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Episode 86: Leigh-Chantelle on Effective Activism and the Evils of Facebook

Posted: February 18, 2015 in Uncategorized
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You can watch Nick’s discussion with Leigh-Chantelle as a vodcast above, or listen to the podcast, which features all of this discussion plus additional discussion from Nick and Katie, as well as music and clips, by clicking on one of the links below:

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For most of this episode, we’re joined by Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan!. Leigh-Chantelle is a vegan, animal rights activist, feminist, singer/songwriter, author and blogger. She discusses effective online activism, staying positive despite in-fighting in social movements, veganism, animal advocacy and podcasting. Leigh-Chantelle also interviewed Nick for Viva la Vegan! podcast – there is both a video and audio version of this interview available here.

Also covered on this episode is the 2015 ICAS Oceania conference in Melbourne, Eve and Jill Scott on Iggy Azalea and cultural appropriation (this is a follow-up to our discussion on this issue on episode 84), and Viva la Vegan!’s Top Ten Male ‪‎Vegan Athletes (Nick is #6).

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Book Recommendation:

Feed by MT Anderson.

Clips:

Leigh-Chantelle ‘Go With The Flow’, The Thick of it (Series 3, Episode 1), CNNNN, Part 1 of Nick’s discussion with Leigh-Chantelle, Jill Scott and Eve Dissect Iggy Azalea’s Black Accent, Part 2 of Nick’s discussion with Leigh-Chantelle, Universal Poplab ‘Vampire in You’.

You can listen to a short (9 minute) version of this episode, which features the start of Nick’s discussion with Leigh-Chantelle on effective online activism, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 60: Droning On About Online Privacy

Posted: July 3, 2014 in Uncategorized
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Listen to this episode and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on MediaFire (27MB).

On this one we discuss “Big Buzzfeed”, Facebook and online privacy. We finish the episode with a discussion on the human rights implications of drones, drawing on an article in the Guardian by Senator Scott Ludlam: ‘Two Australians were killed by US drones. Of course that’s our business’. Also covered throughout the episode is avoiding pointless debates online, privilege and witches. Shout outs to Team Earthling and Crimethinc podcast.

This episode is brought to you by “Man Next Door Michael”. We encourage people to follow Michael on Twitter –@mikkelbot. Thanks a lot to Michael for becoming a member of our show – you can become a member and sponsor an episode too!

Clips:

Colour Me Wednesday ‘Cat Hair’, The IT Crowd ‘The Last Byte’, The Onion News Network ‘Facebook CIA Project’, Austin Powers, Scrubs ‘Anal Is Not A Dirty Word’, Jamie Kilstein ‘Conan O’Brien Show talking War Torture Drones’, Fresh Meat ‘Series 3, Episode 6’, ‘Drone/Alone’ from Fresh Meat ‘Series 3, Episode 6’.

You can listen to a short (6 minute) version of this episode, which focuses on privilege, here: You Can Say You Don’t Believe In Privilege, But That Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Have Privilege. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.