Broadcast: 8 July, 2021

Host: Jwala

To compliment 3CR's annual Beyond the Bars project and NAIDOC programming,  this week's show focused on a broad theme of indigenous resistance by women and gender diverse people, in occupied so-called Australia, and Turtle Island (so-called Canada).  

We played highlights from a panel at the Emerging Writers Festival 2021, exploring prison abolition from the perspective of current and former women and gender diverse prisoners. This panel was facilitated by prison abolitionists Nayuka and Witt Gorrie, and included speakers Ashley Chapman (LGBTIQ/ disability prisoner advocate), Stacey Stokes (trans woman prisoner advocate), Rosalina Curtis (trans woman/ sex worker activist), and Tabitha Lean.  

We also mentioned the Homes Not Prisons campaign, calling for the Victorian Government to stop the expansion of the Dame Phyllis Frost Center (a maximum-security prison for women) and to re-allocate the $188.9 million budget for prison building, to public housing and support for criminalised women and our children.

The show also included an exert from an interview with Tsastilqualus, a First Nations elder and co-founder of the direct action/ front-line Matriarch Camp. This interview was conducted as part of the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair (in so-called Canada), by the From Embers podcast collective.  

The playlist involved fierce contemporary sounds of resistance from First Nations performers based in so-called Australia  and Turtle Island (so-called Canada).

Track List:
1- Provocalz (featuring Ancestress) : Behind Enemy Lines
2- Racerage: Burn
3- Barkaa: Our Lives Matter
4- Dobby (featuring Barkaa): I can't Breathe
5- JB the First Lady (featuring Dioganhdih) : Front Lines
6- A Tribe Called Red: Burn Your Village To The Ground (Neon Natives remix)
7-  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: I Pity The Country