Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear an interview with Messiah Rhodes filmmaker and host of the documentary series Against All Odds. Messiah was interviewed by Amy Goodman on US current affairs program Democracy Now on 14 August. His new documentary series, available online at ajcontrast.com/againstallodds, explores the challenges faced by people released from prison, especially women, through telling his mother's story. Rhodes describes his work as a response to calls to defund police and calls for investment in housing, education, family reunification and mental health support. Soundscapes of the lockdown, produced by Thursday Breakfast’s Scheherazade. A few weeks back we heard sounds from Morocco, and we’ll try to recreate it here. Now, what is a soundscape? Well it's like a landscape but sonic, creating a sense of place through audio. The sounds that we’ll gather each week will represent stage 4 lockdown on unceded lands. This week we’ll hear a few soundscapes that our team made. To contribute sounds please contact us via Instagram @3crthursdaybreakfast We hear part of a conversation between Marisa Sposaro from the Doin Time show and Vickie Roach, Aboriginal writer and activist. Vickie speaks about her lived experience of prison, violations of human rights of the healthcare of women in prison, the overincarceration of Aboriginal women, and prisons within the context of the Pandemic. This episode aired on the 10th August. Doin Time airs 4-5pm every Monday and podcasts of the show can be found at the 3CR website 3CR.org.au/dointime Tina Grandinetti joins us to discuss the movement to cancel RIMPAC, or rim of the Pacific exercises, the world's largest maritime war games. Tina is a PhD candidate at RMIT, a lecturer at the University of Hawai'i, and a coorganiser of the cancel RIMPAC coalition.SongsTkay Maizda - 24kTasmin Keith - 64 BarsDuckwrth ft. Kian - QuickJK-47 - I Am Here (Trust Me)

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines with Cait KellyPriya speaks with Dr Sandy O’Sullivan talks about their development of a list of 101 Black Writers and Voices. Sandy is Wiradjuri person an Associate Professor of Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast.Carly speaks with Elizabeth Povinelli about the Karrabing Film Collective's film, Day in the Life which is featuring at the Melbourne International Film Festival 681/2 - Day in the Life is a multi-layered story that illuminates the ways that First Nations communities in the Northern Territory are resisting settler forms of governance and extractive capitalism on a daily basisPriya speaks about campaigns in Lebanon advocating for the rights of migrant workers under the exploitative kafala system in which workers (mainly from the African continent) have little to no rights.Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) is a grassroots collective by young Lebanese feminist activists in collaboration with migrant workers and migrant domestic workers. they do most of their work through the centres in Lebanon in direct collaboration with migrant workers, especially migrant domestic workers. armlebanon.org // @armlebanon This Is Lebanon (TIL), a project of Domestic Workers Unite (DWU), is a project run by a coalition of former migrant workers and activists demanding the protection of migrant domestic workers, and an end to labour exploitation and abuse, with the aim to effectively end government-sanctioned, modern-day slavery in Lebanon. thisislebanon.info // @thisislebanon961 Sydney and Melbourne based film director Fatima Mawas has organised a campaign to help domestic workers escape Lebanon. If you’d like to get involved with this project visit the Chuffed website and search ‘flights for domestic workers fleeing Lebanon’. https://www.chuffed.org/project/flights-for-domestic-workers SongsBriggs ft. Thelma Plum - Go to WarHoodzy - The Land

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Liam Kane and Shan Windscript speak to Priya about campaigns against wage theft at Australian universities. Liam is a PhD candidate in History at UNSW, and an active National Tertiary Education Union member. Shan is PhD student and tutor in History at the University of Melbourne, as well as a member of the NTEU Casuals Network and Branch Committee. Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction is the title of an upcoming anthology for young adults co-curated with Djed Press and edited by Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven. The project is a chance for First Nations writers and Afro-Black writers to share their stories about visionary past, present and possible futures. Hella and Rafeif from Djed Press join us to talk about the anthology and how it was born. SongsMo’Ju, Birds (Produced by Trials) - Rider in the Rain 2020

