Special Broadcasts

3CR has a number of special broadcasts each year to celebrate important community activist events. These broadcasts are staged at live events or at 3CR.

Contact the Programming Coordinator to find out more about our special radio broadcasts.

3CR International Day of Persons with Disabilities:

December 3, 2009

From 6am to 6pm on Dec 3rd 2009 3CR celebrated International Day of People with Disability with 12 hours of radio produced and presented by people with disabilities.

The 12 hour broadcast was financially supported by the City of Melbourne Metro Access Initiative, a partnership between Local Government and the Department of Human Services

The broadcast continues 3CR’s legacy of promoting the rights of people with disabilities, to empower people  to create their own media content and to enable our own voices and views to be heard in a media landscape, which focuses almost exclusively on the non-disabled.

Close to 70 individuals and 20 different organisations were involved in planning, developing and recording for the day. It was a huge success and a great celebration of the diversity of the disability community. Thanks to everyone involved for making it so...

The entire 12 hours of audio is now available at http://podcast.3cr.org.au/podcast.php?cat=DisabilityDay3CR

See also IDPwD Program Grid 2009:

NAIDOC Week Broadcasts and Beyond the Bars Project: July 2009

Indigenous men and women in Victoria's prison's take to the radio for 3CR's unique prison broadcasts during NAIDOC Week!

Hear what the brothers and sisters inside Port Phillip Prison, the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Barwon Prison and Fulham Prison have to say. Highlights of the broadcasts were launched as the Beyond the Bars 6 CD.

In the lead up to the live broadcasts, 3CR 855AM staged spoken word and music workshops in the prisons. Local Indigenous community leaders and musicians Gilla McGuinness, Kutcha Edwards, Johnny Mac, Robbie Thorpe and comedian Shiralee Hood from 3CR along with 3KND broadcasters Janina Harding and Kim Kruger are held the workshops.

For past participant of the annual project, Karlene Clarke, who participated in every broadcast from 2002 – 2008, the broadcasts gave her "the opportunity to just be heard, to have a voice and be able to be part of the community and family - who I wasn't in contact with because of my incarceration - during NAIDOC week". 

The prison broadcasts are part of a week of special programming at 3CR for NAIDOC Week,  6 - 10 July. Check out the listening schedule.

Beyond the Bars 2009 is funded by the Neighbourhood Justice Centre, the City of Melbourne, the Department of Justice and the Community Broadcasting Foundation.

Read the Press Release (Pdf). Spread the word by posting our flyer and broadcast information on your website. Email the Special Projects Coordinator.

May Day: May 1, 2009

Worker's issues around the world are presented by union, feminist, queer and Indigenous 3CR presenters every May 1 at 3CR.

A long and proud history of promoting the rights of worker's everywhere is a cornerstone of 3CR's history and politics. 3CR aims to show and engage in the diversity of the world's working class.

The May Day broadcast often includes live crosses from the May Day Rally organised by the Victorian Trades Hall Council.

International Women's Day: March 8, 2009

3CR's is proud of the feminist focus of many of our 3CR programs!

Women broadcasters make up approximately 40% of our presenters which is a standard for community broadcasting.

3CR has a unique women only policy for training radio technicians.

Every March 8 join 3CR in a 24 hour broadcast celebrating and promoting the human rights achievements and campaigns for women globally.

Survival Day: January 26, 2009

This annual broadcast by 3CR's Indigenous broadcasters marks Australia's Invasion Day.

Indigenous activists have broadcast at 3CR from the year 3CR began in 1976. Find out about 3CR's Indigenous programs.

Tune in on January 26 each year and hear the truth about 3CR's colonial past and the current campaigns to right past wrongs. Come and visit the 3CR stall at the main Survival Day event.

World Human Rights Day: December 1, 2009

Join 3CR on December 10 on World Human Rights Day for another day of human rights activism and community celebration (pictured is the 2008 event poster).

A highlight will be a live broadcast from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Tune in for unique stories and musical performances from Melbourne's refugee communities.

The 2009 broadcast is funded by the Victorian Multicultural Commission.