The Poor Can Feed The Birds is hosted by Tom Tanuki, and covers participatory politics and activism around Australia. It covers rallies and actions upcoming and past, and takes part in the growing activist movement to change Australia and the world - while talking to the people at the front lines.
Episodes
Tuesday Dec 31, 2019
Tuesday Dec 31, 2019
In which I introduce The Poor Can Feed The Birds and its themes, talk about fucken beautiful my voice is, and even read out the podcast's namesake poem to a warm spoken word night reception <3
The Poor Can Feed The Birds will be a hub for Aussie activism, and also a hub for my dulcet tones.
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Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Wednesday Jan 15, 2020
Big ep 002! I welcome on Celeste Liddle of Black Feminist Ranter fame on to talk about all matters Invasion Day 2020, which she's helping to organise, and the rallies' increasing importance in the context of an Australia on fire. (Literal bushfires, that is. Not a metaphorical 'on fire' like the MSM all complained about someone saying after the 2019 rally.) Also, some idiot interrupts with some feeries from the YouTubes.
Find Celeste Liddle on Facebook or Twitter.
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Also, the first RALLY GIG GUIDE!
Invasion Day rally 2020 deets: https://tellthetruth.org.au/
Upcoming climate/bushfires rallies: https://www.facebook.com/unistudentsforclimatejustice/
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Friday Jan 31, 2020
Friday Jan 31, 2020
This episode I welcome Lidia Thorpe on board to talk about all things Pay the Rent. I also do a rally report fresh back from Invasion Day 2020 in Melb, covering the event itself and our experiences doing light pest control.
Find Lidia Thorpe on Facebook or Twitter!
Find out how to Pay the Rent here!
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RALLY GIG GUIDE:
Climate justice actions, continuing weekly: https://www.facebook.com/unistudentsforclimatejustice/
Upcoming Religious Discrimination Bill protest: https://www.facebook.com/rainbowrebellionmelbourne/
(and more - check out the podcast!)
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Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
I speak to activist, academic and Safe Schools founder Roz Ward about the Religious Discrimination Bill, chat with Aboriginal artist & activist DJ about his 'Supporting displaced and homeless mob in FNQ' fundraiser and also, Tanya Plibersek joins to force your children to recite the Youth Oath to the Fatherland. HEIL LABOR!
*Contribute to the Supporting displaced and homeless mob in FNQ fundraiser here!
*Check out DJ's art here!
*Find Roz Ward's Red Flag Radio here!
*Visit Rainbow Rebellion here!
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Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Sean & Lilly from Cafe Gummo give me guava rum, a sweet little Adolf stamp (?), and a chat about Cafe Gummo, Melbourne's PREMIERE (only) anti-fascist bar... which is just about to celebrate its big 1st birthday!
I also chat to Chris Breen from the Refugee Action Collective about this Saturday's upcoming protest outside the Mantra Bell City hotel in Preston, where refugees have been detained for over seven months.
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LINKS:
*Check out Cafe Gummo here
*Event for this Saturday's CAFE GUMMO 1ST BIRTHDAY SHINDIG: here
*Event details for RAC's Mantra Bell City protest event on Saturday, 2PM: here
*Exit Australia: here
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Friday Mar 13, 2020
Friday Mar 13, 2020
SPECIAL EP!!! Here's a MEGA RETROSPECTIVE of YARD (sometimes known as Yelling At Racist Dogs) with Sean Bedlam, comedian & activist & co-founder of YARD. We go right through the history and strategy of YARD, and finish with a... YARD NAME CHANGE?! What the HELL? Listen and see!
YARD, for those of you not familiar, is Australia's most obnoxious, shouty anti-fascist group. Founded in 2017, it is the Australian Tradition Which Has Always Existed, and it has mainly involved shouting at lots of rockstar racists and their shit punters, and being really annoying and irritating to them. It's been labelled as 'authoritarian terrorism' by Lauren Southern's tour organiser. Really though, it's, like, yelling. Relax.
