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Episode 71: This Time We Meme It

Posted: October 26, 2014 in Uncategorized
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kill people data

This time we’ve actually been creative and made our own meme for the episode, rather than stealing someone else’s. In the notes below we’ve provided links to share this meme around on Facebook and Twitter.

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This episode covers online activism against the new counter-terror laws in Australia, which take away our freedoms. Some of the online activism discussed includes: Educate the Senate, stopthespies.org, the Greens campaign against the Foreign Fighters Bill, and Scott Ludlam’s #StopDataRetention memes campaign. You can share our #StopDataRetention memes (including the one pictured above) on Facebook and Twitter.

Also covered on the episode is we now live in South Park, updates on the inspiring #BattleForBurswood campaign, Rap News Live!, the excessive powers ASIO already had even without these new laws, Anthony Albanese criticises the first round of terror laws (although unfortunately he did this AFTER they’d already been passed!), lawyer Stephen Keim’s speech on the problematic use of the term “terrorism”, the free e-book Against Authority by John Twelve Hawks, The Mother of Mohammed by Sally Neighbour, and our meme in response to Palmer United Senator Jacqui Lambie calling for a “barqa” ban – you can share this meme around on Facebook and Twitter.

This episode is brought to you by “Mother”. You can hear Theresa on episode 45 discussing her research on the importance of Indigenous self-determination. Thanks a lot to Theresa for becoming a member of our show – you can become a member and sponsor an episode too.

Clips:

Rap News ‘G20 Rap with Tony Abbott – feat. Scott Ludlam [RAP NEWS 29]’, Austin Powers, stopthespies.org video, Scrubs ‘Season 2’, Legally Brown ‘Muslim Shore’s Got Talent’, Subhumans ‘Big Brother’.

You can listen to a short (5 minute) version of this episode, which features our discussion on the website stopthespies.org, here: Stop the Spies. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 60: Droning On About Online Privacy

Posted: July 3, 2014 in Uncategorized
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Image from missoulian.com

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On this one we discuss “Big Buzzfeed”, Facebook and online privacy. We finish the episode with a discussion on the human rights implications of drones, drawing on an article in the Guardian by Senator Scott Ludlam: ‘Two Australians were killed by US drones. Of course that’s our business’. Also covered throughout the episode is avoiding pointless debates online, privilege and witches. Shout outs to Team Earthling and Crimethinc podcast.

This episode is brought to you by “Man Next Door Michael”. We encourage people to follow Michael on Twitter –@mikkelbot. Thanks a lot to Michael for becoming a member of our show – you can become a member and sponsor an episode too!

Clips:

Colour Me Wednesday ‘Cat Hair’, The IT Crowd ‘The Last Byte’, The Onion News Network ‘Facebook CIA Project’, Austin Powers, Scrubs ‘Anal Is Not A Dirty Word’, Jamie Kilstein ‘Conan O’Brien Show talking War Torture Drones’, Fresh Meat ‘Series 3, Episode 6’, ‘Drone/Alone’ from Fresh Meat ‘Series 3, Episode 6’.

You can listen to a short (6 minute) version of this episode, which focuses on privilege, here: You Can Say You Don’t Believe In Privilege, But That Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Have Privilege. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 50: Join Us in Marching Against the ‘Puppets of Corporate Interests’*

Posted: March 11, 2014 in Uncategorized
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The image above is from March in March.

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On this episode we cover the March in March protests, which are expressing a vote of no confidence in the Abbott government. These protests are taking place all around Australia from March the 15th to the 17th. We’re joined by Tim Jones, national co-ordinator of March in March, who discusses why we need these marches, the way they are not tied to a particular political party or other group, how people who weren’t previously politically active are getting involved in the marches, and the importance of getting out from behind computer screens and onto the streets. Tim also recommends that people check out Ted Mack’s Henry Parkes Oration. You can find a March in March near you here. For more critiques of the policies of the Abbott government, you can listen to our 49th episode and our 39th episode.

