Thursday Breakfast

Presented by Grace and ScheherazadeAcknowledgement of CountryAlt news: the viral icon of the Sudanese uprisings Alaa Salah and women's frontline role in uprisings and revolts in Nubia/East Africa     Cheryl from Indigenous Social Justice Association talks about Stop deaths in custody both onshore and offshore contingent at 'Palm Sunday' rallies for refugees and the links between incarceration of Indigenous and refugee folx.Megan Williams, River Country Coordinator at Friends of the Earth Melbourne, chats about the latest updates with the Darling River, its mismanagement, and the importance of water and healthy rivers.Shakira Hussein, researcher and academic, has been following far-right groups in Australia for a number of years and discusses the far-right trends we're seeing in the wake of the white supremacist conference in Finland a few days ago and Christchurch.Camille Nurka, independent gender studies scholar, traces the origins of contemporary ideas of genital normality. Her book Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery delves a long tradition of pathologizing 'female anatomy' and how 'medicin' shapes our commonly held ideals.The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of the program featured the following music track Yemen Blues by Jat Mahibathi  (Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)

Thursday Breakfast 4 April 2019Acknowledgement of CountryNick Carson gives us a report back on the Transgender Day of Visibility Rally that took place on Sunday 31st March 2019.Jeremy Poxon from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union on the Dignity Not Dole: Rally to raise Newstart today. Hannah Morphy-Walsh, Associate Producer at FCAC, joins me in the studio to discuss the Wominjeka Festival (6 April 2019).  Adolfo Aranjuez, editor-in-chief of Archer magazine, on the need to be 'More than Queer' (Wheeler Centre, 9 April 2019) Eric on the RISE Queer Project Launch, Dinner and Fundraiser (13 April 2019) and the intersections of border imperialism, racism, homophobia and transphobia. The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: Kalyani & Isha, That's All I Came ForAllara, Wala is LifePhilly, Yil Lull(Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)

Acknowledgement of CountryShantha Rau Barriga, founding director of the disability rights division at Human Rights Watch, discusses the disproportionate rates of violence and imprisonment experienced by people with disability in Australia, and the importance of accountability and allyship. Shantha will be speaking at the Wheeler Centre next Friday 5th AprilExcerpts from the Melbourne solidarity rally to show support for Muslim communities on Tuesday 21 March. Speakers included Roj Amedi from Colourcode, Mohd Halmy from the Islamic Council of Victoria and Husain Al Qatari, union delegate for the Preston Chemist Warehouse StrikeCarolyn Graydon, manager of human rights law program at ASRC, discusses fast track asylum seeker process for people living in community and changes to SSRS payments. Recent updates from the Djab Wurrung embassy: Victorian Trades Hall has come on board and VicRoads has given an undertaking that no work will start until 22 April - however support is still urgently needed! Merret joins us to talk about youth detention in the Northern Territory and new laws that go against Royal Commission recommendations.The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: (Lady Lash, Yadu - new track, check it out!) (Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)

Interview with Jacob and Harry from Dispossessed Part 1: on the whiteness of the punk scene and Australia as an active prison colonyInterview with Jacob and Harry from Dispossessed Part 2: on using music as a political platform to inspire change and fundraising for Gamilaraay mob on country facing a water crisis Shakira Hussein talks about community and media response to Christchurch and the failure to address the structures that enable white supremacy Uncle Robbie Thorpe (on Fire First) speaks with Zallanach at the Djap Wurrung embassy about the importance of continued to resist and protest the intended beginning of works that would destroy sacred tree sites and how you can support. Kate Pern, Daniel Wars and Gaia Miler-Foote join us in the studio to talk about the PARTi project (Sesh Ed), a peer-led harm reduction project, and free drug awareness trainingnext Wednesday 27th March.The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: DRMNGNOW, Indigenous Land (Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)

Debbie Brennan No To Racism, No To The Right rally this Saturday March 16 and the need for strong links to address the growth of the far-right. Curator Andy Butler and artist James Nguyen join us in the studio to discuss the exhibition, ‘These Monuments Don’t Know Us’ at Bundoora Homestead, exploring the politics of ‘belonging’ in Australia from the perspectives of First Nations and culturally and linguistically diverse artists.Performance poet Manal Younus joins us to discuss her upcoming performance at Brunswick Music Festival this Saturday and her contribution in the 'Growing Up African in Australia'Environmental activist Emma Dorge on what the lackof coverage in the mainstream media of 70+ hours of non-violent action protesting the Adani coal mine says about the concentration of power across the media, politics and fossil fuel industries. The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks: Serenity Uki – NavigatorManal Younus – Can WeYung Baddie – Colour(Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)

