Perth Indymedia

We talk to Robert Eggington of the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation in the wake of the Federal Government's pledged $1 million to set up a "critical response" project to tackle Indigenous suicide in Western Australia.

The Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation has worked with the Aboriginal community at the grassroots level for 30 years in a wide ranging capacity. Preserving and teaching culture, being powerful and vocal advocates on Aboriginal issues, and working in countless ways to support the day to day struggle of Noongar peoples.

This photo (courtesy of Dumbartung) is of a meeting with WA Premier Colin Barnett and Robert and Selina Eggington which took place in 2013 immediately following an important suicide crisis summit organised by Dumbartung. The summit exposed the horrific reality and impact of suicide for Aboriginal people in WA and the need for greater funding and support for grassroots Aboriginal organisation to help address the issue.

Despite the tremendous and well recognised work over 30 years of Dumbartung, despite the significance of the suicide crisis summit, despite this meeting with the Premier and many other politicians, despite the overwhelming suicide crisis, Dumbartung has not had an increase in funding.

Quite the opposite, Dumbartung has had funding cut and today, on Survival Day 2016 is in a fight for its very survival.

TPP update and forecast with NZ activist and trade unionist Edward Miller

We speak with Yarramun, blogger at http://black-australia.tumblr.com/ about her involvement in forcing

Katie's talk covers mental health issues and the importance of safe spaces and trigger warnings.

This talk was recorded at the Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania 2015 Conference in Melbourne. You can find out more information about this conference here: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/conference-schedule/

You can find links to listen to other talks from the conference here: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/08/14/108/

A shortened version of this talk was played on the 28th of December 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 28th December episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/

Kaliyugan Pathmanathan and Sarah Ross discuss the importance of the voices of refugees in the movement for refugees, strategies for effective refugee activism and who is to blame for harsh policies towards asylum seekers?

Sarah Ross is an activist with the Refugee Rights Action Network: http://rran.org/

Kaliyugan Pathmanathan is Project Coordinator of Tamil Eelam Cricket. Kaliyugan had to leave Sri Lanka as a refugee to Australia himself and he co-founded this project in order to create a platform for the Tamil diaspora around the world to participate in national and international cricket competitions and also to bridge the gap between newly arrived Tamils in the local community and the pre-existing Tamil community:

https://soundcloud.com/perth-indymedia/tamileelamcricket

www.tecricket.com/

facebook.com/TamilEelamCricket

You can read Tad Tietze's article 'Why We Shouldn’t Blame Voters For Our Appalling Asylum Policies', which was referred to during the interview, here: https://newmatilda.com/2014/07/14/why-we-shouldnt-blame-voters-our-appalling-asylum-policies/

This interview was played on the 28th of December 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 28th December episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/

Coggo from the Melbourne Street Medic Collective discusses the recent #FloodTheSystem action in Melbourne, where activists took a stand for climate justice and against the power of big business, shutting down the entrances to Westpac, BHPBilliton and part of the CBD.

For more on this action, check out #FloodTheSystem on Facebook and Twitter, as well as the website: http://www.floodthesystemaus.net/

You can also see lots of videos from the action on the No Frontiers Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/nofrontiersmedia/?fref=ts

CounterAct have done a write-up on the action: http://counteract.org.au/flood-the-system/

You can find out more about the Melbourne Street Medic Collective here: http://melbsmc.org/

Follow Coggo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/akaCoggo

This interview was played on the 16th of November 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 14th December episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/

After antifascist and antiracist activists confronted Reclaim Australia and the United Patriots Front on the weekend Indymedia speak to Barry Cade, a Melbourne based anti-fascist activist, about the events of the weekend and the broader movement to oppose the far right.

Indymedia's Alex Whisson and Ray Grenfell’s speak to Muslim social justice activist Marziya Mohammedali on the Islamophobic backlash following the Paris attacks.

This interview was played on the 16th of November 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 16th November episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/

US Iraq war veteran Vincent Emanuele is currently in Australia supporting the release of the documentary "We Are Many" - the story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, against the then impending war on Iraq.

We talk to him about the film and the echoes at this moment of time in the wake of the Paris terrorist attack with the post 911 period leading up to the Iraq war.

Sociologist Dr Theresa Petray discusses her research on the opportunities and limitations of using the Internet to bring about social change, as well as some of the ways it can be used more effectively by activists.

Follow Theresa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheresaPetray

You can read some of her publications here: https://www.jcu.edu.au/college-of-arts-society-and-education/social-sciences/our-staff/college-of-arts,-society-and-education6

This interview was played on the 16th of November 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 16th November episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/