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Cable Live x Bristol Transformed – Who are the terrorists?

In the second of a short series of talks recorded at Bristol Transformed 2024, Ben Smoke sits down with Narzanin Massoumi and Samir Seddougui to ask: Who are the terrorists?

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This is the second of a short series of talks recorded at the Bristol Transformed festival 2024 – a grassroots and volunteer led festival of radical politics, arts and culture for which The Bristol Cable was a media partner.

Throughout this series, you’ll hear from a range of voices, including Cable journalists, talking on topics with a focus on political organising.

For this talk – titled Who are the terrorists? – Transformed volunteer, journalist and activist Ben Smoke sat down with Narzanin Massoumi and Samir Seddougui to discuss the counter-terrorism narrative, and how activists should react to it.

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