Monday Breakfast

Hello and welcome to the Breakfast show for Monday the 5th of August 2024. In this episode you'll hear: Basem Kerbage speaking at the 'From Stonewall rebellion to assimilation and pinkwashing: How did we get here and what will it take to win LGBTIQA+ liberation?' event on the 29th of June. Bas is the founder of Queer Arabs Australia, Australia's first national group supporting LGBTQIA+ Arab, Middl...

Welcome to another iteration of the Monday Breakfast show, hosted by Rob in the studios of 3CR Community Radio in so-called Fitzroy. On today's show: First up Rob spoke to Madison, a facilitator of the TransCreatives writing support group as well as the managing editor of The TransCreator Zine. The group's aim is to foster, publish and promote TGDNB creativity towards enhancing our community cultu...

 Acknowledgement of Country//  Headlines// New Gaza death toll estimates | Local issues of freedom of speech on PalestineJohn Setka Resigns from CFMEU VicFirst-ever & 'indefinite' strikes at Samsung Electronics, South Korea Keep The Fire Burning - Blak Loud and Proud// Sounds, chants and speeches from Annual NAIDOC Vic March in Naarm Melbourne, held. Speakers include Robbie Thorpe, Thelma Austin,...

 3CR Monday Breakfast is broadcast from 3CR on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.  Part 1 of an extended interview with Birrugan Dunn-Velasco, Indigenous language worker, based in Gumbaynggirr Country in the town of Nambucca Heads, about his personal connection to language and reflections as a language worker at the Muurrbay Language Centre and the Gumbaynggirr Gingana Freedom...

 3CR Monday Breakfast is broadcast from 3CR on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.   Headlines// (*CW: military brutality, violence, transphobia) Geril, Secretary-General of Anakbayan Melbourne and member of BAYAN, representing the fighting Filipino masses and their struggles. Speaking before the Disrupt Land Forces first public planning meeting (at Black Spark, Northcote, 21st...

Welcome to another iteration of the Monday Breakfast show, broadcasted from 3CR on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.  The episode begins with two speeches from the Free Palestine rally on the 23rd of June: First up is Hijrah Ahmad of Anak Bangsa Merdeka "Children of Free Nations" Collective on the need for decolonisation, and the precedent set by Western powers in allowing Is...

Welcome to another iteration of the Monday Breakfast show. Our first segment is dedicated to Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old non-binary child who died on February 8th following a brutal, transphobic assault in the halls of their own school. In the wake of their death, we as a community and a society must mourn for those lost to transphobic violence across the globe and reflect on how we can protect Qu...

Welcome to another iteration of the Monday Breakfast show. This week's episode is structured a little differently due to the station's Radiothon fundraiser, so we're focussed on highlighting the great, radical and independent content 3CR broadcasts.  If you enjoy the content heard on both the Monday Breakfast show or at 3CR more broadly, please make a donation to help keep the station on-air for a...

 Acknowledgement of Country //Grace caught up with Serwa Naghshbandi to discuss her studies in the history music resistance and the role coded singing plays in activism and resistance against oppression and as an act of survival. Serwa is a Kurdish-Iranian independent scholar and educator, and she has recently been exploring women's singing as a practice of care. Their conversation includes select...

Welcome to another iteratoin of the Monday Breakfast show, broadcasted from the 3CR studio in so-called Fitzroy, Naarm/so-called Melbourne. On today's show you'll hear: Palestinian Activist Nour Salman and Activist and UniMelb Academic Prof Tony Birch, Nakba Day rally outside Victorian Parliament, speaking about the banning of the Kuffiyeh, Solidarity, and supporting the student encampments. On Na...

Acknowledgement of Country // First up we hear Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, Palestinian scientist, researcher, teacher and author based in Bethlehem, speak at the Voice for Palestine rally in Sydney on April 28. Recording provided by Vivien Langford. You can learn more about Prof. Mazin via qumsiyeh.orgThere will be a FREE Talk by Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh: A History of Human and Environmental Injustice,...

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Monday Breakfast show, hosted by Rob Harrison in the studios of 3CR. Today's show features the following segments: 7:10AMIn this episode of Stick Together, Annie McLoughlin goes into the murky side of the just transition economy where Powering the Future can sometimes mean unsafe conditions, and dodgy pay. Annie speaks with Michael Wright, National Secre...

