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Episode 273: This Episode is Problematic! Cancel Culture and Disposable People

Posted: October 25, 2021 in Uncategorized
Tags: adrienne maree brown, Bo Burnham, cancel culture, Friendlyjordies, Left, prison abolition

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We weigh into the debate on cancel culture, including discussing the links adrienne maree brown makes between cancel culture and prisons, with the common factor being “disposable people”. We also discuss getting put “in the bin” for promoting the friendlyjordies documentary ‘Blood Water: the war for Australia’s water’.

You can also hear us guest hosting Rotations on 3CR Community Radio, playing some live music as a substitute for live shows during the pandemic.

A valuable discussion – looking at how social movements can be spaces that heal trauma, rather than being based on and perpetuating it. And it even features a song from Bo Burnham's Inside 🙂 https://t.co/4IOA0VPTay
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) July 30, 2021

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Clips:

Baby Cries sketch from I Think You Should Leave Season 2 (Netflix), Theoffcamerashow ‘Bo Burnham Forgives His 16 Year Old Self’, Bo Burnham ‘Problematic’ (from the Netflix Special ‘Inside’).

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 261: Is The State Inherently Violent?

Posted: January 28, 2021 in Uncategorized
Tags: carceral feminism, Gary Foley, Invasion Day, language, Lidia Thorpe, police, prison abolition, prisons, the state, violence

Image from: https://medium.com/applied-intersectionality/prison-institution-of-gender-norms-9307893ec25f

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 (45mins, 33MB).

We discuss violence and the state, as well as bringing you some speeches from the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne – Kulin Nations.

One thing we didn’t do was define the state but what we are talking about there is not just the government but also the police, prison system, court system etc. We discuss the broader definition of violence in the context of family violence and whether or not it can be applied to the state generally and prisons specifically.

#Prisons are like abusive relationships- all about coercive control eg what to wear, when to eat, who you can see etc. Important discussion on #abolitionist perspectives on gendered violence on @3CR Tuesday Breakfast – listen via 'Latest episode' here: https://t.co/edjtxIpdMu
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) November 16, 2020

The speeches we play from Invasion Day are by Greens politician Lidia Thorpe and historian Gary Foley. This audio is from 3CR Community Radio and you can listen to the full rally via the 3CR website.

The @theactionnet petition promoted at the Melbourne (Kulin Nations) #InvasionDay rally: Calling on the Prime Minister to meet with families whose loved ones have died in custody for 30th anniversary of Royal Commission. Sign here: https://t.co/nDyT7xV7fV
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) January 26, 2021

Links:

This episode builds on feedback on our 231^st episode ‘Pop Culture and Politics’ and our 255^th episode ‘Prison Abolition and Colonisation with Robyn Oxley’.
‘US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds’ (article by Lois Beckett in The Guardian).
Listen in to the music special that Nick co-hosted on 3CR Community Radio ‘Music For Change’ if you’d like to hear a bunch of new political music that he hasn’t played on the podcast before.

I enjoy recommending and discussing #music, so I've set up a new account where I simply post the song that I am most enjoying that day- some will be political, others not so much. Follow that account @NicksSong and you can also follow the Spotify playlist: https://t.co/0RJ2DttAw3
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) January 22, 2021

Clips:

AB Original with Thelma Plum ‘I C U’, Invasion Day recording from 3CR Community Radio, The Juice Media: Honest Government Ad ‘Cashless Welfare Card’, Ramshackle Glory ‘Exploration of Coercion in Everyday Life’.

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

Episode 255: Prison Abolition and Colonisation with Robyn Oxley

Posted: September 12, 2020 in Uncategorized
Tags: Aboriginal deaths in custody, Angela Davis, carceral feminism, colonisation, Criminology, Defund The Police, Herman Wallace, police racism, prison abolition, prison privatisation, prisons, Robyn Oxley, solitary confinement, the state, violence

Image from: https://cape-campaign.org/what-is-prison-abolition/

This show features Criminologist and Tharawal and Yorta Yorta woman Robyn Oxley on prison abolition and the link between prisons and colonisation.

You can also watch this discussion in video form here and below.

