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6 DAYS AGO

Intergenerational Hibakusha Reflections, Close Unit 18 Campaign, ICJ Decisions on Palestine, Developing Decolonial Solidarity

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// On Tuesday September 17, the Nuclear Truth Project held their final 'In Conversation’ session for 2024, meeting with intergenerational hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), Mitchie Takeuchi and Dr Kazuyo Yamane to remember Hiroshima. We heard the beginning of Dr Yamane's family's first hand account of the event, as well as some of their work in educating and remembering the atrocity. More discussion from this special presentation will be shared on 3CR’s Radioactive Show in the coming weeks, and our thanks to speakers and the Nuclear Truth Project for continuing the conversation against nuclear warfare.// CONTENT WARNING: SUICIDE, SELF HARM, DISCUSSION OF ABORIGINAL DEATH IN CUSTODY. Roxy Moore, Noongar lawyer, community organiser, activist and campaigner, and Stephanie McGuire, Ballardong and Whadjuk Noongar community organiser and activist, spoke with us earlier this week about the campaign to close Unit 18, a child detention wing inside the maximum-security Casuarina Prison near Perth in Western Australia. The campaign escalated in the wake of the tragic death of Yamatji child Cleveland Dodd in 2023 after he self-harmed while incarcerated in the facility. Earlier this month, it was revealed that another child detained at the Banksia Hill Detention Centre, also near Perth, had died by suicide. Stay up to date with the fight to abolish youth prisons and watch the livestream of today’s rally outside Parliament House in Boorloo at 12PM AWST/2PM AEST by following Justice for Cleveland (Instagram and Facebook) and Boorloo Justice (Instagram and Facebook).// Dr Sophie Rigney, Senior Lecturer in Law at RMIT University, joins us to unpack the series of Palestine-related decisions handed down by the International Court of Justice in 2024 and their pontetial implications for Australia, given its declared support for Israel and desire to maintain and strengthen bilateral trade relations. You can read Sophie's recent piece, 'Gaza at The Hague', on Inside Story for more detail. The article we referenced by Shahd Hammouri, 'The UK and Its Illusive Arms Embargo', was published by Al-Shabaka on September 15 2024. For a more in-depth discussion of the International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Israel's Occupation of Palestinian Territory, check out this webinar organised by the Melbourne Law School's Institute for International Law and the Humanities from July this year featuring a line up of international law experts including Sophie and Shahd.// Fiza Zali, teacher educator at University of Melbourne, speaks with us about the experience of becoming politicised towards practising decolonial solidarity as a migrant settler based in Naarm. Her research explores the discomforts of becoming critically conscious, and the complexities of positionalities particularly as a settler of colour on stolen land who is Indigenous elsewhere.// Upcoming Events6:00PM, Friday 20 September: Latin American Solidarity Network, Chile Solidarity Campaign and Lucho Riquelme are co-hosting the ‘Lessons for Organising’ event, sharing learnings from the 2019 Chile Popular Rebellion with a short film, photo exhibition and live music. The event will be held at Catalyst Social Centre, 146 Sydney Road, Coburg.12:00-2:00PM, Saturday 21 September: Renters and Housing Union are holding a Squatting Campaign Public Forum with Husk and Purplepingers at the Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre, 251 Faraday St, Carlton. There will be an online attendance option.The next 3CR Station Worker and Subscriber Committee Meeting is coming up next Wednesday 25 September from 6-7PM.Meeting link: Join the meeting nowMeeting ID: 426 306 672 141Passcode: 7eRKRkDetails on how to RSVP are in your 3CR Program Updates!
11 SEPT

Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton FPM Rally, Poverty is a Policy Choice: World Suicide Prevention Day, Bangladesh Now & Beyond, Live from Disrupt Land Forces, Anti-Palestinian Racism in Mainstream Media.

