On Wednesday 1 May, 12.30am - 7.30pm, we bring you discussions and commentary on workers' rights, industrial actions, the labour movement, and fair working conditions for everyone. Hear about indigenous rights, social justice, international solidarity, work safety, community building, un/under-employment, campaign updates, workers' songs, and more.
12.30 - 7.00am | Talkback With Attitude | May Day All Night
A special broadcast of talkback radio to celebrate May Day 2024.
On the 1st May, Joe, Pat, MTL, and G.O.D. (Goddess of Dawn) are taking your calls live. Don't sit alone, unable to sleep as you ponder the true meaning of May Day. Share your comments, questions, stories, and announcements with your hosts, Pat and Joe, and connect with your phone team MTL and G.O.D. We'll provide the attitude, an encyclopaedic history of May Day, good company, music, and more. Shy about speaking on live radio? Text us during the hour, and we'll respond on-air. Put May Day All Night in your calendar. A special, one-off, unique, and amazing opportunity to gather ‘round the radio.
Wherever you are in the globe, from Beijing (9.30 pm - 3.00 am) to Berlin (3.30 pm - 9:00 pm) …give us a call!
Phone: +61 3 9419 0155 or Text: +61 488 809 855
7.00 - 8.30am | Wednesday Breakfast | May Day Breakfast
Sonia Randhawa and Grace Hall bring you a May Day Special featuring conversations about solidarity and resistance including worker's struggles, the labour market, and intersections of class and other inequalities for local communities, with guests including Len Cooper, Secretary of May Day Committee Vic; Louisa Bassini, ASU delegate, public housing lawyer, and Victorian Socialists candidate for the Merri-bek council; and others.
8.30 - 9.00am | Stick Together
Jiselle Hanna reports on the latest industrial, social, and workplace issues.
9.00 - 10.00am | City Limits | Transport Week
Kevin Healy and Karina Aedo-Aguilera host a 'Transport Week' May Day special, focusing on our Union History, and featuring Merri-bek Councillor and community activist Monica Harte. She discusses her previous work life as a bus driver and president of the Tramways Union (ATMOEA) during the Melbourne 1990 tram strike.
10.00 - 11.00am | Anarchist World This Week | The real history of May Day
The real history of May Day in Narrm-Melbourne presented by Joe Toscano. You can join Joe on his free annual May Day Walking Tour commencing at Chummie Pl, Carlton from 12 - 1.30pm, with commentary on sites of significance in Melbourne.
11.00 - 1.00pm | Bunjil's Fire | First Nations workers' rights
Indigenous actions and workers' rights in relation to First Nations sovereignty and self-determination, presented by Bunjileenee Robbie Thorpe with guest host Keiran Stewart-Assheton, President of the Black Peoples Union.
1.00 - 2.00pm | Kultural Kinetics
Kurly navigates a sonic journey with tracks about First Nations worker solidarity and sovereignty.
2.00 - 4.00pm | Lazy Wednesday Afternoon
Kate Reid and Suzy Steininger take you on a 2-hour trip with tracks about worker resistance movements.
4.00 - 5.00 pm | Radical Australia | Public housing
Joe Toscano and Kelly Whitworth yarn with Steve Mintern, co-founding director of OFFICE, a not-for-profit multidisciplinary design and research practice, about architecture and public housing through the lens of progressive social change.
5.00 - 6.30pm | Special broadcast: Uprise Radio | International Workers' Day rally
We cross live to the May Day rally “International Workers' Day” denouncing capitalism-colonialism and imperialism, from the State Library of Victoria. Organised by Black Peoples Union (BPU), Australia Asia Worker Links (AAWL), Latin American Solidarity network (LASNET), Renegade Activists, and Free Palestine Melbourne. Speakers to be confirmed.
7.00 - 7.30pm | Special episode: | The Pilabara Stike
Guest hosts Michael Clune, U4P organiser, Declan Furber Gillick, Arrente writer and political organiser, and Oskar Martin, Bundjalung and Kamilaroi student at the University of Melbourne, discuss the Pilbara Strike, the longest strike in Australian history lasting 3 years, starting on 1 May 1946 and ending in 1949.
Sunday 5 May
12.00 - 1.00pm | Special broadcast: May Day rally and demonstration
Live-cross to the May Day celebrations taking place from outside Trades Hall, cnr of Victoria and Lygon sts, Carlton. Organised by May Day Committee Vic, with speakers Shirley Winton, No AUKUS Vic; Noura Mansoue, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN); Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange; and more. Details.
