GET YOUR ARMIES
OFF OUR BODIES
Get Your Armies Off Our Bodies is the inaugural series of Peace Pod.
Wage Peace is beyond proud to present our latest creation: a podcast featuring the stories, passions and insights of some of our most treasured collaborators. Tune in, subscribe and immerse yourself in the journeys of artists, activists and academics campaigning for peace on the stolen lands of this continent and further afield.
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Listen for Peace
ANNOUNCING: LISTENING FOR PEACE
Wednesday 20 September 7.00 – 8.30pm, then weekly at the same time until Nov 1
Wage Peace will host the first of a series of ‘Listening Circles’ at the Raising Peace Festival 2023: Listening for Peace. These Listening Circles are interactive sessions of listening, responding and imagining together, based on Wage Peace’ new podcast, Peace Pod.
Peace Pod features some of the foremost academics, journalists and activists for peace on this continent, such as Michelle Fahey, Mujib Abid, Izzy Brown, Ned Hargreaves and Aunty Sue Coleman Haseldine, along with international luminaries such as Anthony Feinstein and Matthew Hoh.
At the opening session of Listening for Peace we invite you to listen to several excerpts from Peace Pod and to engage in reflection and discussion together with the Podcast hosts. Subsequent sessions will follow the episode order, with each Wednesday evening devoted to listening to and engaging with the content. Special guests, including the interviewees and other collaborators in the peace and justice field, will attend each session to guide, inspire and learn with us.
Full episode descriptions are below. Registration will give you access to any or all sessions 🙂
Listen for Peace schedule
Registrations are here: Listen for Peace
Sept 20
Get Your Armies Off Our Bodies: Intro
Australia is developing its very own military industry complex, and weapons companies stand to make billions. These are our stories against the war machine. From peace campaigners in Australia and beyond. Join us for Get Your Armies Off Our Bodies, the first season of PeacePod.
Sept 27
The business of weapons companies, and of the military, depends on their ability to control the narrative and they have many ways to try and achieve this. In these stories from Afghanistan, Mujib Abid and Matthew Hoh describe some of the ways this happens, and some of what it means.
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E2 War Stories: BONUS – Afghan Peace Group
How a small community built practices of peace in Afghanistan, and in the middle of war showed that different ways of living are possible.
Oct 4
E3 Revolving Doors, Corruption Gateways
Australia’s military industrial complex is expanding on a massive scale – and this started well before the recent AUKUS military pact with the US and UK. How have governments laid the groundwork for this in the past few years? What can we expect as the global weapons industry, hardwired for corruption, comes hunting for ever-greater profits? Michelle Fahy, independent researcher and journalist, and Andrew Feinstein, Executive Director of Shadow World Investigations, lay it out for us.
An update to this episode: earlier this year former Defense Minister Brendan Nelson became President of Boeing International, a promotion from his position as President of Boeing Australia, New Zealand, and South Pacific.
Oct 11
From the Frontier Wars to police in communities to the biggest weapons ever made. Militarism started in this continent when the British invaded over two hundred years ago, and it continues to this day. Boe Spearim, Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, and Uncle Ned Hargreaves tell stories of struggles that are vital for all of us.
October 18
E5 Jangan Bunuh Kami Lagi / Stop Killing Us: West Papua Part 1
In the towns and cities and among the hills and valleys of West Papua, a desperate struggle for independence and the preservation of cultures and ways of life is raging. The compelling stories of West Papua are rarely heard in Australia or around the world. This is Adolf’s story, from childhood in the mountain village, to protests in the city, to fleeing for his life to continue his campaign outside the country. And a boat that helped break some of the silence around West Papua.
October 25
E6 Jangan Bunuh Kami Lagi / Stop Killing Us: West Papua Part 2
The previous episode told the story of the canoe that brought Adolf and 42 others to Australia. This not the only journey in solidarity between here and West Papua. This is Izzy Brown’s story, about the Freedom Flotilla, and family connections to the West Papua campaign – including one connection that’s too close to home.
November 1
E7 Child’s Play: Militarism in the Classroom
Weapons don’t just design and build themselves – they need highly-skilled people to do this.
But most of us have no intention of joining in mass murder. What’s a weapons company supposed to do? It turns out they have lots of tricks and techniques to get hold of the people they need – and they target them younger than you might think, right in school. Or even before…
Zoe was one they tried to inveigle into the war business. Elise West from Medical Association for the Prevention of War is one of the campaigners aiming to erase weapons companies’ ability to get a hold of our kids. Jinsella from Demilitarise Education in the UK is another staunch peace advocate. You’ll hear from all three activists in this episode.
You can register for any or all sessions here: Listen for Peace