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7:15AM // A segment from this week’s Women on the Line episode, in which Scheherezade revisited a conversation from 2021 between Eugenia Flynn and Tasnim Sammak as they reflected on their article, Blak Australia to Palestine: solidarity in decolonial struggle, published on Indigenous X on 10 June 2021. Eugenia Flynn is a writer, academic, arts worker and community organiser,  she is Aboriginal, Chinese Malaysian and Muslim and works within her multiple communities to create change. Tasnim Sammak is a PhD candidate at Monash University’s Faculty of Education, a single mum of two boys and a local Palestinian Muslim organiser. To listen to the entire episode and to read the article mentioned in the interview, you can go to www.3cr.org.au/womenontheline.

7:30AM // Ola Addassi, Gaza-born medical scientist and Palestinian Community Association member, speaking at the Free Palestine Rally Naarm on Sunday 13 October, on the human toll in Palestine – the friends and colleagues she has lost, or lost communication with. 

7:45AM // Tasnim Sammak, Palestinian woman and advocate from Yaffa, speaking at the Vigil for Gaza on 7 October, where the community marched silently from the Marquis of Linlithgow Monument to Victoria Parliament. Tasnim speaks about the history of Palestine and Zionism, and the context of the Western world's settler colonialism and denial of native stories.

8:00AM // Part 2 of a conversation between Phuong and Suzie Russell, a member of Save Bulga Forest - a grassroots organisation who are trying to stop native logging of the Bulga Forest on Biripi Country and to save the local wildlife such as the endangered Greater Gliders. Suzie discusses the neglect and harm caused by the NSW Forestry Corporation as well as the many concerned community members who are putting their bodies on the line to protect these native forests. To follow the Save Bulga Forest campaign, make sure to follow the group on Instagram at @savebulgaforest on Instagram or by going to their website, www.savebulgaforest.org

8:15AM // Upcoming events and fundraisers

Songs:

Guwop - Thelma Plum

12 years too long - Rose Turtle Ertler