4PR - Voice of the People

Dale Ruska calls for unity and de-colonisation on Invasion Day 2025

Guerilla poet Lionel Fogarty pushes against an unjust world. Here is what he had to say: On corners to centers, deliberate poison, diseases. Explorers violently imposed. Now, white man's violence still seeps through upon doors and floors. You walk on lores, your laws keep us oppressed, difficult. Legality don't mean we don't understand. It's racist, loaded with high powered bullets, shotgun and ou...

Ruby Wharton spoke about the Kurrumba Institute's focus on anti-racism for liberation, emphasizing the importance of personal happiness and community support in achieving justice. Ruby highlights the harsh realities of children in prison, including solitary confinement, and calls for the end of "toxic prisons" globally. Ruby, a Cooma woman, stresses the need for community-led solutions and the rej...

Samir speaks on Invasion Day on behalf of Justice for Palestine Magandjin

Andrew Fullarton and John Lander discuss the implications of the Trump presidency for Australia. They highlight the potential dangers of Australia's close alliance with the U.S., including economic sanctions and the risk of being drawn into a U.S.-China conflict. They note that Australia's economy is heavily dependent on China, with 30% of exports to China amounting to $185 billion in 2023. Lander...

The Long Night The tension in the room was palpable as members of different unions spoke. It was 4pm on Friday 17th April 1998 and eighty of us were sitting in a circle in the MUA headquarters in West Melbourne. Information had been gathered from workers in different unions which backed up the belief that Kennett had delivered an ultimatum to police to clear Swanston Dock and open it up for Patric...

Picture - Ethan Enoch talkin up the struggle against mass incarceration. The Queensland Parliament opened with a new LNP government led by Premier David Crisafulli who has pledged to toughen laws on youth crime, including locking up children as young as 10 in adult prisons. The ALP previously supported similar harsh measures. The new government has also sought to halt truth-telling inquiries, whic...

On November 16, 2024, the Justice for Palestine Megangdjin participated in a national boycott of Caltex stations in Australia, highlighting Caltex's ownership by Chevron, which is involved in Israeli gas projects in the Mediterranean. The boycott aimed to pressure Chevron, which funds Israel's military occupation and illegal activities like the siege of Gaza. Rodrigo Ocuno, director of the film "V...

A coalition of democratic forces has risen up against the genocide. Turkish freedom flotilla activists took over a German ship carrying munitions for the genocide in Gaza. Germany is the second largest supplier of arms to Israel after the United States. Queensland companies NOIA and Rheinmatall manufacture and export artillery shells to Israel under licence from the Australian government. Ferra En...

Hassan Awada, a Lebanese Australian, and former councillor in the Sutherland Shire in Sydney discussed the Israeli war on Lebanon, highlighting the devastating impact on his community. Hassan tells of personal losses, including the death of nine family members in 2006 and recent friends killed during evacuation attempts. Awada criticized Israel's claims of 'targeting Hezbollah' put to him by the A...

The Australian government has, in the past, defunded and threatened to defund organizations which have a supportive association with BDS. Any such detriment or threat of detriment is to render aid or assistance to Israel and is unlawful. BDS Rally The Justice for Palestine Magan-djin rally on August 11, 2024, marked the 310th day of the genocide in Gaza, with speakers highlighting the severe viole...

Interview with Palestinian lawyer and author, Raja Shehadeh, by Nathan Thrall from the New Yorker radio hour under the title of 'Israel's other intractable conflict.' The genocide is discussed under the trope of 'Israeli-Palestinian conflict', thus focussing on the fears and motivations of both sides, the lack of progress in the peace process, and the potential for a lasting resolution (read 'two-...

This podcast traces the attempts to orchestrate a coup in Venezuela from 2013 till August 2024. Interview with Diego Sequiera from Mision Verdad in Caracas Song "Strike the beast hard" by Gaviota, featuring Sue Monk and Lachlan Hurse from Jumping Fences

Given the events of July 2024 and the last time Israel placed Beirut under siege, that was in 2006, we go back to the siege of 1982. This was the time of revolutionary politics, the growth of the rejectionist front (anti-diplomacy) within Palestinian and Arab communities. To help us understand this period we take an episode from The Dig podcasts featuring historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti, on Arab ra...

Very moving ceremony ... Volunteers read out the names of 54 murdered women followed by a flower-laying ceremony. Songs Gari Gynda Narmi Fall in Line-Christina Aguilera & Demi Lovato | Allie Sherlock Cover

International lawyer Kristen Zornada focuses on the significance of international law in stopping the genocide. She highlighted various violations of international law by Israel, including misappropriation and delegitimization, and discussed the potential for UN accountability. Describes experiences of colonization and oppression of people from southern Italy, and advocates for pressure and sancti...

Rita from Birch Grove Legal describes its action against the government for being an accessory to genocide.

Full speech by lawyer on ICJ ruling ... On the 28th of October last year, exactly nine months ago to this day, a group of us went to West End to support the Palestine Fair Trade stall, which, at the time had been forced to set up outside the bounds of the west end markets after it received a notice to withdraw the contract to sell at those markets.

Today, nine months after Palestine Fair Trade stall was banned from the West end markets for displaying a map of disappearing Palestine the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rulling on the illegal occupation of Palestine has vindicated the vendors action of displaying the map that shows the illegal occupation of Palestine from 1948 to this day. The Palestine Fair Trade stall holders did nothing...

At the ICJ hearings in January, the United States government argued: “the court should not find that Israel is legally obligated to immediately and unconditionally withdraw from occupied territory.” The ICJ has warned states “not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by the continued presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” Neither Israel n...

About 300 hundred people turned up at the Justice for Palestine rally on 30 June 2024 in King George Square. The people present were solid in their support of the theme of the rally: support for Palestinian men. Although the demonstration may appear small now, In years gone by, this would have been a very large demonstration for it has always been difficult to garner support for the Palestinian ca...

Ciaron O'Reilly organised a concert for Julian Assange as he is about to return to Belmarsh prison as the Supreme Court decides Julian's fate. Thanks very much to the Qld Electrical Trade Union ETU and Peter Ong for providing the venue for this concert. Song - "All that I have seen" by Jumping Fences After Ciaron's talk, Jumping fences sing about relationships on the left.

Beautiful rendition by Mark Cronin of "Behind these prison walls" by David Rovics - hey song about Julian Assange .

IPAN Podcast : Government lies about helicopter-Chinese flare incident Thanks to Bevan Ramsden

Brisbane 5 May 2024