Posts Tagged ‘Black Lives Matter’

Us in the early(ish) days of the podcast.

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We reflect on 10 years of our podcast, including:

  • A slight rebrand of our podcast.
  • How our politics have changed over the last 10 years.
  • Progress for social movements since we started the podcast.
  • The movie Don’t Look Up (Netflix) and responding to climate change.
  • The artists we’ve played the most on the show.
Thanks so much to everyone for listening to our show for any part of the last 10 years! If you’d like a FREE Progressive Podcast Australia iron on patch and/or badge, email us at progressivepodcast AT gmail dot com or message us on social media.

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Clips:

My Brand by Sole and DJ Pain 1; Peep Show ‘Johnson Over For Dinner’ – Series 1, Episode 4; Kath and Kim ‘Come in’; Bezos 2 by Bo Burnham from ‘Inside’ (Netflix); Dumb Things by AB Original and Paul Kelly; I Think You Should Leave, Season 1 – photocopier sketch (Netflix); I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better by Proper.

If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist ‘Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy’! Nick also gives daily music recommendations on Twitter @NicksSong and on the Spotify playlist ‘Song of the Day by NicksSong’.

Image from @carolynanncage on Twitter.

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We discuss Melbourne exploding with COVID, ongoing lockdowns, protests from construction workers and earthquakes!

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Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, Sum 41In Too Deep’.

If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist ‘Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy’! Nick also gives daily music recommendations on Twitter @NicksSong and on the Spotify playlist ‘Song of the Day by NicksSong’.

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’.

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

Invasion Day

Photo of the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne, from: https://www.facebook.com/IAmAboriginal/

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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:

NOFXThe Marxist Brothers’, Angela Davis – interview 1972 – talking about revolutionCamp CopeThe Opener’.