Welcome to another iteration of the Monday Breakfast show, produced and presented in the studios of 3CR in so-called Fitzroy. First up we hear Tasnim Sammak, a Palestinian activist, mother, community organiser, and PhD candidate at Monash University, speaking at the April 15th rally at the Victorian Parliament steps launching the campaign to Get Elbit Out of Victoria, as part of the A15 global eco...

Welcome to another of the Monday Breakfast show, produced and presented in the studios of 3CR and hosted by Rob Harrison. First up we hear Cam and Andy of the Yeah Nah Pasaran show speak with academic Chris Wilson about the previously undiscovered digital footprint of the Australian killer who perpetrated massacres in Aotearoa in 2019.  You can hear more content from the Yeah Nah Pasaran Show on T...

Welcome to another Monday Breakfast show, produced and presented by Rob Harrison in the studios of 3CR.  First up we hear an excerpt of Annie McLoughlin of Solidarity Breakfast’s conversation with Anthony Kelly, from Melbourne Activist legal Support (MALS), about the VicPol's use of explosive weapons at the Webb Dock picket on March 22. You can listen to the full conversation here. Following that...

Welcome to another episode of the Monday Breakfast show, coming to you live from the studios of 3CR in so-called Fitzroy. Following the Federal Government’s attempt to rush through the Migration Amendment Bill last week, Rob conducted two interviews to understand as much as possible about what it means for refugees across so-called Australia. Among other things, the bill would give a minister ‘God...

 Welcome to another iteration of the Monday Breakfast show, presented and produced by Rob Harrison in the studios of 3CR. First up we hear Nasser of the Palestine Remembered show’s conversation with David Glanz, an anti-Zionist Jewish activist for refugee rights, and founder of MEAA members for Palestine, about fair and unbiased reporting and safe working conditions for people working in media and...

Welcome to another episode of the Monday Breakfast show. On this week's show we have: We start off with some good news: representation of LGBTQIA+ people on TV screens across so-called Australia is improving. A study published in Sage Journals has revealed the much-needed data surrounding Queer representation within scripted television across so-called Australia over the past two decades. Rob diss...

Welcome back to another episode of the Monday Breakfast show on 3CR, bringing you news from across the radical left spectrum. With the episode airing on Labour Day, Rob spoke with Assistant Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Joseph Mitchell to reflect on the union movement in so-called Australia and its achievements in the last year, as well as what Labour Day means to Joseph and...

Last week a joint investigation by the ABC and the Guardian exposed that two men who were allegedly involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda are wanted for questioning in Rwanda. The Australian Centre for International Justice released a paper in response arguing that Australia has become a safe haven for perpetrators of atrocities. The ACIJ is a not-for-profit legal centre focused on enhancing acc...

Welcome back to Monday Breakfast. This week Rob and Grace bring you the following:  Jan Bartlett of Tuesday Hometime speaking with Ken Davies, International project officer Union Aid Abroad APHEDA, about the partnership between APHEDA and Palestine, and aid provision for Gaza, West bank, and Lebanon. We also heard  Jan Bartlett's conversation with activist David Burgess who together with his frien...

Welcome back to another episode of Monday Breakfast, broadcasted from the studios of 3CR in so-called Melbourne.  Our first segment for this week is Mercedes Zanker of Uprise Radio speaking with Mohamed of The Sit Intifada on the first sitting day of Victorian Parliament of 2024, direct from the steps of Parliament House.   On Thursday last week the NSW government released a discussion paper to al...

Channel Nine has recently been defending itself against accusations it intentionally altered a photo of Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell to make it more revealing. The news organisation claimed the edit was not a human error but rather due to AI’s automation within Photoshop. Rob sat down with Dr TJ Thomson, senior lecturer at RMIT, to see how credible Channel Nine’s claim is. Recently, the...

Welcome to another iteration of the Monday Breakfast show, presented and produced by Rob Harrison and Grace Tan. This week we bring you four segments from across the spectrum of radical news.  As Israel’s genocidal conquest of Palestine continues to play out, the ways in which governments and companies all over the globe are complicit are simultaneously becoming transparent. One of those companies...

In this week's jampacked show Rob and Grace bring you segments covering the Webb Dock picket and policing of it, how pill testing could reduce harm, as well as extra-judicial killings of unionists in the Philippines. We start off with Stick Together's Jiselle Hanna interview with Elmer Labog, General Secretary of the Kilusang Mayo Uno, the militant union federation in the Philippines, about trade...