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton - Free Palestine Melbourne Rally 8th SeptemberWe listened to Uncle Wayne 'Coco' Wharton, Kooma Murri Activist visiting from Magan-djin, speaking at this Sunday's Free Palestine Rally, outside State Library, 8th September. Later that day, also Uncle Coco spoke at the official launch event for Disrupt Land Forces held at Camp Sovereignty - Lest We Forget: The Frontier Wars. 3CR will be including audio from the event and other Disrupt actions in our special coverage across the week so stay tuned and listen back at 3cr.org.au/dlf2024 // Antipoverty Centre - National Suicide Prevention StrategyKristin O'Connell from the Antipoverty Centre joins us to discuss the relationship between poverty and suicide in the wake of World Suicide Prevention Day, September 10, when the Albanese government handed down its draft National Suicide Prevention Strategy.// Farhana Sultana - 'Bangladesh Now: Beyond the Headlines'We heard a clip of Farhana Sultana, Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, speaking during the webinar 'Bangladesh Now: Beyond the Headlines' organised by the Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium. This virtual event was held on 29 August 2024, bringing together scholars in New York and activists in Bangladesh to share personal nuance and academic analysis to headlines from the beginning of the student-led quota reform movement on June 6th to the creation of an interim government upon the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5th. Our thanks to the South Asia Program at Cornell for sharing this audio with us - you can watch the full webinar here and keep up to date with the South Asia Program on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @SAPCornell.// Live Broadcast to Disrupt Land Forces - 12th SeptemberWe crossed live to 3CR reporters on the ground at this morning's actions for Disrupt Land Forces. Land Forces event is the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2024 it will be held at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre and a coalition of community groups working for a world free of war is organising a festival of resistance running from 8-14 September. Check out the Disrupt Calendar of Events, and watch the 3CR coverage here at https://www.3cr.org.au/dlf2024 - in the lead up and during the week! Be sure to check out Melbourne Activist Legal before attending events, be prepared, attend with a buddy and/or affinity group, and look out for each other in the next coming days with check-ins, meals, support of all kinds.// Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah - Anti-Palestinian racism in australian mainstream mediaDr Randa Abdel-Fattah spoke with us about anti-Palestinian racism in Australian mainstream media and concerns about media oversight by the Australian Press Council in the wake of a decision on her complaints to the APC regarding inaccuracies and misinformation shared in an article by The Age's Chief Reporter Chip Le Grand earlier this year. Dr Abdel-Fattah is a Future Fellow at Macquarie University. Her research areas cover Islamophobia, race, Palestine, the war on terror, youth identities and social movement activism. Dr Abdel-Fattah is also a lawyer and the multi-award-winning author of 12 books for children and young adults. Read her piece about the APC's decision on Le Grand's article here on Pearls and Irritations.//Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2024. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//
4 SEPT

Pacific Islands Climate & Liberation Struggle, Save Public Housing Collective, Dr Chris Gill Part 2, International Overdose Awareness Day 2024.

Acknowledgement//Headlines// Dr Marco de Jong - Pacific Historian & Lecturer at Auckland University Pacific Historian Dr Marco de Jong joins us to unpack last week's 53rd Pacific Islands Forum summit. We will be discussing climate change mitigation/adaptation concerns for Pacific Island nations, the imposition of western military strategic interests on regional priorities, and how this relates to the ongoing liberation struggle unfolding in Kanaky. Dr de Jong is a lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology Law School, and was raised in Tāmaki Makaurau with ties to Papa Puleia in Sāmoa where he holds the chiefly title Faumuinā. His work details the history of regional politics and environmental governance in the Pacific Islands with a particular focus on Indigenous knowledge, nature conservation, anti-nuclearism, and climate change. Find out more about the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent here.// Harry Millward - Renters and Housing Union Harry Millward, secretary of the Renters and Housing Union or RAHU interviews Clare Hanson from Save Public Housing Collective about her experiences of living in public housing. This interview was recorded and edited by Danielle Hassall with 3CR's Breadline program, a show by the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union. Catch Breadline on Mondays from 6-6:30PM on 3CR 855AM.// Dr Chris Gill - Professor of Chemistry at Vancouver Island UniversityDr Chris Gill, Professor of Chemistry has co-lead the the team that has created revolutionary drug checking technology through spray mass spectrometry used around the world, and originating in ''British Columbia,Canada.'' In Part 1 of this interview, we speak about the importance of small sample sizes in drug checking, the nuances of sensitivity, and what we here in Naarm/melbourne can learn from innovative drug checking technology and the management of opioid overdose crisises. In part 2 this week, we speak about translating this technology into supportive drug checking practices for the community, and check out Substance Drug Checking Service.// Dr Nico Clark - Clinical Director of First Step Dr Nico Clark is the inaugural Clinical Director of First Step, an addiction, mental health and legal services hub supporting over 1,800 people each year. He has worked in the field of addiction medicine for over 25 years, including 10 years with the World Health Organisation in the Substance Use Team, Medical Director of the North Richmond Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR), and currently also Head of Addiction Medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He joins us in the studio to talk about what organisations and systems can do to help end overdose, and we reflect on International Overdose Awarness Day 24 which was 31st of Aug last week.//Important: Information on how to access PREP during shortage via pan.org.au8-14 September: mobilise to disrupt land forces. Find out more via disruptlandforces.orgInformation on CFMEU latest and events via vic.cfmeu.org/news
28 AUG

