Australia company Lynas plans toxic waste dump in Malaysia || Stopping Black Deaths in Custody || The Economic Interests of the Military in Myanmar

Friday, 9 April 2021 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics. 

Newsreports

McCormick workers in Clayton win pay rise retain conditions after more than six weeks on strike.

Labor's policy conference fails to put Morrison under pressure

Interviews and Discussion

Pre-recorded interview of a Green Left podcast where Peter Boyle speaks to Lee Tan, a veteran environmental researcher and campaigner with AidWatch about how Australian rare earth mining and refining company Lynas has applied for a licence to build a permanent dump for its toxic waste in a pristine rainforest in Malaysia after piling up a mountain of toxic, and partly radioactive, waste near its controversial refinery near the city of Kuantan. You can listen to the individual interview here.

Green Left Radio presenters interview Keith Quayle a Malyangapa/Barkindji gay man raised on Dharug country about the on-going campaign to stop deaths in custody, espesically given that it has been more than 30-years since the royal commission into black deaths in custody, we also spoke about the role of the police and the industrial prison complex, transformative justice, mutual aid and abolition and what we all can do in our collectives and our communities to ensure Black Lives Matter. You can listen to the individual interview here. 

Green Left Radio presenters interview Allen Jennings a journalist for Green Left whom has the experience of living in Mynamar for years about the economic interests of the millitary regime in Myanmar and how mining companies especially in Australia are complicit in supporting the millitary in Myanmar. You can listen to the individual interview here.

 

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.

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Green Left Weekly Radio Collective

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