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7am intro and acknowledgement of country

705am News:

-Djab Wurrung heritage protection embassy continues to stand strong with a rally in the city happening on Tuesday morning. A solidarity protest attracted 400 people in Sydney earlier this week.

- British PM Boris Johnson loses vote over Brexit deal. Looking increasingly like snap elections may be called.

- Audio: Aran Mylvaganam From the Tamil refugee council and lawyer Carina Ford address a vigil at the Federal Court in Melbourne on wednesday, where the Tamil refugees Priya and Nades and their two children Kopika and Tharunicaa are fighting deportation to Sri Lanka.

- Climate strike winning unlikely allies and banks, IT firms and unis come on board. Whilst this helps politically isolate the fossil fuel lobby it is important for the movement to remain politically independent of corporate interests.

- 21 ideas for a just transition to a coal free future. Finding transition projects that work will mean testing out a range of initiatives and seeing which ones get the most traction.

745am Jacob and Zane speak with Hassan, a founding member of Justice For Refugees, which is organising a protest at the State Library on September 14.

Hassan, a Kuwaiti refugee, describes the precarious and inhumane regime of temporary protection visas (such as those Tamil asylum seekers Priya and Nades were on) in Australia which prevent refugees and asylum seekers from working, studying or having access to centrelink or medicare, and which can allow asylum seekers to be deported back to danger. Justice for Refugees are calling for the TPV system to be scrapped and for refugees to be granted permanent visas with visiting rights for family and full work and study rights.

8am activist calendar

811am Jacob and Zane speak with Western Sahara independence activist Tecber Ahmed Saleh about the decades long struggle for Western Sahara to win independence from Morocco. Morocco replaced Spain as the coloniser of Western Sahara in 1975 and thousands of people have been living in refugee camps waiting to return to their lands ever since.

Tecber tells Jacob and Zane that the occupation has geopolitical underpinnings, with Western Sahara rich in phosphate mineral reserves and home to high quality fishing grounds off its coast. For more information check out this video at green left tv