Uprise Radio

Today Jackson and James are talking about Superannaution - a critical and oft-ignored part of the countries economy. Superannuation is the combined savings of millions of workers - toally more than $3 trillion in Industry (Union-influenced) Funds alone. Daniel Lopez (contributing editor at Jacobin Australia and Victorian Socialists member) and Dave Kerin, (Founder of the Earthworker Energy Coopera...

What are universities for? Are they for education, research or profit? The CV19 lens has brought into sharp focus some of the cracks in the sector. Liz Crash and Dr Mark Bahnisch join James and Jackson to discuss these complex institutions - and why so many are outraged by recent efforts, by unis and unions alike, to recoup income lost due to COVIC19.Over the past 30 years it appears our universit...

Last week the price of oil went negative - producers had to pay people to take it off their hands. But what does this mean for our green future or a just transistion? James and Jackson discuss. 

The economic impacts of the COVID19 pandemic are epic. Housing, a key human need in the best of times, is essential for the social distancing needed to curtail the spread. With many losing jobs and income, paying the exorbitant rent in Australian cities is even more challenging. Despite some positive noises, governments have been slow to protect renters, while property and business owners have rec...

Matilda Byrne, expert in automated weapons systems and media coordinator for Safe Ground, joins James and Jackson for a discussion of A.I. and warfare. Automated Weapons Systems are swiftly moving beyond unmanned drones and taking on some of the cutting edge developments in Artifical Intelligence, meaning robots will soon be making critical decisions of life and death. 

Sean Kenny from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union joins James and Jackson to discuss the continuing obstinance of the federal government with regards to Newstart recipients. With Covid 19 forcing everyone to stay home, Job Seekers are still being asked to risk their lives to attend 'Mutual Job Obligations'. Meanwhile, surveillance of the unemployed continues online...  

James is joined by American comedienne and writter Melissa McGlensey and Jacobin editor Daniel Lopez to discuss the propects of progressive candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on what is Super Tuesday in the US democatic primaries. Featuring music from Public Enemy. 

Join Jackson and James for a discussion of the stations radical history and radical present. We speak with subsctibers, listeners and some staff to get an insight into the role 3CR plays in the activist community of so-called Melbourne. 

After the horror bushfires of the Australian summer, Jackson and James discuss the dearth of leadership on Climate Change, at home and abroad. 

With James oversees, Jackson has a solo discussion on the catastrophic bushfires sweeping Oz's east coast, the new powers requested by Scotty from Marketing and the year ahead. 

Happy New Year! Jackson and James cast an eye of 2019 with (ahem) 20-20 vision, plus play a few tracks from the year that was. 

James has just returned from Japan and he and Jackson are talking about pacifism, article 9 and East Asian geopolitcs. 

Save Footscray Park is a community campaign dedicated to opposing the development of a Melbourn Victory Soccer Training Facility in the public Footscray Park - a rare patch of green space in the West of Melbourne. The issue has dvided residents so Jackson and James spoke to Maribyrniong residents while in the Park, and also had Sharon Schwab from the SFP Committee in to talk about the issue. Just...

China is at the centre of Episodes 3 and 4 of Uprise Radio. While fierce street protests calling for increased personal freedoms continue to rock Hong Kong, Beijing and Mainland China remains a closely controlled country with a growing global influence. Fear of all-things China (Sinophobia) is on the rise in Australia, with commentators across the political divide concerned about our place in the...

China is at the centre of Episodes 3 and 4 of Uprise Radio. While fierce street protests calling for increased personal freedoms continue to rock Hong Kong, Beijing and Mainland China remains a closely controlled country with a growing global influence. Fear of all-things China (Sinophobia) is on the rise in Australia, with commentators across the political divide concerned about our place in the...

Episode 2 of Uprise Radio covered the Morrison Government's continued attacks on Australia's most vulnerable - from illegal Robo-Debts, to draconian demerit systems that withhold payments, to drug-testing and the systemic failure of the Jobseeker network. These techiniques of demonising and attacking the poor are used around the world to divide the working class and distract from the true causes o...

This first episode of Uprise Radio aired on 20/09/19 - the day of the Global Strike for Climate - and weeks before Extinction Rebellion (XR) lauched their October Spring Rebellion, a program of non-violent civil disobediance around Australia. This episode looks at the history of Extinction Rebellion, its success in Europe and its organisational aims and modes. Hosts Jackson and James are also join...