Friday 17 January 2020
Hosted by Jacob and Zane
7am Intro and acknowledgement of country
703am News: Bushfire crisis rolls on
- Many fire victims getting measly one off $1000 payment after losing everything
-Donations roll in but it would be better if mining billionaires just paid their taxes
755am News:
8am activist calendar
810am Jacob and Zane speak with Indian Australian community activist
Vikrant Kishore about the
massive strikes sweeping India in response to Islamophobic citizenship bills introduced by the Hindu Nationalist government of Narendra Modi.
Kishore says that the proposed "Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)" unfairly excludes Muslim refugees and migrants from applying for Indian citizenship and could render large number of people stateless and without rights. Student protests against the bill have been brutally repressed by police, leading to a polarisation between right wing nationalists supporting the Modi government on one side, and progressives who support a secular India on the other side mobilising around the strikes.