Sovereignty & First Nation's Justice || Why we need a 4-day work week || Visy Dispute in Shepperton

Friday, 24 February 2023 - 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. 

Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Sue Bolton

Newsreports

Headline news reports.

Jacob and Sue respond to the recent economic data that reveals that Australians experienced their largest real wage decline on record in 2022

News from Green Left

Presenters report on the following newstories from Green Left

Student activist arrested at midnight after housing protest

Highlights from the Green Left Activist Calendar

Radical book sale | 25% off everything! Saturday, February 25 — Saturday, March 4. New books, second-hand & sale books, t-shirts, badges, etc. Saturdays 10am-6pm, Sunday closed, Monday-Friday 11am-6pm. Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT).

Saturday, February 25, Rally | Migrants & refugees welcome! Nazi gyms are not! 1pm. Sunshine Station

Wednesday 1 March, Discussion: How Capitalism Creates Racism, 6:00pm, Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000.

Tuesday 13 March, Public Forum: Fighting for Trans Rights Today: Challenging the Right-Wing Hysteria, 6:30pm, Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000

Interviews and Discussion

Uncle Gary Murray, First Nation's activist and multi-clan descendent of Wamba Wamba, Dhudhuroa, Wiradjeri, Yorta Yorta, Baraparapa, Djab Wurrung and Wergaia Nations & Victorian Traditional Owners Land Justice Group addressing the question of how to advance, Treaty, Soveregnty and justice for First Nations people and his views on the Voice to Parliament from the February 20 forum on "Treaty, sovereignty and First Nations justice" organised by Green Left & Socialist Alliance. You can view a recording of the forum here.

Isaac Nellist, journalist of Green Left joins the program to discuss the role of work in our lives and it's relationship to the broader economic system in the context of a growing cost-of-living crisis and why we need to fight for a four-day work week. You can listen to the individual interview here.

Danny Miller, organiser with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) joins the program to discuss the ongoing dispute with Visy in Shepperton where workers are fighting for a fair and livable wage in response to management offering them a pitiful pay offer. You can listen to the individual interview here.

You can donate to their strike fund 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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