Green Left Weekly Radio Collective
Friday 19 April
Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics.
Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Chloe DS, Rob Zucchi, Zane Alcorn
Newsreports
Presenters discuss the following issues.
Iran's recent drone strike against Israel and the hypocrisy of Western powers who are escalating conflict in the Middle-East drawing on a statement published by Socialist Alliance.
The racism of the Albanese government in response to the Bondi junction stabbing and the granting of permanent visas is relation to the French man who confronted the attacker.
Interviews and Discussion
Nathalie Farah, Palestinian and a spokesperson for Hume 4 Palestine gives a live report on the community picket to shut down Heat Treatment Australia (HTA) which is the 15th day that activists have shut down work at the factory.
HTA process parts for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jets used to bomb Gaza.
You can listen to the individual interview here.
James Godfrey, spokesperson for Freedom Flotilla Coalition joins the program to talk about the upcoming Flotilla for Gaza which will sail in mid April with multiple vessels carrying 5500 tons of humantarian aid to Gaza as a means of challenging the ongoing illegal Israeli blockade of the Gaza strip. You can listen to the individual interview here.
More information on the Freedom Flotilla can be found here: https://freedomflotilla.org/
Songs played
999 by Kid Kapichi
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