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Nick, Katie and friends shoot the shit about social justice issues, politics and pop culture.
We discuss current events and political issues from a progressive perspective that is pro-animal liberation, anti-racist, pro-feminist, pro-queer, pro-environment and anti-capitalist. Our podcast gives a voice to Left, progressive and anarchist voices and ideas that are neglected in the mainstream media.
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This podcast is hosted by Nick and Katie who are social justice activists who have been involved with a wide variety of issues such as animal rights, Occupy, refugee rights and workers’ rights. Nick is a sociologist and Katie is a lawyer. She has worked and volunteered in the union movement and community legal centres.
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Nick
Hi Guys
Just listened to your insightful interview with Kim Socha from 2015. I just wanted to know why you sites the research you paper you did? I ask because it was published in 1994.
Very best wishes and look forward to hearing from you. Any response would be so helpful and I’d really appreciate it.
Joel
Hi Joel, good to hear that some people are still getting something out of our episodes from 2015! Can you please let me know which research paper from 1994 you’re referring to? Thanks, Nick
Nick, so great to hear from you! The research paper you mentioned was;
‘Animal rights as a new environmental cosmology’
It’s a strange paper but has an extraordinary statistic regarding the proportion of the ‘religious’ amongst animal advocates in America, in contrast to their statistical dominance amongst the greater population.
If you could send me a copy of your copy I would be SO grateful!
Joel
No worries Joel, here is the quote from the article (page 174):
‘One survey of ARM activists indicated that seventy percent are atheists or agnostics, a startling contrast to the eighty to ninety percent of the American population who express a belief in God (Jasper and Nelkin 1992, p. 38; General Social Survey 1990).’
Yes it’s an interesting statistic regarding how non-religious animal activists are in a very religious society!
Here are the full details of the article:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02393500
Cheers,
Nick
Thank you so much Nick I really appreciate it!
Do you have an unrestricted copy of the paper?
Joel
Yep I have emailed you a copy – please let me know if you did not receive it. Cheers, Nick
Is it the link you sent? It’s unfortunately locked when I open it.
Joel
I did email you a copy because I can’t include attachments here. If you didn’t get it, you can email us: progressivepodcast AT gmail DOT COM and I can reply with it – Nick