Tune in on Tuesday 3 December for 12 hours of programming on International Day of People with Disability.
Full program details below.
This year's theme is EMBODIED SOLIDARITIES. How can we better practice solidarity with each other as fellow disabled people of different backgrounds and abilities, locally and across borders, at a time in humankind’s existence where mass-disabling violence is increasing? How can non-disabled people better practice solidarity with us? Listen in as we reflect and explore through conversation, music, and more.
By Pauline Vetuna, 3CR Disability Day content coordinator
Artwork title - collective conscience (2024) mixed media on canvas by Renay Barker-Mulholland
Artist statement: Inherited memory calls from within, our ancestors urging us ever forward. The landscapes we navigate no person, no movement, has ever managed to repair. We shift to understanding why we are broken by that system, and that the moon hangs in the same sky, over the dead bodies of those killed by our weapons.
The sky, the moon, the terrain, the movements? There is no one but us, but we are knowing, and we are moving.
This past year has been a tipping point in the balance of knowledge. The broader understanding of capitalism and their impacts have brought about a reckoning. The delivery of yet more diversity and inclusion strategies, the writing of reconciliation action plans, to sit in a colonial folder marked, ‘Bla(ç)k knowing’. No more.
Artwork image description: Collective Conscience is a multi media artwork featuring collage, ink, and digital sections. There is a wolf looking devious outside a yellow curtained window, a large section of watermelon held up on a large pile of food, a cartoon character is taking notes on a long scroll of paper with words like revolt, and war crimes written on it. Layered across the image are many, dark, sad, and broken faces.
7.00am Embodies Solidarities
7.30am Dandelions
8.00am Healing Arts
8.30am Accent of Women: Guest presenter Marisa Sposaro (Doin' Time) on The Criminalisation of First Nations Women with Disability and Stolen Generation.
9.00am The Pandemic is a Portal: COVID is not over. It is still here.
This is an invitation to understand that reality, and to let it transform you. Grounded in disability justice, and brought to you by a chorus of staunch disabled voices: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Darcy from Sick/Sovereign, Tori Hobbs and Julia Rose Bak from The Disability Justice Network and Li from COVID Solidarity ‘syd.’ Produced by Samantha Haran, Shareeka Helaluddin & Sehej Kaur. Additional thanks to Justin Chen, Allison Chan and Juliet Fox.
10.00am Billabong Beats: Presented by Gavin Moore.
11.00am VALID is the Victorian peak advocacy organisation for adults with intellectual disability.
They have developed training, information and resources to help empower people with disability and their families since 1989.
11.30am “Standing together” Finding your community - a guide.
Three young disabled people discuss their journey to realising the disability community through advocacy, support groups and sport. It takes time to find the right community for you and we believe it helps to connect with other disabled people who might share similar experiences. Until society becomes fully accessible and inclusive, we as disabled people need to surround ourselves with people who understand us and support one another to feel as if we belong. Presented by Stella Barton.
12.00pm Sirani's Show
12.30pm Disability Housing Justice
1.00pm Ubuntu Voices: Presented by Ajak Kwai.
2.00pm The Vibe Consultant: Solidarity music with tilde.
3.00pm Raising Our Voices: Self Advocacy Groups.
Raising Our Voices has been making radio shows about disability rights and about issues that affect people with disability for over 37 years. Nothing about us without us! Supported by Action for More Independence and Dignity in Accommodation.
4.00pm Breadline: for this special hour-long Disability Day episode of Breadline, we deep-dive into the Disability Support Pension.
Tune in to learn more about life on the DSP, the history of the pension, and advocacy for disabled people who are unable to work. Your value is not in your productivity! Hosted by writer, comedian and disability pensioner Kaitlyn Blythe. Presented by the Australian Unemployed Workers' Union.
5pm How to Self Advocate: Self Advocacy Resource Unit and Voices at The Table(link is external) talk with Raphael Kaleb (The Boldness) on how to stand up for your Disability Rights.
5.30pm People-led Disarmament: Ending the military industrial complex.
6.00pm Solidarity Beyond Borders