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We hear part of a webinar discussion hosted by Melbourne Law School - Black Lives Matter. The discussion is facilitated by Larissa Behrendt and features Alison Whittaker, Eddie Cubillo Amy McQuire and George Newhouse speaking about campaigns to stop Aboriginal deaths in custody, the media's role in supporting the Blak Lives Matter movement and reflections on the legal profession's role in changing the criminal justice system Max speaks with journalist Royce Kurmelovs on the flaws and dangers of the Australian Government's COVIDSafe contact tracing app.  We hear a recording by Samad Abdul from the Manus Recording Project Collective's new project 'Where are you today?' Every day for a month, beginning on 1 August, subscribers will receive a text message with a new ten-minute audio recording from Farhad Bandesh, Farhad Rahmati, Samad Abdul, Shamindan Kanapathi, Thanush Selvraj or Yasin Abdallah. These men, seeking asylum by boat, were forcibly transferred to Manus Island by the Australian government nearly seven years ago. Now, they are held in hotels or detention centres in Port Moresby, Melbourne or Brisbane. You can subscribe to the project by texting "Hello" to 0488 845 951 We hear audio from a Free Palestine Melbourne forum on the Palestinian Struggle in the Era of Annexation that took place on July 22nd. We'll listen to excerpts from analyst and former legal advisor Diana Buttu; writer and academic-activist Dr Yara Hawari both live from Palestine, as well as Melbourne or Narrm based journalist Maher Mughrabi.SongsJessB - Shut up!Kee’ahn - Better Things

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Scheherazade speaks with producer Joshua Francis about HISSY FIT, an online space where we can rant without reprise, a space for anyone called hysterical or too much in this white colony. We hear excerpts from the inaugural HISSY FIT, broadcast live on Friday, 24 July and featuring three artists Hella Ibrahim, Natesha Somasundaram and Hope Mathumbu. Joshua Francis is a producer and writer who moves across art forms to create new work for social change; their practice is informed by experimentation, immediacy and collaboration. Priya speaks with Hannah Sycamore, a queer lawyer who works at the LGBTIQ Legal Service as a Project Support and Community Engagement Officer, about the Service's recently-released 'Reflections on LGBTIQ Legal Need' report. We hear Elvira Rumkabu, lecturer of international relations at Cenderawasih University in Jayapura, Papua, speaking at a panel discussion hosted by The Conversation on 9 July: #BlackLivesMatter in the Asia Pacific, about how the #BlackLivesMatter movement resonates deeply for West Papuans living within systemic racism and oppression. Carly speaks with Nerita Waight, NATSILS co-chair. They discuss NATSILS calls to release Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in prison amidst a rise in cases of COVID-19 cases entering prisons. Songs DOBBY Feat. BARKAA - I Can't Breathe

We hear Imani Barbarin and Damien Griffs speaking at the Virtual Progress 2020 conference about vital lessons from the disability justice movement. Imani is a disability rights activist from the United States and Damien is a descendant of the Worimi people and leading advocate for the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability. Emma Russell, Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at Latrobe University and Jill Faulkner, Manager of Women transforming Justice, a program of Fitzroy Legal Service speak about a new report, A constellation of circumstances: The Drivers of Women’s Increasing Rates of Remand in Victoria. This report urges a review of Victoria’s strict bail laws, stating that decreases in prisoner numbers observed during the COVID-19 pandemic should be sustained and extended into the future. Tabitha Lean is a Gunditjmara woman currently living on Kaurna land. She is a formerly incarcerated person and a vocal advocate for incarcerated people. Priya and Tabitha speak about the dangers of COVID-19 in Australian prisons, and the importance of urgent abolition and decarceration. Songs Time's Up (feat.Krown) - Sampa the Great

We listen to part of a powerful conversation from the Virtual Progress 2020 Conference on creating police-free futures. Three community organisers from MPD150, Arianna Nason, Jae Hyun Shim and Molly Glasgow, join Meriki Onus co-founder of Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, to discuss lessons and insights from MPD150's work towards dismantling the police force in Minneapolis, US. Anya Saravanan, from 3CR's Women on the Line, speaks with Tigist Kebede, counsellor, and volunteer at AMSSA Youth Connect about what was happening in the housing estates after the lockdown was announced. Women on the Line broadcasts Monday 8:30am to 9:00am and is available on podcast Priya speaks with Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson about the 20th edition of her groundbreaking book ‘Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism’, which was released by the University of Queensland Press on the 2nd of July 2020. Songs Grand Ideas - Alice Skye 22 Clan - MackRidge x BarkaaGemini - Sachém Woke Blokes - Thelma Plum  .

