Asia Pacific Currents

By Australia Asia Worker Links

Asia Pacific Currents episodes

August 12, 2016 More scandals hit Australia's concentration camp in Nauru
Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Chris Breen, from Refugee Action Collective, on the latest scandal to hit Nauru's concentration camp and what the release of these latest files on Nauru incidents will mean for the fight for refugee rights in Australia.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links
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August 05, 2016 Death squads kills hundreds in working class communities in the Philippines
Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Arnel, International Relations Officer of the Labour Party of the Philippines, on the murder of hundreds of working class people by death squads as part of Philippines President Duterte campaign against drugs.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links
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July 29, 2016 Migrant powerline workers in Australia left unprotected by Thiess and the courts
Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Matthew Boyd, organiser with the Electrical Trades Union of Victoria, on how Filipino migrant workers were told not to join a union by the giant engineering company Thiess, and the difficulty of obtaining justice for migrant workers in Australia .Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links
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July 22, 2016 The effects of the latest political murder in Cambodia on workers
Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Mora Sar, president of the Cambodia Food Workers’ Association, on the recent murder of political activist Kem Ley and its significance for workers and labour organising in Cambodia.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links
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July 15, 2016 Repression of labour activists in South Korea intensifies with jail sentences
Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Mikyung Ryu, International Relations Officer with the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), on the 5 year jail sentence given to Han Sang-gyun, KCTU President, the detention and arrests of other prominent labour leaders, and the significance of this crakdown on the working class movement in South Korea.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links
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July 08, 2016 Baba Jan jailing and repression in Pakistan
Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Farooq Tariq, from the Awami Workers Party, on the reasons and political significance of the sentencing of Baba Jan and 11 of his fellow activists to 40 years in jail. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links
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July 01, 2016 Iranian workers taking up the fight to the government of Iran
Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Farid Partovi, spokesperson from the International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI), on the repression that workers in Iran face, how they organise against it, hunger strikes in prison, and the value of international solidarity.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links
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June 24, 2016 Workers fight against outsourcing at Australian brewery
Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Steve Diston, organiser with the Electrical Trades Union, on the fight by 50 workers to oppose outsourcing at the giant Carlton United Brewery Company in Melbourne, Australia.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links
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June 17, 2016 Why it is important to support radical radio
Asia Pacific Currents (APC) is a unique program that brings you labour struggles from the Asia Pacific region from the worker's perspectives.APC can be heard on independent and radical 3CR Radio. 3CR Radio is self funded and needs your support to stay on air.To donate to 3CR RadioAsia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links
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June 10, 2016 Political cartoonist facing Sedition Law charges in Malaysia
Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region.Interview with Zulkiflie Anwar Haque, known as Zunar, a political cartoonist in Malaysia who is facing 43 years in jail under the Sedition Law because of his work exposing corruption and censorship in Malaysia.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links
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Stories and issues from the Asia Pacific region with a labour and grassroots perspective. Regular interviews with activists from countries in the Asia Pacific region. Produced by Australia-Asia Worker…