Posts Tagged ‘protest’

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

Posted: September 24, 2021 in Uncategorized
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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 249: Black Lives Matter and the Power of Protest

Posted: June 29, 2020 in Uncategorized
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Image from the NYT article linked to below.

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 (55mins, 42MB).

This show features speeches from the Melbourne Blak Lives Matter rally – the recording is thanks to 3CR Community Radio. We also discuss how significantly the Black Lives Matter movement has changed public opinion in the US and beyond, drawing on The New York Times article ‘How Public Opinion Has Moved on Black Lives Matter’ by Nate Cohn and Kevin Quealy.

Another topic covered is Australia’s racist history, which included slavery.

Other podcasts covering this movement:

Clips:

Sesame Street explain Black Lives Matter – we got the audio from Late Night with Seth Meyers, ‘Cornel West Explains the Protests’ – from the Bernie Sanders YT Channel, Speeches from the Melbourne Blak Lives Matter rally – recording from 3CR Community Radio, Jimblah and Ellie May ‘Black Life Matters’.

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Episode 225: In Defence of the Dominion Animal Liberation Disruption

Posted: April 14, 2019 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 (67mins, 53MB).

This episode features Harley McDonald-Eckersall and Dilan Fernando who were a part of the recent Dominion Animal Liberation disruption that occurred in Melbourne. There were also other actions around Australia.

They discuss this action and the importance of disruption as a tactic in the animal liberation movement and beyond. You can read an article from Harley and Dilan defending this action against criticism, published on our blog. You can also watch the documentary Dominion here.

We also discuss the March to Close All Slaughterhouses Melbourne, which took place just a couple of days before the Dominion disruption. You can read our recap of the march here.

For more on activist tactics and the importance of disruption in protest more generally, check out This is an Uprising; Gene Sharp’s work – text, Youtube; and feminist writer Naomi Wolf on “fake protest”. We played some of this talk and discussed it all the way back on our 27th episode.

For more from all of us on animal activism, check out our radio show and podcast Freedom of Species!

Clips:

Anti-Flag ‘Wake Up’, A little bit of Harley’s talk from the March to Close All Slaughterhouses Melbourne, Sole ‘My Veganism’.

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Episode 217: Public Housing – Everybody’s Business!

Posted: November 14, 2018 in Uncategorized
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Public Housing Everybody's Business

Image from the ‘Public Housing – Everybody’s Business’ Facebook page (link below).

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 (19mins, 18MB).

This episode features Dr Joe Toscano on the vigil for public housing, which is running continuously, 24 hours a day, on the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne (corner Bourke St and Spring St) from midday on the 14th of November until 12am on the 24th of November, the day of the Victorian election. Come by when you can if you’re in Melbourne!

*Update: since we released this episode we’ve done another interview giving an update on the action a few days in – featuring Kelly from the Roominations radio show on homelessness. You can check out that interview – video here and below and also audio only.

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Clips:

Ramshackle Glory ‘From Here to Utopia’ and ‘Bitter Old Man’.

Toscano 4 Albert Park

Image from the ‘Public Housing – Everybody’s Business’ Facebook page (link above).

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