Radio Reversal Podcast

We’re back with another episode in our running series on Disasters, Crisis, and Collective Futures - this time looking at the “slow violence” of environmental disasters and degradation, the links between this violence and settler-colonialism, and the long standing practices of Aboriginal refusal and resistance against the crisis conditions of colonialism.

Something we’ve talked a bit about in this series is that crises, disasters, are not evenly distributed. Some people are far more frequently faced with disaster conditions - often as a result of state violence and neglect, capitalist exploitation, (and the “externalities” resulting from those activities), and because of the ongoing violence of settler-colonialism.

For those of us who tend to experience disasters as short, sharp, and intermittent or rare shocks, it’s important to consider what the uneven distribution of disasters and crises tells us about the material realities of colonialism and capitalism; and how we can be in solidarity with people more regularly exposed to disasters, including people who’ve been doing the work of fighting for kin and Country and justice, and fighting against the forces of colonialism and capitalism, for hundreds of years.

To help us think these things through, we could not be more delighted than to be bringing you this conversation with Rikki Dank, Gudanji and Wakaya woman and one of the directors of Gudanji For Country. Gudanji For Country is a grassroots First Nations organisation working to protect Country from colonial exploitation, overgrazing, mining, and fracking, to educate, advocate, and to create sustainable futures.

This interview with Rikki covers a wide range of topics, including the relationship between the slow violence of environmental degradation and colonialism, the links between climate change and colonial capitalism, the history of damaging, extractive practices on Gudanji Country and across the Beetaloo Basin and elsewhere (from the damage wrought by early colonising pastoralists through to contemporary fracking), and how Aboriginal People have fought and found ways to care for community and Country in defiance of the colonial-capitalist apparatus.

Through this interview, we see the long emergency of colonialism and of climate change, not as something expressed only through short and sharp big events (like Cyclone Alfred), but also through creeping pollution, contamination, degradation, exploitation, displacement, and damage to lifeways. In learning to pay attention to these different temporal expressions of disaster and crisis, we can better learn how to organise ourselves and our struggle as climate change escalates.

Rikki Dank also spoke with us of Indigenous futurities and possibilities, of healing Country, of care, and of love - love as a feeling and as an orientation to the work of struggle, of organising, of activism, of building and maintaining community, of care, of creating possibilities for each other. She speaks of love as a feeling, love as an action, love as the steadfast refusal to be dispossessed by settler-colonialism, or to give up.

(The centrality of love also brought to mind our conversation with Nick Southall about disaster communism a few weeks back - he also spoke of love, and the love of people and for people that helps drive us into and sustain us in struggle).

We hope you enjoy this conversation with the wonderful Rikki Dank, and encourage you to follow her work with Gudanji for Country by signing up to their newsletter, following them on Instagram, and if you can, consider supporting their work through a donation.

If you haven’t already listened to the first couple of episodes in this series - never fear! You can jump in fresh here, or head back and listen to Episode 12 - After the Flood & Episode 13 - Disaster Communism with Nick Southall. In these episodes, we chatted about weather events like Cyclone Alfred & what happens during “disasters”: how the parameters of political possibility shift, sometimes incrementally, and sometimes all at once. We talked about two very different expressions of these political ruptures: “disaster capitalism,” where corporations and the state use these events as opportunities to expand state and corporate power and to find new frontiers of capitalist exploitation, and “disaster communism,” in which communities self-organise to support one another, forge networks of mutual aid and care, and build a genuinely radical sense of “class power.”

This week, Nat, Jonno & I (Anna) decided to focus a bit more on the way that these dynamics operate in the specific conditions of settler colonialism, especially here in so-called australia. We’re engaging with these topics as settlers, living uninvited on unceded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lands, and this is perhaps part of why we are so interested in the way that crises operate as key moments in which settlers are brought into new forms of colonial complicity. In particular, we are digging into a concept that we’ve been talking about for a few years now: the idea of “crisis colonialism.” We use this as a shorthand way to think about how settler colonial states use periods of crisis - economic depressions, world wars, ecological disasters - as fuel for settler colonial nation-building.

