We Can Smell Blood- with Celeste Liddle- Part 1

TGKU show notes (guest Celeste Liddle)“We can smell blood” Part 1.Show notes, including times of Celeste’s bits. We return after over a year.High on life, watching conservative sc*m eat sh*t.We are joined by Celeste Liddle, who got the biggest swing with the most anti-establishment campaign for the Greens in Cooper.ALP boat turnbacks make ALP twitter go quiet for a second.Victorian Premier Dan Andrews continues his years long attack on the right to protest, wants to give forest activists a year in jail.Police attack on refugee protesters at MITA.Police ideological alignment with lockdown era cooker protests.VicForest is illegally logging. Thanks Dan!Mainstream media trying and failing to talk about politics. On purpose.17 minutes: Celeste talks about how she thought the election might go.Media go up their own arses.How does a person make any sense of this.22:10 Celeste speaks about media.ALP supporter vote compass freak out.27:40  Celeste talks about insanely racist and ALP supporter response to her camapaign announcement. The Section 44 debacle.23 pages of racist, sexist, patronising comments in first 3 days of campaign.Wong and Plibsersek retweeting the garbage.Emily’s List ffs.“They were fixated on me and Lidia.”F*cked up abuse directed at women on the left by people on the left.37 minutes: Celeste talks about countering attacks.Too few calling it out.Zero solidarity from so-called progressive women in power.The strange silence of the compromised.Swinging anarchistsThe point of getting into politics.44:20 Celeste on being a feminist, anarchist leaning Arrernte woman deciding to run.A repugnant, colonial system.Dan’s cop-focused way to deal with pandemic crisis.A handful of people make decisions in the country. They need to be checked.ALP entitlement.“I don’t see being a politician as being a career.”Until about 4 years ago the Greens had about as much substance on Indigenous politics as the majors.Lidia Thorpe, sovereignty activist, showed there was a different way.Unexpected alliances.The difference between organising and campaigning.1 hour: Celeste on keeping control of her excellent social media during a campaign.Grassroots and punk rock.DIY collectivism.Teals were far more corporate, but still injected excitement.Anti-fascism. What it means to live in a successful and thriving society.Left on our own with fires and floods.Not getting stuck in the electoral cycle.1:16:30 Celeste on post-campaign thoughts.Growing up rusted-on Labor.S11, children overboard and the Intervention. Turning points.Pat O’Shane.Lidia showed “we can do things our way.”This is the system, change it or dismantle it.Anarchists will be mad.Sean is Autistic, apparently.Child sacrifice is wrong.Part two coming shortly.