Freedom of Species

David is the founder of Melbourne Climate Save, one of the latest groups to join the worldwide Save movement.  David talks the connection between animal agriculture and climate change, the emergency in the Amazon with the new Brazilian government now endorsing its deforestation, and ponders whether veganism is the silver bullet for the escalating climate crisis.  Melbourne Climate Save  https://www.facebook.com/MelbourneClimateSave/Climate Save Movement  https://www.facebook.com/ClimateSaveMovement/Amazon Emergency event  https://www.facebook.com/events/277222499611467/The Significance of Oceans event  https://www.facebook.com/events/635944100173453/

This episode features Jon Pawson on how his veganism fits within Maori culture and decolonisation. Jon is from the Facebook group “Māori and Pasifika Vegans”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/399648523567337/ We also discuss the Abolish Australia Day protests and animal advocacy, as well as a bunch of animal and/or vegan-related stories, including ‘Agribusinesses continue to close due to drought, oversupply’ by ABC Radio Adelaide: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/agribusinesses-continue-to-close-due-to-drought-oversupply/10748952

We play two more presentations from the Animal Justice Party summit on 1080 poison that are essential listening to get your head around this baiting issue. Learn about the ins and outs of the Victorian wild dog/dingo 'management' (killing) plans which purposefully 'un'protect the dingo so they can legally be killed in Victoria & more about our Australian 'lion king' dingo. Part 1 link: http://www.freedomofspecies.org/show/1080-poison-summit-facts-we-all-can...(Note: the full AJP Summit video link is on the Part 1 page)The Perth Feb 23rd, 2019 Rally to Ban 1080:https://www.facebook.com/events/775194749511018/Coalition of Australians Against 1080 Poison: https://www.facebook.com/pg/coalitionagainst1080/posts/

We’re joined by vegan and frequent flyer Christian Freitag who gives tips on travelling as a vegan. Check out Christian’s Instagram ‘alwaysthen’ for travel photos. For more information on vegan travel including links to some of the resources we mentioned throughout the show, check out the following article: http://veganperth.org.au/living-vegan/vegan-travelling/

This show features advice to help people to go vegan and stay vegan. This includes eating out, shopping for vegan products at your local supermarket, veganism beyond diet, and much more! This Facebook post contains links to the resources mentioned throughout the show: https://www.facebook.com/freedomofspecies/posts/2551639568195871

This show features Olly Hornung’s talk ‘You Did What? Creative Tactics and Strategies to Boost Your Campaign’. This talk covers many examples from the book Beautiful Trouble: https://beautifultrouble.org/ Olly also discusses some of his own activism with Evolens: https://www.facebook.com/EvoLensMelb/ This talk was given at the 2017 Animal Activists Forum. You can listen to other talks from previous Animal Activists Forums here: http://www.activistsforum.com/resources/

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/