In listening back to and editing this week’s episode, I realised (largely thanks to a generative conversation with Dr. Jamal Nabulsi) that a lot of what we’re thinking about in this episode is affect - how people feel during crises, and how those collective emotions are operationalised and weaponised for a variety of political projects. Affect is central to understanding both "the shock doctrine", as Naomi Klein theorises it, and “disaster communism” as described by Nick Southall, which we dig into in more detail at the beginning of this episode. And affect is also an important part of our analysis of “crisis colonialism,” and especially the way that settler colonies use moments of crisis to manufacture and secure settler consent for colonial governance through a rotating set of strategies, ranging from fear-based moral panics through to the "positive" construction of ideas of “mateship”, the fair go, and "pioneering spirit".

So in this week’s episode, we’re looking closer at these dynamics. How exactly do settler colonial states take advantage of periods of crisis? How do these moments become repurposed as fuel for nation-building? How does “securitisation” and policing fit into this process? And as settlers who are engaged in communities of struggle and committed to disrupting settler colonialism… how can we ensure that our collective efforts in these moments don’t become fuel for the colonial project that caused the crisis in the first place?

We end this episode with some reflections on how we can build our collective ability to resist colonial complicity: how to refuse the promise of liberal reform; how to reject all attempts to narrow our care, grief and rage to those deemed “grievable” by the colonial state; and how we might work to align ourselves instead with everyone, everywhere, who is fighting to dismantle the colonial capitalist death machinery that causes the “permanent crisis” of the present.

We are continuing our series - begun last week on our broadcast show on 4ZZZ and then sent out in our podcast feed - on Disaster, Crisis, and Collective Futures. What is it about disasters that enables us to plan and act together with neighbours and strangers, more collaboratively, more collectively, more generously? How do public and private institutions leverage crises to retain and expand their control, reasserting racial, colonial, capitalist, cisheteropatriarchal and ableist imaginaries and practices?

In the wake of Cyclone Alfred, we’ve seen expressions of the former, of practices consistent with ‘disaster communism’ (as we discuss with Nick Southall in this podcast episode!) - neighbours, friends, strangers, coming together to organise and share resources and energy to prepare, survive, and recover from the cyclone and its aftermath. People looked out for each other.

We’ve also, unfortunately, seen expressions of the latter, of practices consistent with ‘disaster capitalism’ - in this instance, Lord Mayor Schrinner using the cover of the disaster to evict rough sleepers from parks, from public spaces, across the city. (Notably, people are not having it, and in the week since Schrinner’s announcement there have been multiple events held and yet more organised that stand in solidarity with unhoused people across this city).

To help us think through all this, we had a chat with Dr Nick Southall, long term community organiser, academic at University of Wollongong, author of the blog ‘revolts now’ and the new book, ‘Disaster Communism and Anarchy in the Streets’.

In this chat we talk about disaster communism as the agonistic opposite to disaster capitalism. We discuss what disaster communism is, and the everyday actions by everyday people that constitute it. We talk about how it is that certain kinds of community relations and modes of organising somehow seem more possible in times of environmental disasters, the importance of fighting to reconfigure our relations to time so we all have more capacity to do the kinds of loving, caring work that can liberate us from racial colonial capitalism, and reflect a little on what our orientation to the State should be.

In future shows we’ll talk more about this last point, and consider the ways that the settler colonial state seeks to coopt, defuse, neutralise, and disband the practices and expressions of disaster communism as they appear, and the implications of that for our organising and resistance. We’ll also talk more about how the solidarities that can form during moments of disaster may be deliberately fractured along the well-worn lines of colonialism, racism, ableism, classism, cisheteropatriarchy, etc., and how we can guard against that.

But in this podcast we want to focus particularly on disaster communism, and the possibilities it attunes us to. We want to attend to what’s just happened, and acknowledge and learn from this and other examples of emergent organising, and how existing networks and relationships can blossom and expand to meet the scale of the unfolding (poly)crisis.

Welcome to a new series of the Radio Reversal Podcast - this one focussed on Crisis, Disaster & Collective Futures!

Like a lot of people, we've been thinking a lot about disaster, crisis, climate change, community-based responses this week, in the aftermath of Cyclone Alfred here in Magan-djin, so-called brisbane. In case you somehow missed it - South East Queensland was struck by its first cyclone in 50 years over the weekend, and while the cell technically weakened to a tropical low before it crossed the coast near Redcliffe, residents still reported wind gusts of over 110 kph on the coast. In addition to the wild winds, the cyclone also brought massive amounts of rain to the region, including falls of over 300mm in a single day. This led, predictably, to major flash flooding across the city, compounding the damaging impacts of the wind and subsequent coastal erosion.