Acknowledgement of Country  News headlines with Cait Kelly  We hear an excerpt from the Virtual Progress 2020 conference where Dr Jackie Huggins speaks on Bla(c)k Lives Matter and the incarceration of First Nations women. Jackie Huggins is a Bidjara and Birri-Gubba Juru woman and a celebrated author, historian, and former Co-Chair of National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples. We hear a selection of interviews from Dame Phyllis Frost Prison and Loddon/Middleton Prison as part of the Beyond the Bars broadcast series which began in 2002, and cannot be delivered as per normal in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.  We hear Part 2 of an interview with Reyvi from the Philippines Australia Solidarity Association (PASA) who speaks with Thursday Breakfast about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Filipino students and other international students in so-called Australia and the importance of grassroots migrant community organising.  We play an exercept from 3CR's Diaspora Blues where Ayan Shirwa interviews a resident in one of the lockdown public housing towers. 3CR Thursday Breakfast host Priya further discusses the Victorian Government's policy to heavily restrict the movement of residents in 9 public housing towers across Melbourne, as well as community-led initiatives supporting and caring for residents affected by these punitive restrictions.  Songs MacRidge x Barkaa - 22 Clan Becca Hatch - 2560 Sampa the Great - Leading us Home

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Dr Nikki Moodie, Gomeroi woman and sociologist based at the University of Melbourne, joins us to discuss recent changes to the university sector in Australia. This conversation focuses on the intersection between impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and austerity measures such as fee hikes, and the effects that this is likely to have on teaching and learning. We hear part of Writing Blak an event presented online by the Wheeler Center in partnership with the Emerging Writers Festival last Thursday. Hosted by Evelyn Araluen, four emerging First Nations writers from The Next Chapter writers’ scheme – Jasmin McGaughey, Racheal Oak Butler, Lorna Munro and Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi – discuss the creative process, writing for Blak and settler readerships, and how they respond to expectations of genre, character and identity.  Reyvi Marinas, secretary of The Philippines Australia Solidarity Association (PASA) and Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School, shares his grave concerns about the proposed Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2020 which threaten to severely limit democratic rights.  SongsSachém - GeminiHoodzy - Hardcase

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Priya and Carly talk about important local news stories from the week including the fundraiser for West Papuan activists robbed at gunpoint in Collingwood, RISE Boycott Refugee Week campaign, WA law passed to end incarceration for unpaid fines and finally they discuss domestic violence and the lifting of the suppression order on the name of Aboriginal woman Noeline Dalzell who died on 4th February 2020.  We hear a conversation between Nasser Mashni and Robert Martin from 3CR’s Palestine Remembered show. Nasser and Rob speak about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to illegally annex parts of occupied West Bank as well the lack of dissent from international leaders about Israeli annexation of Palestinian land.  Max speaks with Thant Myint-U about his recent book ‘The Hidden History of Burma – Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century’. Thant Myint-U is currently the Chairman of U Thant House, a leading education and discussion centre in Yangon.  He is also an Affiliated Scholar of the Centre for South Asian Studies at Cambridge University. He lives in Yangon. Max speaks with Allison Koenecke, a researcher whose interests lie broadly at the intersection of economics and computer science. Allison shares learnings from her research into the systemic racial bias built into voice recognition software.SongsThelma Plum - Woke BlokesThe Merindas - I Feel ItBarkaa - For my TittasAlice Skye - Grand Ideas Sophiegrophy - Evol