Free Spaces

To live sustainably one must make connections between different branches of human development that in the last hundreds of years have been profesionalized and left to the experts to deal with. And even though a technocrat future is on some people's minds in this time and age there are still people starving in parts of the world and they are not because their land is poor and lacking nutrition but because people in Europe keep them in this state of poverty from which they can benefit: cheap labor, cheap sex slaves, cheap consumers. These social issues must also be taken in consideration by someone mentioning sustainability and not just the energy efficiency of this or that building, issues that would still not be taken in consideration by many people in a technocrat future. So many people do think that living sustainably is up to them and their communities. Of such spaces in today's program on Steps Beyond:

- impressions from the "street party for a free space in Luxembourg" (facebook group) and invitation to the open meeting on Wednesday 20.07 from 6 o'clock at cafe Independent in the city (http://freespacelux.blogsport.de);

- information on ZAD (Zone a Defendre), a freed territory close to Nantes, France (http://zad.nadir.org);

- information and open invitation to the Reclaim the Fields camp in Rosia Montana, Romania:
(http://www.reclaimthefields.org/node/329)
(http://www.nodirtygold.org/rosia_montana_romania.cfm);

- announcement of the launch of the new edition of the Queesch magazine which has as a theme "FREE SPACES" ( http://queesch.lu ).

Also information on the usual topic that is being discussed regularly when talking about sustainability, the environment and in this case the oceans and their depleting fish population from Jean Noel, student in Luxembourg, all and some more in today's Monday the 18th of July 2011 program.

P.S. thanks to the YASI team for welcoming me so warmly in their group which I was grateful to have the chance to share my limited knowledge of radio with: http://yasinstitute.org Thanks to them and their openess I would now be ready to repeat the experience and be more confident about it.

The music breaks will introduce a special band with very meaningful lyrics called the Tin Tree Factory of which you can find out more and download their music for free here: http://www.tintreefactory.com