Episodes

  • Discussing LBGTIQA+ Activism and Solidarity in Timor Leste

    Discussing LBGTIQA+ Activism and Solidarity in Timor Leste
    Jan 21 2025

    Common Library Engagement Officer Aoife Carli Hannan chats with two activists from Timor-Leste.

    First off Aoife is joined by Upe, a human rights activist and member of the LGBTIQA+ community, sharing his experiences in the Pride Movement in Timor, his involvement in international solidarity movements, and his experiences joining the fight to save Binybarra / Lee Point on Larrakia Country.

    After this, she chats with the formidable Bella Galhos, a freedom fighter, survivor, social activist and current Presidential Advisor. During this interview, Bella talks about her role in Timor-Leste's liberation struggle, advancing LGBTIQA+ and women's rights in Timor, and the ongoing challenges facing the nation.

    These interviews were conducted during a trip to Dili, Timor-Leste in August 2024.



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    58 mins
  • Citizen Science and Blockading at Roxby Downs with Al Lad and Annie McGovern

    Citizen Science and Blockading at Roxby Downs with Al Lad and Annie McGovern
    Jan 21 2025
    In this episode Emily Trounce-Wood interviews anti-nuclear activists Al Lad and Annie McGovern. They discuss their four decades of campaigning against the Olympic Dam uranium mine at Roxby Downs, including taking part in blockades and maintaining a vigil during 1983 and 1984 and conducting citizen science in the years since.

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    42 mins
  • Fighting Disinformation and Transphobia with Alex Kelly and Jackie Turner

    Fighting Disinformation and Transphobia with Alex Kelly and Jackie Turner
    Jan 21 2025
    In this conversation Alex Kelly interviews Jackie Turner about the importance of building solidarity, community and knowledge of history while combating disinformation. Alex is an activist,filmmaker and the Economic Media Centre Communications Director. Jackie is the Director of the Trans Justice Project.

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    53 mins
  • Winning Climate Justice Campaigns with Kenzie Harris

    Winning Climate Justice Campaigns with Kenzie Harris
    Jan 21 2025

    In this episode Commons Librarian Iain McIntyre interviews Kenzie Harris from the Global Grassroots Support Network about the assistance and resources the group provides to justice oriented activist groups from around the world. Particular attention is paid to findings and insights gleaned from a research report about climate justice campaigns entitled How We Win, which was released during 2024.

    To find out more visit-

    https://blueprintsfc.org/ggsn/(link is external)

    https://commonslibrary.org/ingredients-for-wins-lessons-from-successful-climate-justice-campaigns-in-north-america/(link is external)



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    48 mins
  • Insights into Environmental Justice Movements in India with Radhika Jhaveri

    Insights into Environmental Justice Movements in India with Radhika Jhaveri
    Feb 6 2024
    In this episode environmental justice activist Radhika Jhaveri is interviewed by Kenzie (Mackenzie) Harris, the principal coordinator for the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN). Radhika is the the GGSN coordinator for India, a member of the youth based collective "Let India Breathe", and the founder of Pantrynook- a zerowaste (plastic free) food packaging company. In the interview she discusses how the campaign to protect Aarey, a forest within the suburbs of Mumbai, brought together a coalition of urban and Indigenous communities from the mid to late 2010s. In doing so she describes how this gave rise to new ways of campaigning in India, as well as how it revealed the advantages and pitfalls involved with broad coalitions. Amongst other topics the interview also explores the importance of long term visions within social change work and ways in which current campaigns supporting Palestine are providing a lead for global solidarity more generally.

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    45 mins
  • AI, Technology and Social Transformation with Ned Howey

    AI, Technology and Social Transformation with Ned Howey
    Jan 28 2024
    Aoife Carli-Hannan, engagement officer with the Commons Library, chats with Ned Howey, the co-founder of Tectonica, a movement building agency whose stated mission is “to create a seismic shift in the way politics are done, through innovations that empower social, economic, and environmental justice movements.” Alongside directly helping organizations, political parties, and unions with an array of strategic, creative and technological services the agency also created and facilitates the Tectonica Organising Network (TON). In this conversation Aoife and Ned focus on the democratic dilemmas, opportunities and challenges associated with new generative AI technologies. They discuss the potential of these tools to deepen existing biases and power imbalances but also the possibilities they create for fostering practices that can connect people to social change movements and transform our societies for the better.

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    55 mins
  • Citizen Science and Big Tree Hunting with Alice Hardinge

    Citizen Science and Big Tree Hunting with Alice Hardinge
    Jan 16 2024
    This episode features a conversation between Emily Wood Trounce and Alice Hardinge, the acting Tasmanian campaign manager for the Wilderness Society. In it they explore the practice and value of citizen science and big tree hunting in locating and identifying threatened species. They discuss how this results in a number of valuable outcomes, including allowing conservationists to enforce existing rules regarding clearfelling while also supporting campaigns to fully end the logging of old growth forests. 

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    50 mins
  • Emerging AI Technologies and Campaigning with Hannah O'Rourke

    Emerging AI Technologies and Campaigning with Hannah O'Rourke
    Jan 16 2024
    Aoife Carli-Hannan, engagement officer with the Commons Library, chats with Hannah O’Rourke, co-founder of the UK based Campaign Lab and a trainer with Social Movement Technologies. They discuss the role AI technologies can play in supporting campaigners with messaging, outreach and other opportunities. They also canvas issues in regards to ethics and regulation, and ways in which activists can shape the use of technology as well as overcome its barriers and limitations.

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    28 mins