Posts Tagged ‘prisoner support’

Episode 168: Smashing IPPs and Building a Prison-Free World

Posted: April 28, 2017 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 (58mins, 49MB).

This episode features a talk from Smash IPP, recorded at Kebele Community Co-Op in Bristol. IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) sentences ‘were introduced in 2005 and abolished in 2012, but not retrospectively, meaning that there are almost 4,000 people still locked up indefinitely in England and Wales’. The talk covers IPPs, ableism, mental health and prison abolition.

For more on prisons, prison abolition and anti-prison activism, the speakers recommend people check out: iwoc.iww.org.uk; prisonabolition.org; cape-campaign.org and criticalresistance.org. You can also hear us discuss prisons (amongst other issues) on episode 159; mental health on episode 92 and ableism on episode 131.

Nick at Kebele Community Co-Op, about to enjoy a nice vegan meal. https://network23.org/kebele2/

We also discuss some action for homeless people that we saw in Bristol, a BBC video on this spreading around the UK and Adam Ruins Housing – Adam Ruins Everything on the “housing first” approach to addressing homelessness. If you’re in Australia, you can watch this episode on SBS on Demand for the next couple of weeks.

It was cool to see this in Bristol – you can see more photos from our UK trip here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/progpodcast/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1654962444519419

We finish with some vegan/vegan-friendly restaurant recommendations for Bristol: Fi Real, VX – Bristol, Pepe Nero Italian – The Full Moon. See Katie’s photos and reviews on Happy Cow for more.

Yes she does! Check out VX in London and Bristol for all of your vegan junk food needs! http://www.vx-london.com/

Clips:

Petrol Girls ‘Rewild’ and ‘False Peace’.

Music recommendations thanks to @bristolarc!

We were amused by this at VX in London! http://www.vx-london.com/

Episode 91: Which Side Podcast on How Eating a Salad While Not Drinking a Beer is a Threat to the State

Posted: March 16, 2015 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 (59mins, 26MB).

Nick is joined by Jordan Halliday and Jeremy Parkin from Which Side Vegan Anarchist podcast for almost the entire episode. We discuss: Jordan’s time in prison, the importance of prisoner support, anarchism and voting, the dietary focus of the way veganism is promoted by many animal organisations, scepticism and rationality, self-righteous health vegans, Mormonism and atheism. We encourage you to listen to Nick on Which Side podcast and check out their other episodes too!

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Clips:

Tom Morello – The Nightwatchman ‘Which Side Are You On?’, Mad as Hell ‘Series 5, Episode 4’, Jamie Kilstein ‘Sober Vegan Party Time’ from the album ‘What Alive People Do’, Sue-Anne Post ‘Twenty Years of Kicking God in the Shins’ – from the 2010 Atheist Convention, Book of Mormon ‘All American Prophet’.

You can listen to a short (10 minute) version of this episode, which features Jeremy and Jordan on the importance of prisoner support, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.