Freedom of Species

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

We're in the studio talking with Doug Leith, president of Melbourne Save Animals In Laboratories (MSAIL), about vivisection (animal experimentation) in Australia, as well as how and why it fails to meet its claimed objectives of improved human health outcomes.  Doug also talks about the work of MSAIL.  MSAIL  https://www.facebook.com/MelbourneSaveAnimalsInLaboratories/

We chat with Ingrid Marker about how large bodied dogs, in particular hunting dogs trained to kill pigs, are lethal to the cassowary population who are already up against it with their disappearing habitat, roads, and fragmented landscapes.Mentioned in podcast & for more information: https://www.facebook.com/cassowarykeystoneconservation/Friends of the Earth FNQ:https://www.facebook.com/FriendsoftheEarthFNQ/?eid=ARCb4vsVEy2zw6TrMYE9e...Australian Panel of Experts in Environmental Law/APEEL: http://apeel.org.auBirdlife Australia: http://birdlife.org.au

We speak with two activists from Melbourne, Trevor and Bess, about consistent anti-oppression. They unpack what it means and why it's important.You can find out more about Consistent Anti-oppression here.

We speak with Dr Annett Finger, Dr Nikki Kowalczyk, and Port Phillip Baykeeper Neil Blake about the colony of Little Penguins that live on a Melbourne breakwater in Port Phillip Bay.  They talk about the circumstances that make this colony unique & about the important research conducted by Earthcare St Kilda.  We'll also hear how a recent industrial fire in Melbourne's western suburbs may pose serious risks to the health of Port Phillip Bay & the penguin colony.Earthcare St Kilda  http://earthcarestkilda.org.au/Photo of Annett with feathered friend.

This show features a talk on the debate in the animal advocacy movement around “single issue campaigns” that focus on one particular product or form of animal exploitation, examples include anti-fur campaigns and advocating against the dog meat trade. This talk ‘Veganism, Colonialism and Single Issue Campaigns’ is by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) Oceania collective and you can listen to the whole talk, including audiences’ contributions that weren’t featured on the show, here: https://archive.org/details/SingleIssue This talk was recorded at the 2017 ICAS Oceania Conference ‘Forging Alliances and Intersections’ in Melbourne. You can listen to other talks from this conference here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22ICAS+Oceania+2017%22 For more information on ICAS, including links to connect with ICAS on Facebook and to sign up for email updates, see the ICAS website: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/icas-oceania/

We speak with Darryl Jones about his book on why we feed wild birds & why it matters. Bird feeding says a lot about us in these challenging times so tune in and find out more.

This podcast is of a recent presentation given at the University of Tasmania.  "Reese will trace out a roadmap for how humanity is transitioning to the end of animal farming. The timeline has four stages: Foundation, Revolution, Stigmatization, and Follow-Through. Reese will trace out the most important developments of technological and social change in each of these stages, such as the advent of clean meat (real meat made without animal slaughter), a shift in outrage against factory farming alone to outrage against animal farming as a whole, and a shift from individual diet change (e.g. veganism) to a society-wide trend towards animal-free food production. The talk will also explore what in general makes social movements succeed and how the end of animal farming will spark fundamental changes in the human-animal relationship.Jacy is the author of the upcoming book, The End of Animal Farming, which illuminates humanity's upcoming transition to an animal-free food system. Jacy is the Research Director at Sentience Institute, a think tank researching the expansion of humanity's moral circle."Jacy Reese  http://jacyreese.com/Sentience Institute https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/

We are joined by animal advocates Beth Allan and Brighde Kennedy who discuss their own experiences of dealing with sexism in the movement and some ways we can work to overcome this problem as a movement. You can hear Beth discussing this issue at the recent Community As Activism event. The session is on Transformative Justice and Me Too, featuring Beth as well as Jess Ison and Anne-lise Ah-fat: https://archive.org/details/MeTooTJ

Andy Meddick tells us who will be speaking  & on the panel at the upcoming 1080 summit taking place in Melbourne on the 25th August and Charlie Jackson-Martin from Sydney Fox & Dingo Rescue joins in on this chat for change so desperately needed. Please buy a ticket even if you don't attend-only $15- to support this important campaign.For more info on the summit & tix: https://www.stickytickets.com.au/…/animal_justice_party_nat…