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Episode 222: Terrorism in Christchurch and the Need to Challenge All Forms of Islamophobia

Posted: March 17, 2019 in Uncategorized
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Image from theconversation.com

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We discuss the white supremacist terrorist attack in Christchurch, Aotearoa (New Zealand) including playing an interview with author, lawyer and human rights activist Qasim Rashid from Democracy Now!

We focus on the importance of challenging Islamophobia and racism all along the spectrum of discrimination and violence (pictured below), and not only at the most extreme and horrific end. This spectrum of violence/discrimination can be used to understand homophobia, as well as Islamophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination.

Image from the chapter ‘Disability and the Continuum of Violence’ by Dr Andrea Hollomotz – from the book Disability, Hate Crime and Violence.

We also discuss the labelling of terrorism depending on race and religion, plus reactions to the attack from Donald Trump, Fraser Anning and Milo Yiannopoulos.

Clips:

Frank Turner ‘Must Try Harder’, Pussy Riot ‘Make America Great Again’.

Episode 221: Banks Putting Profit Before Customers? I Wouldn’t Expect That, Not Again*

Posted: February 11, 2019 in Uncategorized
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  • Image from citynews.com.au

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On this episode we discuss the recommendations that came out of the Banking Royal Commission. We also discuss the shared views on economic issues amongst the different factions within the Liberal party.


  • Cartoon by Mark David / @mdavidcartoons.

We also cover a challenge to the government’s “Robo-Debt” where they try and get money out of people receiving welfare benefits without sufficient evidence. Check out our 157th episode for more on this issue. Also check out fakejustice.net for more on how the law is applied very unequally to different groups.

We finish the episode by discussing Nick’s article ‘Solidarity and Intersectionality at Invasion Day Narrm (Melbourne)’. We promoted this protest last episode #220.

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Clips:

Sole ‘Yeah’, John C. Reilly ‘Guilty As Charged’ – from the movie Walk Hard, some sound effects stolen from Threedom podcast, Spinifex Gum featuring Felix Riebl and Marliya ‘Ms Dhu’ – you can read more about this song on NITV News.

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*Title inspired by a quote from the show Kath & Kim.

Episode 220: Know Your History! Gary Foley on Invasion Day and Aboriginal Resistance

Posted: January 10, 2019 in Uncategorized
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Gary Foley giving the speech featured on this episode. Image from Blackfulla Revolution on Facebook: facebook.com/ourcountryourchoice

You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (47mins, 37MB).

This episode features historian, activist and actor Gary Foley discussing Aboriginal resistance on Invasion Day and beyond. This talk is from last year’s Invasion Day event in Melbourne – audio here and you can also watch a video of the talk and read a transcript thanks to Blackfulla Revolution on Facebook.

Get along to an Invasion Day/Survival Day event in your city! The Narrm (Melbourne) protest is Saturday, 26 January 2019 from 10:30 to 13:00 at the Parliament of Victoria. See below for the details of other Invasion Day protests and please contact us with the details of any other events and we’ll add links here and share the details on social media.

Narrm (Melbourne) Abolish Australia Day event.

Narrm (Melbourne) Abolish Australia Day event.

Other stuff covered on the episode:

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Clips:

The Last Kinection ‘Black & Deadly’, Gary Foley’s Invasion Day 2018 speech: the resurgence of a movement governments can’t ignore, Anonymous: the truth about Australia Day, Russell Brand ‘Apocalypse Sweden! Why is this happening?’, Briggs ‘The Children Came Back’ feat. Gurrumul & Dewayne Everettsmith.

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Episode 219: Live Exporting Derryn Hinch

Posted: December 14, 2018 in Uncategorized
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Let me die at home

Photo from an anti-live export rally in Perth – an example of the nationalistic focus of the campaign.

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In light of the recent industry-imposed live export (very partial) ban, this episode features the talk ‘An Anarchist Analysis of the Campaign Against Live Animal Export’ by Jess Ison and Nick. In this talk, we critique the campaign based on anarchist, anti-racist and animal liberation perspectives. This talk was recorded at the 2018 Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair and you can see links to all of the sources referred to in the description of the talk on archive.org – you can also hear the full talk including a section from Lara Drew at that link.

For more on connections between animal liberation and anarchism, check out episode 202 and you can also hear about the Fast for Freedom mentioned in the talk on episode 192 and listen to episode 131 for more on mental health and animal advocacy.

https://twitter.com/acardilini/status/1071987529094619136

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Clips:

AJJ ‘Now that I’m at the top of my game’; Talk ‘An Anarchist Analysis of the Campaign Against Live Animal Export’ by Jess Ison, Lara Drew and Nick; Anti-Flag ‘Racists’.

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