Thursday Breakfast

7:00am Acknowledgement of country7:10am Daniel Ajak, criminal defense lawyer ,  in the media as a model citizen with South Sudanese background, the media hype surrounding #Africangangs is still ongoing.7:25am Prof Scott McQuire speaking about a paper he wrote about surveillance in our cities, and the way cameras, billboards and other devices track our data. #Geomedia Networked Cities and the Future of Public Space.7:35am Fred Gesha, producer of Yalukut Weelam Ngargee Festival, on the phone speaking about the upcoming indigenous music and arts festival happening on St Kilda foreshore on Saturday 3 February. 7.55am Dr Shakira Hussein on the gentrification of Melbourne's northern suburbs like Coburg and Brunswick following VICE documentary with Aamer Rahman .8:05am Yael from Allies Decolonising on the phone speaking about Decolonise Now, a fundraiser on Jan 20. Funds will go to WAR ahead of Invasion Day, a mulit-genre benefit gig and community event to get active and thinking during #7daysofresistance.8.15am Tallulah, Billy and Ruby from Girls Rock! joined us live in the studio to talk about the amazing experience of Girls Rock!, a music/art/self-expression/acceptance camp for trans youth.  8:30am EndMusic:Rebel Girl, Bikini KillRosie Burgess, It's written [and more]

7:00am Acknowledgement of Country7:15am Father Chris Riley, Founder and CEO of Youth Off the Streets on the government playing politics with South Sudanese community and on the work of this organisation. 7:30am Curator, Maddee Clark, on exhibition Black Magic at Incinerator Gallery, 20 Jan - 18 Feb 7:45am Bahman Yusufi- Solidarity with Iranian uprising crew in Melbourne. Since late December 2017, Iran has been witnessing a wave of protests in more than 80 cities. At least 21 people have been killed while more than 2000 people including 90 student activists and labour organizers have also been arrested. 8.00am Dani Weber, Events Coordinator, speaking about the highlights of the current issue of Archer magazine.8.15am Nyok Gor, Co-founder of the South Sudan Australia Peace Initiative (SSAPI's). SSAPI has been working for over six years to facilitate healing and reconciliation amongst South Sudanese after decades of civil war. They are all volunteers. SSAPI's Focuses: Trust-building, Ethical Leadership & Reconciliation and Rule of Law

7:00am Acknowledgement of Country7:15am Father Chris Riley, Founder and CEO of Youth Off the Streets on the government playing politics with South Sudanese community and on the work of this organisation. 7:30am Curator, Maddee Clark, on exhibition Black Magic at Incinerator Gallery, 20 Jan - 18 Feb 7:45am Bahman Yusufi- Solidarity with Iranian uprising crew in Melbourne. Since late December 2017, Iran has been witnessing a wave of protests in more than 80 cities. At least 21 people have been killed while more than 2000 people including 90 student activists and labour organizers have also been arrested. 8.00am Dani Weber, Events Coordinator, speaking about the highlights of the current issue of Archer magazine.8.15am Nyok Gor, Co-founder of the South Sudan Australia Peace Initiative (SSAPI's). SSAPI has been working for over six years to facilitate healing and reconciliation amongst South Sudanese after decades of civil war. They are all volunteers. SSAPI's Focuses: Trust-building, Ethical Leadership & Reconciliation and Rule of Law

Haley Bracken - Cleanskin Cinema - Annie from Showreel (3CR) spoke with the cleanskin Cinema events Founder about the eventMengzhu Fu - Youth Project Coordinator at Shakti Youth - Hope from Tuesday Breakfast discussed Shakti’s work in New Zealand and Australia around intervention and prevention of family violence in immigrant and refugee communitiesBec Kavanagh - Coordinator of Read-Up; Resource aimed at 15-24 year olds - Fiona Villella spoke with Bec Kavanagh regarding a series of book lists organised under the headings: diverse cultures, LGBTQI+, respectful relationships, minds and bodies and feminismKon Karapanagiotidis - CEO and Founder of Asylum Seeker Resource centre - Donate to support refugees and people seeking asylum in detention

Haley Bracken - Cleanskin Cinema - Annie from Showreel (3CR) spoke with the cleanskin Cinema events Founder about the eventMengzhu Fu - Youth Project Coordinator at Shakti Youth - Hope from Tuesday Breakfast discussed Shakti’s work in New Zealand and Australia around intervention and prevention of family violence in immigrant and refugee communitiesBec Kavanagh - Coordinator of Read-Up; Resource aimed at 15-24 year olds - Fiona Villella spoke with Bec Kavanagh regarding a series of book lists organised under the headings: diverse cultures, LGBTQI+, respectful relationships, minds and bodies and feminismKon Karapanagiotidis - CEO and Founder of Asylum Seeker Resource centre - Donate to support refugees and people seeking asylum in detention

