Tuesday Breakfast April 3rd

with Ayan, George, Lauren & Anya

7.00am  Acknowledgement of Country

7.05am News of the Week

7.15am  Lauren speaks to Sonia Law, Manager of the Mental Health and Disability Advocacy Program at Victoria Legal Aid, to discuss Victoria Legal Aid's ongoing advocacy work related to improving the NDIS and highlighting some of the significant ways it is currently failing Legal Aid's clients.

7.30am George speaks to Lee Carnie from the Human Rights Law Centre, regarding recent reforms in Victoria to deliver marriage equality to trans people.

7.45am George speaks with Nick Carson, a genderqueer, trans femme educator in Naarm from MESEJ ,to discuss a workshop on constructing and deconstructing gender in education and what we can do to dismantle oppressive gender systems towards creating safer learning spaces for LGBTIQA+ people.

8.00am Erik Ly is a RISE member and is the support services and foodbank coordinator at RISE. Ayan and Erik discuss the government's cut backs on income support for asylum seekers.

8.20am We play a video that members of RISE have produced in consultation with First Nations peoples - a solidarity statement which calls for all supporters to boycott the Stolenwealth (“commonwealth”) Games which is to be held in Queensland, Australia in April 2018.

Music

artist: Ibeyi 
song: No Man is Big Enough for my Arms 

artist: Solange
song: Scales 

artist: Noname 
song: Sunny Duet ft. The Mind 

artist: Sampa the Great 
song: Revolution