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Gayili Marika Yunupingu - Galupa Homeland Project
Earlier this week, Priya interviewed Gumatj clan Elder Gayili Marika Yunupingu, who leads the Galupa Safety House suicide prevention and women's shelter initiative as part of the Galupa Homeland Project. The Project is located on the Gove Peninsula of Northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, and is focused on keeping women and children in Galupa safe and healthy through their connections to land and culture under the guidance of Yolŋu Elders. This year, Gayili turned down a $3million offer from Rio Tinto, which has established a refinery near Galupa, to relocate the Project, emphasising the centrality of her land to the work she does for her people. Galupa remains sorely underfunded, and listeners are encouraged to chip into their Christmas Appeal to build and maintain vital infrastructure to sustain this work into the future.//
Nick Chesterfield - Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance solidarity group for Palestine
Nick Chesterfield is a journalist and member of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance solidarity group for Palestine. This week Nick had a conversation with Spike about the open letter written to Australian newsrooms by journalists to raise awareness of the the pro Zionist coverage of the war/genocide in Gaza. Coverage that peddles the false narrative that there is "parity' between the two sides and only one side has the right to defend itself is soft on war crimes and human rights abuses. Nick also discussed the pressure exerted by editors to push a pro war machine line or what Nick has described as "Stenographers of genocide". And finally Nick also discussed what an "Insurgent" more balanced media that reported the facts would look like.//
Nour Abdullatif - Unassigned Gallery
Sofia Sabbagh - Palestinian-Irish artist, organiser and educator
Sofia Sabbagh is a Palestian-Irish artist, organiser, and educator, who uses art as her ideal form of communication, expression, and engaging and mobolizing community. She engages with ecological and human stories to grapple with what it means to live on stolen land and resistance. Today she joins us here to talk about art as resistance and protest, the targeting and killing of arts and media workers in Falasteen, zionism in the arts and media scene, and what we can do about it.//
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