Podcast 13 - Policing 101 - Why Police Are Not Our Friends

Beyond Mining Series

POLICING 101: WHY POLICE ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS
Facilitated panel discussion and Q&A to explore the violent history and structure of police and the prison industrial complex in so-called Australia. Important discussion about how police and prisons uphold settler colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy and other systems of oppression and how this relates to our organising and movements for environmental and climate justice.

CO-FACILITATORS:

Peta Malins – Settler on Unceded Land, Senior Lecturer, Criminology and Justice Studies RMIT University

Marian Hart – settler, organiser, Latin American Solidarity Network, Australian Student Environment Network

PANELLISTS

Meriki Onus – Gunnai and Gunditjmara organiser and co-founder Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance

Tim Buchanan – Wiradjuri activist & artist, Australian Student Environment Network

Anne-lise Ah-fat – settler, organiser and co-founder Undercurrent Community Education Project, Transformative Justice Network, IRL Infoshop, IRL Prisoner Letter-Writing group
More TBC

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/1096165880816413

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This event has been organised on the land of the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung and Wadawurrung people and is taking place on the stolen and occupied lands of First Nations peoples across the continent. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

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Beyond Mining - Protecting land, water & life.

This podcast series was recorded from a number of talks, panel discussion & workshops held between the 22nd-29th November 2020 at the Beyond Mining Counter Conference. This counter conference was organised by Blockade IMARC. Blockade IMARC is made up of an alliance of organisations that have been protesting the International Mining & Resources Conference held annually in so-called Melbourne, Australia on unceded Wurunjeri & Boon Wurrung country. Content Topics: First Nations' Sovereignty, Capitalism, Colonialism, Extractivism, Activism

For more information, please check out blockadeimarc.com

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