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Progressive Podcast Australia

Jun 30, 2017

- 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...


Jun 26, 2017

- 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...


Jun 21, 2017

- Nick is joined by Mark Allen to discuss the Grenfell Tower fire.- The dangers of poor quality high rise.- A return of the segment Angela Davis Always Makes Sense, this time on capitalism, activism and creating new arenas of struggle.- The devastating impact of economic inequality.- Jeremy Corbyns grassroots campaign.-...


Jun 10, 2017

- Nick is joined by environmental activist Mark Allen to discuss some tensions between animal rights, which values individual animals, and conservation, which values ecosystems and environments as a whole.- The segment When Karl Pilkington Makes Sense, this time on interfering in nature.- Nicks talk Cowspiracies about...