Thursday Breakfast

Thursday Breakfast - 4 October 20187.00am Acknowledgement of Country7.05am Ravyn Lenae – Sticky7.12am Speech by Martha Ojulo, mother of Liep Gony whose memorial was held on 26 September 20187.26am Alice Skye – Friends with feelings7.30am Em speaks to Alice Skye, proud Wergaia and Wamba Wamba woman, about her debut album and upcoming show. 7.50am Katia speaks to Teishan Ahearne about the launch of the People’s History of Brunswick Tours next week at Brunswick Library.7.55am Willow Beats – Merewif 8.00am Em speaks to Kalyani Mumtaz, proud Pyemairrenner woman, about her new band and upcoming show.8.12am Kalyani & Isha – That’s all I come for8.15am Upcoming events – 3CR Breakfast Fundraiser, Done By Law Fundraiser, Defend Public Housing, Prisoner Letter Writing Workshop, Apeec’s birthday!8.20am Alternative news – USA’s refusal of g4 visa’s for same-sex partners of diplomats and foreign nationals.

3CR Breakfast 6 September 2018with Em and ScheherazadeAcknowledgement of CountryYesterday was Indigenous Women's Day so we dedicated the first half hour to Indigenous women in song.Facial Recognition Surveillance Scheme: Lizzie O'Shea is a human rights lawyer and board member of Digital Rights Watch. She has a book being published next year on technology, history and politics. a board member at Digital Rights Watch. She joins us today to discuss the risks of the government's proposed facial recognition surveillance scheme (including racial profiling, targeting young people and jeopardising rights of protest.)Germaine Greer action tonite: Iris Lee (3CR's Queering The Air) is a white trans femme living on Bunurong and Wurundjeri country, joining us to talk about an action tonight protesting the launch on Germaine Greer's new book, On Rape, in Melbourne tonight.Pacific Islands Forum: Ronny Kareni is a West Papuan advocate on West Papua's right to self-determination. His family are part of large exodus of Papuan refugees to PNG in early 1980s. Until today, many West Papuans refugees live on Manus. Ronny joins us today to discuss the Pacific Islands Forum that has been underway this week. (Ronny is a regualr commentator on 3CR's Voice of West Papua and a previous 3CR Current Affairs Coordinator:))Anti GMO: Jonathon R Latham is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicises documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering.During the program we played the following SONGS (not included in podcast due to licensing agreement)  Wave by Kaylah Truth - Wave feat. Nagra Beats Kaylah Truth is a Meerooni woman and hiphop artist of the Gurang nation and also connected with the Ngugi people of Queensland’s Quandamooka areaStill Here by JB the First Lady is an Indigenous hip-hop and spoken word artist, emcee, beat-boxer, activist, cultural dancer, and youth educator from the Nuxalk and Onondaga nations.Agua by Lido Pimienta, a Colombian singer and producer based in Toronto An Anthem to water Native (Feat. Supaman) by Mariame, Cree (First Nations) artistTamazight by Malika Zarra, Gnawa/Moroccan Jazz fusion artist

3CR Breakfast 6 September 2018with Em and ScheherazadeAcknowledgement of CountryYesterday was Indigenous Women's Day so we dedicated the first half hour to Indigenous women in song.Facial Recognition Surveillance Scheme: Lizzie O'Shea is a human rights lawyer and board member of Digital Rights Watch. She has a book being published next year on technology, history and politics. a board member at Digital Rights Watch. She joins us today to discuss the risks of the government's proposed facial recognition surveillance scheme (including racial profiling, targeting young people and jeopardising rights of protest.)Germaine Greer action tonite: Iris Lee (3CR's Queering The Air) is a white trans femme living on Bunurong and Wurundjeri country, joining us to talk about an action tonight protesting the launch on Germaine Greer's new book, On Rape, in Melbourne tonight.Pacific Islands Forum: Ronny Kareni is a West Papuan advocate on West Papua's right to self-determination. His family are part of large exodus of Papuan refugees to PNG in early 1980s. Until today, many West Papuans refugees live on Manus. Ronny joins us today to discuss the Pacific Islands Forum that has been underway this week. (Ronny is a regualr commentator on 3CR's Voice of West Papua and a previous 3CR Current Affairs Coordinator:))Anti GMO: Jonathon R Latham is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicises documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering.During the program we played the following SONGS (not included in podcast due to licensing agreement)  Wave by Kaylah Truth - Wave feat. Nagra Beats Kaylah Truth is a Meerooni woman and hiphop artist of the Gurang nation and also connected with the Ngugi people of Queensland’s Quandamooka areaStill Here by JB the First Lady is an Indigenous hip-hop and spoken word artist, emcee, beat-boxer, activist, cultural dancer, and youth educator from the Nuxalk and Onondaga nations.Agua by Lido Pimienta, a Colombian singer and producer based in Toronto An Anthem to water Native (Feat. Supaman) by Mariame, Cree (First Nations) artistTamazight by Malika Zarra, Gnawa/Moroccan Jazz fusion artist