3CR Thursday Breakfast 28 Feb 2019 Acknowledgement of country and welcome to showGabrielle Fakhri, from the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights, on the new Guide for Muslim Women and Communities On Family Violence and Early Marriage.Alt news: the limited reporting in mainstream Australia media on the current protests in Sudan and student protests in Algeria and the key role of alternative media platforms like Whatsapp and twitterIzzy Brown joins us to discuss Sail 4 justice who are fundraising to sail to Manus Island for human rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and climate justice.Simon Ruth, CEO of Thorne Harbour Health, on the proposed ban on alkyl nitrate which will disproportionately impact and criminalise gay men and queer people who use poppers.The original 855am and 3CR Digital versions of this program featured the following music tracks:  thando: Gag Order, Yung Baddie: Lit Vibes, Sophiegrophy: Purple $way, Bag and Baby Let$ Fly(Removed from the podcast due to license restrictions)

Thursday Breakfast 7 Feb 2019 7.00 am  Acknowledgement of Country7.10 am Jenny Smith, CEO of Council to Homeless Persons, on the importance of addressing homelessness in the Victorian Royal Commission into Mental Health and the increasing number of workers seeking homelessness assistance because wages aren’t keeping up with housing costs.7.30 am Julia Kretzenbacher, Vice President of Liberty Victoria, on the proposed spent convictions bill introduced by the Reason Party leader Fiona Patten this week.7:50 am Headlines and community announcements8.10 am Rene Woods, Nari Nari man and Chairperson Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) on Indigenous water rights, the importance of cultural flows and overturning aqua nullius.   8.30 am End Songs (such great new tracks!!) P-Unique and Krown   Change BIRDZ ft. Ecca Vandal  Place of DreamsBaker Boy Cool as HellLady Lash Nightlounge 3ØØØ

Thursday 31 January 2019 with Em, Katia and Scheherazade7:00am  Acknowledgement of Country7:18am  Alternative news - Katia and Scheherazade discuss international students and the privatisation of universities7:30am  Katia speaks to Kent Morris, Barkindji man and CEO of The Torch, about 10 years of Confined 10 - launching tonight at St Kilda's Carlisle Street Arts Space 7:56am  Katia chats with Nick Kent, National Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy about their new campaign #beheardnotharmed calling for pill testing at festivals8:10am  Em discusses the upcoming event ‘Summer courtyard: I feel Love’ at the Immigration museum with Bhenji Ra and The HuxleysSongsEmily Wurramara x Steady - TogetherThe Last Kinection - Are we there yet?Thando ft. Remy - NumbElectric Fields - Inma

7:00am Acknowledgement of Country7:10am We listen to an interview with Nayuka Gorrie, Kurnai/Gunai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta freelance writer, about transformative justice, decolonisation and abolishing 'Australia Day' (first aired on the Transformative Justice Show, part of Satellite Skies). 7:45am We chat with Meriki Onus, Gunditjmara and Gunnai woman and co-founder of the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR), about 7 Days of Resistance, creativity and centring Indigenous sovereignty in abolition work. 8:05am: Neil Morris (DRMNGNOW) joins us in the studio to discuss his recently released (incredible!) track, Ancestors, Jan 26th and the question of how to #AbolishAustraliaDay if, after all, Australia Does Not Exist.Songs (The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music - removed owing to no license for podcasting music)Kev Carmody: Pillars of SocietyDizzy Doolan: This Is How We Do RemixAncestress: Bring Buildings DownDRMNGNOW: Ancestors feat. Kee'ahn Prod. River BoySee you all this Saturday at the Invastion Day Dawn Service, BIRRARANGA (Melbourne) Invasion Day 2019 Protest and Balit Narrun Share the Spirit Festival

Summer Series - Revisiting critical conversations from 2018Acknowledgement of CountryGabby Alamin, Saharawi member of Australian Western Sahara Association, talks about Morocco's colonisation of the Saharawi people and the film Rifles or GraffitiRacerage, an emerging politi-cute queer post-internet rapper based on Wurundjeri country.Jules Kim, CEO of Scarlett Alliance talking about the problems with the My Health Record system (centralised online summary of your key health information), including how the current opt-out system will affect sex workers. NOTE since the interview the OPT OUTperiod has been extended to Jan 31st  2019Andre Dao, writer, lawyer, editor and co- founder of Behind the Wire, about the Manus Recording Project Collective and the work 'How are you today?' which was on  the Ian Potter Museum of Art In 2018Raquel Willis. African American writer, editor, and transgender rights activist, Raquel Willis was in Melbourne town for FLCC’s Transforming Democracy 2018  and joined 3CR Breakfast  over a number of weeks for a broad discussion of rights including colonisation, race, gender and abolition.  At the time of interview she was a national organizer for the Transgender Law Center. Raquel is now the executive editor of Out Magazine(The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music tracks - removed owing to no music license for podcasting)SONG: Cheikh Lo Degg Gui feat. Flavia Coelho & Fixi, Cheiko LoSONG: Racerage: BurnSONG: Racerage: Violence and SapphiresSONG : The Merindas  - We Sing Until SunriseSONG: Sophiegrophy Purple Swag