Perth Indymedia

We speak to Petrina Harley from Rainbow Rebellion about the protest roots of pride and the need to continue the struggle for LGBTQi rights.

We speak to Anthony Collins from 350.org Perth about the groups recent report Captured State: The influence of the gas lobby on WA.

We speak to Alan Hayden from the Extinction Rebellion WA Grandparent's Group about the recent Festival for Love and Rage that took place in Perth.

In a two part series we explore the impacts platform capitalism (corporate social media) is having on art collectives and communities in Indonesia.

Platforms such as Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter, while being used by many collectives, activists and others around the world to organise, have serious implications for security, surveillance and control or ownership of content. More broadly the very way in which we socialise and organise has changed considerably. Our very concepts of space, community and relationships are being changed by these platforms.

The first part of this series features Wimo, Akiq, and Dito, members of Mes56, an artist community and collective house in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. The members discuss their use of platforms, the effect this is having a well as the connections between the Covid-19 pandemic and platform capitalism.

Interviews were conducted as a part of workshops held at Mes56 in June, 2020 by Rangga Purbaya, coordinated by Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell, for Curtin University and RTRFM.

Doug Henwood is a broadcaster, commentator, a contributing editor at The Nation and author, among other volumes, of My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency.

He joined Alex Whisson to discuss the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, and what might happen in its aftermath.

After the tragic death of 11-year-old Annaliesse Ugle and subsequent calls for the reform of WA's bail act, we speak to suicide prevention researcher and advocate Gerry Georgatos.

Historian Djene Bajalan from Missouri State University joined Alex Whisson to discuss the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.

While much of the Western press and liberal opinion remains obsessively focussed on the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election, another election will take place this weekend, the background to which reveals just how many features of the American Empire will continue on as before, regardless of who wins between Trump and Biden.  

Journalist and political commentator Federico Fuentes joined Alex Whisson to discuss the fate of Bolivia.

We speak to Associate Professor Agung Wardana about the ongoing demonstrations and strikes in Indonesia in response to the omnibus bill's resulting attacks on workers rights and environmental regulations.

The carnage continues across the University sector, with ANU, UNSW, and Charles Darwin University among those to announce more job cuts in recent days, bringing the total number of job losses to at least 11 000.

The local Unis have not been spared, with Murdoch Uni management looking to cut $25 million from its salary budget.  Last week, Murdoch staff voted on a variation to their Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. 

Indymedia's Alex Whisson spoke to Nick Everett, delegate and Branch Committee member for the National Tertiary Education Union, to understand what the vote was about, and what might happen next in the fight to save jobs.