Wednesday Breakfast

Wednesday Breakfast 2 October 2024Acknowledgement of Country//News Headlines// Arunn Jegan from Medecins Sans Frontieres spoke about the situation facing Rohingya refugees in Myanmar and Bangladesh// Tasnim Sammak from Free Palestine Coalition Naarm on commemorating the beginning of the current unceasing bombing of Gaza// Tim Hollo executive director of The Green Institute continued our series on...

Acknowledgement of Country// Alternative news headlines// Israel launched a massive attack on Lebanon on Monday killing 492 people, including 35 children, 58 women and two medics in over a thousand separate airstrikes. In the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held in Geneva on Friday, September 13, China and several other Global Majority countries from across the world denounced...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Alison Thorne: 2021 death of Aboriginal woman at Dame Phyllis//Alison Thorne (ISJA, fSP, retired CPSU Unionist) joined the program to discuss an ongoing inquest into a tragic death in custody. First Nations listeners are advised that this conversation contains names of people who have died. Heather Calgaret, a proud Noongar, Wongi, Yamatji and Pitjantjatjar...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// 7.05am Cross to Priya & Leila at Disrupt Land Forces   7.15am Mark from Flight Free Australia  spoke about the recent government White Paper on aviation and why this pushes us further into dangerous climate territory. flightfreeaustralia.net.au; http://www.no3rdtullarunway.net.au/   7.30am Cross to Priya at Disrupt Land Forces   7.45am Marisol Salinas talki...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// 7.10 am Darcie Carruthers nature campaigner, ACF talking about the Southern Launch rocket launching site and its environmental impact, and also about the destruction of forests for beef production for the big supermarkets.www.acf.org.au 7.30am Dr Rachael Wallis researcher at the University of Southern Queensland speaking about the 'lifestyles approach' to su...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines// 7.10am Mutang Yurud from Bruno Manser Fonds spoke about the demand for the Magoh Biosphere Reserve in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak by the Indigenous Penan.www.bmf.ch, https://bmf.ch/upload/Kampagnen/Magoh/Magoh_declaration_2024_signed.pdf 7.30am Lee Crockford (Pride by Side) and Ashish Chopra (Good Data Project) on how data is being used to help empow...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Please note that the next interview details sexual experiences and sex work. If you would prefer not to hear this type of content, or have children around, we advise you to tune out for the next 10 minutes. We listened to the second part of interview with Melanie Hawkes - a member of the management committee of Touching Base and NDIS participant with a phys...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights. Her latest book ‘The Walls Have Eyes’ is a global story of the sharpening of borders through technological experiments, reflecting on 6 years of on-the-ground work. Petra joined us and spoke about borders and technological experiments.  Last month, NDIS minister Bill Shor...

Acknowledgement of Country//Headlines//Matt Shanks is a Taungurung man with a background in Cultural Land Management and Cultural Heritage Management. Matt is the Director of Cultural Land Management at Taungurung Land and Waters Council and currently a Councillor on the Biodiversity Council. Matt joined us to discuss about cultural reservesSonia caught up with Rodrigo Acuña - Latin American Affai...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// 7.10am Alexa from Rising Tide giving an update on their direct action and preparations for the blockade in November. www.risingtide.org.au 7.30am Yousef Alreemawi & Farah Beaini spoke about famed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, first broadcast on Spoken Word, Thursday 18 April 2024. 7.45am Katherine Mckernan, Executive Director, National Legal Aid about t...

 Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Marisa from Doin time show interviewed with Keiran Stewart-Assheton about the history of NAIDOC followed by Jodie Choolburra-Welsh, founder of Brolga Dance Academy Sonia spoke  Danya Jacobs with Senior Legal Counsel with Environmental Justice Australia spoke about the current Senate Inquiry into new nature laws. Make a submission here: https://envirojustice...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//Sonia spoke with Feresh Pizarro from South Spore, recorded at the MYCOmmunity Mushroom Festival in Bacchus Marsh,on 23 and 24 MarchSonia caught up with Scott Jordan, Bob Brown Foundation about protest outside MMG every ThursdayFriday 21st June, Disrupt Land Forces had its first public meeting (at Black Spark, Northcote) to plan actions in protest of 'Land Fo...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//We heard Mohammad Semara, Youth activist from the local Sudanese diaspora speaking at last Sunday's Free Palestine Rally. Cath Rouse from No Northern Incinerator Wollert joined us and spoke about of what being proposed and who are the main actors behind this. You can check the NO Northern Incinerator Wollert Facebook page for more information. Sonia spoke wi...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines//The month of June marks RADIOTHON at the station and this year’s theme is ‘Sound on for Solidarity’. 'Solidarity' has been at the heart of 3CR's work for nearly five decades across a range of issues and themes. Start saving your pennies people and we look forward to your financial solidarity during June. Any amount makes a big difference, and all donations o...

Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines // 7.10am Grace speaks with Rabia from Covid Conscious Queers Naarm about the importance of keeping safe; and talked about upcoming events. 7.30am Sonia sepaks with Lucas Moore from Banyule for Palestine about an action outside Kate Thwaites MP's office on Sat 27 April. 7.45am Sonia speaks with Rachel Deans from Market Forces about an action being held later...

  Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines // 7.10am Sonia caught up with Jacob Starling from Students Against War and spoke about universities' complicity with the genocide in Gaza, and what can be done. https://www.instagram.com/studentsagainstwar_/ 7.30am we rebroadcasted Mary Kostakidis speaking with Jan Bartlett on Tuesday hometime about the impact of the Israel lobby on the media. 7.45am we ra...

Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines //7.10am We heared Nasser's longform conversation with Ihab Abu Ibrahim, a Palestinian activist and founder of The Sit-Intifada, about his family enduring conditions of the 1948 Nakba and their refugee camp experience, why he started his protest at Parliament House steps, the importance of continual protesting of the ongoing complicity of governments and corp...

 Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines // 7.10am We speak with Veronique from We Are Not Numbers Aus spoke about their upcoming silent vigil in Adelaide, media silence on their events and the unconscionable ongoing genocide. 7.30am We speak with Lucia Goldsmith Head of Humanitarian Aid Oxfam Australia discussed the ongoing civil war in Yemen and the need for humanitarian assistance as 20 million...

Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines // 7.10am We speak to Sam Reynolds from the Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis, about Japan's falling demand for gas and the implications for new and existing LNG developments in Australia. 7.30am We speak with Alison Thorne from the Freedom Socialist Party chatted with us about toxic chemicals, mobile phones and workers' rights in East and S...

Acknowledgement of Country // Headlines // 7.10am Sonia speaks with A/ Prof Tilman Ruff, co-founder and Australian chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) about their submission on AUKUS, a trilateral partnership between the UK, the US, and Australia. 7.30am Grace caught up with Serwa Naghshbandi, a Kurdish-Iranian independent scholar and educator, about her studies i...

Acknowledgement of Country // Headlines // 7:10am Jan Bartlett spoke with PHD Candidate Sasha Gillies-Lekakis about the US blockade and sanctions on Cuba in the aftermath of COVID-19. Hear the full interview via 3cr.org.au/hometime-tuesday. More info on the economic crisis in Cuba via The Conversation. 7.30am Fiona York of Raise The Roof spoke with Andrew Rogers from Val's Ageing and Aged Care and...

Acknowledgement of Country //Headlines //Anne Maxwell from Radio MMT, a 3CR show broadcast on Fridays at 5.30pm, joined us to talk about a new film on economics, called Finding the Money. Wil Stracke from We are Union spoke to Sonia about Women's day rally in Melbourne. Grace talked to Quay-Quay, from Pride in protest, on the actions they've held throughout the week in response to Mardi Gras board...

Acknowledgement of Country // Headlines // 7.10am Lukas Straumann from Bruno Manser Fonds spoke about their new documentary 'The Rainforest Tribunal' which is available free to watch via YouTube. 7.30am Quay-Quay from Pride in Protest spoke about the Sydney Mardi Gras' decision to de-invite NSW police from this year's march, following the murder of Jesse Baird & Luke Davies. 7.50am Trudi Mitchell ...

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Greg Barns SC, lawyer advising the Australian Assange campaign: Sonia spoke with Greg about the High Court hearing in the UK, the impact on media freedom and the vigil for Julian Assange happening in Melbourne Red Books day: Grace & Sonia read a few excerpts from Marx, and discussed them. Rally Magazine & invisible disabilities: Grace spoke with Ange & Baya...