WA Aboriginal Public Housing Class Action, Attack on the CFMEU, Dr Chris Gill Part 1, FOE Nuclear Free Art Auction, A30 for West Papua

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Slater and Gordon Class Actions Principal Lawyer Gemma Leigh-Dodds speaks about a recently-filed action on behalf of remote Aboriginal Western Australia Housing Authority tenants who have been forced to endure shockingly substandard public housing conditions. Find out more about the case here, and read about the Northern Territory High Court’s decision from last year regarding the substandard provision of public housing in remote Aboriginal communities here.// Tom Orsag joined us to talk about the federal government's decision to put the CFMEU into forced administration, and the concerns this raises for organised labour in so-called Australia. Tom worked in the construction industry from 2004-2023, and is a retired member. Join the community solidarity meeting tonight at 46 Ireland Street, Docklands, to get involved in the fight against Labor’s anti-union laws.// We hear part 1 of a conversation with Dr Chris Gill, Professor of Chemistry at Vancouver Island University, who co-led the team that has created revolutionary drug checking technology through spray mass spectrometry used around the world. In this segment, Dr Gill speaks about the importance of small sample sizes in drug checking, the nuances of sensitivity, and what we here in Naarm/melbourne can learn from innovative drug checking technology and the management of opioid overdose crises. Tune in for part 2 next week where we speak about translating innovative tech into supportive drug checking practices for the community, and check out Substance Drug Checking Service. // Sanne from Friends of the Earth’s Nuclear Free Collective tells us about the upcoming annual Art Auction at Catalyst Social Centre raising funds to support the Collective’s vital anti-nuclear campaigning. The event will start at 5PM, with music from 7:30 by Uncle Winiata Puru, and the live auction commencing at 8PM. Find out more about the event, including about how to bid remotely here. Learn about the broader Don’t Nuke the Climate campaign for a clean, anti-nuclear energy transition here, and follow on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.// Alexia from the A30 for West Papua Canberra crew joined us to speak about the globally coordinated wave of action in solidarity with West Papua scheduled for Friday August 30, and what it has been like to become politicised in support of West Papua as an Indonesian student in so-called Australia. Find out more about the campaign and associated actions by following A30 on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.// Upcoming EventsVigil for Mano Yogalingham, 12:30PM Thursday 29 August, 808 Bourke Street, Docklands.//Hands Off the CFMEU: Community Solidarity Meeting, 6PM Thursday 29 August, 46 Ireland Street, West Melbourne.//Denial in a time of genocide, 6PM Thursday 29 August, Building 80 Level 4 Room 11, RMIT University, 445 Swanston Street, Melbourne.//Talking About Trees: Film Screening Fundraiser for Sudan, 4:30PM Friday 30 August, David P. Derham theatre (GM15), Law Building, The University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton.//Justice for Refugees: Permanent Visas Now, 5:30PM Friday 30 August, 808 Bourke Street, Docklands.//Friends of the Earth Nuclear-Free Art Auction: Make Art Not War, 5:00PM Saturday 31 August, Catalyst Social Centre, 146 Sydney Road, Coburg.// Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2023. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//
21 AUG

Refugee Visa Encampment Rally, Mutual Aid for the Housing Crisis with RAHU, S.L.O. Rally - Labor Hates Crips, Measuring Housing Stress in Australia

