Solidarity Breakfast

Commons Social Change Library here II Our new reporter Anila talks with Iain McIntyre about the activist resource The Commons Social Change Library. Saving McIvor Reserve here II Miles Parnall-Gilbert from Friends of McIvor Reserve talks about the fight to protect McIvor Reserve from development and how Construction Unions have stepped in by placing a Green Ban on the site. This is the Week here I...

May 1 Melbourne II On May 1 outside the State Library Melbourne we heard some rousing speeches first up we hear from Kiernan from the Black People's Union here followed by Luke Hayes from the Australian Communist Party here. May 1 Port Kembla No Nukes II A  massive rally for May Day in Port Kembla calling for peace and jobs not a nuclear subs base. We here first from Greens Senator David Shoebridg...

Refugee Activist Detained here II Aran Mylvaganam respected community leader was handcuffed and detained for three hours during a protest at Andrew Gillies office in Thomastown on Thursday. Gillies is the minister for immigration and the demonstration was to remind him that 12,000, mostly Tamils, have been left with out permanent status in Australia. Aran talks to us today. Save Preston Market Tow...

Drugs & the Death Sentence here II 3cr's Judith Peppard reporting from the Harm Reduction International Conference held in Melbourne recently. This report is based on an interview with cultural antrhropology and public health practitioners Belinda and Jeff Lewis on their reflections around drugs, the 'Bali 9' & the subsequent execution of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan as a fruitless exercise in...

EU AI Law here II The EU AI laws is the first attempt to regulate AI despite the far reaching nature of AI's presence in our lives. Prof Chris Marsden from Monash Law Faculty gives a perspective on the law. Baxter Revisited here II Anthony Snowden talks to us about his doco about the first 2003 Baxter Detention Centre Protest in the desert of South Australia. On the 20th Anniversary the film will...

NGOs & the Status Quo here II Jack Mansell gives a fascinating argument that environment NGOs are maintaining the Status Quo rather than helping positive change. Richard Woolcott's Legacy here II the recent death of diplomat Richard Woolcott brought back the vile role played by Australia in the Indonesian savage invasion and subjugation of East Timor. We speak with Peter Job author of the book A N...

The Safeguard Mechanism here II We talk to ACF's Gavan McFadzean about the Safeguard Mechanism Agreement struck by Greens Federal Leader Adam Bandt and the Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen. Does it protect the environment? Bulga Forest Logging 'Suspended' here II Dr Jarra Hicks from Save Bulga Forest reports on the 'suspending' of logging after the NSW election. This is the Week here II Kevin H...

Fight for FOI here II Rex Patrick and the Australian Information Commissioner speaks before going into Federal Court to argue that the Australian Information Commissioner needs to return request in a timely manner for a healty Democracy,Free Assange Rally here II Dean Yates was the bureau chief for Reuters when the US Apache killed twelve people including two of his people as shown in the Wikileak...

The Right to fight for Climate here II We go to the mass meeting called by GECO the Goongerah Environment Centre, around the right to organise for climate and the environment which are being threatened by upcoming law changes in Victoria in May. The resolutions passed resolved to take a mass action to defend the environment and potentially take high court action to contest the State Laws. Newretro...

Short to Academy Awards here II Lachlan Pendragon, creator of the short animation An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It is packing his bags for the Academy Awards ceremony hoping that his 12min animation might best short. We chat. Barka Plan here II Tyler Rotche, Healthy Rivers Campaigner, Environment Victoria updates us on the progress toward increased water flows into the...

Careers for Women in Trades here II Courteney Munn, Project Officer Careers for Women in Trades at the AMWU in Victoria, talks to us about the project to bring more women into trades and the upcoming Hume Women in STEM and Construction Careers & Jobs Expo on Wednesday March 1 at Broadmeadows Town Hall running from 10-1pm. Register at Eventbrite or visit www.amwu.org.au/events_wit. Newcastle Climat...

Opening the show we dip into a SLF the Sustainable Living Festival  presentation given by  Yarra Libraries called Money Talks, Money Walks - divesting from fossil fuels. Kylie Robertson from Market Forces made some interesting points around:Shell does well out of War here Bank Loans drive Environmental Destruction here Burrup Peninsula here II As the Voice to Parliament is being discussed the leve...

Rally for the Forests here II On the first day of Victorian Parliament Native Forest Defenders from across the State stood firm against "salvage logging" by VicForest in the Wombat State Forest and in the Dandenongs. Neo-Nazi jailed here II Anti-racist activist Paddy Gibson's family home was targeted by Neo-fascists in Sydney in 2021. Unusually but hearteningly one of the three has been given a tw...