Thursday Breakfast 23 August 2018with Em, Katia Scheherazade 7.00am Acknowledgement of country7.04am Sophiegrophy - Baby let's fly(link is external)7.09am Milouda - Gar Gar Ya Zoubida(link is external)7:15am Em and Katia speak with presenter, Scheherazade Bloul, about the appropriation of Amazigh cultural products in the wake ofMadonna wearing Amazigh clothing to the VMA(link is external)s.7:33am Katia speaks with Saiful Islam, colleague and brother-in-law of Dr Shahidul Alam, photographer, writer, curator, activist and Chairperson of Majority World who iscurrently imprisoned in Bangladesh(link is external) for "provocative comments" made in an Al-Jazeera interview.7:49am Em and Katia speak with Rachel Saravanamuthu, Senior Lawyer at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's Human Rights Law Program about theauthorisation of Ashmore Reef as a port(link is external) to validate the detention of 1,600 asylum seekers.8:05am Quater to Africa - Tahabil(link is external)8:09am Kaiit - OG Luv Kush Pt.2 (link is external)8:11am Scheherazade speaks to Hella Ibrahim, Egyptian-Australian Muslim editor, founder and editorial director of Djed Press about her upcomingMelbourne Writers Festival events.8:27am Update on the US Prison Strike and the Turnbull Dutton spill

Thursday Breakfast 23 August 2018with Em, Katia Scheherazade 7.00am Acknowledgement of country7.04am Sophiegrophy - Baby let's fly(link is external)7.09am Milouda - Gar Gar Ya Zoubida(link is external)7:15am Em and Katia speak with presenter, Scheherazade Bloul, about the appropriation of Amazigh cultural products in the wake ofMadonna wearing Amazigh clothing to the VMA(link is external)s.7:33am Katia speaks with Saiful Islam, colleague and brother-in-law of Dr Shahidul Alam, photographer, writer, curator, activist and Chairperson of Majority World who iscurrently imprisoned in Bangladesh(link is external) for "provocative comments" made in an Al-Jazeera interview.7:49am Em and Katia speak with Rachel Saravanamuthu, Senior Lawyer at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's Human Rights Law Program about theauthorisation of Ashmore Reef as a port(link is external) to validate the detention of 1,600 asylum seekers.8:05am Quater to Africa - Tahabil(link is external)8:09am Kaiit - OG Luv Kush Pt.2 (link is external)8:11am Scheherazade speaks to Hella Ibrahim, Egyptian-Australian Muslim editor, founder and editorial director of Djed Press about her upcomingMelbourne Writers Festival events.8:27am Update on the US Prison Strike and the Turnbull Dutton spill

Thursday Breakfast 16 August 2018with Em and Katia7:00am Acknowledgment of Country7:05am Petero Thony - No No7:09am Alternative News7:15am Cassandra Goldie, CEO ACOSS, joins us to discuss the risk and negligence of Centrelink's most recent robodebt trial7:30am Jeswynn Yogaratnum, lecturer of law, speaks about the current status of the Global Compact on Refugees7:45am May Maloney on receiving the Mary Fran Myers Gender and Diasater Award 7:56am Sophygrophy - Purple $way8:00am Alana Lentin, President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, on a new unit at Western Sydney University - Understanding Race8:15am Iris, 3CR's Queering the Air, talks about a snap protest against the extreme anti-LGBTIQ hate tour by Quentin Van Meter and an anti-trans book launch hosted by the reactionary right wing Australian Families Association

Thursday Breakfast 16 August 2018with Em and Katia7:00am Acknowledgment of Country7:05am Petero Thony - No No7:09am Alternative News7:15am Cassandra Goldie, CEO ACOSS, joins us to discuss the risk and negligence of Centrelink's most recent robodebt trial7:30am Jeswynn Yogaratnum, lecturer of law, speaks about the current status of the Global Compact on Refugees7:45am May Maloney on receiving the Mary Fran Myers Gender and Diasater Award 7:56am Sophygrophy - Purple $way8:00am Alana Lentin, President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, on a new unit at Western Sydney University - Understanding Race8:15am Iris, 3CR's Queering the Air, talks about a snap protest against the extreme anti-LGBTIQ hate tour by Quentin Van Meter and an anti-trans book launch hosted by the reactionary right wing Australian Families Association