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listened back to sounds and speeches from the "Unite to Support the Refugee encampment" rally, a solidarity event held by the Refugee Action Coalition last Friday 16th August in support of refugees camping out in front of the Home Affairs office on Bourke Street in Docklands. The collective of refugees who initiated the encampment are demanding permanent protection from the government and have vowed to stay put until their permanent visas are granted, despite hostilities from police and local council and harassment and intimidation from neo-nazis. You’ll hear organisers responding to confrontation by a small group of neo-nazis and speeches that resumed after the disruption by two refugee women from the encampment, Nagez and Rati. The Tamil Refugee Council, Unionists for Palestine and Campaign Against Racism and Fascism are organising another rally in solidarity with the encampment and against nazi attacks this Friday 23rd August from 5:30PM at 808 Bourke Street, Docklands.// Ishtar Hope, a North Branch delegate with the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), joined us to recap the Housing Crisis Survival Expo protest which ran during National Homeless Week earlier this month and to discuss the importance of collective action as well as mutual aid in the struggle for housing justice, particularly for queer and trans people. Get your tickets for RAHU's Evict the Evictors fundraiser event this Saturday 24th August from 7PM at the Thornbury Bowls Club here, and check out Ishtar's political artworks by heading to @artfuldolebludger.// Shoshana and GG are members of Sicko Liberation Organism or S.L.O, a recently formed disabled/sick/mad led social and political group based in Naarm and working towards a future vision of liberation from all oppression and domination. On today’s show, they speak about the Labor Hates Crips community picket organised by S.L.O. for 11AM today outside Bill Shorten's office at Suite 1A, 12 Hall Street Moonee Ponds to protest the federal government's rejection of the Disability Royal Commission recommendations and the ongoing exploitation and abuse of disabled people in so-called Australia.// Dr Alistair Sisson, Macquarie University Research Fellow in the Discipline of Geography and Planning, speaks with us about his current research into the calculation of housing stress in Australia. His current project, ‘The politics of housing data,' is a critical analysis of the ways that contemporary housing problems are quantified and how data is used to frame the housing crisis. Alistair is an early career researcher whose work focuses on housing, gentrification, and urban development and planning.// Songs// Still No Justice - Dem Mob// Push Up - Miss Kaninna//
14 AUG

Australia’s Global Fossil Fuel Carbon Footprint, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Part 3, Protests and Repression in Kenya, VicForests’ Afterlife and Federal EPA Push, Rally for Trans Liberation

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Cindy Baxter, Senior Communications Advisor with Climate Analytics, joined us to discuss the organisation's recently released 'Australia's global fossil fuel carbon footprint' report, which reveals the massive scale of Australia's domestic and international carbon impact via both local consumption and export-associated emissions. Cindy has been with Climate Analytics for 12 years, and has been working on global climate change issues for the past 33 years. Check out Climate Analytics’ Bill Hare’s recent Conversation article summarising key takeaways from the report here.// We heard part 3 of an interview Priya did last month with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane. This week's excerpt is the final part of our conversation, and touches on the importance of resisting liberal reformism and academic and non-profit complicity in state violence and what it means to build a culture of resistance centering the experiences of unhoused community members. Listen back to part one of our conversation here and part two here. We replayed a conversation between Kenyan feminist and activist Nita Okoko and host Jiselle on Accent of Women’s August 6 show, where Nita shares an analysis of the current protests in Kenya, the effect of state repression on the population, and where the country and its government sit in a wider global landscape. Listen back to the full interview here.// Matt Landolfo, Victorian Campaigns Manager for the Wilderness Society, spoke with us about the afterlife of Vic Forests and about the potential and pitfalls of pushes for improved federal environmental protection oversight. While Vic Forests ceased to exist on 30 June 2024 after years of campaigning by environmental justice advocates fighting its destruction of Victorian native forests, the emergence of a new organisation called The Healthy Forests Foundation has left many in the environmental justice space asking questions (check out ABC’s investigative report on the organisation here). At the same time, a current senate inquiry into a suite of bills proposing to establish a federal Environmental Protection Agency may provide an opportunity to bolster native forest stewardship efforts.// Community member Amber joined us to talk about the upcoming autonomous rally for trans liberation scheduled for this coming Saturday August 17 from 12-2PM outside Parliament House. The rally will counter an event being held at the same time and location by a trans-exclusionary radical feminist group. You can find more details about the counter-protest by heading to @transqueersolidarity on Instagram.// Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2023. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//
7 AUG

Global Plastic Deflecting Tactics, State Library Victoria Censorship, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Part 2, Mass Protests in Bangladesh, RAHU Homelessness Week.

