Progressive Podcast Australia

- This episode features the panel discussion Anarchist Perspectives on Rojava, Kurdistan. The speakers are: - Alasdair Hynd, a PhD student of revolutionary movements in the Middle East, specialising in the Arab Spring and the Kurdish struggle.- Zerebar Karimi, a Kurdish-Australian trade union organiser based in Adelaide, local and overseas agitator for a stateless society in Rojava.- David K (facilitating), Melbourne-based anarchist, author of Anarchism in Istanbul and Yabanci Capulling, an Australian anarchist in Gezi Riots.- This discussion was recorded at the Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair.- Listener feedback on family violence.- TV show recommendation: The Handmaid's Tale.- For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2017/08/30/183/

- This episode features the panel discussion Anarchist Perspectives on Rojava, Kurdistan. The speakers are: - Alasdair Hynd, a PhD student of revolutionary movements in the Middle East, specialising in the Arab Spring and the Kurdish struggle.- Zerebar Karimi, a Kurdish-Australian trade union organiser based in Adelaide, local and overseas agitator for a stateless society in Rojava.- David K (facilitating), Melbourne-based anarchist, author of Anarchism in Istanbul and Yabanci Capulling, an Australian anarchist in Gezi Riots.- This discussion was recorded at the Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair.- Recap of the session What Would an Anarchist Society Look Like.- Listener feedback on anarchism and disability.- An update on our episode on ethical superannuation.- For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2017/08/24/182/

- This episode features technobrarian Luc Brien on conspiracy theories and tips for how to stop spreading fake news.- For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, as well as more resources from Luc on fake news, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2017/08/18/181/

- This episode features technobrarian Luc Brien on what fake news is, why it is promoted and its dangers.- For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, as well as more resources from Luc on fake news, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2017/08/13/180/

- Nick is joined by Luc Brien, former host of Team Earthling animal rights podcast, to give a recap of the 2017 Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) Oceania conference. - The episode features a talk from this conference, Esther Alloun on Intersectionality and Its Discontents: Animal Politics In Palestine-Israel. - Activism against horse-drawn carriages in Melbourne as part of the conference. - For more information on this episode including links to audio of all of the talks from the conference, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2017/08/06/179/

- This episode features Bede Carmodys talk: Sustainable Activism, How to avoid becoming burnt out as an activist.- Signs of Activist Burnout.- Tips for avoiding activist burnout.- TV show recommendation: Youre the worst.- Listener feedback on wild animal suffering and the Animal Justice Party.- For more information on the episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2017/07/31/178/

- Nick is joined by Ruth, a psychologist, activist and host of the Creating Space Project podcast.- Avoiding being a shooting star as an activist.- Activism as a privilege.- Mental health as a political issue.- Bede Carmodys talk Sustainable Activism, How to avoid becoming burnt out as an activist.- An introduction to activist burnout and why it is important.- For more information on the episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, including a link to the activist burnout questionnaire Bede mentioned during his talk, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2017/07/11/177/

Our trip to Leeds, which included visiting an art show, doing an interview with advocates for homeless people, going to a punk show and seeing the LGBT History Month exhibit at Leeds City Museum.Jack on their art piece, zines, mental development, artistic practice and what is art.Interview with Haydn Pat from Leeds Homeless Partnership.Naomi on her art piece and challenging whether classic feminist texts are actually feminist.Identity politics and implicit bias.Nandos cashing in on the queer market.Leeds Survivor Support Group and male victims of sexual assault.For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2017/07/06/176/

- Nick is joined by environmental activist Mark Allen to discuss ethical Superannuation.- One degree of separation: while ethical Super funds dont directly invest in fossil fuels, they invest in companies who promote urban sprawl, which leads to problems for the environment and animals.- The importance of looking critically into where ethical Super funds invest their money and also doing more than just divesting.- For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2017/06/30/175/

- Nick is joined by his cousin Emil Raji to discuss the Bali dog meat scandal, where Australian tourists have been eating dogs thinking they were eating a different species of animal.- We give a critical perspective on this scandal and the campaign against it, highlighting the nationalism and racism underlying the outrage behind eating dogs as particularly exceptional or worse than eating other animals.- Nicks talk Rescuing Dogs in a Mercedes Benz, Animal Advocacy in China. This talk gives a critical perspective on Western opposition to the dog meat trade. You can view the PowerPoint for this talk here: http://www.slideshare.net/NickPendergrast/nick-pendergrast-rescuing-dogs-in-a-mercedesbenz-animal-advocacy-in-china- Colin Salter's talk Normativity, Intersectionality and States of Exception, which argues that animal advocates shouldn't focus on the relatively small number of animals killed in non Western counties as exceptional but instead address the far more widespread animal slaughter in Western countries.- For more information on this episode and for links to all of the stories and clips from it, go to: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2017/06/27/174/