Chris Breen from Refugee Action Collective with an update on the current status of the stranded detainees, The court ruling declining the restoration of food, water and power and lawyers intention to appeal. Rally Images
Michele Vescio (Twitter @Mchl_Vsc) attended the Rally on Saturday 4 November 2017 at the State Library and managed to organised amazing recordings. You'll be hearing from speakers from the Bring Them Home rally that was held in Melbourne on Saturday 04/11/17. The speakers have a lived experience of being current, or former refugees or asylum seekers. In these audio excerpts, you'll be hearing from Behrouz Boochani, Walid Zazai, Aran Mylvaganam, and Safikul Islam. Twitter @Mchl_Vsc
We heard from:
1. Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer. He has been at the Manus Island detention centre since August 2013. He has been tweeting consistently about the conditions and mistreatment on Manus Island. Twitter @BehrouzBoochani
2. Walid Zazai is a young Afghan man currently detained on Manus Island. He has been on Manus Island for 5 years. His intro on his Twitter account says: "Dreaming of freedom" "Suffering in hell" You can follow him via his Twitter handle @ZazaiWalid
3. Aran Mylvaganam was born in Nagar kovil in Northern Sri Lanka. Between 1995 and 1997 he lived in a refugee camp in Udayarkaddu, before coming to Australia as a 13-year-old unaccompanied refugee in 1997. He was detained in Villawood detention centre for three months. In 2011 he founded the Tamil Refugee Council. Aran Presents Tamil Manifest here at 3CR and currently works as a union organiser with the Finance Sector Union and is a spokesperson for the Tamil Refugee Council. Twitter @aranmylvaganam
4. Safikul Islam came by boat, he is a refugee from Rohingya. He is a union activist and organiser. There are 170 Rohingya refugees on Manus and Naru. In this audio, he speaks of his experiences as a refugee.
Contact your local MP:
Malcolm turnbull - (02) 6277 7500
Julie Bishop - (02) 6277 7500
Bill Shorten - (02) 6277 4022
Tanya Plibersek (02) 6277 4404
Yes For Love Campaign - Are the Kids Alright?, Featuring children Sebastian and Felix from a rainbow family, they chat about the impact the Yes Campaign is having on them and their family and answer the question, Can Mum's tell Dad jokes? YES for LOVE was produced by Joy (94.9) FM for the Community Radio Network - Stories from the LGBTIQ community across Australia recorded in the lead up to the survey @Joy949
Emily Cowlrick, Inez Winters, Leila Baptist, Priya Kunjan