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Amelia Leavesley, University of MelbourneAmelia Leavesley is a Research Fellow in Urban Sustainability at the Melbourne Centre for Cities. Her research focuses on urban climate policy and governance, sustainability transitions and local implementation of global sustainability frameworks. She's here to talk about her last article which unpacked how understanding ‘tobacco tactics’ can help fight the global plastic waste crisis, because the reality is plastic production is growing faster than we can recycle it.//Ariel Slamet Ries, Alison Evans, and Jinghua Qian We play a speech from this past Sunday's Free Palestine Rally, from outside the State Library Vic. Ariel Slamet Ries (Illustrator and Author), Alison Evans (Author), and Jinghua Qian (Writer and Critic), three writers who, along with Omar Sakr, had their Teen Bootcamp writing workshops terminated earlier this year by SLV. They speak about the hypocrisy of 'cultural safety', precarious employment and political censorship of artists and writers, and taking back our public institutions and our voices!// Stop LAPD Spying Coalition - Part 2 We will hear Part 2 of an interview Priya did last month with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane. This week's excerpt includes a dicussion of the group's abolitionist ethos and structural analysis of violence, as well as the importance of demystifying predictive and data-driven policing techniques. Listen back to the first part of our conversation and all our past shows at 3cr.org.au/thursday-breakfast. // Abdullah Al Zubaer EvanAbdullah Al Zubaer Evan joins us to talk the recent student-led mass protests in Bangladesh, which while met with violent state repression have led to the overthrow of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The situation continues to develop with tensions over the establishment of a genuinely democratic successor government. Evan is a PhD student at RMIT University investigating the implication of citizenship rights for ethnic minority Biharis in Bangladesh. // LIVE - RAHU's 2024 Homelessness Week protest Housing Crisis Survival Expo, coordinated by the Renters and Housing Union's North branch and established on the nature strip in the middle of St Georges Road in Preston early this week.//
31 JUL

Kanaky Libre Solidarity Rally, Challenging Colonial Copaganda, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Part 1, Justice for Sonya Massey Oakland

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We played a recording of two speakers at the small but powerful Kanaky Libre Solidarity Rally, which was held on Parliament steps on the night of Friday 26th July, discussing the history of Kanaky (so-called 'New Caledonia'). This excerpt also includes a discussion about boycotting the Olympic games in Paris, as the opening ceremony was held on the same day.// We listened back to an excerpt from Brisbane Free University and Radio Reversal's 'Challenging Colonial Copaganda' webinar, which brought together Professor Chelsea Watego, Dr Amy McQuire, Ronnie Gorrie and Associate Professor Amanda Porter to speak about the laundering and normalisation of policing in so-called Australia. In this segment, we hear Chelsea and Amanda critically discussing the normalisation of police presence at First Nations community events, and the machinations of police image-management through ties with other institutions.// Last week, Priya caught up with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane to talk about organising with unhoused community in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row and beyond against militarised policing and surveillance by the Los Angeles Police Department. We played part one of this interview today.// The Anti Police Terror Project joined organisations around the United States to coordinate a rally calling for Justice for Sonya Massey on the 29th of July in Oakland, California. Sonya Massey was a 36-year-old Black mother who was shot and killed by Deputy Sean Grayson of the Illinois Police Department on 6 July, 2024, after she called the police with concerns about an intruder entering her home. The rally was MC'd by APTP's Cat Brooks, and the recording we played in today’s show features poetry by Oakland's first Poet Laureate Dr Ayodele 'WordSlanger' Nzinga, as well as reflections from Uncle Bobby and Big Oscar, the uncle and father of Oscar Grant, who was killed on New Year's Day 2009 by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland.//

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