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

Posted: June 28, 2012 in Uncategorized
Tags: current-events, entertainment, fragments of an anarchist anthropology, media, occupy-wall-street, politics

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’.

Episode 8: Interview with Refugee Rights Activists, Updates on Same-Sex Marriage and Australian Politics, Support Austin Mackell!

Posted: March 30, 2012 in Uncategorized
Tags: Austin Mackell, bob katter, Leonora Detention Centre, politics, Refugee Rights Action Network, refugees, same-sex marriage, Serco

You can download this episode on MediaFire here.

This episode has an interview with Clare Middlemas and Nathan Verney from Refugee Rights Action Network WA on their convergence to Leonora Detention Centre and refugee rights generally. We also discuss Serco, the private company who runs Australian detention centres for asylum seekers. We start off the episode with some updates on Australian politics and same-sex marriage, including: Gillard wins the leadership battle but still refuses to support same-sex marriage, Wayne Swan’s article on the super-rich in The Monthly, the article ‘6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying’, good news and bad news for same-sex rights in the Queensland election, and Bolt supports same-sex marriage. We finish the episode by encouraging everyone to sign this petition to support Australian journalist Austin Mackell, who is facing bogus charges in Egypt. You can find out more about his case by listening to an interview with him here and reading articles about the case here, here, here, and here.

Book Recommendation:
The Hunger Games – read an article about the political themes in this series here and check out the website Hunger is Not a Game here.

Clips:

Myq Kaplan ‘Bigotry is Confusing’, Chumbawamba ‘Homophobia’, The Telegraph ‘Australian politician caught using speech from Michael Douglas film’, The Office (UK) ‘Season 1, Episode 3’, Katters Australian Party ‘Anti-Gay Television Advertisement’, Sydney Morning Herald ‘Bob Katter’s Brother to Star in Gay Marriage Ad’, GetUp! ‘Our response to Bob Katter’, Lagwagon from the album ‘Live in a Dive’, Austin Powers, Justin Sane ‘Thanks for the Letter’, Anti-Flag ‘Mummia’s Song’.

Episode 7: Indigenous Rights Protests on Invasion Day and Beyond

Posted: February 26, 2012 in Uncategorized

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Episode 7 covers Indigenous rights protests on Invasion Day, which were falsely demonised as “riots” in much of the media. We also look at an ongoing Indigenous rights protest in Perth – The Noongar Tent Embassy – which is standing up for Indigenous land rights. We interview Greg – an Indigenous rights activist who is part of The Noongar Tent Embassy. Other issues covered on this episode are the link between racism and Australian flags, personality over policies in the Labor leadership battle, and Bradley Manning could be sentenced to life in prison for harming no one.*

Book recommendation:

A Secret Country by John Pilger

Clips

ABC ‘Riot Police Rescue Gillard, Abbott from Protestors‘, Frenzal Rhomb ‘White World’, Ten News ‘Aboriginal Tent Embassy Part 2’, Marianne Mackay ‘Come Down to the Noongar Tent Embassy‘, Lagwagon from the album ‘Live in a Dive’, The Juice Media ‘RAP NEWS 11: Australia Day (with Ken Oathcarn).

*Correction: As we discussed on episode 9, we apologise that on this episode we accidentally misinterpreted a news story and said that Bradley Manning had been sentenced to life in prison. The actual story was that his sentence will be life in prison, if he is found guilty. However, our general points on Bradley Manning and the case still stand.

Another Reminder: New Podcast Feed – Need to Resubscribe

Posted: February 26, 2012 in Uncategorized

One last reminder that we’ve had to change our podcast feed, which means that all of our old subscribers are no longer subscribed to our podcast. If our latest episodes (#5 and #6) are in your feed, then you are subscribed to the new feed. If they aren’t, then you are not subscribed to the new feed – you can resubscribe here.

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