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LINKS:
*Check out the YARD page here
*Check out Sean Bedlam's page here
*Listen to Sean Bedlam's and Sam Castro's podcast, They're Gunna Kill Us (it's now out!), here: click
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Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
tick it off ur bucketlist, patreon me before we all die xo click here
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In this MEGA SUPER EP I speak to:
- Jason Marshall, a lawyer specialising in residential tenancy law, about tenants, landlords and What Is To Be Done to protect people from getting booted out during the pandemic.
- Harry, a theatre technician in a Victorian hospital who's bracing himself for the onslaught... with some valuable fkn advice for you about what tf you should do.
- Wade who lives in Barcelona, Spain. Spain's two weeks ahead of us. Wade's basically living our future. Listen to this crystal ball vision into what Australia will soon be seeing.
***PLUS A WHOLE BUNCH OF CORONAVIRUS-THEMED DANCEHALL, SOCA, REGGAE AND AFROBEAT BANGERS COZ WHY CAN'T PANDEMICS HAVE FUN SOMETIMES***
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LINKS:
National Help Database on my page (with links to a ton of way more useful resources): click here
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Friday Apr 10, 2020
I talk to Nathan Leitch of Barpirdhila Foundation (9:59) about their fundraiser to support Indigenous artists & community affected by COVID-19; yarn with Anthony Kelly of the Police Accountability Project (43:24) about increased copper powers in the pandemic and how they’re misusing them; and I visit & revisit some old mates, such as prominent Australian nationalists, Nazis, conspiracy theorists & cooked Facebook groups, to learn about the shit that they’re making up about coronavirus.
I record The Poor Can Feed The Birds aboard the hull of the abandoned Ruby Princess, where I ride atop a mighty, enormous pangolin steed. I control an army of horseshoe bats that flock around me like a cloud of night. We steer the disease hulk around the nation. I am Dread Coronavirus. Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/tomtanuki
The Poor Can Feed The Birds is part of the Channel Zero Network.
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LINKS:
Barpirdhila Foundation fundraiser: https://covid19-first-nations-community-impacts.raisely.com/
Police Accountability Project: http://www.policeaccountability.org.au/
COVID Policing report tool: https://covidpolicing.org.au/
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
I speak to senior reporting at 10daily Josh Butler about good coronavirus reporting vs. economic death cult punditry (8:30). I chat with science writer Thomas Crow about coronavirus and 5G myths & facts (41:19). I command my army of bats & pangolins from the deck of the Ruby Princess. A cop issues a summary notice to someone buying non-essential baby food. And Zachary of MAASC conducts a premium 5G deradiation wellness meditation.
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*JOSH BUTLER columns: https://10daily.com.au/authors/josh-butler
*SCITECH PARTICLE site: https://particle.scitech.org.au/
*THOMAS CROW coronavirus article: https://particle.scitech.org.au/people/why-is-this-coronavirus-such-a-threat/
Friday May 08, 2020
Friday May 08, 2020
PRISONS MEGA EP! I speak to Debbie Kilroy of Sister’s Inside (12:23) about decarceration, the work she does and her experience recovering from COVID-19. I also talk to Jock Palfreeman (59:19) who spent 12 years unjustly behind bars in Bulgaria before being sort-of-but-not-quite released last year. Jock is the chairman of the Bulgarian Prisoners Association - we speak about prisons in Bulgaria, his situation, how we can help Jock, and how regressive we both are. I again introduce the episode from the broken hull of my pretty Ruby Princess, whilst riding my Pangolin King.
Support Sister’s Inside: https://sistersinside.com.au/
Follow Debbie: https://twitter.com/DebKilroy
Support the Bulgarian Prisoner’s Association: https://bpra.info/en/tag/bpra/
Follow Jock: https://www.facebook.com/PalfreemanJock/
‘Regressive of the Year’ vid ft. Jock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nh66y50yo
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