Posts Tagged ‘Aboriginal activism’

Episode 249: Black Lives Matter and the Power of Protest

Posted: June 29, 2020 in Uncategorized
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Image from the NYT article linked to below.

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This show features speeches from the Melbourne Blak Lives Matter rally – the recording is thanks to 3CR Community Radio. We also discuss how significantly the Black Lives Matter movement has changed public opinion in the US and beyond, drawing on The New York Times article ‘How Public Opinion Has Moved on Black Lives Matter’ by Nate Cohn and Kevin Quealy.

Another topic covered is Australia’s racist history, which included slavery.

Other podcasts covering this movement:

Clips:

Sesame Street explain Black Lives Matter – we got the audio from Late Night with Seth Meyers, ‘Cornel West Explains the Protests’ – from the Bernie Sanders YT Channel, Speeches from the Melbourne Blak Lives Matter rally – recording from 3CR Community Radio, Jimblah and Ellie May ‘Black Life Matters’.

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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.

If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist ‘Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy’!

Episode 201: Social Justice Warrior Happy Hour #2, Featuring Arrogant Podcasters

Posted: February 12, 2018 in Uncategorized
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Photo of the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne, from: https://www.facebook.com/IAmAboriginal/

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 (35mins, 28MB).

As with our last Social Justice Warrior Happy Hour, on this one we cover a wide range of topics. We start off by giving a recap of the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne, which we promoted on episode 198. You can listen to our recording of a talk from the rally by historian Gary Foley and also check out our 199th episode for discussion on different approaches to Aboriginal activism in Australia.

We also mention Nick’s article ‘Ford’s Attempts to Moderate the CORE of the Civil Rights Movement’, inspired by a recent episode of the podcast Revolutionary Left Radio on the Black Panther Party. There’s a return of the segment ‘Angela Davis ALWAYS Makes Sense’, this time on the Black Panther Party.

The government repression of GetUp! and right-wing conspiracy theories about GetUp! is another topic covered.

We finish the episode by discussing vegans hijacking the #Februdairy campaign from the dairy industry, feminism and dairy, and the Be Fair Be Vegan ad campaign.

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Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, Angela Davis – interview 1972 – talking about revolution, Camp Cope ‘The Opener’.

Episode 199: Just Do It! But not in a Nike kind of way

Posted: January 23, 2018 in Uncategorized
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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 (60mins, 51MB).

This episode features the talk ‘Experimental Utopias and Social Change: Examples from Australian Non-Hegemonic Activism’ by Dr Theresa Petray and Nick on “just do it” activism in Aboriginal and animal social movements. You can view the PowerPoint presentation for this talk here and it is also embedded below. You can read our journal article on this topic here. This talk was given at a TASA (The Australian Sociological Association) conference – you can hear a recap of this conference on episode 151.

Theresa also joins Nick for the rest of the episode, giving updates on the campaigns for Indigenous Recognition, touching on the Uluru statement, Constitutional Recognition and the article ‘White politicians won’t give us anything willingly. We need collective power’ by Nayuka Gorrie.

Finally, we give some updates on Invasion Day, which we covered last episode #198.

Book recommendation:

No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein.

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Clips:

Yothu Yindi ‘Treaty’ (Original Version), Laura Murphy-Oates on The Feed ‘Indigenous Recognition: How did this debate go off the rails?’, The talk ‘Experimental Utopias and Social Change: Examples from Australian Non-Hegemonic Activism’ by Dr Theresa Petray and Nick, Akala ‘Fire in the Booth – part 1’, Local Resident Failure ‘Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya?’, World/Inferno Friendship Society ‘Canonize Philip K. Dick, OK?’.

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