In this first episode, we’re looking back at Cyclone Alfred and some of the ways that communities responded to, prepared for, and theorised their experiences of the crisis. First up, we’re reflecting on the ways that governments and corporations make use of disasters like Cyclone Alfred to push through repressive and dangerous legislation. Just today, we saw the LNP Lord Mayor of so-called brisbane, Adrian Schrinner, announce plans for emergency evictions of people who have been sleeping rough in parks across the city - despite the fact that there is no affordable, appropriate accommodation. There’s been a lot of disingenuous claims made by the Lord Mayor in announcing these measures - including the claim that everyone sleeping rough in the city has been offered alternative accommodation and turned it down in favour of staying in the park. But what’s clear already is that the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Alfred has created an ideal backdrop for the city council to push ahead with their plan to fully dismantle all of the communities that have - by necessity - taken up residence in parks across the city. This is an absolutely horrific example of a government utilising an environmental disaster to expand systems of control and repression under the guise of “public safety” and “protection.”

Next up in this week’s episode, we’re looking towards more optimistic horizons - catching up with our good friend and climate comrade, Moira Williams, who is a long-term activist and advocate with Move Beyond Coal. In a short phone interview, Moira shares some of her reflections and insights into the importance of local and community based organising and support networks during times of disaster, and how those networks might work alongside broader political campaigns to challenge those responsible for the ongoing threat of climate collapse.

If you are feeling politically frustrated by the failures of governments and corporations to take the risk of climate collapse seriously, get along to the upcoming Cyclone Speak Out at Speakers Corner outside the Queensland Parliament next Thursday 20th March from 10am. You’ll hear from communities directly impacted by Cyclone Alfred, as well as organisers working towards climate justice in a variety of different ways. And a reminder that you can also head along to the regular protests outside the Boeing headquarters at 123 Albert St (cnr Charlotte St) in the city from 12noon on Wednesdays. The global weapons trade and military industries are both major contributors to carbon emissions across the globe. As our comrade Remah Naji explains: “A couple of years ago, a report revealed that if the world’s militaries were treated as a single nation, they would rank fourth in carbon emissions - just behind China, the USA and India, but ahead of Russia. This puts military-related fossil fuel emissions above both the aviation and shipping industries combined.”

If you’ve been following the Justice for Palestine movement, you’ll know that there’s been a lot happening here in so-called brisbane over the past few weeks, mirroring a massive upsurge in Palestinian justice organising globally. From the extraordinary encampments being established by students on university campuses across the globe (including the University of Queensland, here in so-called brisbane); to growing union solidarity movements pushing for work stoppages at export ports, construction sites and factories; to the freedom flotilla desperately working to find ways to provide direct aid to the people of Gaza; and the many countless discussions, meetings, pickets, teach-ins, rallies, and blockades happening across the world: work is happening on every horizon, and there’s more still to come.

This week, we look at another key site in the global movement for freedom and justice: the military industrial complex and the global weapons trade. RR producer Roshan draws together speeches from protests and blockades, pre-recorded discussions and older interviews and recordings that focus on weapons manufacturing, development and trade. Through these speeches and interviews, we learn about some of the ways that australian companies are directly supporting the continuing genocide in Gaza (and West Papua, as well as the continuing targeting of First Nations people on this continent), and the role that the australian government is playing in exporting weapons and components to support Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

We also hear a lot in this episode from activists and organisers who are working to directly challenge companies implicated in the genocide in Gaza, including Ferra Engineering in Tingalpa, who are responsible for manufacturing the component of the F-35 bomber jets that enables them to drop bombs. Ferra Engineering is one of the key targets at the moment, given their role in providing essential components to some of the world’s largest military aerospace companies including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon. But Ferra Engineering are not the only company implicated in the military industrial complex in so-called Brisbane. Companies like Heat Treatment Australia, or HTA, in Coopers Plains; L3 Micreo in Eight Mile Plains; G&O Kert in Acacia Ridge; and TAE Aerospace in Bundamba, Ipswich, are all deeply implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

You’ll also be hearing excerpts from an incredibly insightful discussion between Palestinian organiser Amal Naser and Greens Senator for New South Wales, David Shoebridge, which we are grateful to be able to share with you all. We strongly recommend that you go and watch the rest of that discussion here. In Amal & David’s conversation, they dig into some of the fundamental challenges of examining the military industrial complex in so-called australia, and the damning lack of transparency around weapons exports and imports in this country.

