Our guest Kristy Alger from Animal Liberation Tasmania shares updates from their extensive campaign Defund TasRacing. ALT has released extensive videos and photos showing the reality of life for greyhounds on trainer, owner and breeder properties in Tasmania. The conditions that greyhounds are kept in, for often up to 23 hours a day are truly shocking. The campaign has had great impact including mass media coverage, and recongition from multiple politicians and with an upcoming state election is putting greyhounds firmly on the election agenda.

 We also talk about the duck shooting campaign in Tasmania which has just opened this weekend, and the low attendance yesterday at the primary public waterway at Moulting Lagoon. Finally, we chat about Kristy's writing and what she's working on now. 

 Links:

• Follow the Defund TasRacing campaign here https://defundtasracing.com/
• Animal Liberation Tasmania on social media: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/animalliberationtasmania/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/animal_liberation_tasmania/?hl=en and on Medium https://medium.com/@AnimalLiberationTasmania
• Kristy's book Five Essays for Freedom: A Primer for animal advocates is available here: https://revoltbooks.com/products/feff
• Kristy's Writing Liberation account: https://www.instagram.com/writing_liberation/
• Overview of the greyhound industry in the USA: https://www.grey2kusa.org/about/issues.php

 Music we played: 

•  Commoners Choir: Ceasfire Now
•  Dogma: World at Peace
•  D.O.V.E.: Into Oblivion 

 These songs are on the international punk benefit compilation called No Genocide: A Benefit for Mutal Aid in Gaza organised by The Dissidents, a political punk bank from Pennsylvania, USA. The benefit compilation supports on-the-ground humanitarian mutual aid in Gaza, and all proceeds minus Bandcamp/PayPal fees are donated. https://thedissidents.bandcamp.com/album/no-genocide-a-benefit-for-mutua...

 Digital download is pay what you want; you can also donate directly to:

•  Buy esims for Gazans gazaesims.com
•  Palestinian Children's Relief Fund pcrf.net
•  ANERA anera.org
•  Palestine Red Crescent Society www.palestinercs.org/en
•  MSF/Doctors Without Borders doctorswithoutborders.org
•  Palestine Legal palestinelegal.org
•  1for3's Palestinian refugee fund www.classy.org/campaign/support-palestinian-refugees-working-against-trauma-violence-and-scarcity/

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