Follow Repeater Radio here: repeater-radio.com twitter: @Repeater_Radio "How do you quantify what makes a space safe & nurturing to create in? For Repeater Radio's August 2023 relaunch, Ayrshire artist Ruaridh Law asks 30 of the station's artists plus colleagues, peers and friends, to help answer precisely that. From sofas to tables, well-appointed studios to a sunlounger beside a pool, a selection of musicians, writers, artists, DJs and broadcasters share 1 minute clips of their spaces, along with occasional musings on what makes these spaces unique to them. Amongst the many persepctives, one shines through; an artist needs a place they can be the best and only version of themselves, a place of true expression. Over 30 minutes of experimental film and audio, these havens are laid out and allowed to have the magic shine out through them. Featuring Ewan McKenzie (Dextro) // John Davies (Datassette) // Fiona Nicolson // Krank Papa // Jake Tilbury // Debbie Armour (Burd Ellen) // David Coyle (WTSTCA) // Alice Hoffmann-Fuller // Barry Fry // Amanda Mücha // Ian Fenton (Frozen Reeds) // Ewan Law // Clair Crawford // Mòrag Law // Robert Dallas Gray // The Seance // Matt Spendlove (Spatial) // Andy Myers // Mark Scanlan // David Moynihan // -273.15°c // Veronica Avola // Scott Amoeba // Drift of Signifieds // Stuart McLean (The Dark Outside) // James Tec // Jonny Mugwump // Luke Hansbury // Bryan Kerr" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMN9gMq-330

Obama said in 2013 we were going to set our sights on the far east with a "Pivot to China". A growing economic superpower. A new Cold War is underway with the People's Republic of China and the west. China has come a long way from the agrarian 3rd World Country it once was. It's one of the largest economies in the world taking over 700,000,000 of its citizens out of poverty. None of this has stopped the Cold War propaganda from emanating in the west. With stories of an apparent genocide against the ethnic minority Uyghur community it's starting to feel like 1984 all over again. Is China the new menace? A true threat to U.S. hegemony? Is the Belt and Road just colonization with a different face? Is the U.S. propaganda machine weaponizing the #MeToo movement against China with talk of mass rapes? What were the protests in Hong Kong really all about? We'll ask these questions and yours with our guest professor Ken Hammond. A little about Professor Hammond: Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University from 1967 to 1970. He later (1985) completed his degree in Political Science, then studied Modern Chinese language at the Beijing Foreign Languages Normal School in Beijing. Hammond received an M.A. in Regional Studies -East Asia(1989), and a Ph.D in History and East Asian Languages (1994) from Harvard University. In 2007, Hammond was appointed director of the Confucius Institute, a cultural initiative funded in part by Hanban on the NMSU campus that is dedicated to studying and publicizing China and Chinese culture. He is the editor of the journal Ming Studies. While at Kent State, Hammond authored a study of local politics entitled Who Rules Kent? and was active in the political events that culminated in the May 4, 1970 shootings at the university. He was indicted as one of the TIRpodcast's Pivot to China w_ Professor Ken Ha..." and was lead plaintiff in the federal lawsuit Hammond v. Brown which resulted in the suppression of the Special Grand Jury report on the Kent State shootings. All charges against the Kent 25 were dropped in December 1971. In 1976 he took part in the "Move the Gym" demonstrations at Kent, on the site of the 1970 shootings. Thank you so much for taking the time to check this out. If you feel so inclined and you'd like to help the channel grow BECOME A PATRON! https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTY1ShjecYM