Monday Breakfast 18 September: Critical Consciousness Building, OTW on Asylum Seekers' Welfare, and Acid Waste in the Tarkine

Monday, 18 September 2017 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Excerpts from 3CR's Monday Breakfast show with Lucy and Will.

Happy listening!

– Get Woke Stay Woke: Jolene Elberth tells us about a workshop she is running called "Critical Consciousness Building". Improve your own skills of analysis and grow awareness in your communities of systemic oppression. The Workshop is being held oWednesday 11 October, 6-8pm at 60L Building, 60 Leicester St Carlton. Register at holly@plantowin.net.au and learn more here

 – Over The Wall: Friend of the show Peter Davis speaks with Jana Favero from the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre about developments in social welfare and the impacts of the Federal Government's anti-asylum-seeker policies

– Trouble in Takayna: Scott Jordan of Save The Tarkine comes on the show to remind us of the Tasmanian Liberal Party's failure to deal with 80,000 cubic metres of acid-producing waste left at the failed Nelson Bay River Mine site. We also hear about the scheduled reopening of motorsport leisure trails on the Takayna coastal region, desecrating sacred Aboriginal cultural sites. To voice your concern about this action by the Tasmanian state government, join inthe forum held by the Bob Brown Foundation in Narrm (Melbourne) this Wednesday evening