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Episode 208: Jockey on Fishing Trip Accused of Animal Cruelty to Stingray – Prisons and Animals

Posted: June 22, 2018 in Uncategorized
Tags: animal abuse registries, animal cruelty, animals, Eurydice Dixon, gendered violence, homonormativity, Jess Ison, prison abolition, prisons, queer, sex offender registries, sexual assault, state repression, the monster myth, the state, transformative justice

Jess Ison and her dog buddy Gretchen.

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 (67mins, 53MB).

We’re joined by activist and academic Jess Ison who discusses her research challenging the use of prisons and other punitive measures as a way to counter animal abuse. More specifically, she covers: the criminalisation of animal activism; queer people, the state and homonormativity; the new show The Break on Netflix; problems with focusing on individual acts of animal cruelty eg to a stingray, cow or kangaroo, while ignoring more institutionalised cruelty on a much bigger scale; the importance of looking into structural explanations for gendered violence rather than just putting “bad apples” in jail, particularly in light of the recent horrific murder of Eurydice Dixon in Melbourne; sex offender registries; transformative justice; and prison abolition. If you’d like to look further into the issues of prisons and prison abolition, Jess recommends the book Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis.

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This episode is replayed from Freedom of Species, an animal advocacy show on 3CR community radio, which Nick now regularly hosts. This show is broadcast live on 855AM in Melbourne 1-2pm every Sunday and if you’re outside of Melbourne you can listen in live 1-2 Melbourne time/AEST on 3cr.org.au – the show is also on iTunes. You can listen to all of the episodes that Nick has been on here.

I'm now a regular host of @FOSradio and I think the show is really important in giving a voice to #animal advocates and pro-animal voices generally, which are so often left out of other media. Please donate to help the show and @3CR generally going! Nick https://t.co/ioy64Y6AQz

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) June 10, 2018

Jess Ison is a part of The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (Oceania) collective who are organising a discussion forum for animal activists and academics in Melbourne in August. Connect with ICAS Oceania on Facebook, Twitter or sign up for email updates to be notified of the details of this forum once they are announced.

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Clips:

The Broadways ‘2^nd Grade Cells’; Goldfinger ‘Iron Fist’; Goldfinger ‘Behind the Mask’ – watch the clip here (content warning for graphic images of animal suffering); Petrol Girls ‘Touch Me Again’.

Episode 207: It’s Hard to be Gangsta with a Basket on Your Bike (but it’s better than “Growing Up” and Buying a Mercedes-Benz)

Posted: May 23, 2018 in Uncategorized
Tags: affordable housing, Car Next Door, car-free, Grattan Institute, high rise, israel palestine conflict, Media Watch, population in Australia, sustainable transport, Transport

Nick’s cousin Emil with Katie being creative in their car-free living.

On this episode we give practical advice on living car-free, including:

Think of alternative transport options when you’re choosing where to live.
If possible you can choose to rent a furnished place to avoid having to move big items.
Wheels are your friend: use trolleys, bags with wheels etc to carry bulky/heavy stuff.
Use delivery services to buy in bulk (only occasionally or that will have a high environmental impact!). We do online orders through sites like Who Gives a Crap for toilet paper and Veganpet for vegan dog food.
Use a car share like Car Next Door for the rare times you do need access (not ownership) to a car.

Check out this #poetry from our friend Kyna (aka "The Poly Guru") who featured on our 193rd and 194th episodes discussing marriage equality and polyamory. Poems recorded in the Progressive Podcast Australia "studio" 🙂 https://t.co/bD1C0ZgxMV

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) May 15, 2018

We also discuss shitty Mercedes-Benz ads, Adam Ruins Cars and some recent stories from Media Watch.

This morning ABC Radio covered the tragic loss of life along the "fence" dividing #Israel and #Palestine. Using the term "fence" is basically Israeli government propaganda – it is 'twice the height of the Berlin Wall and more than four times the length'. https://t.co/jeLPwmlQH0

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) May 15, 2018

We finish the episode by covering the Grattan Institute report on housing affordability in Australia, high rise apartments and population.

This episode is brought to you by Jason P – thanks a lot to Jason for donating to our Crowdfunding campaign!

New journal article in @animalstudies1 by ICAS collective member Nick Pendergrast on organisational barriers to intersectional #activism in the #animal movement #intersectionality https://t.co/pBAy5DVznG

— ICAS Oceania (@icasoceania) May 4, 2018

Clips:

David Rovics ‘I’m a better anarchist than you’, Behind the Song: Lowkey discussing ‘Ahmed’, Bushwalla ‘Gangsta’.

Episode 206: Eating Vegemite Baguettes and Opposing the Burning of the Bankini in France

Posted: April 26, 2018 in Uncategorized
Tags: agency, Burkini, Burkini Ban, France, French politics, immigration, immigration policies, integration, Islamophobia, Nice, Nice attack, Paris, Paris attacks, terrorism

Burquini ban

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 (64mins, 47MB).

We’re joined by Sarah who witnessed the Nice attack in France as well as the increased Islamophobia in the aftermath. Sarah also provides “high level information” on a wide range of related topics including: her own immigration experience in France, French politics, the Burkini ban in France, a lack of agency afforded to women when discussing clothing choices, French attitudes towards Muslims and immigration, concerns about religious and ethnic hatred versus inequality in Europe and beyond, the experiences of immigrant children in schools, and the problems of a one-way “integration” approach to immigration.

Sarah also makes some parallels with similar issues in Australia, including: Islamophobia in Australia, the Burkini and the Australian beach, the proposed university level English test for Australian citizenship and misplaced concerns about the “geographical concentration” of newly arrived migrants.

New book chapter by Nick and @saramakesgreen looking critically into the marketing of "happy" meat/animal products. Book is expensive but if you're interested, you could order it into your local or university library 🙂 https://t.co/ELDAz7bXYd

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) February 17, 2018

Clips:

Flight of the Chonchords ‘Foux Du FaFa’, Ernest Cline and Steven Spielberg discuss Ready Player One, Camp Cope ‘Keep Growing’.

Episode 205: The Personal is Political – Reflections on Disability

Posted: April 19, 2018 in Uncategorized
Tags: ableism, ableist language, cerebral palsy, chronic fatigue, disability, disability funding, intersectionality, NDIS, neoliberalism, Tom McIntyre

Image from: http://achievementcenteroftexas.org/2017/09/01/end-ableism/

We are joined by Tom McIntyre who discusses his personal experiences of raising his daughter Isabelle, who has cerebral palsy. More specifically, we cover: disabilities and intersectionality; neoliberalism and disability funding; policies affecting people with disabilities, including the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme); a lack of focus on disabilities in progressive movements; avoiding ableist language; and activism as a privilege?

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Katie also gives her personal experiences of living with chronic fatigue, in light of a recent story on the condition by the Feed on SBS Viceland.

Thank you for covering #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #TheFeedSBS – I've had it for 5 years but not as bad as those you interviewed. It's very underfunded. Keep up the research ppl! Katie https://t.co/cUgLBorRDb

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) April 7, 2018

Clips:

Area 7 ‘Second Class Citizen’, Stewart Scott ‘staffies play fighting’, Aaron Chen Tonight ‘Episode 6’ – this show came out of John Conway Tonight, Akala ‘Find No Enemy’, Akala ‘Fire in the Booth (part 4)’.

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