Radioactive Show

Today on the program we'll be taking a look at CANAM - the Conference Against Nuclear and Militarism that will be held at School house studios, 28 Victoria St, Coburg from 30 October - 1 November.  Starting with a dinner and a panel of First Nations voices on AUKUS on the evening of Friday 30 October, the conference will feature panel discussions, workshops, meals and music and entertainment across the weekend.We speak with one of the conference organising team Gali and then bring you short recordings from just a few of an incredible line up of speakers that will be sharing their knowledge at CANAM:  Googatha elder - Aunty Sue Haseldine; Victorian Coordinator of the Anti-AUKUS Coalition - Shirley Winton & Daniel Garlett - Noongar man from Whadjuk Yued Ballardong cultural groups.Follow CANAM on instagram: @canam.2026.Reserve your spot for CANAM now! Tickets are on a sliding scale from $10-40 as you are able - we want to share this event with everyone we can, but need registration so we don't exceed capacity and have sufficient catering. Free tickets available to all First Nations People, Refugees and all who need one. Please email [email protected] to let us know you are coming.Full program details coming Monday 19 October:  linktr.ee/CANAM.2026

This weeks' show remembers and honours the destruction of Gaza and escalation of genocide since October 7th. We share Mahmoud Darwish poem from State of Siege and song Palestine Will Never Die by lowkey feat Mai Kahlil. We also pay attention to the coalition's recent announcement of its migration policy, Australia-First Migration Plan: Cut The Numbers, Raise The Standards. Sharing too, a recording of Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor being interviewed on their new book, End Times Facism from Democracy Now.

On today's show we'll be hearing some of the speeches from The International Peace Day Rally Against AUKUS held outside the US Embassy and Consulate at 533 St.Kilda Rd in Melbourne on Sunday 20 September.We'll hear from the MC Natalie Farrah from the Anti Military Action Network, Djap Wurrung & Gunditjmara woman Yaaran Bundle Couzens and Aria from Bayan Australia and Dr. Margie Beavis from the Medical Association for the Prevention of War.Thanks to the rally organisers the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network, the Anti AUKUS Coalition and the Anti Military Action Network.To learn more and connect with others around these issues join the Conference Against Nuclear and Militarism at Schoolhouse studios in Coburg over the weekend of October 30 - November 1.  Link to the registration.Recorded by Karina Aedo.

Today we'll be hearing updates and discussions around nuclear waste on this continent recorded at the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) meeting held at Pichi Richi park in August.Facilitating the session is long nuclear free campaigner with the Australian Conservation Foundation and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Dave Sweeney, joined by: Googatha elder & ANFA President Sue Haseldine; freelance journalist Jorgen Doyle and Arrente representative Jacquita Hayes - both organisers with the Pine Gap Peace Convergence;  Mia Pepper from Nuclear Free WA  and now Nuclear Free Campaigner with Australian Conservation Foundation; Dimity Hawkins founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Nuclear Truth Projectand Yankunytjatjara women Simone Tur and Karina Lester - one of the commissioners for the AUKUS Public Inquiry.Support the work of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance.Sign up to Friends of the Earth Melbourne's Nuclear-free Collective Newsletter.On the International Day of Peace, across the country, in cities and regions, people from all walks of life and communities are gathering around united calls for Peace – Not War, Cancel AUKUS and End the US alliance.

The AUKUS Public Inquiry is coordinated by the Australian Peace and Security Forum (APSF) and is committed to a serious evidence-based independent examination of all things related to the Australia, UK and US military pact that was publicly unveiled 5 years ago in September 2021.Today we bring you an update shared by the incredible long time campaigner Karina Lester a Yankunytjatjara-Anangu woman who is one of the commissioners of the inquiry the AUKUS Public Inquiry.You can add your submission via the website www.aukuspublicinquiry.com.There is currently a walk from Port August to Port Adelaide raising awareness about all things nuclear and the dangers of AUKUS.  Connect with the Peace Walk Against AUKUS.   Follow along with the Peace Walk on Instagram @peacewalkersagainstaukus.Sign up to receive the Friends of the Earth Melbourne Nuclear News.

