Deboning Power - Critical analysis by Dr Angela Williams
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Power is not immune to challenges. These twenty minute episodes cut through power games and suggest ways to understand, challenge and dismantle the lies we are fed.Dr Angela Williams is the author of Snakes and Ladders: The dark truth of Australia's justice system through the eyes a woman sent to prison twice for the same crime.
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My mother's suicide
November 23, 2020 05:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBToday is my 44th birthday, my mother's funeral and 28 years to the day since the last time she sexually assaulted me. Things get a bit heavy as I dig into this one and share the lessons my mother taught me about power. This podcast speaks explicitly about suicide, sexual abuse and child abuse. If you are at risk, now might not be the time to listen. If this episode sets of memories or stirs up dangerous impulses, please reach out to someone. Australian services: Suicide Call Back Ser...
Getting Better - My mother's suicide
November 23, 2020 05:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBToday is my 44th birthday, my mother's funeral and 28 years to the day since the last time she sexually assaulted me. Things get a bit heavy as I dig into this one and share the lessons my mother taught me about power. This podcast speaks explicitly about suicide, sexual abuse and child abuse. If you are at risk, now might not be the time to listen. If this episode sets of memories or stirs up dangerous impulses, please reach out to someone. Australian services: Suicide Call Back Ser...
Robo debt
November 21, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBToday we’re taking an angry stab at the robo debt fiasco that our ‘leaders’ are currently trying to sweep under the rug. Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union YOUR RIGHTS AT EMPLOYMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS https://www.facebook.com/groups/occupycentrelink Robodebt was a Scott Morrison fiasco at every stage (in the AUSTRALIAN!!) “the robodebt disaster is without doubt the worst example of maladministration and callous indifference to vulnerable Australians since the Coalition took office in ...
Spin Busting - Robo debt
November 21, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBToday we’re taking an angry stab at the robo debt fiasco that our ‘leaders’ are currently trying to sweep under the rug. Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union YOUR RIGHTS AT EMPLOYMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS https://www.facebook.com/groups/occupycentrelink Robodebt was a Scott Morrison fiasco at every stage (in the AUSTRALIAN!!) “the robodebt disaster is without doubt the worst example of maladministration and callous indifference to vulnerable Australians since the Coalition took office in ...
Strip searching children
November 20, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBIn NSW, Australia, it is legal for police to search children as young as ten. This episode looks at recent attempts to address this and shows just how dangerous it is to try and provide 'independent oversight'. Read or referenced here: How public do strip searches in NSW need to be before we get outraged? NSW police strip-searched 96 children in past year, some as young as 11 Girls as Young as 12 Were Strip-Searched in Australia NSW Police asked 15yo to expose himself as part of festiv...
Spin Busting - Strip searching children
November 20, 2020 08:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBIn NSW, Australia, it is legal for police to search children as young as ten. This episode looks at recent attempts to address this and shows just how dangerous it is to try and provide 'independent oversight'. Read or referenced here: How public do strip searches in NSW need to be before we get outraged? NSW police strip-searched 96 children in past year, some as young as 11 Girls as Young as 12 Were Strip-Searched in Australia NSW Police asked 15yo to expose himself as part of festiv...
Not a Liberal Democracy
November 20, 2020 05:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBThis episode puts the knife into the fantasy that Australia is a liberal democracy. Mentioned in this episode: Public trust in governments is at an all-time low, Australian National University finds Social contract - Wikipedia Liberal democracy - Wikipedia Noam Chomsky: We are paying for the logic of capitalism Australian democracy is at risk. If we want to save it, we must all play a part Crossbench outraged after Government and Labor support changing political donation laws Join ...
Spin Busting - Not a Liberal Democracy
November 20, 2020 05:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBThis episode puts the knife into the fantasy that Australia is a liberal democracy. Mentioned in this episode: Public trust in governments is at an all-time low, Australian National University finds Social contract - Wikipedia Liberal democracy - Wikipedia Noam Chomsky: We are paying for the logic of capitalism Australian democracy is at risk. If we want to save it, we must all play a part Crossbench outraged after Government and Labor support changing political donation laws Join ...
Intro - My brain is the knife
November 20, 2020 04:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBThe first episode of Deboning Power introduces you to the knife which is Angela's brain. Angela is a author, speaker and critical thinker who's lived through so much bad shit that it's astonishing she's alive. A high school drop out with a PhD, this woman knows the theory to unpack power problems and life experiences of living underneath many different versions of power. Mentioned in this episode: Join the conversation at Facebook Have I mentioned that I wrote a book? And that you c...