Posts Tagged ‘police brutality’

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

Posted: September 24, 2021 in Uncategorized
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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 41 ‘In Too Deep’.

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

Posted: December 4, 2020 in Uncategorized
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We saw this on a back of a car near our place recently.

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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.

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Clips:

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

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

Posted: October 29, 2019 in Uncategorized
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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.

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

Clips:

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

https://twitter.com/ConnorCJolley/status/1188952531298213888?fbclid=IwAR39F6-0jsR4t20Gz56Cc-ODbqCgbdgwzXTXFiS70WqVN30uY6g6zWolkvU

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Episode 146: Trump’s Missiles Are Flying

Posted: October 16, 2016 in Uncategorized
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This episode features politics professor Jason Brownlee on the US election. He discusses: how Trump is getting away with claiming he is challenging the elites; the dangers of a Trump presidency; Trump is not less imperialist than Clinton, despite his claims about rejecting the Iraq invasion; and Trump, Clinton and #BlackLivesMatter. This discussion continues on episode 147.

Also mentioned throughout the episode is: Nick’s article on two-party dominance in Australia, Ward Churchill on police repression in the US and the documentary Herman’s House.

You can hear all of the talks from the 2016 Institute for Critical Animal Studies (Oceania) conference here. We will do a recap of this conference soon – follow our blog and/or subscribe to our podcast on iTunes or Stitcher to be notified once this episode is out.

Clips:

Rap News ‘Presidential Rap Debates: HILLARY vs TRUMP + Jill Stein & Gary Johnson’, The Feed ‘US Presidential Debate’, The 7.30 Report Interview: Civil rights lawyer Nana Gyamfi, The Dead Zone ‘The Missiles Are Flying’, Saturday Night Live ‘Ed Glosser: Trivial Physic’, CNN ‘Mothers of the Movement – from the DNC convention’, Dave Stewart, Saul Williams, Nadirah X, Asdru Sierra, Dana Glover, Tina Schlieske and Derrick Ashong ‘Angola 3’.

You can listen to a short (8 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of our discussion on the dangers of a Trump presidency, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

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