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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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Russell Brand Seducing Noam Chomsky

Russell Brand - The Trews Noam Chomsky. 2014 Leigha Cohen Video Production During the Q&A period after Noam . Source: If You Enjoyed This Video Like

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Russell Brand's impossible revolution: How a drugged-out comedian reinvented ... - Salon

Russell Brand's impossible revolution: How a drugged-out comedian reinvented ... - Salon | real utopias | Scoop.it
A new film follows the British comic's contradictory odyssey from junkie to Mr. Katy Perry to radical messiah
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Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Police & Noam Chomsky

Russell Brand: for years he has been one of Britain's most popular comedians, but in 2014, he also emerged as a leading voice of Britain's political left. He has ...
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Russell Brand to Occupy Revolution is inevitable

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Russell Brand and the Currency of Revolution - Dissident Voice

Russell Brand and the Currency of Revolution - Dissident Voice | real utopias | Scoop.it
Recently, the news hit social media that comedian and actor Russell Brand is embracing cryptocurrency. Well known for his political activism, Brand has now
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Russell Brand to Occupy Revolution is inevitable

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Russell Brand donates Revolution book profits to New Era cafe - The Guardian

Russell Brand donates Revolution book profits to New Era cafe - The Guardian | real utopias | Scoop.it
Comedian turned activist opens social enterprise that will employ recovering drug addicts on east London housing estate that fought off evictions
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Russell Brand thinks The Sun should be reclaimed by 'REAL people'

Russell Brand thinks The Sun should be reclaimed by 'REAL people' | real utopias | Scoop.it
Comedian Russell Brand today championed the latest protest by the Occupy Movement which last night attempted to “reclaim” The Sun newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch.
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Russell Brand to open 'social enterprise' cafe in East London - Telegraph.co.uk

Russell Brand to open 'social enterprise' cafe in East London - Telegraph.co.uk | real utopias | Scoop.it
The comedian-turned-social activist is reportedly funding cafe in Hackney with profits from his latest book
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Russell Brand voted world's fourth most influential thinker

Russell Brand voted world's fourth most influential thinker | real utopias | Scoop.it
Comedian voted on to Prospect magazine’s annual list, topped by economist Thomas Piketty, after year that saw him publish a book advocating the eradication of the nation state
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Revolution

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Random House Group Edition, Russell Brand will donate 100 of his money for this book to Tre Era Cafe, a social enterprise community project on the New Era estate - whose vicotory against corporations and inefficient government exemplifies the...
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Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Police and Noam Chomsky

Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Police and Noam Chomsky | real utopias | Scoop.it
Brand has taken part in anti-austerity protests, spoken at Occupy Wall Street protests and marched with the hacker collective Anonymous.
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Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Police & Noam Chomsky

Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Police & Noam Chomsky | real utopias | Scoop.it
In a holiday special, we feature our interview with Russell Brand. For years he has been one of Britain’s most popular comedians, but in 2014, he also emerged as a leading voice of Britain’s political left.
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Russell Brand’s revolution is working. And here’s the proof

Russell Brand’s revolution is working. And here’s the proof | real utopias | Scoop.it
For all his exuberant mannerisms, superfluous rhetoric and apathetic attitude towards voting, it appears Russell Brand has scored his first big campaign win.
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Russell Brand publishes rambling apology to RBS worker and offers to buy him ... - Daily Mail

Russell Brand publishes rambling apology to RBS worker and offers to buy him ... - Daily Mail | real utopias | Scoop.it
Russell Brand (right) has apologised to bank worker Jo Kynaston Reeves (left) who complained that the comedian's protest outside RBS in London made his paella go cold - and offered to buy him lunch.
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Revolution: The witch-hunting of Russell Brand continues - World Socialist Web Site

Revolution: The witch-hunting of Russell Brand continues - World Socialist Web Site | real utopias | Scoop.it
Brand is attacked because his message, however confused, is closer to political reality and the sentiments of broad layers of the young people who are his main audience than the thousands of column inches produced by the innumerable media hacks...
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Russell Brand's 'revolution' claims first victory as Tory MP's New Era Estate ... - The Independent

Russell Brand's 'revolution' claims first victory as Tory MP's New Era Estate ... - The Independent | real utopias | Scoop.it
It’s an unlikely place for a grassroots housing revolution, with coffee shops offering £4 smoothies, but trendy Hoxton in east London will forever be remembered as the place that Russell Brand’s revolution claimed its first victim: a property firm...
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Russell Brand In Conversation With Owen Jones

Russell Brand In Conversation With Owen Jones | real utopias | Scoop.it

Russell Brand talks to Guardian columnist Owen Jones about capitalism, democracy and his new book Revolution. He says revolution isn't just possible, but inevitable. Brand was speaking at a Guardian Live event at the Emmanuel Centre in London in October. The event, run in partnership with Picturehouse Cinemas, was broadcast live to more than 200 cinemas.

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Brand and Žižek lead celebrity call for greater whistleblower protections - The Guardian

Brand and Žižek lead celebrity call for greater whistleblower protections - The Guardian | real utopias | Scoop.it
More than 50 actors, musicians and philosophers hail Edward Snowden and say those who reveal ‘war crimes and corruption’ deserve support
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Russell Brand's Revolution - Dissident Voice

Russell Brand's Revolution - Dissident Voice | real utopias | Scoop.it

If Julian Assange was initially perceived by many as a controversial but respected, even heroic, figure challenging power, the corporate media worked hard to change that perception in the summer of 2012. After Assange requested political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the faux-feminists and corporate leftists of the ‘quality’ liberal press waged war on his reputation.

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Listen To Russell Brand And David Graeber On 'Mafia Capitalism'

Listen To Russell Brand And David Graeber On 'Mafia Capitalism' | real utopias | Scoop.it
Russell Brand and professor David Graeber have called for the debts of "ordinary people" to be cancelled in an impassioned attack on "mafia capitalism".

In an podcast exclusively shared with the Huffington Post, Graeber, who wa...
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Russell Brand talks revolution with Owen Jones – follow it live

Russell Brand talks revolution with Owen Jones – follow it live | real utopias | Scoop.it
In the red corner: Russell Brand, the Hollywood sybarite and cockney yogi who has travelled a path from drug addiction to enlightment, and now political action. His new book Revolution is a call to arms for the disenfranchised in Britain, those who feel underserved or outright ignored by the powers that be, and aims to catalyse them with a typically manic mix of transcendental meditation, Thomas Piketty and the 12 steps.
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Russell Brand hired by Michael Winterbottom for financial crisis documentary

Russell Brand hired by Michael Winterbottom for financial crisis documentary | real utopias | Scoop.it
Michael Winterbottom has enlisted Russell Brand to appear in a new documentary about the financial crisis.
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Revolution by Russell Brand review – soft-soap therapy when we need a harder ... - The Guardian

Revolution by Russell Brand review – soft-soap therapy when we need a harder ... - The Guardian | real utopias | Scoop.it
His tract is heavy going, light on politics and, in places, beyond parody. Has the leader of the rebellion missed his moment? By David Runciman
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Russell Brand occupies Wall Street: 'I'm dedicated and devoted to change' – video - The Guardian

Russell Brand occupies Wall Street: 'I'm dedicated and devoted to change' – video - The Guardian | real utopias | Scoop.it
Actor and comedian Russell Brand meets Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park, in New York City's financial district
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