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Episode 271: Melbourne is Exploding – COVID, Lockdowns, Protests and Earthquakes!

Posted: September 24, 2021 in Uncategorized
Tags: Black Lives Matter, construction worker protest, Coronavirus, earthquakes, lockdowns, mainstream media, Melbourne, police brutality, protest, vaccinations, Victoria

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

Can the apocalypse stop for a second please! #earthquake pic.twitter.com/me9oACKzCK
— Caroline Schelle (@carolineschelle) September 21, 2021

Links:

For more on these protests and concerns about police brutality, check out the article ‘Arrest footage and teargas raise concerns about Victoria police’s use of force to quell protests’ by Josh Taylor on The Guardian.

Something to consider in discussions about "living with COVID"… https://t.co/TglM8qFKA7
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) September 9, 2021

You can listen to us hosting the Rotations music show on 3CR Community Radio, featuring some musical comedy with a message: ‘Healing the World with Comedy (Rotations Musical Comedy Special)’.

Has anyone done their own research on this earthquake in Victoria, or are you just going to listen to seismologists?
— They said (@TheySaid01) September 22, 2021

If anyone can help us out with designing a new logo for the show, please email us at progressivepodcast AT gmail dot com.

Can anyone (or everyone?) draw or design better than me? See my drawing "skills" here (remember my pic of a "horse" from a game of Pictionary @acardilini?) and @NicksSong for my design "skills". We're looking for help with a new logo- if you're interested in helping, pls msg us:) pic.twitter.com/iFvZg6oa4r
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) September 24, 2021

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Clips:

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

Episode 259: Reflections On One Of The World’s Longest Lockdowns – Are We All In This Together?

Posted: December 4, 2020 in Uncategorized
Tags: civil liberties, class, Coronavirus, Daniel Andrews, Donald Trump, Grenfell fire, health, Indigenous sovereignty, Left, Lottie, Melbourne, neoliberalism, police brutality, Scott Morrison

We saw this on a back of a car near our place recently.

You can listen to this episode above, subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and add us to your favourites on Stitcher. You can also listen to it on Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (56mins, 42MB).

Nick is joined by Lottie to discuss Melbourne’s lockdown – what it was like, implications for work and life generally going forward, and our evaluation of how the Andrews government has handled the pandemic.

If we'd listened to #Scrotum we'd be dropping like flies. pic.twitter.com/6X6R2rc3lQ
— CtlAltDel (@Ctl_Alt_Del) November 26, 2020

Links:

‘‘Devastated’: Anger after ‘culturally significant’ tree cut down at highway site’ by Miki Perkins (article on theage.com.au).

So while the Andrews government was announcing the opening up of Melbs, it was concurrently cutting down a sacred part of Djap Wurrung heritage #shame

This was the beautiful Directions Tree. pic.twitter.com/Osv4pMZbhs
— Celeste Liddle (@Utopiana) October 26, 2020

‘Coronavirus Victoria: Daniel Andrews says Cox Plate backflip prompted by public backlash, not health concerns’ by Melissa Davey (article on theguardian.com).

Whatever you think about this protest cause, the use of OC spray as a crowd control weapon is intolerable. #VicPolWatch https://t.co/V9Y2jj8yVo
— Melb Activist Legal (@ActivistLegal) November 3, 2020

‘The Psychology Behind Conspiracy Theories with Rob Brotherton’ (Factually podcast).

@friendlyjordies racist attitudes towards us on full display during NAIDOC week. A THREAD:

– Claims that no sacred sites can come into being post invasion. This reinforces the racist beliefs that our Cultures are past, dead and unrecoverable.https://t.co/eosuP1FkbC pic.twitter.com/bTMOE6eC1o
— 🏴Tim☀️Buchanan🚩 (@Tbuch2) November 11, 2020

‘Why Do Right-Wing Adherents Engage in More Animal Exploitation and Meat Consumption?’ (brief overview of the academic literature on this topic on faunalytics.org).
Our previous episodes referred to: #254 on our critiques of privatisation, #250 on the hard lockdown of public housing towers and #173 on the Grenfell Fire.

