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Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast

Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast

A show about human rights coming to you every week from the Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights. Tune in each week as our panel explores the impact of new technologies on human rights, joined by fascinating guests from the University of Cambridge and around the world. (All rights reserved, so to speak. Our theme song, "Relative Dimensions", was created by the artificial intelligence at JukeDeck.)
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We Need to Talk: The Prison-Industrial Complex

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08/04/20 • 18 min

The prison-industrial complex. What does it mean? Who does it benefit? Who suffers? This week, we discuss how systemic racism manifests in the United States in the form of the prison-industrial complex. From its historical origins in slave patrols to the war on drugs, the criminal justice system has systematically entrapped Black bodies and monetized their labour to serve corporate interests. This is only the beginning: we encourage you to take a look at the resources on our website to learn more.

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We Need to Talk: How to Protest (Safely)

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06/24/20 • 43 min

In this episode, we are giving you a quick crash-course in how to protest safely and effectively, in the UK and in the US. We will cover your legal right to protest in the US and UK, give you tips on how to protest safely considering the current coronavirus pandemic, and discuss protesting as a non-Black person and how to leverage your privilege to help and protect Black protestors.

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We Need to Talk About Race

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06/14/20 • 46 min

We need to talk about race.

Since its inception, Declarations has sought to shed light on some of the worst human rights violations across the globe. However right now, there is a specific violation that deserves all of our time, attention and effort - racism. Here at Declarations we are now solely committing ourselves to becoming a resource for anti-racist mobilisation, as we launch our new series - It's Time to Talk About Race. We’re here to talk, discuss, share and inform, and to have those uncomfortable conversations that we have needed to have as human beings for so long.

In this introductory episode, we discuss what it truly means to be an anti-racist ally, addressing all the main themes, trends and buzzwords that we are seeing all over our social media feeds. We unpack the meaning of key concepts such as white privilege, racial capitalism, virtue signalling, emotional labour and white fragility, providing an intellectual base from which listeners can further commit to anti-racist mobilisation.

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00.50 Introduction to the new series

08.19 Introduction to the panelists

17.16 'All lives matter'

21.00 White supremacy as the foundations of our society

24.49 Systemic and institutional racism

28.42 Racial capitalism and corporate social responsibility

33.08 Productive and active allyship - tackling virtue signalling and white fragility

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Wet’suwet’en Strong: Indigenous Land Rights in Canada

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03/10/20 • 44 min

In this episode we discuss the Unist’ot’en campaign to protect their land and preserve it for future generations. In 2010, the Unist’ot’en began constructing a cabin in the exact place where three companies, TC Energy, Enbridge, and Pacific Trails, intended to build pipelines. Their campaign has faced hostility and violence, including from the government of Canada, and its national police force, the RCMP. To the dismay of Coastal GasLink and Canada’s colonial government, the camp has received immense support both locally and internationally, with solidarity blockades of Canada’s railroad threatening to shut Canada down. We are joined by Dr Karla Tait, Director of Clinical Programming at the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre, who speaks to her first hand experience and strategies of reoccupying and reconnecting people with the land.

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03/04/20 • 28 min

Join us as we discuss what the viral story of a Christmas card plea from a prisoner inside Shanghai Qingpu Prison tells us about our participation as consumers in regimes of forced labour, as well as the role and responsibility of corporate social responsibility for preventing these human rights violations. We are joined by Peter Humphrey, who speaks first hand about his own experience within this very same prison, where he was incarcerated on false charges for 23 months.

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The Immigrant "Race": Part 2 with Jacinta Gonzalez

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02/19/20 • 33 min

Join host Niyousha and panelists Matt and Muna as they interview Jacinta Gonzalez about her current work regarding hostile environments in the US, as well as discuss the Ellis Island legacy and the expansive infrastructures of technologies of oppression.

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Declarations in Conversation: The University Strikes Back

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01/30/20 • 16 min

From 25th November to 4th December 2019, lecturers in 60 universities across the UK went on strike. Declarations hit the picket lines of Cambridge to find out why academics were swapping their blackboards for banners.

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The Immigrant “Race”: Part 1 with Maya Goodfellow

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01/21/20 • 60 min

Join us as we interview Maya Goodfellow, author of 'Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats', for Part 1 of our series about the racialization of immigration. In this enlightening and extremely topical episode, we discuss security discourses of the 'scary' migrant, racial capitalism and the racialization of citizenship.

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01/14/20 • 35 min

In this episode, we discuss the provision and effectiveness of existing laws aimed to protect the rights of persons with disabilities. Touching on issues of positive discrimination, intersectionality and 'invisible' disabilities, we are joined by prominent student disability advocates Ebenezer Azamati and Rensa Gaunt.
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We Need to Talk: Abolish the Police?

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08/20/20 • 18 min

Have you heard the phrase 'abolish the police' being thrown around, but you're not really sure what this demand actually entails?

In this episode, we break down the ideas and intellectual histories of arguments to abolish, defund, and reform policing as an institution. We hope our discourse is helpful to you in figuring out where you stand in conversations around race and the criminal justice system. This is a companion piece to our previous episode, 'We Need to Talk: The Prison-Industrial Complex", and aims to give you an insight into the ways in which the criminal justice system can be reformed and detached from the racist structures that currently underpin it.

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How many episodes does Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast have?

Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast currently has 95 episodes available.

What topics does Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast cover?

The podcast is about News and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast?

The episode title 'We Need to Talk: The Prison-Industrial Complex' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast?

The average episode length on Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast is 40 minutes.

How often are episodes of Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast released?

Episodes of Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast are typically released every 9 days.

When was the first episode of Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast?

The first episode of Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast was released on Nov 20, 2016.

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