Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// We hear a speech by Tasnim at the Free Palestine Rally in Narrm on Saturday 3rd July, which focused on building an ongoing movement for solidarity with Palestine from the Australian settler colony. You can find more about the work of Free Palestine Melbourne here, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.// We replay a segment of 3CR’s Beyond the Bars 2021 recorded at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. Daniel James and Viv Malo present this special broadcast, and this excerpt features Aboriginal Wellbeing Officer and recent Order of Australia medal recipient Aunty Lynne, as well as Heather, Suzanne and Stacey, who speak about art, culture and how family visits in the prison have been impacted by COVID-19. Beyond the Bars was broadcast on 3CR from 5-9 July 2021.// slumberkitty, a genderqueer, writer, musician and troublemaker who has been on the Victorian Pride Centre’s community reference group, joins us to discuss the opening of the Victorian Pride Centre in St Kilda.// Flora and Hal from the Community Union Defence League join us to speak about the work of CUDL Melbourne and their fundraiser CUDL PUDL, which will be held on Friday 16 July from 5PM at Cafe Gummo in Thornbury. Flora and Hal are both members of the Australian Communist Party, and Flora will be performing at the event under the name Magnetite Moth.// Songs King Brown - Barkaa Brand New - Mi-kaisha Cashmere - Tkay Maidza

Thursday 8th July 2021 7:15am - We hear an excerpt from the 2021 Emerging Writers' Festival Late Night Literature: Imagining Abolitionist Futures event. The event is hosted by Nayuka and Witt Gorrie. We hear poetry from Flick Smith, and poetry & prose by Ashleigh Chapman and Stacey Stokes which is recited by Nayuka & Witt Gorrie. Rosalina Curtis also shares her story about growing up in the Northern Territory.  7:30am - We hear a speech by Shams Moussa, a Palestinian activist, from the Free Palestine Rally in Narrm on Saturday 3rd July.  7:45am - Tony Green & Neithan Newton from Dardi Munwurro join us to speak about their new show, Strong Spirit that airs on 3CR every Monday from 1pm. This show features interviews with community members from a First Nations perspectives and focuses on having discussions about cultural healing and inter-generational trauma.  

8:00am - Fayen d’Evie is an artist and writer, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and now living in the bushlands of unceded Dja Dja Wurrung country, Australia. Her projects are often collaborative, and resist spectatorship by inviting audiences into sensorial readings of artworks. Fayen joins us to talk about her solo exhibition opening at West Space this saturday 10th July. The exhibition is titled "We get in touch with things at the point they break down // Even in the absence of spectators and audiences, dust circulates…" Online elements of the exhibition can be found here. 8:15am - Yves Rees, writer, podcaster and historian based at La Trobe University, joins us to speak about the recently released special issue of Bent St journal, 'Soft Borders, Hard Edges'. This issue, co-edited with Sam Elkin and Tiffany Jones, contains a collection of pieces by members of the trans and gender diverse community. Soft Borders, Hard Edges is available widely online, as well as at Hares and Hyenas in Fitzroy and The Bookshop Darlinghurst. Songs Indigenous land - Drmngnow Smoking Ceremony - Skinnyfish Sound System, B2m, Birdz, Tasman Keith

Thursday 1 July 2021  

7:15 am - Amy & Karen activists involved in the Homes Not Prisons campaign join us to speak about the campaign to stop the expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost Prison. Amy also shares her story of being incarcerated at Dame Phyllis Frost Prison and she shares an indepth insight into the draconian Victorian bail laws which came into effect in 2018 8:00am - Deb Lee, NSW Sector Development Officer from the First Peoples Disability Network joins us to speak about the experiences of people with cognitive disability and the issues people face when coming into contact with criminal legal system and NDIS 8:15am - George Kanjere, representing the newly formed Save the Preston Market Action Group, joins us to discuss the fight to save Preston Market from aggressive redevelopment proposed by the Victorian Planning Authority Songs Kee'ahn - Better Things Better in Blak - Thelma Plum

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline Coronial Inquest into death in custody of Raymond Noel Lindsey ThomasRISE statement on Refugee Week/Day We hear a segment from Episode 2 of Radio A & A, a new program on 3CR talking about community and individual accountability, transformative justice, support, healing & prison abolition in Narrm. In this interview Anne-lise & Ani speak with Aunty Lisa, Keith and Iris about the Incarcerated Trans and Gender Diverse Community Support Fund  Lucie McMahon (director and producer), Celeste de Clario Davis (cinematographer and producer) and Will (Walker st tenant) join us to talk about their work-in-progress documentary film Things Will Be Different, which focuses on neighbours Will and Najat who were displaced from their communities when the Walker Street Public Housing Estate was sold for private development. You can donate to support the production of this documentary here.   Alana Lentin, Associate Professor of cultural and social analysis at Western Sydney University, joins us to unpack some of the current conservative uproar about 'critical race theory', and to discuss the importance of critical engagements with racism. Her latest book, Why Race Still Matters, was published by Polity Press in 2020. Tom Sayers is a United Workers Union Spokesperson and Union Organiser who is on site with striking General Mills workers at Rooty Hill. Tom joins us this morning to discuss the ongoing strike action by workers at General Mills who are fighting for wage increases and to protect conditions. Support their campaign here and follow the hashtags #PassOnOldElPaso #WorkersRaiseWages SongsStill Standing - Kobie Dee ft. Liyah KnightTip of the Spear - Pataphysics

