency
12:54 Aaron Bastani - We need systems change
16:12 Steven Pinker - Non-violent resistance is more effective than revolution
21:24 Paul Mason - The elite and the mob are in alliance
27:06 Elif Sarican - Violence can be structural
Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker's academic specialisations are visual cognition and psycholinguistics.
Tariq Ali Khan is a political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a media presenter and writer, who had an early career as a mechanical engineer. She was named Young Queenslander of the year in 2010 and Queensland Australian of the Year in 2015 for her engagement in community work.
Paul Mason is a commentator and radio personality. He was Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News, becoming the programme's Economics Editor on 1 June 2014, a post he formerly held on BBC Two's Newsnight.
Peter Tatchell is a human rights campaigner, best known for his work with LGBT social movements.
Elif Sarican is an Anthropologist at the London School of Economics and activist in the Kurdish Women's Movement.
Aaron Bastani is co-founder and senior editor at Novara Media. He holds a PhD from the New Political Communication Unit, University of London, examining social movements in the digital environment which fail to correspond to the traditional logic of collective action.
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