Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We listen to Episode 4 of Liberation Loops, a 3CR mini series produced by Carly Baque. The series explores the different practices people are using to challenge the criminal legal system, how folks are already addressing violence in their own communities and some of the ways people are learning to heal from harm. This week Carly speaks with poet, writer and community organiser, Vincent Silk. We listen to an excerpt from the United Workers Union online picket line, part of the #NoWorkerLeftBehind campaign. A panel of workers and unionists discuss all those left out of the government's wage subsidy including casual and migrant workers.  We listen to a soundscape recorded and produced by Scheherazade in the rapidly urbanising city of Tangiers, Morocco. Scheherazade introduces and translates the French and Arabic we hear in the piece.  SongsBaro Sura, Silentjay - IN UR EYESSlim Set - Gee Up & SprayPataphysics - Shake the RootsFanau Spa - Leather and Wood

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We listen to Episode 3 of Liberation Loops, a 3CR mini series produced by Carly Baque. The series explores the different practices people are using to challenge the criminal legal system, how folks are already addressing violence in their own communities and some of the ways people are learning to heal from harm. This week Carly speaks with Anne-lise Ah-fat, community organiser, mother of two and family violence practitioner, about the work of changing harmful behaviours and collaborative dialogue.  Max speaks with May Kotsakis from the Philippines Australia Solidarity Association (PASA) and Migrante Melbourne about Damayan Migrante, a compassionate collective action working to support migrant workers and international students during the pandemic.  Scheherazade speaks with Jessica Morrison, Executive Officer of Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) about the current situation in Palestine and the impacts of COVID-19 under Israeli occupation. Carly speaks with Gala Vanting, Acting President of Scarlett Alliance. Following last week’s interview with Peaches, Carly and Gala delve deeper into the impacts and responses of sex workers to the COVID-19 pandemic. Songs Baker Boy - MoveSophiegrophy - EvolCLYPSO - Beyond Desire

Acknowledgement of country News headlines with Cait Kelly Max speaks with Alessio Scandurra, from the organisation Antigone in Italy, on the experiences of people detained in Italian during the COVID-19 crisis and the need for decarceration. Max speaks with Peaches, a sex worker living in Naarm, about the impact the pandemic is having on sex workers locally.  Max speaks with Maru Mora-Villalpando, a community organiser working in Seattle/Tacoma, Washington, about the threat of coronavirus outbreaks in immigration prisons in the US. They talk about the importance of centring the experiences and leadership of people impacted by incarceration and deportation when working toward the broader goal of abolition during the COVID-19 crisis.

Acknowledgment of country News headlines with Cait Kelly We listen to Episode 2 of Liberation Loops, a 3CR mini series produced by Carly Baque. The series explores the different practices people are using to challenge the criminal legal system, how folks are already addressing violence in their own communities and some of the ways people are learning to heal from harm. This week Carly speaks with Dương Ocean Đặng about pod mapping. Ocean is a Vietnamese settler, therapist, supervisor and facilitator living and working on Jagera and Turrbal country.  We speak with Pauline Vetuna, a Tolai (PNG) Melanesian writer, poet, artist and disability justice advocate. Pauline joins us on the show to talk about what disability justice looks like amidst the coronavirus pandemic.We are joined by Manisha Anjali, a writer and artist working with text, performance and installation. Her practice and research explores narratives and languages of dreams and exile. Today Manisha joins us to speak about her newly published work, Electric Lotus (Incendium Radical Library Press, 2019).SongsSnotty Nose Rez Kids - Real DeadlyREMI, Sensible J & Jace XL - Get it RightCLYPSO - SidestepThelma Plum - Homecoming Queen

Acknowledgement of country Alternative NewsWe listen to Episode 1 of Liberation Loops, a new 3CR mini series produced by Carly Baque. The series explores the different practices people are using to challenge the criminal legal system, how folks are already addressing violence in their own communities and some of the ways people are learning to heal from harm. In the first episode Carly speaks to Bridget Chappell (Hextape) about their project To (Phase) Cancel The Cops.Click here for information about their upcoming exhibition No Comment. Steph Zhang joins us to discuss the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s recent report ‘Uyghurs for Sale.’ We discuss the current situation of re-education, involuntary transfers and forced labour of Uyghur people. Steph is a queer, trans writer and journalist of colour living and working on stolen Wurundjeri land. They were a key researcher on ASPI's Uyghurs for Sale report. They grew up in China and have written for Junkee, the Saturday Age and the Citizen. Jeremy Wiggins joins us for the first interview in our series on trans affirmative health care. Jeremy is a Churchill Fellow in transgender health and the Project Manager of the Victorian Government trans and gender diverse in community health initiative, led by Your Community Health. We play a segment from ‘Power From the Margins’ 3CR’s Disability Day broadcast 2019 programmed by Pauline Vetuna. From a segment entitled 'Ableism in the Settler Colony' we hear from Latoya Aroha Rule, speaking about the intersection of race and disability in so-called ‘Australia’s’ prison system.   SongsSampa The Great - FreedomSlim Set - Gee Up & SprayMwanje - The Divine

