Acknowledgement of Country
Omid Tofighian, lecturer, researcher and community advocate, combining philosophy with interests in rhetoric, religion, popular culture, transnationalism, displacement and discrimination. Since 2013, writer, journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre. Boochani's book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison was published in 2018. We were joined by Omid who translated Boochani's text from Farsi to English. The conversation touched on WIMCM - Why Is My Curriculum White campaign
Commemorating 30 years since the first Fairlea Wring Out demonstration with community activists, academics and prison abolitionists Amanda George and Emma Russell. The first Wring Out Fairlea demonstration was organised by the Coalition Against Women's Imprisonment and took place at the former Fairlea women's prison in Melbourne on 26 June 1988. The Wring Out action was repeated three more times over the next eight years, bringing thousands of people to encircle Fairlea prison in protest and in solidarity with the women inside.
https://soundcloud.com/wringoutfairlea
Christine Kngwarraye Palmer from GrandMothers Against Removals (GMAR) on the demands made to government during Reconciliation Week to stop the removal of aboriginal young people from their communities.
(The original broadcast on 855am and 3CR digital contained the following music - removed owing to no license for podcasting music)
SONG : The Merindas - We Sing Until Sunrise
SONG : Pigram Brothers - Nothing Really Matters
SONG: Nice Girls Don't Spit - Fairlea Prison Blues
SONG: Baker Boy - Mr La Di Da Di
SONG: Baker Boy (ft Yirrmal) - Marryuna
Emily Cowlrick, Inez Winters, Leila Baptist, Priya Kunjan