On the World Tonight, there was just a long discussion about how Trump, apparently, wins "working class" votes. At no point did the host point out that the premise of the whole conversation is a lie.https://t.co/mHdbsaM29J

Now they're saying poor Brazillians love Bolsonaro. pic.twitter.com/wwKisMOTgm
— Adam Ramsay (@AdamRamsay) November 13, 2020

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I've just made a contribution via #bandcamp to my most played artist of the year, @mcsole – why not consider making a contribution to your most played artist, if you currently have the means to do so – coz unfortunately Spotify pays shite #2020Wrapped https://t.co/6mDu5wqeUw
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) December 3, 2020

Clips:

The Lonely Island ‘YOLO’, Lowkey ‘Ghosts of Grenfell 2’.

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

Episode 235: Behind Enemy Lines – An Account Of Blockade IMARC From Within The Convention Centre

Posted: October 29, 2019 in Uncategorized
Tags: Activism, activist tactics, Blockade IMARC, climate change, Daniel Andrews, environment, environmental activism, Melbourne, mining industry, police, police brutality

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Katie happened to be at the same Convention Centre as the IMARC (International Mining and Resources Conference) conference as she was at a union health and safety event. She gives a first-hand account of the #BlockadeIMARC actions protesting those attending the conference and profiting from the destruction of the environment.

Huge police presence making sure climate criminals can continue on the path towards climate catastrophe #priorities #BlockadeIMARC pic.twitter.com/ZqUD6Rjzaj
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) October 29, 2019

For more on this action, check out that hashtag, our tweets @ProgPodcast and the links below:

Melbourne Activist Legal Support – Preliminary Statement of Concern: International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) Protest event.

Due to multiple injuries reported today at the #IMARC protest including suspected broken bones we are calling upon @VictoriaPolice to immediately withdraw the mounted unit from crowded protest areas and prohibit their use on future days of the protest event.@ibacVic @VEOHRC pic.twitter.com/pYlmM72xqX
— Melb Activist Legal (@ActivistLegal) October 29, 2019

Article published in Nature on the necessity of keeping 80% of coal in the ground, plus an article by 350.org founder Bill McKibben on this study.

'…The unabated use of all current fossil fuel reserves is incompatible with a warming limit of 2 °C' (article in Nature) but those at IMARC have a financial interest in expanding use and the Victorian state wants to help them lead us towards catastrophe. https://t.co/7kbFVTbxRc
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) October 29, 2019

Article on the Victorian state government giving $900,000 to the animal agricultural industry to get their message out.

Government-funded industry propaganda.
There is already so much advertising from these industries, ridiculous that they're getting public money to do more.https://t.co/xY02DBUCtz
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) August 8, 2019

Clips:

Lagwagon ‘Cog in the Machine’, NOFX ‘Generation Z’.

I just called my local representative in @DanielAndrewsMP's government and when I complained about the police beating people in the street with batons I was accused of "virtue signalling" and was hung up on. This is your "most progressive government in Australia".
— Connor Jolley (@ConnorCJolley) October 28, 2019

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

Episode 196: Designing a way out of the White Capitalist Patriarchy

Posted: January 2, 2018 in Uncategorized
Tags: anti-capitalism, anti-racism, capitalism, design, gender inequality, Melbourne, Michael Palmyre, social justice, Sydney

Michael Palmyre giving his talk ‘Are We Using Design to Make the World a Less Valuable Place?’, which is featured on this episode.

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 (64mins, 46MB).

This episode features a talk by designer and anthropologist Michael Palmyre: ‘Are We Using Design to Make the World a Less Valuable Place?’. You can watch this talk here and it is also embedded below.

We’re also joined by Mike for an additional discussion on some background for the talk, the importance of challenging dominant narratives and ideologies, and the all-important Sydney versus Melbourne debate.

This discussion continues on episodes 197 and 198, focusing on reactions to the talk and elaborating on some of the themes covered.

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Clips:

Martha ‘Precarious (The Supermarket Song)’, Michael Palmyre ‘Are We Using Design to Make the World a Less Valuable Place?’, Gil-Scot Heron ‘New York is Killing Me’.

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Episode 271: Melbourne is Exploding – COVID, Lockdowns, Protests and Earthquakes!

Episode 259: Reflections On One Of The World’s Longest Lockdowns – Are We All In This Together?

Episode 235: Behind Enemy Lines – An Account Of Blockade IMARC From Within The Convention Centre