Welcome to Episode 1.7 of our current podcast series, following the Justice for Palestine movement here in so-called brisbane, and working to understand the political and moral imperatives of this moment. This series is a small labour of love and solidarity dedicated to everyone who is contending with the relentless violence of colonial racial states: from the Palestinians in Gaza and worldwide who are grieving for their loved ones and for their lands, to West Papuans struggling against Indonesian occupation, to First Nations peoples across the world fighting against ever-changing forms of settler colonial violence and dispossession.

In this series, we are working to honour the commitment of everyday people struggling here on the ground, as well as learning from the long-standing and sustained struggle of Palestinian people across the world in their ongoing fight for their homelands. One of the things that comes up consistently across this series is the recognition that struggles against oppression and colonisation must be fought everywhere at once. If you’ve been listening to the past few episodes of this podcast, you’ll know that this is what we’ve been tracing for the past few episodes. We’ve been following both long-standing and emergent solidarities: between people struggling against colonialism and racism globally, between people fighting systems of incarceration and surveillance, between people experiencing the brutality of oppression and subjugation in diverse forms.

In this episode, we begin to turn to the everyday work of liberation, and the ongoing struggle to build modes of resistance that can disrupt systems of oppression wherever they take root. We begin in this episode with the Palestinian-led movement that uses strategies of Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions to build global support for Palestine. In broad terms:

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.

This episode is timed to coincide with a major upsurge in global BDS organising. As many of you likely already know, April 15th has been called as a date for a global economic blockade of Israel, including a call for workers across the world to strike from their jobs and participate in direct action to disrupt business as usual for companies complicit in and benefiting from the genocide in Palestine. Here in so-called brisbane, organisers from Shut Down Ferra have called for a half-day blockade of Ferra Engineering in Tingalpa, kicking off bright and early at 5am. You can find more details of that event here and here.

In this episode, Roshan digs into the archive to pull out some older conversations about using strategies of Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions here in so-called brisbane, as well as field recordings from Justice for Palestine events over the past decade. You’ll hear a lot in this episode from Justice for Palestine organiser Phil Monsour, who has been one of the architects of the BDS movement here in so-called brisbane. You’ll also hear some older interviews from the Radio Reversal crew, including the Anna’s (Cerreto & Carlson) speaking with the indomitable Palestinian organiser, writer and theorist Jeanine Hourani in 2021. You’ll also hear field recordings from the more recent Radio Reversal archive, including discussions of the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions strategy at community meetings and rallies. We’ve also borrowed some archival material for this episode from the Brisbane BDS YouTube page. You can find the videos of earlier Justice for Palestine events and BDS actions here: https://m.youtube.com/user/BrisbaneBDS

In Episode 1.6 Until All of Us are Free, None of Us are Free we focus on the fundamental connections between the struggle for an end to the genocide in Gaza and the liberation of Palestine and Palestinian people with oppressed peoples everywhere. In particular in this episode we recognise interconnections and entanglements across the movements for prison abolition, queer and trans liberation, and for disability justice.

You’ll hear recorded speeches from Turtle Island (US)-based Black lesbian abolitionist Prof Andrea Ritchie at last November’s Sisters Inside conference, and from trans woman and abolition organiser Necho Brocchi at Magandjin’s Trans Day of Resistance gathering that took place on November 25, 2023. Both of these speakers trace the importance of recognising the co-constitution of struggles for an end to incarceration and to oppression and violence against trans people with the struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and to end the genocidal settler-colonial occupation of Palestine.

Also in this episode, you’ll hear Han in deep discussions with queer Palestinian academic and community organiser Fahad Ali, and with Wiradjuri, Irish and Flemish disability justice organiser and writer Vanamali (Mali) Hermans. And we have extracts from an interview conducted by Anna in collaboration with Belle from 4ZZZ’s Only Human with deaf Palestinian Mazen Al-Khaldi, who went viral for his video sharing how to sign “Free Free Palestine” in Auslan, the sign language of the majority of the australian deaf community.

