Freedom of Species

We’re joined by journalist Madison Griffiths who discusses animal rights as a social justice issue and connections with other issues such as feminism, mental health and media representation of marginalised groups. You can connect with Madison on social media @mgriffithz and you can also read her article ‘I don't eat meat because I'm a feminist’: https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/i-dont-eat-meat-because-im-a-feminist-20160830-gr4nmi.html You can also hear Madison discuss connections between veganism and feminism on Tuesday Breakfast on 3CR, from 33.59-49.14 of the following episode: https://www.3cr.org.au/tuesday-breakfast/episode-201811060700/tuesday-breakfast-tilde-film-festival-hey-aunty-feminism-and

On the 24th of November 2018 Victorians went to the polls to vote for their next state representatives. An Australian political party dedicated to animals, called the Animal Justice Party, fielded candidates in 43 of the 88 lower house electorates and had candidates running in each of the 8 upper house regions. It is looking very likely that one of the Animal Justice Party candidates will be elected to the upper house. We are joined by Bruce Poon the President of the Animal Justice Party to discuss the amazing growth in first preference votes for the party since the 2014 election, what these votes means in terms of poliitical capital and how the AJP intends to use this positive election result to create change for animals.Find out more about the Animal Justice Party.

Andy of the Animal Justice Party talks about the recent live cattle export protest in Geelong, as well as the cattle export ship incident off Portland.  Caroline of Melbourne Cow Save joins Andy to explain the protest of last week's professional bull riding event in Melbourne.  Animal Justice Party (Victoria) https://www.ajpvic.org.au/Melbourne Cow Save  https://www.facebook.com/MelbourneCowSave/

We’re joined by PhD candidate Zoei Sutton who discusses her sociological research exploring pets from an animal liberation perspective. You can follow Zoei on Twitter @zoei_sutton and see the following link to see her academic publications: http://flinders.academia.edu/zoeisutton Zoei also gives a brief overview of the Sociology and Animals session at the ‘Precarity, Rights and Resistance’ conference by The Australian Sociological Association (TASA). You can listen to Zoei’s talk and other talks from this session here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22TASA+2018%22 For more information about the Sociology and Animals group within TASA, follow @tasaanimals on Twitter, like ‘TASA Sociology & Animals Thematic Group’ on Facebook and see the following site: https://tasa.org.au/sociology-and-animals/

The Animal Justice Party held a summit discussing 1080 poison and we play three presentations from this informative and alarming evening.  Get the toxicogy facts of 1080, the legal ins and outs to help ban this cruel and environmentally destructive poison & listen to the fatal impacts it has on our dingo populations. For the entire video of the summit:https://www.facebook.com/AJPWesternVic/videos/250357265814657/For more info on the "Rubber Jellyfish" film screenings: https://rubberjellyfishmovie.com

Hunting is a key threat to wild animal populations around the world. For the Love of Wildlife wants to reduce Australians impact on the trade of african animals by making it illegal to import and trade their body parts in Australia. We discuss their success in getting a ban on the importantion and sale of lion body parts from canned hunting in Australia and their work to help elephants and rhinos.

We chat with Graeme Linsell, a Melbourne-based volunteer wildlife rescuer & carer. He talks us through what's involved in this critically important role, some of the basic principles, & how we can get trained so that we too can help save lives. Wildlife Rescuers Incorporated (northern & north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne) https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeRescuersInc/ http://wildliferescuers.org.au/training/ Wildlife Victoria (statewide) https://www.facebook.com/wildlifevictoria/ https://www.wildlifevictoria.org.au/get-involved/wildlife-victoria-training Use an online search engine to find wildlife rescue training in your area.

We discuss language and animals and how by design, language acts as a weapon against animals perpetuating speciesism through demeaning terms like ‘you cow’ or by laundering terms that hide cruelty, for example, a 'processing plant' instead of a slaughterhouse. We also have categories of language to label species as belonging or not belonging - for example, native, pest or feral - and a species can switch catgegory depending on our human agenda for the landscape.  Speciesism means the assumption of human superiority leading to the exploitation of animals. Addressing this language can be a powerful form of activism. Our guests are Alex Vince from Animal Liberation NSW and Alana Bacon, Melbourne-based animal activist & Animal Justice Party member.For more work on language and animals by Alex Vince from Animal Liberation NSW, see his talks below: (& stay tuned for his most recent at the 2018 Animal Activist Forum!)The Pest Epiphet: https://archive.org/details/AlexVinceAnimal Activicts Forum (scroll to bottom:) http://www.activistsforum.com/resources/Joan Dunayer links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFiRc2Jixtchttps://www.amazon.com/Animal-Equality-Liberation-Joan-Dunayer/dp/0970647557

We are joined by a local campaigner from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses, Elio Celotto, to discuss the inherent issues with horse racing and what we can do about it.  In Australia, we are days away from the Melbourne Cup, a 3200 m race where horses are often pushed to physical exhaustion or injury by being forced to race.You can find out more about the campaign at the website - https://www.horseracingkills.com/ and check out upcoming events at their Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/coalitionfortheprotectionofracehorses/.

This show features the talk ‘Veganwashing Israel’s Dirty Laundry? Animal Politics and Nationalism in Palestine-Israel’ by scholar-activist Esther Alloun. You can find more of Esther’s work at the following link: https://uow.academia.edu/EstherAlloun Esther’s talk is from the conference ‘Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies cultural politics, race, and nation (un)building narratives’, organised by the Deakin Critical Animal Studies Network. For more information about this group, check out: http://www.deakin.edu.au/adi/our-research/research-networks/deakin-critical-animal-studies-network