Solidarity Breakfast

Weekly politics with your weetie.

Politics with your Saturday weeties.

A tribute to activist Trevor Grant. WRAW event Feminism in the Pub exerpts. Anne Learmonth from Fair Go For Pensioners talks about their submission to the Centrelink RoboDebt inquiry. Kevin let's it rip with This Is The Week That Was. Rousing speeches from March 9th Enough's Enough Rally in Melbourne: Lisa Chester & Paddy Crumlin.

Anne Summers gave a call to action speech during WRAW (Women's Rights at Work) at Victorian Trades Hall on International Working Women's Day. March 3 outside Melbourne Town Hall people spoke to us about the #Nohomelessban campaign and Dr David Giles talkes about a seminar March 17, 6-8pm at the Multicultural Hub in Elizabeth St, City. Kevin rounded up the week with This is the Week that Was. Humph...

We open with extraordinary words from the Melbourne No Netanyahu rally on Feb 19.Marilyn King from Fair Go For Pensioners gives an hands on report of dealing with the Centrelink Debt Debacle. Viv Marlo talks to Graham Dunstan outside a demonstration against Lockheed Martin & Melbourne University collaboration into weapons research. Jacab Grech talks about the Avalon Weapon's Show and Peace Camp Co...

We cover the opinions of people at the RTBU February launch to return Victorian Public Transport back to public hands - the fight back against privatisation takes form. The attack on renewables by the Federal Government after South Australian blackouts has led to Friends of the Earth (FOE) going to the streets we cover their message. Report from Vivien Langford from BZE.This is the Week that Was f...

Report inside and after the Melbourne City Council to ban homeless people from the CBD - features the voices of some very angry rough sleepers. Luke Sinclair talks zines and an every expanding hand make art world of photocopy art including some info about the Stick InstituteThis is the Week that WasThe return of Dr Noah Bassil about the state of the world.

Part 2 - Bill Mitchell talking taxes, social wage & solidarity. Anti Trump Rally Melb 3-2-17 featuring Kim Bullimore & Richard Di Natali. This is the Week that Was returnsHumphrey McQueen in converstion - "Is this the end of Capitalism as we know it? We can only hope." 

Bill Mitchell from Newcastle University in the first part of his talk given at the New International Bookshop in August, 2016. He takes us back to how and why of neo-liberalism's take over of Soveriegn Governments explaining how we have got into such a pickle - great stuff. We will be playing the rest of the talk over the next two weeks. Kelli & Spike from the Homeless Persons Union call for Melb...

Socialist Liz Ross chats to us about the affect of automation on work; Trevor Wilson President of  Fair Go For Pensioners gives a look at what this group is doing in the climate of attack on the rights of pensioners; Social Justice lawyer Katie Robertson was in America during the Trump ascendency and gives us some insights into his supporters and why women need to stand up at the march being held...

Some exerpts from the Eureka Medal Ceremony at Bakery Hill Dec 3.Dr Cassandra Goldie (CEO ACOS) damns Federal Governments witch hunt methods around social security. Humphy McQueen talks taxes, and why a war on China might backfire on Monsieur Trump.

We get an update on the recent political events in Spain and Italy, a load down on several victories: the CUB win, the Lex Wotton win and the Standing Rock back down. Kevin Healy is here with This is the Week that Was. Dr Noah Bassil gives his views about the year and the one to come.

Milestones in disability political history; Disability Sports & Recreation and Wages Justice.

Weekly politics with your weetie. This morning we followed up the issue of commericial use of public land with a chat with Shane Howard from the Belfast Coastal Reserve protest group. We catch up with supporter of anti fascist protest Nazren who was at the rally on Sunday 20 in Melbourne that routed Trump triumphialism. Kevin Healy sums up the week and Humphrey McQueen gives the world economy a re...

We have a 3 part chat with Vince Emmaneul who is on the ground in the US. We chat with Alex from Melbourn University branch of the NTEU about the swingeing cuts being made to support staff at the University as the managers at the University feast on the education cash cow; This is the Week that was sums up the week; we chat with Debbie Brennan who confronts the views of those who say that the Patr...

Speakers at the Sydney Doctors for Refugees on 5-11-2016 give a clear picture of why pressure must be kept up to change Australia's Refugee Policy. Dr David Berger (Doctors for Refugees) recounts his grandfathers experience of rejection as a German Jew during World War 11; Dr Steward Condon (MSF) gives an up-to-date account of the situation at refugee camps; Dr Munjed Al- Murderis who arrived from...

Sister Susan Connolly gives an eyewitness account of her visit to West Papua in Feburary, 2016. The report from the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission - We Will Lose Everything: A Report on a Human Rights Fact Finding Mission to West Papua, characterises the Indonesian occupation as part of a slow motion genocide on our door step. Exerpt from 1999 interview with unionist Jack Mundie as part of...

We open with a report on Peter Norman Day commerations at Human Rights Square Melbourne. We speak to Shane Howard who with other locals blockaded Killlarney Beach down on the South West Coast of Victoria to stop the use of public spaces for commerical interests: in this case race horses being exercised - not a few but at some times over hundred on this small stretch of beach. They have formed the...

The recent Polar Fresh Strike asks the question is the law stopping fair work outcomes? Reflections on the 1998 WaterFront Dispute as part of 3CR's 40 Days of Radical Radio Breakfasts. This is The Week That Was. Rod Quinn on UK labour politics now that Corbyn is reelected with a bigger majority. Vince Emmanuel on USA leading up to the Presidential election.

Dave Oliver (ACTU), Sarah Hansen Young (Greens Senator) and Karen Batt (CPSU) address rally to stop TPP outside Vic Parliament; Joe Toscano is starting a campaign to defend public housing assets in Victoria - no to the sale to private and not for profits; This the Week that Was;  Dr Noah Bassil chats about the state of world politics.

Interview with Mission Australia's CEO Catherine Yeomans on homelessness of older people. Listen here. Jafri Alexander X on the attack by Victorian police on him at Flinders Street for his peaceful solo demonstration. Listen here. Humphrey McQueen, freelance journalist talks to Lalitha about this weeks political events and 149th. anniversary of Das Capital. Kevin Healy with The Week That Was.

A Handful of Sand the story of the Wavehill Walk-off and the struggle of land rights by the Gurindji people is the first book by Charlie Ward. We talk about the book and his reflections on the importance of the struggle for present day Australia. Liz Ross tells us about the programme for the Union Activism & History Conference on Oct 15. A programme of historic and present day struggles with a pin...

Dick Nichols Listen here. re the left conference in Portugal; https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/portugals-left-bloc-we-are-competing-left-hegemonyDr. Michael Leach Listen here. from Swinburne Uni; Head of Social Sciences dept; https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=13O6fdEAAAAJ&hl=en Kevin Healy - regular satirist on current politics. Listen here. Jayathika Bandara - a singer and an accom...

The Battle for the Sydney College of the Arts has all the elements common to the transformation of Australian Univeristies to the US corporate model. We talk to Thomas McLoughlin the solicitor for the Sydney University SRC about the fight. Tiernan Brady was the Political Director for the Irish campaign for marriage equality. He has some interesting things to say about how to win a potentially divi...

Interview with Jacob Rumbiak, Minister for trade and publc affairs for the government of West Papua, located here in Melbourne gives an update on the situation in his country. Listen here. Interview with Humphry McQueen who talks about social and political issues around the world. Listen here. Kevin Healy - The Week That Was. Listen here.