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Charlie Angus is an author, musician, activist, and political veteran with more than 40 years of experience reporting on and reflecting upon democracy and social justice. He blends analysis, history, storytelling, and punk rock DIY to take on the gangster oligarchs. His leadership and integrity have earned him supporters across North America and around the world. The Meidas Canada Podcast is Canada’s most-watched independent pro-democracy news site, amplifying stories of grassroots resistance at home and abroad. This is resistance without borders.

The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this "demon metal" has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent history.

For 22 years, politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario’s garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine prompted five separate civil resistance campaigns by a rural region of 35,000 in Northern Ontario.

In Dangerous Memory, renowned politician, author, and musician Charlie Angus undertakes a major rethink of the cultural and political shifts of the 1980s, an era that unleashed an unprecedented looting of the economy, the environment, and the common good that continues to haunt us today. Expertly weaving his story within the larger narrative of the times, Angus elucidates such key events as the Chernobyl disaster, the Digital Revolution, the AIDS epidemic, the fight against South African apartheid, the rise of neoliberalism, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

A podcast about being a graduate of any kind, being young, working, looking for work, having a life outside of work and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.