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On Sunday 10 November 2019, CICD celebrated its 60th Anniversary. There were number of brilliant speakers. In today's program you will hear part 2 of Bruce McPhie a CICD member from Vietnam speaking about his involvement with CICD during the Vietnam War and his views of what is happening in Australia and around the World. Bruce also suggesting some ideas what needs to be done and hopes that CICD w...

On Sunday 10 November 2019, CICD celebrated its 60th Anniversary. There were number of brilliant speakers. In today's program you will hear Bruce McPhie a CICD member from Vietnam speaking about his involvement with CICD during the Vietnam War. You will also hear Meredith Connie a Classical Musician who performed at the CICD celebrations.

On Sunday 10 November 2019, CICD celebrated its 60th Anniversary. There were number of brilliant speakers. In today's program you will hear Frank Cherry Secretary of the AMWU retired members and Jacques Boulet from the Australian Living Peace Museum speaking about their involvement with CICD and peace movement.

Today we reviewed some of the high-profile issues of 2019, which we have covered in Alternative News through the year. This is the last program for 2019, and we will return on our regular program on 2 February 2020. However, we will continue to present Alternative News program during the holiday season. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. Romina and Andrew04...

On Sunday 10 November 2019, CICD celebrated its 60th Anniversary. There were number of brilliant speakers. In today’s program you will hear Zachary Doney CICD media committee member and Dr Margaret Beavis vice president of MAPW and co-chair of ICAN (Australia) speaking about peace, CICD, ICAN campaigns for peace and Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

On Sunday 10 November 2019, CICD celebrated its 60th Anniversary. There were number of brilliant speakers. In today’s program you will John Lloyd ex CICD secretary and Marion Harper ex honorary secretary – Unitarian Peace Memorial Church

Today Brianna Aldersea and Lia presented the program on International Day of People with Disability. Brianna is an environmental university student, CICD member also a member on the media committee.

On Sunday 10 November 2019, CICD celebrated its 60th Anniversary. There were number of brilliant speakers. In today’s program you will hear Prof. Joe Camilleri from Pax Christi and Joan Coxsedge Artist and peace activist.

Today Bri Aldersea presented the program on events in Bolivia. Brianna is an environmental university student, CICD member also a member on the media committee. On Sunday 10 November CICD celebrated its 60th Anniversary. The celebration was a success there were around 100 members and supporters celebrated with us. There were number of brilliant speakers. In today’s program you will hear the CICD E...

CICD will celebrates its 60th Anniversary - 60 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament, social justice and much more on Sunday 10th November, 2019.Today Bevan Ramsdan and Andrew Fullerton sought to debunk a number of myths about wars Australia has been involved in. they’ve been inspired to do this after reading the book ‘Secret- The making of Australia’s Security State’ by vet...

CICD will celebrate its 60th Anniversary - 60 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament, social justice and much more……There will be number of speakers who will be sharing their memories and activities with CICD, there will be music food and drinks. Today Bevan Ramsdan and Andrew Fullerton examined the impact on the Australian community of United States imperialism. They looked...

CICD will celebrate its 60th Anniversary - 60 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament, social justice and much more……There will be number of speakers who will be sharing their memories and activities with CICD, Trade Union Choir will be performing and there will be food and drinks. The games industry has come to be a very big industry with very high value, which amounts to a w...

CICD will celebrate its 60th Anniversary - 60 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament, social justice and much more……We'd like to invite you to celebrate this with us at our anniversary function. There will be number of speakers who will be sharing their memories and activities with CICD, there will be food and drinks and music. Also,The week of October 13th to 19th has been d...

We presented part 2 of a recorded program from the Venezuelan solidarity event held at the MUA hall on Thursday 3 October 2019. In part one we heard Kevin Bracken ex-union official, peace activist and campaigner, speaking about the Venezuelan solidarity groups who visited Venezuela this year and campaigning for support with the Venezuelan people. We also heard Daniel Gasparri, the Charge d'affaire...

Presented a recorded program from the Venezuelan solidarity event held at the MUA hall on Thursday 3 October 2019 – you will hear Kevin Bracken ex-union official, peace activist and campaigner, you will also hear Daniel Gasparri, the Charge d'affaires at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela speaking about the US aggression and sanctions imposed on Venezuelan people. 

26 September was the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, an important opportunity for individuals and organisations across the world to support the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, calling on our national governments to sign and ratify it. Also a brief history of the issues surrounding a land rights dispute in Victoria. The current struggle of the Djab W...

The urgent need for action to minimise global warming is being recognised by increasing numbers of people. Around the world millions of school students, concerned about their future, are walking out of school demanding climate action and increasing numbers of adults are joining them. Here in Australia severe drought in our prime food-growing regions as well as unprecedented floods, bushfires and h...

On September 11, 1973, the socialist world suffered a setback in South America with the successful coup of the Chilean military over democratically elected President Salvador Allende. What is now widely known regarding the installation of Fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet is that the USA (more specifically the CIA) had their fingerprints all over it. And; The Prime Minister Minister Scott Morrison...

People often ask and hint at the similarities between the Hong Kong protests and the French Yellow Vests. The HK protest started on 31 March and are approaching their 20th week – the Yellow Vests (YV) have celebrated last weekend their 40th week of protests. There is no comparison between the two movements, except that they are protests – but for widely different reasons and serving widely differe...

Part 2 of an interview Andrew Irving conducted with Dr Hannah Middleton and Denis Doherty about the passing of Fiddle Castro

 Andrew Irving conducted interview with Dr Hannah Middleton and Dennis Doherty for the occasion of sad news of passing of the Cuban leader Fiddle Castro.

Today we will speak about:The Immigration Minister Peter Dutton offends every Australian migrant,AFP raids highlight the Turnbull’s NBN disaster,US Cooperating With Al-Qaeda; Hillary Clinton Now Losing To Donald Trump; Over 400 Civilians Killed in US Airstrikes on Syria;Drone for Obama

Today we will start with the news that:This week the CICD and the social justice movement has lost two of its highly regarded stalwarts: Gwen Goedecke and Joe Goddard. We also like to mention the passing of Michael Ratner, on 11 May, the long-time leader of the US Center for Constitutional Rights and former president of the National Lawyers Guild. Asylum seekers in Australia;President Obama to vis...

Today will will speak about:Nuclear weapons and Australia’s position on disarmament;Federal Election,Palestinian Children and Four Palestinians living in Australia told Michael Brull what al-Nakba, their nation’s catastrophe’, means to them

Today we will speak about:The Federal Budget Transatlantic trade and investment partnership TTIPBut First a very brief Mother's Day History