Before we go to the interview with Tim, we discuss deaths in immigration detention in the UK and Australia, the viral speech from Greens politician Scott Ludlam, “inspiring” stuff from the Courier Mail on the Abbott government, and the Liberal Party continue to lie about asylum seekers being illegal, even though it is them who are breaking the law when it comes to their policies towards asylum seekers. We cover the upcoming federal Senate re-election in Western Australia and Labor not giving their preferences to the Greens, Scott Ludlam speaking out against the TPP agreement, and why we’re voting in this election (see episode 36, part 2 for an in-depth discussion on arguments for and against voting). You can view our Progressive Podcast Australia how to vote for the election here – please let us know if you have any feedback on this (even if you’re not in WA).

This episode is brought to you by Kieran (‘Hello there’). Thanks a lot to Kieran for becoming a member of our show – you can become a member and sponsor an episode too!

Clips:

Scott Ludlam ‘Welcomes Tony Abbott to WA’, Onsind ‘BA77’, Peep Show ‘Series 1, Episode 4’, Austin Powers, The IT Crowd ‘Series 2, Episode 1’, Interview with Tim Jones on the March in March protests, Logic ft. Lowkey & Renee Soul ‘I Wish’.

*This is a quote from Tim Jones, from the interview.

You can listen to a short (9 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of the interview with Tim Jones, here: Join Us in Marching Against the Abbott Government. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 41: What Next for the Australian Left? With Antony Loewenstein and Scott Ludlam

Posted: November 26, 2013 in Uncategorized
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In this episode, which marks two years of our podcast, we bring you some of the event What Next for the Australian Left? featuring Antony Loewenstein and Scott Ludlam. @antloewenstein is a Sydney-based independent freelance journalist, author, documentarian, photographer and blogger. @SenatorLudlam is a Greens Senator in Western Australia (for now at least – you can find out the latest on the WA Senate recount here). At this event, Loewenstein discussed issues like insiders and outsiders in the media, the privatisation of refugee detention centres, activism against privatisation, changing the language in the media and academics. Ludlam discussed capitalism as cancer, the media’s role in Abbott’s victory and the importance of activism beyond parliament. You can watch this whole event on Youtube here.

Beyond this event we also talk about some of our finds from the street, including a lamp and Katie living the dream and getting an iMac without giving any money to Apple! For those looking for free stuff in Melbourne, check out Give Away Free Stuff in Melbourne. We discuss Russell Brand’s viral interview, feminist critiques, Brand checks himself and voting. For those wanting to look further into the issue of privilege, check out The Angry Hippie’s podcast. We promote a video on the #tunnelpicket campaign and read out an update on this campaign from Melbourne Street Medic Collective. Also covered is our vegan outreach at the National Day of Climate Action and the progress on the Coalition repealing the carbon tax. To find out about the environmental impact of animal products check out shrinkthatfootprint.com and our 11th episode. For more on the carbon tax, including critiques from Friends of the Earth, listen to our 5th episode. We promote the 104th episode of Team Earthling, which has a great talk from Naty on building bridges between different progressive social movements. We encourage people to share Nick’s meme ‘Budgie smugglers are a bigger threat than people smugglers’. The episode finishes with a discussion on Israel, including Katie’s experiences of being at the UN for Israel’s Universal Periodic Review, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and racism in Israel. For more on Israel/Palestine, check out Loewenstein on Left and Correct podcast (14/12/2012 episode), Queer Punx podcast and our 16th episode.

This episode is brought to you by Ben “not a corporate shill” Spink. Thanks a lot to Spink for becoming a member of our show – you can become a member and sponsor an episode too!

Movie Recommendation:

The Hunger Games – Catching Fire.

Book Recommendations:

Loewenstein: 1984, The Shock Doctrine, Heroes.

Ludlam: Rich People Things, Secret Country, The Art of War, Neuromancer, Now We Are Six.

Clips:

Promoe ‘Dog Day Afternoon’, The IT Crowd (series 4, episode 4), What Next for the Australian Left?, Austin Powers, The Adventures of Lano and Woodley (series 1, episode 1), Peep Show (Series 4, episode 5), Lagwagon from the album ‘Live in a Dive’, What Next for the Australian Left?, Lowkey ‘Soundtrack to the Struggle’, What Next for the Australian Left?, Lowkey ‘Alphabet Assassin’, Lowkey ‘Long Live Palestine’, Lowkey ‘Terrorist?’, The Chaser’s War on Everything (Series 2, Episode 14), Sole ‘I Think I’m Noam Chomsky’.

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