You Can Go Now here II Larissa Behrendt film You Can Go Now focucsing on indigenous artist policital activist Richard Bell is in cinema's now. I speak with Richard Bell. Another Refugee Death in Custody here II Ian Rintoul from Refugee Action Coalition talks about the latest suicide of a refugee in Villawood. Enough is enough. Socialist Alternative Push for Parliament  here II Jerome Small, a rece...

Liliminatuli / Devonport Invasion Day Rally here II Change the Date was the theme of the Invasion Day Rally held in Devonport. Voices from the rally. The Art of Incarceration here II Filmmaker Alex Siddon talks to us about The Art of Incarceration, which profiles Indigeous prisoners who find a new way forard through art. Gomeroi v Santos here II Outside the Native Title Tribunal in Sydney where a...

No Bailout for Big Fossil Fuel here II Jeff Waters, Offshore Gas Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, discusses the money guzzling corporate response to the climate emergency. Violet Coco Court Hearing here II Vivien Langford, from The Climate Action Show, reports outside and inside the court in Sydney hearing climate activist Violet Coco's bail hearing. Activist View of Repressive Laws Protest La...

News about the imprisonment of climate activist Violet Coco in NSW. Write a letter to Violet at: Deanna Maree Coco MIN:652500 Silverwater Correctional Centre Locked bag 130 Silverwater NSW, Australia, 2128To contribute to the fundraiser for legal expenses: https://chuffed.org/project/95028-get-violet-out-of-prisonNorthern Suburbs Swing against Labor here II In some seats in the Northern corridor s...

Grounded Launch II Grounded is a community land trust. At its recent launch Sonja Arakkal from Think Forward gave an intergenerational perspective on housing unaffordability and land trusts here and Bob Knowles from Apollo Bay Housing affordability Taskforce gives an outline of the biggest housing unaffordability story out of covid - rural dispossession because of soaring land values putting a kni...

Eduard Said Memorial Lecture here II Dr Yara Hawari talks to us from the occupied territories about the common fight against injustice and fascism. Grounded Affordable Housing here II We talk with Karl Fitzgerald about the Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy Launch on Nov 22 at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre in La Trobe St Melbourne. It's all about affordable housing. This is the week here I...

Secrets, Spies & Lies here II Bernard Collaery in conversation with Kieran Pender at the College of Law and Justice, Victoria University. Critical Mass Bike Convergence here II Faith Hunter alerts us to this years Critical Mass Bike ride to be held on Nov 18 starting at 5pm at the State Library can be joined at 5.30pm at Avenue Reserve, Royal Pde leading in to Sydney Rd ride for better bike lanes...

Darebin EV Event here II Straight from the vaults of Climate Action Show we hear from the Darebin Climate Action Network's electric vehicle expo being held at Bundoora Secondary School Sun Nov 7th. Strike Force Guard 111 here II We talk with Anthony Kelly from MALS about the NSW police operation targeting climate protectors through home visits in other States in the lead up to Blockade IMARC Sydne...

Palestinian Film Festival here II We speak with festival director Naser Shakhtour about the incredible depth and range of films in this years Palestinian Film Festival running from Nov 3-6 at Cinema Nova. Deebing Creek Stand-Off here II Deebing Creek near Ipswitch Queensland has been slated for the biggest housing development scheme the State has ever seen. The problem is  it means the destruction...

Homes Not Prisons Rally here II We hear from Amanda George reading a statement from Vicky Roach live from the Victorian Parliament steps as part of the Homres Not Prisons Oct 21st Rally and Sara Schwartz from the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Aussie Super & Striking Liverpool Workers here II Christy Caine, National Secretary of the CFMMEU calls for the stopping of using workers super in the f...

Anti Corruption Commission here II Do you want to know what the National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill has in it? We listen in to a conversation from the National Intreguity Centre between Catherine Williams, Stephen Charles, Geoffrey Watson and Anthony Whealy who do the heavy legal lifting to unravel the bill for non-legal minds. Westgate Bridge Disaster Remembered here II We mark the 52 years...

Facial Recognition Law here II Choice alerted the public to the use of facial recognition technologies at K-mart, Bunnings & Goodfella's stores recently with a petition calling for regulation. What are the issues that place this technology against citzen's rights? We speak with Lauren Perry, from UTS, co-author of a recent report called Facial recognition technology: Towards a model law. Disruptio...