Links:

Panel discussion featuring Robyn Oxley and other speakers on the question ‘So What If…We Didn’t Have Prisons?’. Available in both video and audio formats.
On this episode we go through some feedback on our 231^st episode: Pop Culture and Politics, which included a discussion on the show The Society and asked the question is the state inherently violent? With prisons given as an example.
International Imprisonment Rates – from the Sentencing Advisory Council Victoria.
The article ‘Prison is not for punishment in Sweden. We get people into better shape’ – a 2014 interview with Swedish director-general Nils Öberg in The Guardian.

'More than 40% of prisoners in Australian prisons are serving sentences for non-violent or non-sexual offences.' http://t.co/wfgLyRmy0n
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) April 12, 2015

Angela Davis on Democracy Now! Discussing prison abolition, defund the police and other topics (available in video, written transcript and you can also listen to the 2020-09-07 episode of the Democracy Now! podcast for an audio version).
The Vegan Vanguard ‘9. #MeToo and the Threat of Carceral Feminism’ (podcast).
The documentary Herman’s House, about Herman Wallace, who spent decades in prison in the US, much of this time in solitary confinement.
Beyond the Bars on 3CR Community Radio – featuring the voices of Indigenous people in the Victorian prison system.
Thanks to Anya from Women on the Line on 3CR for suggesting Robyn as a guest. You can also hear Anya covering the topic of prison abolition on Tuesday Breakfast on 3CR.

I highly recommend this episode of @FactuallyPod with a former police officer on his experiences, problems with the police, why the police should NOT be considered a part of the working class, #DefundThePolice and moving towards #AbolishPolice ~ N https://t.co/feDv2d0ina
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) July 27, 2020

Clips:

OneFour ‘Welcome to Prison’, Onsind ‘Frankland Prison Blues’.

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

Episode 216: Building Our New World in the Shell of the Old – Transformative Justice

Posted: November 1, 2018 in Uncategorized
Tags: animal activism, Anne-lise Ah-fat, anti-fascism, anti-psychiatry movement, creative activism, family violence, horse racing, me too, medication, mental health, police, prison abolition, sexual assault, The Melbourne Cup, transformative justice, Undercurrent, utopias

Me Too and Transformative Justice, Anne-lise, Jess and Beth

Anne-lise Ah-fat (on the left) who 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 (47mins, 38MB).

This episode features Anne-lise Ah-fat on her work with Undercurrent doing transformative justice in the community, as an alternative to police and prisons.

We also discuss creative activism against fascism and for animals.

Love the creativity of this action against the #MelbourneCup #NupToTheCup https://t.co/uRDoDUzCD4 pic.twitter.com/LeBPTf3gAH

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) October 31, 2018

Links:

Annal-lise’s talk is from the panel discussion ‘Transformative Justice and Me Too’. This is from the Community As Activism event which we covered on episode 213. You can listen to audio of all of the sessions from this event here.
Farshans on the Field – Melbourne Cup Protest! See this year’s event on Facebook and this site + you can read about last year’s event.
Revolutionary Left Radio: Demand Utopia & PopMob: Art, Imagination, & Coalition Building on the Left Coast.
We discussed anti-fascist activism on episode 94.
Check out the documentary Charlottesville: Documenting Hate on SBS On Demand.
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We wouldn’t usually encourage people to bet on the #MelbourneCup but we’re making an exception here!

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— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) November 1, 2018

Here are some recent Freedom of Species episodes Nick has done. This is an animal advocacy radio show and you can hear all of these episodes at freedomofspecies.org and on iTunes:

Horse Racing Kills – Protect Horses.
Single Issue Campaigns and Veganism.
Esther Alloun – Animal Activism in Palestine/Israel (also featuring Katie!).

Clips:

Ramshackle Glory ‘From Here to Utopia’, Wingnut Dishwashers Union ‘My Idea of Fun’, Anne-lise Ah-fat from the panel discussion ‘Transformative Justice and Me Too’, Peep Show ‘Sectioning’.

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

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Posts Tagged ‘prison abolition’

Episode 273: This Episode is Problematic! Cancel Culture and Disposable People

Episode 261: Is The State Inherently Violent?

Episode 255: Prison Abolition and Colonisation with Robyn Oxley

Episode 216: Building Our New World in the Shell of the Old – Transformative Justice