Posts Tagged ‘No is Not Enough’

Episode 258: Are the Republicans the Party for Workers? Two Nic’s on US Politics

Posted: November 10, 2020 in Uncategorized
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Image from: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

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During the election campaign, Trump argued that “Republicans have become the party of the American worker”. Nick is joined by Nic (previously of Bitchy Shitshow and Vegan Warrior Princesses Attack, now doing the new show Pynk Spots) to discuss this claim and break down the US election result and a lack of focus on class and economic inequality from the Democrats.

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Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, Baseketball ‘Playoff Tiebreaker’, The Simpsons ‘“Recount” scene from “The Simpsons”’, Lowkey ‘Daily Duppy’.

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

Posted: January 23, 2018 in Uncategorized
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Image from greens.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 (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.

Thanks to Deborah from Go Vegan Scotland and everyone who helped us get to the first goal of our Crowd Funding campaign! We have now retired our “mic stand” of board games and bought a new actual mic stand 🙂 Please help us reach our full goal to help us also buy a new microphone and you can choose the topics we cover on the show in 2018! You can support our campaign here.

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?’.

Episode 198: Abolish Australia Day

Posted: January 15, 2018 in Uncategorized
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Image from the Juice Media’s Australia Day (Piracy parody) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UytdM-x3cv4

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, 49MB).

This episode features journalist, trade unionist and Indigenous rights activist Celeste Liddle discussing Invasion Day. This talk was recorded at the 2017 Invasion Day protest in Melbourne. You can listen to audio of this entire event here. We encourage everyone in Australia to go along to an Invasion Day/Survival Day event in your city this year (details below) – you can find more details about the Melbourne event here.

In our discussion on Invasion Day, we also discuss the radio station Triple J changing the date of their hottest 100. If you’d like to hear more about Invasion Day, you can listen to our 22nd episode.

This episode also features our first vodcast where we promote our new Crowd Funding campaign. Those supporting this campaign can choose the topics we cover on the show in 2018! Please support our campaign here.

We also play the final part of our discussion with designer and anthropologist Michael Palmyre, who is a part of the design initiative How Might We Do Good. This section of the discussion covers science, social media, the limitations of “green” capitalism, and individual versus structural solutions to inequality. This discussion is elaborating on points from Mike’s talk ‘Are We Using Design to Make the World a Less Valuable Place?’ which we played on episode 196 and also discussed further on episode 197.

Clips:

Local Resident Failure ‘Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya?’, Aamer Rahman ‘Australia Day’, Chants from the rally and speech by Celeste Liddle from the Invasion Day 2017 protest in Melbourne, Video for our Crowd Funding campaign: ‘Support our Podcast and choose the topics we cover in 2018!’, Bomb the Music Industry ‘Stand There Until You’re Sober’, Kev Carmody ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’.