This podcast is produced and recorded on unceded Jagera & Turrbal country. Our deepest respects to the rightful owners of these lands, and to all First Nations peoples listening. Musicking on these episodes is by cyberBanshee (aka Han), and our series artwork is by Anna.

In Episode 1.5 Palestine to the Pacific: Land Back & Climate Justice we focus on understanding the connections between the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the crisis conditions of climate change that are destroying Indigenous knowledges, communities, kinship networks and lifeworlds, all across the world.

Settler-colonialism violence works to steal the land from the people and remove Indigenous Peoples from their land. Climate change is an outcome of this alienated and exploitative theft of land – and so often, the people on the frontlines in the struggle against climate change are Indigenous Land and Water Defenders and First Nations Peoples. These struggles are interconnected. In this episode, we explore these interconnections, and the ways that climate justice demands, and indeed cannot exist without, justice for First Nations Peoples. We look at entanglements between fossil fuel extraction and settler-colonial regimes from Palestine to the Pacific, land degradation and contamination as a technique of dispossession and genocide, and the failures and complicities of mainstream/whitestream environmental movements. And we turn and turn again to land, learning to hear ‘land back’ as a rallying cry for climate justice, and learning to understand how climate justice is predicated on the return of land to Indigenous Peoples. We also look at the ways that movements for climate justice and Palestinian liberation are working together to contest the destructive forces of colonialism, capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy and white supremacy that are the root causes of the crisis conditions of the present.

You’ll hear recordings and excerpts from a speech by Aunty Linda Fairbanks at a march for Palestine held on the so-called gold coast in January of 2024, an interview with Aunty Tracey Hanshaw at the Rising Tide Blockade, an interview with Guy Rithani from the Pacific Climate Warriors, reflections from Dr Jamal Nabulsi at Weaving our Stories, hosted by 350.org, Our Islands Our Home, Gudanji for Country & Conscious Mic. And throughout the episode, you’ll hear Anna and Malaak Seleem from Justice for Palestine - Magan-djin in conversation on 4zzz (102.1fm) in November last year, drawing some of these threads together to help us interrogate the relationship between climate change and racial colonial capitalism, to connect the struggle for a Free Palestine with the struggle for climate justice, and to help us better understand why land back is climate justice, and why there is no climate justice without justice for the dispossessed.

If you’ve just found your way to our podcast, our aim is to archive the ongoing movement for Palestinian liberation as it unfolds on the unceded lands of the Yuggera, Yugarapul, Jagera, Turrbal and Yugumbeh peoples, across so-called brisbane and the surrounding cities of south east queensland. You can start here with Episode 1.5, but you might want to scroll back a bit further to begin with Episode 1.1 Settler Colonialism and the Current Crisis.

This podcast is produced and recorded on unceded Jagera & Turrbal country. Our deepest respects to the rightful owners of these lands, and to all First Nations peoples listening.

If you’re interested in accessing or supporting the audio archive from which this podcast draws, please get in touch with us via substack.

For some additional reading and listening on this topic, check out:

https://overland.org.au/2023/12/where-is-the-australian-climate-movements-solidarity-with-palestine/

https://triplea.org.au/category/listen/programs/lets-talk/lets-talk-social-justice/climate-justice-land-back/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/5/interwoven-struggles-the-green-paradox-meets-the-palestine-paradox

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/600-our-history-is-the-future

If you’ve just found your way to our podcast and you’re jumping in fresh, welcome to Episode 1.4 of the Justice for Palestine Magandjin podcast. This podcast aims to archive the ongoing movement for Palestinian liberation as it unfolds on the unceded lands of the Yuggera, Yugarapul, Jagera, Turrbal and Yugumbeh peoples, across so-called brisbane and the surrounding cities of south east queensland.

In this episode, Globalise the Intifada, we pick up where we left off in Episode 1.3, by paying attention to the power and practice of Indigenous solidarity as it connects the struggle for Palestinian liberation with other movements against colonial occupation and exploitation in all its forms. As we listen back to speeches from rallies and public meetings, to interviews and discussions, we hear activists and organisers drawing clear connections between the intersecting genocidal systems of colonialism, capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy, transphobia, and ableism that are operating with such destructive consequences in this moment.