Aunty Sue Haseldine, Googatha elder and President of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance reflects on the recent meeting of the alliance in Pichi Rich park, so called South Australia.We hear more speeches from the Close Pine Gap - Sacred Land Back Convergence that saw the 500 strong group of participants back the Hayes Fanily in handing over a letter of their demands to the US military base that has been occupying their sacred site for 60 years.  The letter has been turned into a petition that will be taken to Canberra in October.Sign the petition Calling for the closureof Pine Gap.

Reed and Max from the Nuclear Free Collective visited Umeewarra Radio on Barngarla/Nukunu Country in Port Augusta, in preparation for the second Peace Walk Against AUKUS.  They speak with Uncle Harry Dare and Dre Ngatokorua on 6 August.More information and registration for the 2026 Peace Walk Against AUKUS."We are walking against the blatant escalation towards war and the unjust spending of over $350 billion on a US-led military project during a cost-of-living crisis. That taxpayer money could be spent funding local hospitals, schools, NDIS, environmental conservation and public housing, to name a few. We stand with Aboriginal communities resisting uranium mining, nuclear waste dumping and the escalation of military operations across sacred and sovereign lands, skies and waters."Follow along with the Peace Walk on Instagram @peacewalkersagainstaukusTune in to Umeewaara Radio.

We mark Hiroshima Day 2026 with recordings from the 'Singing for Peace' event at the State Library of Victoria.  Featuring a speech from Janet Craven, Australian Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, poetry from Sato Itoh and Kaori Okubo,  and song from Singing with Purpose made up of the Victorian Trade Union Choir, the Brunswick Rogues Choir the Climate Choir and the Riff Raff Radical Marching Band.  We also play two speeches from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Networks public meeting to open their recent conference 'Time to Break Free From the US Alliance'.  We hear from Googatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine and Independent Journalist and Director of 'Earth's Greatest Enemy' Abby Martin.There is just under a month left to get your submissions in the AUKUS Public Inquiry.  You can make written, oral, and video submissions.  All views are welcome and anonymous submissions are accepted. Submissions close September 1st, 2026.The Anti-AUKUS Peace Walk: Port to Port starts on 19 August, 2026.  People from across this continent, represented by a number of grassroots organisations will meet in Port Augusta, and walk over 400kms to Port Adelaide on Kaurna Yarta to raise awareness of the dangers of uranium mining, US militarism and AUKUS nuclear submarines.Follow along on Instagram. The Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting will be held in Pichi Richi next weekend and there's a transport fund to bring First Nations peopletogether from communities impacted by nuclear developments.  Please support if you can.

Today we continue reporting on the 'Close Pine Gap - Sacred Land Back Convergence', held on Arrernte Country in Alice Springs from 17-20 July. Kuyunba is the Arrernte name for the sacred ancestral land occupied by the joint Australian-US military intelligence facility of Pine Gap near Alice Springs. The Hayes family are the custodians for the site that was taken without consent 60 years ago.  Following a weekend of talks and workshops the gathering culminated in the 600 strong convergence supporting the Hayes family to hand over a letter demanding the closure of Pine Gap, land back and compensation for 60 years of loss of access and damages to their sacred site, culture and community.You can sign the petition supporting the Hayes family demands here.

We bring you footage from the Pine Gap Convergence, the first in a series of episodes to come.In this instalment, we explore the origins of Pine Gap and hear political analysis from David Shoebridge, recorded during one of the convergence panels. We pay our respect to Arrernte people of whose sacred lands Pine Gap illegally occupies. Always was, always will be, Arrenrte land.We encourage our listeners to read the Haye's family letter here and sign their petition: https://closepinegap.org.au/familyletter/Thank you to Scheherazade Bloul, Jesse Boylan, Georgie Stubbs and Micaela Stubbs whose voices appear in this episode.