Posts Tagged ‘media’

Episode 226: A Myth Busting Report Back from Palestine

Posted: April 29, 2019 in Uncategorized
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Free Palestine.

Picture by Non Violent Vigilante.

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 (66mins, 51MB).

Dilan Fernando and Harley McDonald-Eckersall discuss their recent trip to Palestine where they spoke with local activists about life under Occupation and the history of Palestine.

We also cover some recent developments including Netanyahu’s re-election in Israel and the anti-Palestine position of both of the two most popular candidates, plus West Australian Labor candidate Melissa Parke withdrawing her candidacy due to her pro-Palestine, pro-human rights comments being made public.

If you’d like to hear other episodes where we’ve covered Palestine, check out episode 110 with Samah Sabawi, a Palestinian Australian Canadian writer and human rights advocate – plus we have heaps of other episodes on this issue.

If you’re interested in hearing more about animal activism in Palestine and “veganwashing” by the Israeli government, promoting their vegan credentials in the hopes people will overlook their Occupation of Palestine, check out:

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Clips:

Mohammed Assaf ‘Dami Falasteeni’ (My blood is Palestinian), Rafeef Ziadah ‘We teach life sir’.

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Episode 224: WTF is going on in Venezuela? An Eyewitness Account from Federico Fuentes

Posted: March 30, 2019 in Uncategorized
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Federico Fuentes interviewing Maria Paez in Venezuela. Photo by Joe Montero, taken from an article on greenleft.org.au

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 (86mins, 68MB).

We’re joined by Federico Fuentes, a writer for Green Left Weekly, who gives a first-hand account of the current situation in Venezuela.

Federico at a community assembly in Santa Teresa in San Fernando de Apure. We have a strong focus on this grassroots democracy at the community level in this episode.

You can listen to Federico’s talk from the ‘Eyewitness Report back from Venezuela’ event here.

For a policy analysis of US intervention in Venezuela, check out our last episode #223. The notes for this episode also have links to heaps more sources to learn more.

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Clips:

Sole ft DJ Pain 1 and Decomposure ‘Capitalism is Tearing Us Apart’, Anti-Flag ‘America Got it Right’.

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Episode 223: Trump Hands Off Venezuela! A Foreign Policy Analysis

Posted: March 22, 2019 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 (71mins, 53MB).

This episode features politics professor Jason Brownlee on current US meddling in Venezuela and whether or not direct military intervention by the US is likely, in the context of US foreign policy historically.

Jason also briefly touches on the US media coverage of the white supremacist terrorist attack in Christchurch, which we covered last episode #222.

For more on the history of US foreign policy, check out Jason’s book Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance and Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance.

If you’d like to hear first-hand accounts of what is going on in Venezuela, check out Mike Prysner, Max Blumenthal and if you’re in Melbourne you may be interested in going along to the upcoming event Eyewitness Report back from Venezuela.

Other sources we and/or Jason recommend on Venezuela are: Intercepted, Secular Talk and Democracy Now!. You can see our tweets about Venezuela for more sources.

Clips:

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran; The Beach Boys ‘Barbara Ann’; Rolling Stones ‘My Sweet Neocon’, David Bowie ‘I’m Afraid of Americans’, Propagandhi ‘A People’s History of the World’.

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Episode 214: Mad As Hell about being in a TV Audience…Coconut!

Posted: October 1, 2018 in Uncategorized
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Mad As Audience

Image from @madashelltv on Twitter.

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 (36mins, 32MB).

We give a behind-the-scenes look at the media, discussing our experiences of being in the audience for the taping of two Shaun Micallef shows.

We also cover: why we hate quiz/panel shows, commercial constraints in the media, different forms of media and their impact, emotional labour, animal rights and not just welfare, Stic Man of Dead Prez on Which Side podcast, Pauline Hanson’s motion that “it’s okay to be white”, and Aotearoa (New Zealand) Prime Minister Jacinda Arden speaking at the UN and on Stephen Colbert.

Just in case anyone is interested, the Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation episode we were in the audience for was episode 1 of the 2018 series. But do yourself a favour and check out Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell instead!

Clips:

Dead Prez ‘Propaganda’, Spice Girls ‘Move Over (Generation Next)’ – I’m not linking to the film clip for this song coz it’s a fucking Pepsi commercial!

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