Ballbusters - Speaks about their upcoming show on Saturday December 16thCam Walker - Campaigns co-ordinator Friends of the Earth- Talking about the mayor concern expressed in the social sector at the appointment of Dr Gary Johns – considered a staunch critic of charities, as the new commissioner of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). There is a petition started by concerned members of the sector and supported by ALP member Andrew Leigh.Prof. Lyndall Ryan - Centre for the History of Violence and Centre for the 21st Century Humanities at the University of Newcastle - Alongside her research team are creating an online interactive map documenting massacres site locations, details of the individual massacres and, the sources corroborating evidence of the massacres - released in July http://thenamesofplaces.com/tnop/Reyadh al-Adassi - Public Relations Officer - Palestinian Community Association of Victoria - Talking about Trump's plans to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem and the solidarity march opposing Trump's decisionDr Micaela Sahhar - Australian-Palestinian poet and academic - Her PhD focused on the impact of Israeli national narrative in Western media reporting of two 21st century assaults on the Occupied Palestine Territories while more recently her work looked at comparisons of Israeli and Australian settler-colonial paradigms as well as ideas of subterranean forms of resistance in vanishing landscapes, both conceptual and geographical. Sary Zananiri - Australian-Palestinian artist and academic - his PhD looked at the ways in which biblical frameworks colour the imaging of the Palestinian landscape and more recently he has been researching the masculinity and transgression in the Middle Eastern.

Ballbusters - Speaks about their upcoming show on Saturday December 16thCam Walker - Campaigns co-ordinator Friends of the Earth- Talking about the mayor concern expressed in the social sector at the appointment of Dr Gary Johns – considered a staunch critic of charities, as the new commissioner of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). There is a petition started by concerned members of the sector and supported by ALP member Andrew Leigh.Prof. Lyndall Ryan - Centre for the History of Violence and Centre for the 21st Century Humanities at the University of Newcastle - Alongside her research team are creating an online interactive map documenting massacres site locations, details of the individual massacres and, the sources corroborating evidence of the massacres - released in July http://thenamesofplaces.com/tnop/Reyadh al-Adassi - Public Relations Officer - Palestinian Community Association of Victoria - Talking about Trump's plans to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem and the solidarity march opposing Trump's decisionDr Micaela Sahhar - Australian-Palestinian poet and academic - Her PhD focused on the impact of Israeli national narrative in Western media reporting of two 21st century assaults on the Occupied Palestine Territories while more recently her work looked at comparisons of Israeli and Australian settler-colonial paradigms as well as ideas of subterranean forms of resistance in vanishing landscapes, both conceptual and geographical. Sary Zananiri - Australian-Palestinian artist and academic - his PhD looked at the ways in which biblical frameworks colour the imaging of the Palestinian landscape and more recently he has been researching the masculinity and transgression in the Middle Eastern.

Sophia Tipping - Academic Research associate @ Latrobe Uni - Raising awareness about a project to increase and facilitate people with intellectual disabilities with voting and the political systemEmma Bannister - CEO of Presentation Studio - Public speaking is said to be one of our biggest fearsChris Bigby - Director - Living with a disability Research centre (latrobe Unversity)Cienan Muir - Senior Project Officer at Koorie Youth Council - Marramb-ik Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum looking at Aboriginal identity in the modern world – noting comic Books pop culture and cosplay as modern vessels for storytelling by First Nations peoples.

Sophia Tipping - Academic Research associate @ Latrobe Uni - Raising awareness about a project to increase and facilitate people with intellectual disabilities with voting and the political systemEmma Bannister - CEO of Presentation Studio - Public speaking is said to be one of our biggest fearsChris Bigby - Director - Living with a disability Research centre (latrobe Unversity)Cienan Muir - Senior Project Officer at Koorie Youth Council - Marramb-ik Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum looking at Aboriginal identity in the modern world – noting comic Books pop culture and cosplay as modern vessels for storytelling by First Nations peoples.

Hope Mathumbu - Speaking about a project that aims support Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) women living in regional Victoria to access mainstream family and domestic violence and sexual assault services, Facebook Jan Bartlett caught up with Ahmed Saleem - The campaign REJECT ELBIT against The Royal Australian Flying Doctors service venture with a major arms manufacturer Elbit Systems AustraliaJane Green - Vixen Collective - Talking about the use of family violence funding for sex work abolition organisations (Twitter @vixoncollective #sexwork #16daysofactivism #projectdisrespect)Maya - soul singer and songwriter based in Melbourne. They discuss the upcoming launch of her debut EP ‘Future Soul,’ and the release of her new song 'What We Are Worth', more info check out FacebookDr. Shakira Hussein - (Twitter @shakirahussein), Honorary research fellow at the University of Melbourne specialising in Gender, Islam and Multiculturalism - Should the assisted dying bill be scrutiniised more?