GLWeekly News items; interviews with Mahir Muhammad from the Flemington Estate Residents Association about the campaign for public housing and Lorraine from Residents for Victoria Street Drug solutions about the campaign for a safe injecting rooms

Friday, 1 September 2017 - 7:00am to 8:30am

7am intro, acknowledgement of country

7:03 News: Let them stay - ACTU support for refugees facing cuts to welfare and accomodation in latest disgraceful attack by federal government.

7:08 News: equal marriage campaign - advertisements for 'no' campaign expose weakness and lack of confidence of campaign as well as potential shift to use the campaign to target the safe schools program

7:16 News: 'Tough on crime' Victorian Liberal leader Matthew Guy facing heat for allegedly having 'Lobster with a Mobster'. CFMEU have invested in an inflatable lobster which will be used to highlight the hypocrisy.

7:28 News: Naomi Klein - Hurricane Harvey didn't come out of the blue. Now is the time to talk about climate change.

7:38 News: Moreland council votes in support of public housing
7:45 Interview: Jacob and Zane speak to Mahir Muhammad from the Flemington Estate Residents Association about the campaign to stop public housing estates being converted to physically smaller 'social housing' with higher rents and poorer conditions in tandem with massive new private development on public housing land.

8:00 Activist calendar

8:11 Interview: Jacob and Zane speak with Lorraine from Residents for Victoria Street Drug solutions about the campaign for a safe injecting room for intravenous drug users in Richmond. Lorraine talks about the recent rally which was built off the back of an extensive doorknocking campaign and forging alliances between residents and small business owners in the area.

Green Left Weekly Radio

Friday 7:00am to 8:30am

A weekly source of alternative information which aims to inspire action and organisation to put people and the environment first.Covering international political issues and struggles against the exploitation of the people and exposing the bias in mainstream media that preferences the power brokers and denies access to information.