Episode 12: Myth Busters! I Ain’t Afraid of No Boats

Posted: September 9, 2012 in Uncategorized
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You can listen to this episode on Archive.org here or download it on MediaFire here (31MB).

We start off the episode by analysing the latest changes to asylum seeker policy by the Australian government, as well as their new ad ‘Australia By Boat – No Advantage’ and the report from their “expert” panel. We also discuss how a picture can tell a thousand words about asylum seekers and The Conversation’s report from their expert panel on asylum seekers and their alternative recommendations. We bust myths about those coming by boat being queue jumpers, illegal immigrants, and Australia supposedly taking a large amount of asylum seekers. We also discuss why people get on boats and the good and the bad from the SBS show ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’. Finally, we discuss the good news for Australian journalist Austin Mackell and introduce the new segment ‘What You HAVEN’T Learnt from the Media This Week’. We also encourage people to listen to our interview about animal rights on Team Earthling and the package put together by Karun Cowper from Occupy Perth and Perth Indymedia, which brings you voices from the Refugee Rights Action Network’s convergence to Northam Detention Centre for asylum seekers.

Recommended Reading:

GetUp! Fact Sheet on Australia and Asylum Seekers

Clips:

Australian Government ‘Australia By Boat – No Advantage’, Ghostbusters ‘Theme – Instrumental’, Austin Powers, Lagwagon from the album ‘Live in a Dive’, Billy Bragg ‘Never Buy the Sun’, Anti-Flag ‘Underground Network’, Hilltop Hoods ‘Speaking in Tongues’.

Episode 11: Puppy Farms, Food and Social Justice

Posted: August 29, 2012 in Uncategorized
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Our dog Charlie.

You can download this episode on MediaFire here.

We start off the episode by playing Katie’s TV interview on puppy farms and discussing pet adoption. We then give some updates on live animal export and Australian animal slaughter by playing our discussion on Indymedia on RTR 92.1FM – you can listen to the whole episode by going to this link and choosing the 6th of August episode. We go through some listener feedback and discuss the website http://bvganfematheist.com/, then we play Nick’s talk ‘Food and Social Justice: How What We Eat Can Benefit People, Animals and the Environment’. This talk was recorded at the 2011 Cruelty Free Festival and you can view the powerpoint for it here. We finish by discussing the environmental impact of animal products, considering other animals in all of the choices we make, travelling as a vegan, The Vegan Easy Challenge, and the Food Empowerment Project – including their fair trade chocolate list.

Book Recommendation:

Slaughterhouse by Gall A. Eisnitz

Clips:

The U.S. Office ‘Season 7, Episode 24’, Gorilla Biscuits ‘Cats and Dogs’, Undercurrent ‘Puppy Farms’, RTR 92.1 Indymedia ‘6th August episode’, Austin Powers, The U.S. Office ‘The Best of Dwight Schrute’, Nick Pendergrast ‘Food and Social Justice’, True Blood ‘Season 1, episode 10’, Promoe ‘Fit You Haffi Fit’.

Episode 10: ‘We Do Not Cross Borders, Borders Cross Us’* – Travelling, Migrating and Seeking Refuge

Posted: August 7, 2012 in Uncategorized
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You can listen to this episode and/or download an MP3 file for it (30MB) on Archive.org here.

We start off the episode by talking about our recent travels and our animal rights protest in Geneva, anarchism in Barcelona, and a discussion on China – including Internet censorship, Tiananmen Square and recent protests. Katie also provides a critical perspective on the definition of ‘refugee’, based on her study in Geneva. Finally, we discuss true globalisation and the free movement of people around the world (not just for “legitimate” refugees).

Book Recommendation:

Occupy Everything: Anarchists and the Occupy Movement 2009-2011 edited by Aragorn!

Clips:

Gogol Bordello ‘Wonderlust King’, Lagwagon from the album ‘Live in a Dive’, Austin Powers, Propagandhi ‘Fuck the Border’.

*This quote that forms the title of this episode is taken from the Breakout Conference by the Cross Border Collective, which we discuss on this episode.

Episode 9: Art and Social Change – Occupy Art Lab, Occupy Updates

Posted: June 28, 2012 in Uncategorized
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You can listen to this episode on Archive.org here and you can also download an MP3 file (88MB) for the episode from that link. Alternatively, you can listen to/download a 33MB version here.

In this episode, we cover the event Occupy Art Lab. We bring you music from Spoken Zeks and 1000 Eyes, as well as stand-up comedy from Shayne Hunter. We also discuss Phil Airey’s documentary ‘Soldier: An Occupy Story’ and interview artist and activist Carl Scrase about Occupy Art Lab and Occupy Melbourne. Before this, we discuss punk rock music, Jeffery Lewis’s covers of Crass songs, Against Me! singer comes out as transgender, and art for the environment and animal rights. To finish things off, we cover Bradley Manning’s human rights award, the AS tragedy, The Dictator, and finally we discuss Adbusters, Occupy Sydney and Occupy Invercargill.

Book Recommendation:

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber

Clips:

The Good Life ‘Entertainer’, Propagandhi ‘Nailing Descartes to the Wall/(Liquid) Meat is Still Murder’, Crass ‘Punk is Dead’, Jeffery Lewis ‘Interview’ and ‘Big A, Little A’, Against Me! ‘The Ocean’, Spoken Zeks, Shayne Hunter, 1000 Eyes ‘Occupy’, Austin Powers, Peep Show (series 7, episode 2), Katie’s interview on dairy, Graham Nash and James Raymond ‘Almost Gone’, Bill Hicks ‘Marketing and Advertising’, Lagwagon from the album ‘Live in a Dive’, Meerkat Media Collective ‘Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street)’, The Dictator, Co-Existing with Non-Human Animals ‘Episode 68’, Rap News ’#Occupy2012’, Today ‘Long Stabby Thing’.

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