Thursday Breakfast 9 August 2018SPECIAL PROGRAM Enough is Enough: Beyond #AfricangangsThursday Breakfast were joined by four amazing guests live on air for a panel discussion about the everyday impacts of the #AfricanGangs narrative on community, connecting this to bigger issues of systemic racism, anti-blackness and colonisation, and focusing on some of the incredible initiatives and stories from the African community here in Narrm/Melbourne. Presenters: Apeec Nhial and Scheherazade Bloul Special guests: Meriki Onus from the Gunnai, Djap Wurrung and Gunditjmara nations, is a community member living on unceded territory of Narrm. Meriki has been involved in activism on the over incarceration of Aboriginal people, Aboriginal deaths in custody, youth justice and most recently saving Djap Wurrung sacred sites. Meriki has also worked in the Community Legal Centre sector on and off for the past seven years, with a particular focus on survivors of family violence. Maker Mayek is a lawyer and co-campaigner behind the original #AfricanGangs social media campaign. Saba Alemayoh is a conscientious social entrepreneur, the founder of Afro Hub that provides a platform for African talent. Incorporated within her restaurant attempting to use the existing capitalist structure to create the empowerment she wants to see. Areej Nur is a radio journalist and co-founder of African artists collective Still Nomads. Music by hip hop artists from the African community living on Naarm.P-Unique Everlasting Ft. KaraROR - Prophecies Ft. P-UniqueSophiegrophy - Purple $waySampa the Great - F E M A L E

Thursday Breakfast 9 August 2018SPECIAL PROGRAM Enough is Enough: Beyond #AfricangangsThursday Breakfast were joined by four amazing guests live on air for a panel discussion about the everyday impacts of the #AfricanGangs narrative on community, connecting this to bigger issues of systemic racism, anti-blackness and colonisation, and focusing on some of the incredible initiatives and stories from the African community here in Narrm/Melbourne. Presenters: Apeec Nhial and Scheherazade Bloul Special guests: Meriki Onus from the Gunnai, Djap Wurrung and Gunditjmara nations, is a community member living on unceded territory of Narrm. Meriki has been involved in activism on the over incarceration of Aboriginal people, Aboriginal deaths in custody, youth justice and most recently saving Djap Wurrung sacred sites. Meriki has also worked in the Community Legal Centre sector on and off for the past seven years, with a particular focus on survivors of family violence. Maker Mayek is a lawyer and co-campaigner behind the original #AfricanGangs social media campaign. Saba Alemayoh is a conscientious social entrepreneur, the founder of Afro Hub that provides a platform for African talent. Incorporated within her restaurant attempting to use the existing capitalist structure to create the empowerment she wants to see. Areej Nur is a radio journalist and co-founder of African artists collective Still Nomads. Music by hip hop artists from the African community living on Naarm.P-Unique Everlasting Ft. KaraROR - Prophecies Ft. P-UniqueSophiegrophy - Purple $waySampa the Great - F E M A L E

3CR Breakfast Thursday 2 August 2018with Em, Katia and Apeec7:00am  Acknowledgement of Country7:05am Song - Searching for Gold, Honeymoon Bridge.  Honeymoon Bridge launches their debut album this Friday 3 August at Northcote Uniting Church. Find them at honeymoonbridge.com7:09am Headlines and Alternative News7:26am Song - Indigenous Land, DRMNGNOW . They played an amazing gig to launch this new track at the Gaso last Wednesday7:30am 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 workers7:45am Nikki Madgwick, a proud Worimi-Biripi woman from mid-north coast NSW who has lived and worked on Wurundjeri land most her life. Nikki writes and performs amazing poetry and works at HICSA, a not-for-profit Indigenous organisation based in Healesville as the Community Engagement Worker.This Saturday 4th August is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day - and this year marks 30 years since this important day was first established.7:56am Song - Sing Until Sunrise, The Merindas8:00am Omid Tofighian, lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement and discrimination. Since 2013, writer, journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre. Boochani's book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison is being launched tonight in Sydney. We were joined by Omid who translated Boochani's text from Farsi to English.8:25am LIVE CROSS to Katia (Abolitionist and Transformative Justice Centre) speaking from outside the Prisons 2018 Conference where the ATJC has called a snap action to demand an end to Youth Incarceration.