The Seeking Justice Podcast™ (TSJP) Episode (0) Zero - Introducing TSJP & Benedict Bloggs

[This is a background episode for posterity, for the historical archive, and for those interested in the inspiration for starting The Seeking Justice Podcast. It is also to introduce the host Benedict Bloggs a.k.a Bennarama, Bennaddiction, Bennabuzz, Benna Zenabomb, Benedict Joseph, the Wunderland, Gaiatribe, Three Eyed Fish and on goes the list...]

Summary
In the inaugural episode of The Seeking Justice Podcast™, host Benedict Bloggs introduces himself and shares his multifaceted journey as a human rights advocate, barrister, and social justice activist. He reflects on the motivations behind starting the podcast, his diverse experiences, and the vision for future episodes that will explore themes of justice, activism, and creativity.
Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Seeking Justice Podcast
00:46 Acknowledgement of Country
01:57 TSJP Video Intro (produced by Ahmed Al Shanti in Northern Gaza)
02:20 Journey to Law through Activism
13:59 Vision for the Podcast
16:29 Closing Thoughts and Call to Action
17:06 TSJP Video Outro (produced by Ahmed Al Shanti in Northern Gaza)
17:21 Credits

Welcome to The Seeking Justice Podcast™ (TSJP), a podcast dedicated to exploring and spotlighting issues of justice and injustice throughout the world. I am your host, Benedict Bloggs, a passionate and dedicated social and environmental justice advocate throughout my entire adult life and now a Barrister-at-Law and international human rights advocate based in Brisbane Australia. I want to use this platform to give a voice to the voiceless, to interview interesting guests working on important human rights and social and environmental justice issues and as an independent media mechanism to clarion call forth positive change in our societies and our world.

The name of the Podcast is inspired by the motto of my Catholic High School which I resolutely hated. The school I hated, the motto “Seek Justice” must have got seared on the insides of my eyelids and after spending my late teens and twenties being a globally adventuring outlaw and ratbag from blockading old growth forests, breaking into secret American spy bases, cycling across Australia to promote sustainability and I became a lawyer and now a barrister and international human rights law advocate having completed my Masters in IHRL at the University of Oxford where I met my fiancée Pepper and now we have two gorgeous Aussie-Rican kids.

But before i studied law I completed a Diploma in Holistic Counselling which was inspired by a 7 day Vision Quest I did in Death Valley California which was inspired by meeting a Native American Medicine man in Hobart Tasmania in the middle of Winter when I was working for the Wilderness Society and after I had walked across the desert from Roxby Downs Uranium mine to Adelaide with a bunch of Japanese Buddhists and Australian hippie activists on the International Peace Pilgrimage. All inspired by my first degree in History, Ecophilosophy and Ecofeminism at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Murdoch.

I was also an award winning slam poet in a past life and employed by the State Library of Queensland to run slams around the State, performed at the Sydney Opera House, won the Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup. I used to rap with a 10 piece brass band in Perth, and I ran against Peter Dutton at the 2019 election. Are you still listening? Some people say I have ADHD and they’re probably right!

However I have been locked into many other amazing podcasts over the past 13 months since the Gaza Genocide began and tuning into the decline of the US Empire and US politics and the rise of a multipolar global system. These podcasts have been my sanity anchor in the insane gaslighting of the madness of the MSM and our crazy governments.

In addition to being a barrister I am an undercover poet, a songwriter, musician and music producer and definitely a Daggy Dad!

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