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Jackson and James are joined by formers guests for the 3CR Radiothon show, rasing money for another year on the air! 

James and Jackson are joined by two high school educators, who have been doing some ongoing work with teenagers about respectful relationships. This has become a hot button issue in many high-school with many young people inspired by the actions of Grace Tane and Brittany Higgens, and many others who have shared their stories via social media as part of the Me Too and March4Justice events. The sha...

James is joined by Free Palestine activists and organisers to discuss the compelted and planned protests in Melbourne in response to a fresh wave of violence by Isreali armed forces in May 2021.  

James and Jackson are joined by Patrick Gordan from the Renters and Housing Union of Victoria, who discusses the imapct on renters of ther ecently cancelled hosuing suppprts during Covid 19. With an end to mortgage freezes and rent increase moratoriums - how are the precariusly housed going to cope in a still drastically Covid-effected economy. patrick gives some good tips to keep ahead of rapacio...

With Scotty from Marketing recently annoucing a commission into the terrible mental health of soldiers, and new Minister for Defence Peter Dutton complainging the defence forces have come to be too "woke" Jackson and James analyse the defence industry and it's inevitable outcomes. 

Jackson and James speak with Brad Homeward, XR activist, organsier and spokesperson about the recent Spring Rebellion, and the challegnes facing popular organising during a pandemic. 

James reviews two new releases - Nomadland and Judas and the Black Messiah, while Jackson speaks with John Simons about a broad-based coalition between Vic Socialists, Gereens, Extinction Rebellion and Bike West to improve bike safety in the city of Maribyrnong. 

Jackson and James travelled to Bendigo to speak with John Shipton, father of Julian Assange and Jacob Grech, anti-war activist and presenter of 3CR's A Friday Rave. Jacob and John are on a East Coast Tour in support of Julian - The Hoem Run for Julian, gathering community support for his safe passage home. Assange has been in poltical isolation, and more recently prison, for his journalism, which ...

Covid 19 has proven that many jobs can be done remotes - but this dopens't always mean that they should be. Call Centres in Melbourne are quickly realisign they can save squillions on inner-city rents and have their workers (often casual and with minimal security) cover the over-heads of a working office. Jackson and James chat with a call centre worker and an Organiser from Untied Workers Union a...

After the realese of the Australian Labor Party's damning report into their own catastrophic failure in the 2020 Federal Election, Jackson and James are joined by Harry Stratton, a lawyer, anti-corruption activist and ALP analyst from Sydney to ask - what would affective federal Labor leadership look like, and why can't anyone in the party find it? 

On Inauguration Day in the United States, Jackson and James are joined by author and historian Dennis Glover to reflect on Trump's legacy and whether his poltical relevance will continue - particulalry on the far right. Dennis discusses the parallels between Donald and another vitriolic nationalist narcissist named Adolf, as well as Dennis' new novel Factory 19 - which highlights the 'lost working...

With Black Lives Matter making terrific ground in 2020 and another Invasion Day looming, James and Jackson are joined by Pay the rent Campaigner Jess Morrison about the Pay the Rent movement, and why it is different from other indigenous fund-raising initiatives. With special audio from Uncle Gary Foley. 

Regular guest Jacob Grech joins James and Jackson to discuss the findings of teh Brereton Report, which investigates accusations of war crimes by Australian SAS personel in Afghanistan during the obscure and long running conflict. Already one of America's and Australia's most unjustifiable wars, the revelations have shocked even mainstream Australia. 

James and Jackson look at recent developments in Venzuella, Eduador and Bolivia with former host of Stick Together on 3CR Denis Rogityuk, who has spent the last few years following campaigns in South America as a journalist for Jacobin and the Chilean paper El Ciudadano and as a communications advisor to former Ecuadorian president Rafeal Correa.

Uprise Radio is joined by regular US poltical commentators, comedian Melissa McGlensy and Jacobin editor Daniel Lopez to digenst the fall-out on Biden v Trump - still to close to call as we went to air. 

After her commanding electoral victory, James and Jackson cast the microscope over our near neighbour and their exciting young leader Jacinda Adern - is she the darling of the liberal left that progressive Australia years for? Or just another marketing exercise? 

Jackson and James talk about 2 films The Social Dilemma & The Great Hack. The Social Dilemma was released on Netflix Australia in August as is a documentary aimed at late high school which attempts to explain the economic underpinnings of free internet services like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Google. In explaining how these products make huge sums of money by making human behaviour the produ...

Today on Uprise Radio we are talking about local council elections and the Victorian Socialists expanded plans - the youngish party is running council candidates in 5 electorates across Melbourne, giving people in Hume, Maribyrnong, Darebin, Moreland and Melbourne City a chance to put an anti-capitalist presence into their local council machinery. Local councils are often characterized as the pett...

Comediene Melissa McGlency and Jacobin's Daniel Lopez return to Uprise Radio to discuss the looming US Election. With James and Jackson they try to paint a rosy picutre of Trump v Biden and search for optimism in a poltical landscape blighted by proto-fascists and milqutoaste centrists. The fail fairly spectaculalry to get excited. 

Jackson and James welcome Sarah Ward (Yana Alana, Queen Kong) and Mitch Jones (Captain Ruin, Autocannibal, Caravan of Dooom) to the show to talk about the role of art-making in a critical, empathetic society. Covid has seen the arts landscape radically altered and Sarah and Mitch reflect on ways and means of making meaningful, emancipatory art that is accesible to all, often with little government...

James is joined by Liz Ross to discuss a lifetime of activism, from worker's rights to gay liberation in Australia. Liz' new book follows the struggles of workers to resist the introduction of ALP's Prices and Income Accord of 1983, from conception through its phases of implementation. Liz tells a story of class collaborationsim, wealth transfer, and worker's being short changed. through the Accor...

Author Sam Oldham and Publisher Alex Ettling talk about Sam's new book "Without Bosses" a celebratory history of the high-watermark of Australian Unionism in the 1960s and 70s. Featuring Green Bans, Pink Bans, the BLF and the connection between union power and the ALP's creep rightward under Hawke and Keating onwards - listen in for an inspiring chat! 

Part 1 of a special series on Interventions, a new left-wing publishing imprint. James and Jacksn speak to founding publisher and writer Alex Ettling about the project, as well as recently published auther Sam Oldham. Discussion includes why publishing is essential to a thriving counter-culture, the continued relevance of books, and how Interventions plans to beam this content straight to the prol...

Spirit of Eureka was formed in 2004 to remember the success of the eureka stockade and reflect the voice of Australia’s ordinary people and the struggle for present day endeavours and struggles for justice, democracy and sovereignty. It has an online forum coming up on July 4th - US Independence Day - titled "Does Australia need independence from the USA?  We are lucky to be choices by Spirit of E...

Jess Morrison is a member of the adminstrative arm of the Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective. In the wake of enormous protests Australia wide in support of Blak Lives Matter and highlighting the horror of indigenous deaths in custody and racist policing, Jess joined Uprise Radio to tell listeners about Pay the Rent. It is is a Soverignty-based scheme designed by mob and for mob. It's not a donatio...