Acknowledgement of country Alternative News We listen to Keala Kelly Native Hawaiian filmmaker and journalist speaking with Robbie Thorpe and Viv Malo on The Black Block. The conversation opens with a discussion of the ways astronomy and the building of telescopes has been used as a method of occupying and militarising land in Hawaii. Priya speaks with journalist and founder of South Asian Today, Dilpreet Taggar about Hindutva oppression in India and the recent islamophobic violence in Delhi.**Content warning: Discussion of islamophobic violence. Porobibi joins us in the studio to talk about the Rise Up 2.1: Concrete Jungle fundraiser happening on Saturday 14 March to raise money for Mapuche and West Papuan Resistance.  Yatu Widders Hunt joins us to talk about the event Indigenous Fashion Storytelling that is happening Saturday 7th March from 2:30-4:30pm at MPavillion. Yatu is a proud Anaiwan and Dunghutti woman. She founded Australian Indigenous Fashion two years ago and is passionate about celebrating the stories of Indigenous fashion and design.Bron from The Department of Homo Affairs and Charlie from Trans Action Warrang join us to talk about DOHA’s recent action at Mardi Gras and the importance of the Resist250 campaign and rejecting the presence of cops at Pride.SongsMiiesha - Twisting WordsNgaiire - ShiverCLYPSO - Sidestep

7.00 am Acknowledgement of country 7:05 am News with Cait Kelly  7.15 am We hear a segment of the episode, Femicide, from the 3CR Doin Time show, where Professor Bronwyn Carlson discusses missing and murdered Indigenous women in Australia and internationally as part of the Deathscapes project.**Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this recording contains the names and stories of people who have passed away 7.30 am We speak with Nurmuhammad Majid Siddiq, Uyghur leader and spokesman, about the plight of the Uyghur People of East Turkistan. He speaks about the crimes against humanity being committed against his people and outlines what the government of so-called Australia could and should be doing in condemning this state oppression.   7.45 am We are joined by Gerii Pleitez, a writer and the founder of Kara Sevda Press, a publishing house dedicated to illuminating the voices of women of colour and First Nations women. We discuss the free panel Existence is Resistance which is happening on 17th March at the Wheeler Centre.  8.00 am Sasja Sydek & Rebeckah Loveday from Trans Sisters United join us in the studio to talk about their recent trip to the Tiwi Islands and the group's involvement in the Th!s is Me project on International Women’s Day.8.15 am We hear a segment from QR Code, aLGBTIQA+ health podcast produced at 3CR, where Anya Saravanan speaks to Dr Asiel Adan about trans affirmative health care.Songs Woman’s World 2.0 - Okenyo, Jesswar, Miss BlanksTommy - Miss BlanksFreedom - Sampa the Great

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait Kelly Carly speaks with Melissa Yvonne, human rights lawyer from BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights about Palestinian resistance and what the annexation of Palestine means under Trump's so-called peace plan.Max speaks with May Kotsakis, co-chairperson of Philippines Australia Solidarity Association and Co-convenor of Philippine Caucus for Peace (PCP) about attacks against Lumad Indigenous people by paramalitary groups and why peace in the Philippines involves more than laying down arms.Max speaks with Dr Vicki Sentas lawyer and academic form UNSW about the findings of investigation into NSW police's Suspect Target Management Plan (STMP) and the systematic criminalisation and targeting of Aboriginal young people.Max speaks with Joshua Badge, queer writer, activist and philosopher at Deakin University about exposing and fighting back against the transphobic reporting of The Australian.

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait Kelly Carly speaks with BUMPY, Noongar musician at the St Kilda Festival about her music. Then Yorta Yorta musician Neil Morris joins Carly in the studio to talk about the importance of forging First Nations spaces at festivals, the pressures of the music industry & the beauty behind DRMGNOW's first single - Australia Does Not ExistMargret Harvey joins us to discuss the upcoming panel Indigenous Women Filmmakers on Self-representation and Sovereign Storytelling. The panel is part of the Melbourne Women in Film Festival and is happening at 3:30pm Saturday 22nd February. We speak with West Papuan activist Adolf Mora about a protest that took place on 10th February in Naarm (Melbourne) in response to Indonesian president Joko Widodo's visit to Australia and ongoing Indonesian repression of West Papua. Adolf is an activist and refugee who was detained on Christmas Island in 2006.Eddie Synot, Centre Manager of the Indigenous Law Centre and Wamba Wamba lawyer joins us to discuss the High Court of Australia’s recent decision in the matter Love v Commonwealth and Thoms v Commonwealth that Aboriginal people born overseas can't be deported as “aliens” under the constitution. See Nat Cromb's article here. SongsDRMGNOW - Australia Does Not Exist

Acknowledgement of countryNews with Cait Kelly We listen to the English translation of a speech from the Primera Linea (Front Line) given on the 25th January at the InterAmerican Forum of Human Rights in Santiago Chile. The Forum determined that the Human Rights abuses in Chile are systematic.We hear audio of Uncle Robbie Thorpe speaking at Invasion Day 2020.We speak with Gerald Roche, one of the organisers of Melbourne Free University, to discuss upcoming MFU events. Tonight at the Alderman MFU present a session on the Israeli annexation of Palestine.Carol and Yanni from the Anticolonial Asian Alliance join us in the studio. They share AAA’s statement, to be published today, addressing the public racism surrounding the coronavirus and draw links between these experiences and ongoing First Nation and refugee struggles and histories of white supremacy and Anti-Blackness. Ripley and Meleika join us to discuss FAMILI a platform for Pasifka artists to come together and explore identity. The FAMILI EP launch is tonight at the Abbotsford convent as part of Midsumma. Fresh hip hop, new wave R&B, Oceanic musicality, words, and movement. Focusing on Oceanic, LGBTQIA+ and diaspora experiences. Artists: Wahe, Lay the Mystic, Luscious, Kalala, Lonelyspeck, Iki, Bella Waru and Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi.SongsSurvive - DRMNGNOWDrowning -Miiesha Blackfellas - Nooky Chapter One - Dallas Woods