Palestinian resistance, Migrant Workers and JobKeeper, Homes Not Prisons, Samira Farah: 13 Years, Safe Injecting Rooms and Peer Support

Thursday, 20 May 2021 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Acknowledgement of Country

 

News Headline

 

Earlier this week, Priya caught up with Noura Mansour, a Palestinian educator, political analyst, community organiser and campaigner from Akka. Noura discussed Israeli apartheid and genocidal violence against Palestinians, Palestinian anti-colonial resistance, and solidarity with Palestine. 

 

Free Palestine Rally Saturday 22nd May 1pm at The State Library

 

Nakba Forum - Free Palestine Melbourne

 

Matt Kunkel, Director of Migrant Workers Centre joins us to speak about their campaign to assist workers on temporary visas who were erroneously approved JobKeeker and are now being asked to return the JobKeeker money to the ATO.

 

Amy & Karen activists involved in the Homes Not Prisons campaign join us to speak about the campaign to stop the expansion of Dame Phyllis Frost prison. 

 

Samira Farah joins us to discuss the exhibition 13 Years at West Space. Samira is an art producer and radio presenter. She is a co-founder of Melbourne based black African arts collective still nomads. She currently hosts The Score on Triple R

 

Sione Crawford, CEO of Harm Reduction Victoria, joins us to speak about the importance of supervised, safe injecting facilities in Melbourne and countering conservative pushback against these sites.

 

Songs

 

Daboor - Sheikh Jarrah

Miiesha - Damaged

Squidgenini - All Made Up

Budjerah - Shoulda Coulda