News items from Women on the Line

On the show this week: Jacqueline Phillips, the National Director of Antar, talks about moves to change the constitution and acknowledge indigenous rights. Jasmine-Kim Westendorf, who researches peace processes in civil wars, discusses what Australia is doing to include women in peace and security processes.File Download (29:17 min / 13 MB)

Occupy Our Homes: Foreclosures & Resistance. We return to the Occupy Onwards conference held in New York on December 18 to hear from Sarah Ludwig (NEDAP) on the impacts of predatory lending targeted at New York’s communities of colour; Eliot Tarver from Organizing for Occupation discusses the home occupation action that happened on December 6 in East New York as part of Occupy Our Homes; and Alyssa Katz, author of ‘Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us’, on the origins and consequences of the mortgage boom.File Download (28:45 min / 13 MB)

Occupy Onwards. A conference panel on ‘Lessons from the Past/ Possible Futures’ of the Occupy movement, held at The New School in New York on 18 December 2011. L.A. Kaufman (Global Justice Movement), Cinzia Arruzza (The New School), Ann Snitow (The New School). Occupy Onwards conference :: File Download (29:55 min / 14 MB)

This week we hear from Needa Monshat and Alexia Staker of the Melbourne Feminist Collective as they discuss ‘The Future of Feminism: Collaborative action and moving beyond internal divisions’. This is part of a special seminar run by Melbourne Free University.File Download (28:25 min / 13 MB)

Summer Repeat: Talking About Suicide. We hear from Kerry Dawson, a Lifeline trainer, about why it’s so important to talk about suicide. And in support of the national campaign to stop cuts to the Better Access to Mental Health initiative we feature the mental health stories of four women.File Download (28:19 min / 13 MB)