3CR End Of Year Party!

11th December 2008

It is the end of the year and 3CR has plenty to celebrate!

Come on Thursday 18 December to our party and double launch.

3CR will be launching our Beyond the Bars 5 CD (pictured) at 6pm and Done By Law's new website at 7pm. There is also the 3CR raffle to be drawn! Read on....


Celebrate World Human Rights Day with 3CR!

10th December 2008
Join 3CR on Wednesday December 10 for a day of human rights activism.

A highlight will be a live broadcast from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre on from noon to 2pm.

Tune in for unique stories and musical performances from Melbourne's refugee communities.

Eritrean People Living in Ethiopian Refugee Camps Presentation

2nd December 2008

Tuesday 9th Dec at 7pm, on the eve of World Human Rights Day 2008, you are invited to attend a multi-media presentation by 3CR programmer Berhan Jaber. Earlier this year Berhan travelled to Ethiopia to interview Eritrean people living in the refugee camps there. Come along and hear a perspective on the ongoing conflict in Eritrea, which continues to be largely ignored by the media.

3CR Wins Radio Awards

26th November 2008

3CR won two awards and a highly recommended at the recent Community Broadcasting Association of Australia conference in Alice Springs.

3CR's recording of the landmark Rudd government's apology to the Stolen Generations, The National Apology, won the station 'Most Innovative Outside Broadcast or Special Event Broadcast'. 3CR's Gilla McGuinness (pictured) was on hand to accept the award. Read on...

 

Be a part of the DIY Artshow ART-A-THON!!!

20th November 2008
How much art can you make in one week to raise money for Community Radio?
Dare your friends to make as much art as they can during the week of December 1st - 7th.
Register! Sponsor! Create! Celebrate! Read on...

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

12th November 2008
3CR broadcaster Iain McIntyre (of the SUWA Show) has published Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life: The AIDEX ’91 Story.

The book gives a detailed account of the November 1991 protest where over 1000 protesters blockaded the National Exhibition
Centre in Canberra, Australia for 12 days with the aim of shutting down the Australia International Defence Exhibition.

3CR Launches Seeds of Dissent 2009! Calendar

12th November 2008
Come along to our calendar launch 6pm Friday 21 November!

Meet 3CR folks, drink free wine and listen to speakers Clare Williamson, Lyn Hovey and Rachel Maher talk about activism and Australian political posters. Read on...

Mamdouh Habib Speaks

11th November 2008

Former Guantanamo Detainee, Mamdouh Habib, is speaking in Melbourne on..

6:30pm Wednesday 3rd of December
Trades Hall, Victoria

Mamdouh Habib has been one of the many victims of the War on Terror.

Branded a terrorist, Habib was arrested in 2001 and imprisoned and tortured in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Egypt, before being sent to Guantanamo Bay for 2 years, alongside David Hicks.

3CR Quiz Night Success

5th November 2008
3CR's 30th October fundraising Quiz Night was a great success.

New program YarraBUG (pictured left with MC Shiralee Hood) had the audacity to win and showed no remorse with their parting comment, "Great night, all in good spirits, and made even better by the newbies winning".

Subscriber Drive 5 – 11 November

30th October 2008
Are you jiving to old timer's music you can't get anywhere else, benefiting from a great spread of environmental programs and sharing Indigenous history and perspectives? If so you must be tuned into 3CR!