The YIKES Podcast

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EPISODE 50: COP27, Occupations and a Book Dec 01, 2022

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Mikaela's just returned from COP27 in Egypt and Jo's just returned from university occupations with the End Fossil Occupy movement. They speak about their experiences fighting for climate justice in these different spaces - both working inside the UN COP structure and pushing outside through direct action tactics. Mikaela also shares a bit about her exciting upcoming first book "It's Not That Radical!: Climate Action To Transform Our World" - available for preorder now: geni.us/ItsNotThatRadicalBook !

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Hosted by Josephine Becker and Mikaela Loach, edited by Finlay Mowat.

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EPISODE 49: COP27 Live - Youth From Resistance To Power Nov 11, 2022

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Mikaela hosted a panel live at COP27 on "Youth: From Resistance to Power" with Ayisha Siddiqa, Eric Njuguna, Mitzi Jonelle Tan and Re Cabrera. They spoke about the different ways that youth are building power all over the world and how we can all be part of radical transformation. Enjoy!

Follow the panellists on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/ericdnjuguna

https://www.instagram.com/ayisha_sid

https://www.instagram.com/mitzijonelle

https://www.instagram.com/re_cabrera

Thank you to Emory University Climate Talks and The Climate Justice Programme for partnering on this event.

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On The Frontlines: Saving Tuvalu Nov 03, 2022

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This miniseries highlights frontline struggles, resistance and peoples actions that are taking place right now around the world; and we will hear from the peoples directly. This week we here from Kato, from the Saving Tuvalu movement in Tuvalu, who recently featured as the first young Tuvaluan delegate to attend COP26.

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Hosted by Josephine Becker and Mikaela Loach, edited by Finlay Mowat.

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EPISODE 48: Billionaires Shouldn't Exist Oct 06, 2022

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In today's episode we discuss billionaires and philanthrocapitalism, following Mikaela'a challenge of both of these at the Gates Foundation's annual event last week. Listen to learn more about wealth hoarding, the complexities around redistribution and more...

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Hosted by Josephine Becker and Mikaela Loach, edited by Finlay Mowat.

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On the Frontlines: Nuclear and Coal Free Batan Sep 22, 2022

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This miniseries highlights frontline struggles, resistance and peoples actions that are taking place right now around the world; and we will hear from the peoples directly. This week we here from Derek, member of the Nuclear and Coal Free Batan Movement in The Philippines. The movement is a coaliton of organisations and individuals working for a safer environment with safer energy sources for all. In this episode Derek also highlights the increased risks that environmental defenders in The Philippines are facing.

Nuclear and Coal Free Batan Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/coal.bataan.5

Video on their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XruzZ9wAxtM

More info on their work: https://world.350.org/philippines/bataan/

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EPISODE 47: Theory, Political Education and Practice Sep 08, 2022

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Have you ever felt like you have to read a whole stack of books before getting involved in activism? In this episode Mikaela and Jo discuss the power as well as the shortcomings of theory for social change. In connection to social movement struggles, they discuss how theory has become abstract rather than a tool rooted in community and give pointers how we can change this. Enjoy!

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Hosted by Josephine Becker and Jess Mally, edited by Finlay Mowat.

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On the Frontlines: Abayuuti Climate Action Network Aug 25, 2022

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This miniseries highlights frontline struggles, resistance and peoples actions that are taking place right now around the world; and we will hear from the peoples directly. This week we here from Crispus, the founder of the Abayuuti Climate Action Network in Uganda. Their work consists of environmental justice education and identifying/supporting people affected by climate crisis.

Relevant Links for Abayuuti Climate Action Network:

GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/5f2265b4

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/login?lang=en

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/crispus-mwemaho-457632225

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/

With 'YIKES50' all listeners get 50% off from Pluto Press!

Hosted by Josephine Becker and Jess Mally, edited by Finlay Mowat.

Support us through The YIKES Podcast Patreon! (you can get access to the YIKES Discord through our Patreon)

https://www.patreon.com/theyikespodcast

Follow us on Instagram!

https://www.instagram.com/theyikespodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/mikaelaloach

https://www.instagram.com/treesnpeace

https://www.instagram.com/finlaymowat

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EPISODE 46: Uprooting Islamophobia with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan Aug 11, 2022

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For this episode we are in conversation with the wonderful Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, also known as @theBrownHijabi on socials and author of Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia.

We talk about the colonised mind, colonialism, state surveillance, islamophobia (TW) as well as tools such as language poetry art; that are tools for building community-centred and liberated futures.

Also special thanks to Jess Mally for joining Jo Becker as the co-host on this episode. Jess is an anti-racist educator, writer, podcaster and good friend of us. For other episodes with her, check out: the Yikes Pod ep: 17&30

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345413/tangled-in-terror/

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Links:

https://twitter.com/thebrownhijabi

https://www.suhaiymah.com/ https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345413/tangled-in-terror/

@jessmally

https://www.jessmally.com/

Hosted by Josephine Becker and Jess Mally, edited by Finlay Mowat.

Support us through The YIKES Podcast Patreon! (you can get access to the YIKES Discord through our Patreon)

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Follow us on Instagram!

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https://www.instagram.com/mikaelaloach

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On the Frontlines: Rojava Revolution Jul 28, 2022

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Bio: This miniseries highlights frontline struggles, resistance and peoples actions that are taking place right now around the world; and we will hear from the peoples directly. We hope it allows for collective learning efforts, and for building bridges across our causes for international solidarity. For this episode, we hear from Elif Sarican (@elifxeyal) about the Rojava Revolution in North East Syria in pursuit of freedom and autonomy of the Kurdish peoples, in resisting against colonialism, patriarchy and capitalism and what alternatives have been in the making there, with a special focus on the womens liberation movement.

Further resources:

- https://makerojavagreenagain.org/

- Rise Up for Rojava

- https://www.freeocalan.org/main

- https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/podcast-rojava/

Hosted by Mikaela Loach and Josephine Becker, edited by Finlay Mowat.

Support us through The YIKES Podcast Patreon! (you can get access to the YIKES Discord through our Patreon)

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Follow us on Instagram!

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EPISODE 45: Is Reactive Activism helpful? Jul 14, 2022

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Should we all pivot our focus to every tragedy that happens? Can social media's shifting focus to whatever is the most recent issue get in the way of long-term work against issues like the climate crisis? In this episode, we discuss the pros and cons of reactionary activism, social media and more.

Hosted by Mikaela Loach and Josephine Becker, edited by Finlay Mowat.

Support us through The YIKES Podcast Patreon! (you can get access to the YIKES Discord through our Patreon)

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Follow us on Instagram!

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https://www.instagram.com/mikaelaloach

https://www.instagram.com/treesnpeace

https://www.instagram.com/finlaymowat

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