Bendigo St and the Case for Dwelling Justice

Monday, 10 October 2022 - 8:30am to 9:00am
Bendigo St documentary chronicles a campaign to occupy a street of government-owned empty houses that were planned for demolition in Naarm/Melbourne. Image supplied.

Today we discuss the intersections of dwelling justice, incarceration, private land and the coloniality of housing.

We hear an excerpt of Yuin woman and architectural design activist Linda Kennedy speaking at the Dwelling Justice Forum held in August 2022. You can listen to her full speech and others here.

We then turn to a conversation about the Bendigo St documentary which chronicles a campaign to occupy a street of government-owned empty houses that were planned for demolition for the failed east-west link highway in Naarm/Melbourne. We sit down with documentary maker Jasmine Barzani, a Kurdish self-described troublemaker based in Naarm. She’s an anti-fascist, prison abolitionist, no borders activist, and she is completing her honour’s project at Melbourne University. She’s a visiting fellow at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies and on the steering group of the Homes not Prisons campaign.

Bendigo St is crowd-funding to make a feature-length documentary, you can support the project on the documentary Australia website. 

Monday 8:30am to 9:00am
A national feminist current affairs program for community radio. A gender analysis of contemporary issues, as well as in-depth analysis by a range of women and gender diverse people around Australia and internationally. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network (CRN).

Presenter

Cleis Hart, Kannagi Bhatt, Phuong Tran, Xen Nhà & Scheherazade Bloul.

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