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Belgium’s Colonial Crimes with Geneviève Kaninda, Part 2

Content warning: This interview covers distressing topics including forcible child removal, racism and sexual violence.

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We'll hear the rest of a two-part interview with Geneviève Kaninda, Brussels-based Policy and Advocacy Officer at the African Futures Lab, on the Brussels Court of Appeal's landmark decision earlier this month to recognise the Belgian State's responsibility in abducting and racially segregating biracial Métis children under its colonial rule of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The DRC was subjected to brutal colonisation by Belgium from 1908 until it gained independence in 1960, and the struggle for justice and reparations by Mètis children of Congolese mothers and Belgian fathers has been waged across several decades both in Belgium and in the Great Lakes countries of the DRC, Burundi and Rwanda. Listen back to part one of our conversation with Geneviève here. African Futures Lab is an independent research and advocacy institute that aims to raise global awareness of racial injustice across Africa and Europe and to empower civil society actors and public and private entities to demand justice and achieve reform.//

Queensland’s Carceral Crackdown on Kids

This week on 3CR's Doin' Time, Marisa spoke with Maggie Munn, a proud Gunggari advocate from southwest Queensland and Director of the First Nations Justice team at the Human Rights Law Centre. Maggie discussed the Liberal-National Crisafulli Government's rush to pass the Making Queensland Safer Bill 2024, through Parliament last Thursday 12th December, and the dire consequences that this new law will have on children in the state. The law will result in even more children being locked up in Queensland's overcrowded and unsafe police watchhouses and youth prisons, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are already alarmingly disproportionately incarcerated. You can read Human Rights Law Centre’s statement about the Making Queensland Safer Bill 2024 here.//

Contextualising Diagnoses of Mental Illness

RMIT PhD researcher Tom Short joins us for a critical conversation about mental health, the carcerality of psychiatry and mental health facilities, and the politics of mental illness diagnoses. Tom's doctoral research focuses on on youth mental health from a critical/sociological perspective. During this interview, we briefly discuss the Australian Medical Association’s Position Statement on Mental Health and Wellbeing, published on the 6th of December 2024 - you can read it here. We also shout out the excellent work of mad survivor, artist, activist and academic Indigo Daya - Indigo’s website is linked here.//

Fundraising for Sudan

Journalist, photographer, event organiser and passionate community advocate Bakri Mahmoud speaks with us about the fundraising he's been coordinating to support internally and externally displaced Sudanese people impacted by the ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Since April 2023, the conflict has caused mass humanitarian crisis in the country manifesting in famine, forced displacement and brutality against civilians. Bakri has published numerous works for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in News, Music and Arts. Bakri is currently completing a two year photography residency at Footscray Community Arts where he is platforming stories of resistance and survival from the communities he has access to. In his spare time, Bakri loves to play futsal, cook large meals in abundance and maintains an ongoing Mutual Aid campaign to support survivors of war back home in Sudan.

Details for the fundraising account Bakri mentioned are below.

BSB: 067872

Account Number: 1561 8838//