Image description: a graphic with a campfire burning in the dark and the words "Rest is SURVIVAL" in large print above it. To the side are the words "3CR Community Radio", and the words of a poem by Renay Barker Mulholland that read

"for every beat a rest 
for every shadow cast a light
for every action a reaction
but
rest is not wasted time
it is survival”

DISABLED REST IS SURVIVAL.

In year three of the pandemic, where significant public health protections mitigating the deaths of immunocompromised people were removed by the state and voluntarily abandoned by non-disabled people en masse in public space, where the under-resourced medical system and its unsupported workers were stretched, where climate change induced floods swallowed huge parts of this ancient continent’s eastern side, and contributed to an electoral turn towards a Labor federal government who have since pursued an agenda including tax cuts for the wealthiest capitalist polluters, the necessity of our multi-movement struggle against capitalist society’s commitment to eugenics, social murder and ecocide is clear.

In the midst of this, survival for many in our disability community (both before the pandemic and now) means taking deep rest. Rest for our disabled and ill Bodies, minds, nervous systems, because we have no other option. Rest in isolation and self quarantine. Rest whilst waiting for health care and care services. Restorative rest for healing. Rest to both preserve and affirm the worth of our Bodies, minds and very lives.

But who has access to rest under colonial capitalism? Those who can buy it, access it, as survival is for those who can afford it and who can participate in an increasingly unsafe workforce to do so. Those who are not incarcerated or in need of medical care from a medical system ill equipped to provide it. Those with safe housing and living circumstances. Those who are held by safe and accessible communities with members practicing consistent COVID safety.

In this year’s Saturday Disability Day Broadcast, we’re talking about REST as a necessity for our survival, the ways disabled people are habitually denied both rest and income, reflections on disabled rest and joy, disabled Indigenous anticapitalist futures, and much more.

Universal access to rest, to wellness, to life, is Disability Justice.

DISABILITY DAY DECEMBER 3RD SCHEDULE

7am SAVING OUR NDIS! With El Gibbs
El Gibbs is an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues. 3CR’s Disability Day worker Pauline talks to El in great detail about the recently announced NDIS Review, what’s at stake, and how our disabled community can fight to save the NDIS. El also reflects on the theme of the 2022 Disability Day Broadcast, Rest is Survival.
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7.30am The Boldness  Presented by Raphael Kaleb
The Boldness is a Disability Current affairs program aired on the third and fifth Wednesdays of the month at 6 pm on 3CR. In this episode, Raphael presents Disability News and Events, with updates on submissions to the Royal Commission on Disability.
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8am Disabling Employment Services and beyond Presented by Iris Lee (Women on the Line & Queering the Air).
Around 300,000 disabled people have to navigate the Disability Employment Services (DES) stream of the paltry Jobseeker payment. DES is controversial as the state spends $1.3 billion creating a profitable private market for providers who compete for disabled clients, with very poor job outcomes and negative experiences for many disabled people. We hear from Catherine Caine and Jael about their experiences, and look beyond the current DES to what we actually need.
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8.30am Public Health Emergency With Tori Hobbs and Tricia Malowney
Tori Hobbs discusses critical health worker-led campaigns this year for better staff conditions and conditions for patients, what the conditions currently are like for both workers and patients in the public health system, how you can support them,  and their current relationship with rest as a disabled nurse and disability justice advocate. Senior disability advocate Tricia Malowney updates us on her recovery from COVID and talks about getting rest for the first time in years.
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9am SICK / SOVEREIGN
Interviews and readings with the creator of and contributors to Sick/Sovereign, a powerful collection of written and visual artwork by disabled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about their experiences of COVID-19. You can download and read the SICK / SOVEREIGN Zine here. 
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9.45am "LUCKY COUNTRY"
Sharing some words from a few of the late great Vivian Podesser Malo’s staunch speeches. With some reflections on Viv’s time at 3CR from broadcaster Nicky Stott. 
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10am F*** WORK  Presented by Pauline Vetuna and Leilani Fuimaono
Recentering Disabled REST in labour rights and movements for liberation. A wide ranging discussion on the joys of, necessity of and imminent collapse of Twitter, Indigneous anti-capitalist futures, and rest as central to Disability Justice.
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11.30am The Future is Disabled 
A program on the connections between Long COVID and ME/CFS. Featuring a conversation with Alexa, an artist, former sex worker and ME patient who has been rejected from the NDIS multiple times despite worsening health and high support needs.
An extended version of this program will be uploaded in time.
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12pm Exhale  Presented by Mini aka Racerage (Satellite Skies)
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12.45pm Diaspora Ease 
Pauline caught up with Diaspora Blues presenter, Ayan Shirwa, to discuss life at the moment and the Disability Day theme.
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1pm REST  Presented by Flic Manning (Brainwaves)
'Join me, as they talk about the concept of rest as it pertains to the chronically sick and disabled; from neurotransmitters to mental health, ableism, to how workplaces benefit from our rest skills. I consider us to be experts at maintaining and sustaining in a world that tries so often to silence, ignore and get rid of us. Our skills in the art of REST should be the gold standard to which others look to. I will share some of the rest techniques I use to maintain my quality of life, and I share why they are relevant to all human beings.'
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2pm  'This is what we've got' Presented by Ajak Kwai (Ubuntu Voices) 
We hurt the same, we smile the same.  As minority groups, Black, Indigenous, people of colour and people with a disability, we all face the assumptions, racism and ableism of society - but we're here! 'This is What We've Got' brings you conversation and live music with Ajak Kwai and Wild at Heart guests Anna Dang, Jen Frank and Edward Roussac.
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4pm First Nations people with a disability and the criminal justice system
Presented by Marisa Sposaro from the Doin' Time show. First up, Marisa speaks to June Riemer, First Nations woman and Deputy CEO of First Peoples Disability Network, and Kelly Cox, Amabassdor of First Peoples Disability Network. She then catches up with Peta MacGillivray, a Kalkutungu and South Sea Islander lawyer and researcher, who has specialised in the legal needs of children and young people, particularly those experiencing social and economic disadvantage.
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5pm Chronically Overlooked - the disproportionate effects of climate change on the disabled community & why no one is talking about it. Presented by Bridget McArthur & Marijo Pozega (Chronically Chilled) Three years on from the 2019/20 Black Summer Bushfires, Chronically Chilled speaks with award-winning journalist and disability advocate Zoe Simmons on her first-hand experiences of watching Batemans Bay burn, and the under-acknowledged intersection of disability and climate change.
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5.30pm Stopping Discrimination  (Raising Our Voices) Self advocates Chris, Heather, Shona and James, speak up about their experiences as people with intellectual disability with bullying and discrimination. Sharing their experiences and ideas about what they think should change in the community, and why disability awareness continues to be so important.
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6pm Hard Out Presented by Karina Aedo-Aguilera (City Limits)
How are comorbid mental health conditions "officially" recognised when we need government assistance? And how the heck do we navigate not-so-mutual obligations when there's so much else going on? Karina chats with Shy (aka swanbird, aka swanny b) about the diversity in neurodiversity, creativity, and the ebbs and flows of life in the system. It's hard out here when you're turbo.
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