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline El Gibbs, disability advocate and award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues, has been a guest on Thursday Breakfast several times this year to discuss the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the issue of independent assessments, the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine for disabled folks, and outcomes for disabled people in the latest federal budget. Today, El chats with us about the intersections between this advocacy work and community media. Anna Carlson is a host and producer with 4ZZZ Radio Reversal - one of our sibling radio shows based in Meanjin. Anna joins us to chat about community radio and why you should support it! We speak with Yamiko Marama and Amarachi Okorom, two artists who are part of ‘Amazing Babes’, an online storytelling event that is part of the Emerging Writers Festival. Amarachi Okorom is a Nigerian born Igbo actor, spoken word poet and emerging playwright. She has recently started diving into writing for stage and has been in residency in 2020 with Lonely Company. Yamiko Marama is a writer, therapist and food truck owner from Naarm. Yamiko is an inaugural recipient of The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter Fellowship and is a contributor to Growing Up Queer in Australia. Anti-poverty activist Kristin O'Connell, has been a regular guest on 3CR Thursday Breakfast over 2020-21. Kristin speaks with us today about anti-poverty activism and community media, and provides a brief update on the Social Security Legislation Amendment (Streamlined Participation Requirements and Other Measures) Bill 2021, which stands to make rapid and significant changes to mutual obligation requirements. With a special guest call from Priya’s parents :) SongsBullseye - Jess BBefore Daylight - The MerindasHeartless - ONEFOURDamaged - MiieshaAncstr - The Ancient Bloods

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline We hear Behrouz Boochani speaking as part of the program 'Infrastructural Inequalities: Resistant Media and Abolitionist Futures' broadcast online on 14th May. The panel focused on carceral infrastructures and the struggle to abolish them. Infrastructural Inequalities is a journal and public program that investigates how infrastructural systems distribute resources, capacities, and harms in differentiated and unjust ways. Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate, filmmaker and former refugee. Julia Dehm joins us to discuss an open letter, from a group of Legal experts, calling on Australian government to support a trade law waiver to address global COVID-19 vaccine production. Julia Dehm is a Senior Lecturer at the La Trobe Law School. Her research addresses international and domestic climate change and environmental law and questions of human rights, economic inequality and social justice.  Mudit Vyas joins us to speak about the experiences of International Students in Melbourne, during COVID-19. Mudit is a graduate researcher at Monash University, majoring in the study of Cultural Industries. Mudit has been challenging some of the changes last year at Universities around online delivery of courses and the continued mass intake of international students.  Dr Lesley Russell, Associate Professor at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, joins us to speak about the recently announced changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule, and their impacts on consumers, doctors and insurers, with a public health and health equity framing. SongsSquidgenini - Into My HeartTseba ft. Electric Fields - Must Be LoveZiggy Ramo ft. Paul Kelly - Little Things

Thursday 3 June 2021  7:15 - Anna Carlson from 4ZZZ radio reversal interviews Jamal Nabulsi, a diaspora Palestinian writer and researcher, living on the unceded sovereign lands of the Jagera and Turrbal peoples. His research explores the intersections between emotion and resistance, through analysing Palestinian practices of graffiti and hip-hop music. In this interview, which also includes part of Low Key's track "Free Palestine", we talk about some of the Palestinian justice organising that has happened as part of the Disrupt Land Forces Expo. 7:30 - We hear a speech by Tabitha Lean as part of the program 'Infrastructural Inequalities: Resistant Media and Abolitionist Futures' broadcast online on 14th May. Infrastructural Inequalities is a journal and public program that investigates how infrastructural systems distribute resources, capacities, and harms in differentiated and unjust ways. Tabitha Lean is a Gunditjmara woman, activist, storyteller and lived experience abolitionist. Tabitha speaks about why she is an abolitionist and how abolition is a framework for organising, a longterm goal and way of living. 7:45 - We hear audio from Disrupt Landforces. The audio features,  part of a speech by Oula, a Syrian refugee who is an organiser with the Socialist Alternative and the current Environment Officer at the UQ union as well as an interview with Andy Paine, Sam Watson Junior (Wangeriburrah and Birrigybba) and George from the Free West Papua campaign. 8:00 - Nerita Waight, CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, spoke with Priya earlier this week about the urgent need for changes to bail laws in Victoria and their impact on Aboriginal people, as well as the Victorian government's failure to provide adequate funding for Aboriginal Legal services in the 2021 state budget. 8:15 - Margaret Pestorius gives us an update from the Disrupt Landforces demonstrations in Meanjin, Brisbane

