with Ayaan, George and Lauren
7:00am Acknowledgement of Country
7:10am Rally: no racism stop criminalizing African communities. We hear from a few of the speakers on the day.
7:20am Pookie is a South Sudanese painter, writer and singer. She's one of the artists featuring in Sudo Girls Talk! A Night of Poetry & Music. Sudo Girls is a project by Our Voices Inc, an online and offline space that is centred around Women of Colour in Australia.
7:30am Katie Symes joins us in the studio to talk about Culture is Life, a not-for-profit organisation that collaborates, campaigns and activates projects to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led solutions to affirm and strengthen culture to prevent youth suicide and to reshape our identity as Australians – one that is inclusive of the cultural lineage of this country. We also discuss Glen Skuthorpe's music.
7:45am Song: Culture is Life releases Something On My Mind written by Glenn Skuthorpe in collaboration with Jedda Costa and Louis Mokak, accompanied by Alice Skye, produced by Katie Symes and engineered by Colin Wynne at Thirty Mills Studios. Music video by James Arneman at Sunlander Films.
8:00am Community Announcements
8.05am Live cross to protest - Launch Mobilise Melbourne: Community Plan 4 Transport In light of the recent approval of the controversial Westgate toll road and in response to the absence of community views in Public Transport Policy. Friends of the Earth are this morning kicking off an initiative to have grassroots input and desire for sustainable transport included in infrastructure and services.
8.15am Kathryn Wilkies from the Hinkler chapter of No Cashless Welfare Debit Card Australia.
Ivka, Frances, Kannagi, and Phuong