We open this episode with reflections from First Nations organisers on this continent, who find clear material and ideological connections between the experiences and struggles on this continent, and those unfolding through unthinkable violence in Gaza. We then trace the connections being drawn through the Justice for Palestine movement as they criss-cross the globe, creating the conditions of possibility for a mass solidarity movement grounded in the deep understanding that colonialism cannot be ended anywhere until it is uprooted everywhere.

In order of voices in this episode, you’ll hear Muslim solidarity activist and Queensland Muslim Inc. organiser Binil Mohideen, followed by President of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network, Nasser Mashni, and then Justice for Palestine Magandjin organisers Malaak and Remah. Then you’ll hear excerpts from Darumbal and South Sea Islander academic, journalist and writer Dr. Amy McQuire, First Nations poet and writer Cheryl Leavy, Noonuccal Ngugi writer and rapper Ethan Enoch, Mununjahli and South Sea Islander Professor Chelsea Watego, Palestinian writer, academic and organiser Dr. Jamal Nabulsi, Gamillaroi Kooma podcaster and activist Boe Spearim, and Yuin community organiser and current President of the Black People’s Union, Kieren Stewert-Assheton. Next up, you’ll hear Birri Gubba & Wanjiriburra activist and socialist organiser Sam Woripa Watson, Nasser Mashni again, then diaspora Tamil organiser, poet, musician and Greens candidate for Mayor of Brisbane, Jonathan Sriranganathan, followed by academic, writer and Afghan community organiser, Dr. Mujib Abid, (Jonathan Sriranganathan again), then diaspora Arab poet, writer and youth worker Lamisse Hamouda. Rounding out the episode, you’ll hear Dr. Jamal Nabulsi again, followed by Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Black feminist abolitionist academic and organiser Prof. Andrea Ritchie, Palestinian student and organiser Malaak Seleem, Binil from QMI, and finally, a short reminder from Palestinian poet and high school student Dania.

As always, this podcast is produced and recorded on unceded Jagera & Turrbal country. Our deepest respects to the rightful owners of these lands, and to all First Nations peoples listening.

If you’re interested in accessing or supporting the audio archive from which this podcast draws, please get in touch with us via substack.

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In this episode, we amplify the rich and powerful tradition of Blackfulla Palestinian solidarity in this place. We contextualise the understandings of settler colonialism, racial violence and genocide that are shaping the struggle for Palestinian liberation in relation to the history of this country, drawing clear connections between the struggle against colonisation on this continent and the fight for Palestinian liberation and land.

To start this episode, you’ll hear Dr. Jamal Nabulsi reflecting on the power of movements that understand Indigenous sovereignty as the primary frame of reference for struggle, and the political possibilities that have emerged from Blackfulla Palestinian solidarity in this present moment. Then, we dig back into the Justice for Palestine Magandjin archive to share a recording of the Blackfulla Palestinian Solidarity dinner hosted by Justice for Palestine Magandjin & the Institute for Collaborate Race Research in March 2023.

Like other episodes, this podcast includes descriptions of state-sanctioned colonial violence, racism, settler colonisation, discrimination, and dispossession. If anything you hear in this episode triggers feelings that you need help processing, we encourage you to reach out to friends and family, or contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 for confidential, free, 24/7 counselling support.

We also encourage everyone who is getting involved in the struggle for justice for Palestine to also recognise the intimate connections between settler colonialism and racial violence in Palestine and the continuing violence of occupation on this continent. The rich and powerful tradition of Blackfulla Palestinian solidarity that you hear described in this episode can also be followed here and here. Later in this podcast series you’ll also hear recordings from the Blackfulla Palestinian Solidarity Symposium, hosted in Magandjin in late 2024.

We also encourage listeners to get involved with and support campaigns against settler colonial violence on this continent, including the work of the Black People’s Union, Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, Stop Blak Deaths in Custody, Treaty Before Voice, the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, and independent Black media sites like Amy McQuire’s incredible substack, Black Justice Journalism.

Our solidarity is with all Indigenous peoples’ globally struggling against injustice, extraction, occupation, and oppression.