Acknowledgement of Country// News Headlines// We hear excerpts of speeches from the rally to support harm reduction in the Inner West, held in Nicholson Mall, Footscray on Saturday May 22nd. The same week saw opponents of a safe injecting facility, including the ALP Mayor of Maribyrnong Michael Clarke and right wing politicians, mobilise on Wednesday night, which was also counter-protested. The rally in support of harm reduction was co-chaired by Phoebe McDonald (speaking first) and Liz Walsh from the Victorian Socialists. Earlier this week, Rosie caught up with Fernanda Rodriguez, a member of the Colombian community living in Melbourne. Fernanda is an engineer and a member of Solidarity for Colombia, a group that has been raising funds to support First Line, a Colombian activist organisation. Fernanda joined Rosie to discuss the ongoing protests and strikes in Colombia. Women on the Line presenter Scheherazade Bloul interviewed Jeanine Hourani this week about the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, Israeli arms manufacturing, complicity and solidarity. Jeanine Hourani is a Palestinian activist, campaigner, and storyteller. She is currently the director of Road to Refuge, an organisation that aims to change the narrative around refugees and people seeking asylum by transferring the power of narrative back to those most directly impacted. Catch the full episode of Women on the Line this coming Monday May 31st from 8:30-9AM on 3CR, or listen back at 3cr.org.au/womenontheline. Professor Libby Porter at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, and a member of Save Public Housing Collective, joins us to provide a public housing-focused analysis of the Victorian budget 2021-22. Read the full Save Public Housing Collective budget analysis by Professor Porter and Dr David Kelly here. We hear a speech by Samah Sabawi, Palestinian playwright, author and poet, at the Narrm/Melbourne Nakba Rally held on Saturday May 22nd at 1PM outside the State Library of Victoria, which continued to amplify calls to end the Gaza siege, save Sheikh Jarrah and call for the end of Israeli colonisation beyond just a ceasefire. Find out more about local actions and events in support of Palestine at Free Palestine Melbourne, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, and BDS Australia. Songs//Sardine Baby - Maurial Spearim

Acknowledgement of Country News Headline Earlier this week, Priya caught up with Noura Mansour, a Palestinian educator, political analyst, community organiser and campaigner from Akka. Noura discussed Israeli apartheid and genocidal violence against Palestinians, Palestinian anti-colonial resistance, and solidarity with Palestine.  Free Palestine Rally Saturday 22nd May 1pm at The State Library Nakba Forum - Free Palestine Melbourne Matt Kunkel, Director of Migrant Workers Centre joins us to speak about their campaign to assist workers on temporary visas who were erroneously approved JobKeeker and are now being asked to return the JobKeeker money to the ATO. Amy & Karen activists involved in the Homes Not Prisons campaign join us to speak about the campaign to stop the expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost prison.  Samira Farah joins us to discuss the exhibition 13 Years at West Space. Samira is an art producer and radio presenter. She is a co-founder of Melbourne based black African arts collective still nomads. She currently hosts The Score on Triple R.  Sione Crawford, CEO of Harm Reduction Victoria, joins us to speak about the importance of supervised, safe injecting facilities in Melbourne and countering conservative pushback against these sites. Songs Daboor - Sheikh JarrahMiiesha - DamagedSquidgenini - All Made UpBudjerah - Shoulda Coulda

Acknowledgement of Country News Headlines Anti-poverty activist Kristin O'Connell joins us to give us a run down of the federal budget 2021-22 with a focus on social security. 3CR Tuesday Breakfast presenter Evie interviews Jeanine Hourani about what's happening in Sheikh Jarrah. Jeanine Hourani is a Palestinian advocate, campaigner and educator who arrived in Australia as a stateless Palestinian refugee in 1997. She is currently the Director of Road to Refuge, an organisation that aims to change the narrative around refugees and people seeking asylum by transferring the power of narrative back to those who are most directly impacted. EMERGENCY: Palestine Melbourne Rally This Saturday And NextEmail your MPs - template here El Gibbs is a disability advocate and an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues. El joins Thursday Breakfast to continue our discussion of the NDIS and funding for mental health and disability services, following the release of the federal budget on Tuesday. Milima May from Uprising of the People joins us to speak about newly amended NT youth justice legislation. SongsMali Huriye (I don’t have freedom) - Dam Galbi Dari - Zenobia Maskhara - Bashar Murad Cavalry - Mashrou' Leila