Posts Tagged ‘speciesism’

Episode 248: Pop Culture and Animal Rights – Carnage is a Game Changer, Featuring Roger Yates

Posted: June 5, 2020 in Uncategorized
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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 (70mins, 56MB). *If anyone has any issues with the audio on this episode, our guest Roger Yates has added a re-edited version to Archive.org.

Nick is joined by Roger Yates – a sociologist, activist with The Vegan Information Project and host of The Animal Rights Show. They discuss the utopian animal rights mockumentary Carnage and The Game Changers Netflix documentary, on athletes eating a plant-based diet.

Other topics discussed include: animal rights versus animal welfare, language and social justice, and sociology versus psychology. This episode is a continuation of a discussion between Roger and Nick over on Freedom of Species, which you can listen to here.

We finish the show by discussing the Black Lives Matter protests in the US, the radical flank effect, and parallels with police racism in Australia and media coverage of the Dominion Animal Liberation disruption.

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Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, Idles ‘I’m Scum’, The Style Council ‘Bloodsports’.

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Episode 240: For Charlie, Against Speciesism

Posted: February 17, 2020 in Uncategorized
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Charlie and Katie.

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This is a whole show about/dedicated to our dog Charlie. We discuss Charlie and other companion animals we have shared our homes with as a starting point to investigate humans relationships with companion animals and animals generally.

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This is from the local paper encouraging people to adopt Charlie – the pound named him Wilson.

Check out speeches from the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne on the 3CR site, on the last few shows of Tuesday Breakfast on 3CR and you can also listen to our recordings of speeches that weren’t covered on the 3CR broadcast.

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Clips:

Flight of the Conchords ‘The Prince of Parties’, Propagandhi ‘Without Love’, John Lennon ‘Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)’.

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Episode 192: Fasting for Freedom and an End to Speciesism

Posted: December 4, 2017 in Uncategorized
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Patty Mark with James Aspey and other animal activists.

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 (52mins, 42MB).

This episode features Patty Mark from Animal Liberation Victoria on the 5 Day Fast and Justice Camp happening outside Diamond Valley Pork in Melbourne right now.

There’s also a talk from veterinarian Dr Sy Woon from Sentient on ‘Speciesism – and Inherent Barriers to Ethical Changes and Animal Advocacy – in the Veterinary Industry’. This talk is from the 2016 Institute for Critical Animal Studies (Oceania) conference. See the notes from episode 152 for links to all of the talks from this conference, you can also see episode 179 for the same for the 2017 conference.

Sy Woon.

Also mentioned throughout the episode is: the importance of activist media (check out the radio show Indymedia – whole episodes, individual interviews – for another example of this kind of media), anarchism and animal liberation (for more on this, you can listen to the panel discussion on this topic featuring Nick and others here or on episodes 152 and 153), and the Animal Activists Forum (which we discussed on episodes 187 and 188).

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Clips:

Local Resident Failure ‘The Funeral’, Patty Mark on the 5 Day Fast and Justice Camp, Dr Sy Woon ‘Speciesism – and Inherent Barriers to Ethical Changes and Animal Advocacy – in the Veterinary Industry’, Abolicion ‘Save Me’.

Episode 189: Better Mental Health through Compassion for Animals (and Eating Chips on a Stick)

Posted: November 14, 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 (55mins, 43MB).

This episode features a talk from clinical neuropsychologist Dr Ash Nayate on why ignoring concern for other animals harms people’s mental health. Thanks to Kate from Freedom of Species for this recording – you can listen to Katie and others on Freedom of Species discussing their veganism and the vegan movement at the Spring Vegan Festival at the Meat Market.

Dr Ash’s talk was recorded at the Melbourne March for the End of Speciesism. You can listen to audio of this entire event here and you can also watch videos of the individual speakers: Belinda Morris, Pam Ahern and Lizzie.

We also discuss direct action during the Melbourne Cup for refugees and animals, plus a blockade of Border Force. Keep up with WACA on Facebook and Twitter for more updates on actions like this.

We also discuss World Vegan Day Melbourne, Rally for Regal Monarch (a horse who was killed during The Melbourne Cup horse race), intersectionality and animal advocacy (drawing on Maneesha Deckha’s article ‘Disturbing Images: Peta and the Feminist Ethics of Animal Advocacy’ – see page 49 specifically), Nick’s short-lived fishing career and Katie confronting some dickheads.

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Clips:

Song from the Melbourne March to End Speciesism, Talk from clinical neuropsychologist Dr Ash Nayate: video of the talk, Arj Barker ‘Melbourne Cup’, Abolicion ‘Wilhem’s Horse’.

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