101 Black Writers and Voices, Karrabing Film Collective, Lebanon Kafala System

Thursday, 20 August 2020 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Acknowledgement of country

News headlines with Cait Kelly

Priya speaks with Dr Sandy O’Sullivan talks about their development of a list of 101 Black Writers and Voices. Sandy is Wiradjuri person an Associate Professor of Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

Carly speaks with Elizabeth Povinelli about the Karrabing Film Collective's film, Day in the Life which is featuring at the Melbourne International Film Festival 681/2 - Day in the Life is a multi-layered story that illuminates the ways that First Nations communities in the Northern Territory are resisting settler forms of governance and extractive capitalism on a daily basis

Priya speaks about campaigns in Lebanon advocating for the rights of migrant workers under the exploitative kafala system in which workers (mainly from the African continent) have little to no rights.

Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) is a grassroots collective by young Lebanese feminist activists in collaboration with migrant workers and migrant domestic workers. they do most of their work through the centres in Lebanon in direct collaboration with migrant workers, especially migrant domestic workers. armlebanon.org // @armlebanon This Is Lebanon (TIL), a project of Domestic Workers Unite (DWU), is a project run by a coalition of former migrant workers and activists demanding the protection of migrant domestic workers, and an end to labour exploitation and abuse, with the aim to effectively end government-sanctioned, modern-day slavery in Lebanon. thisislebanon.info // @thisislebanon961 Sydney and Melbourne based film director Fatima Mawas has organised a campaign to help domestic workers escape Lebanon. If you’d like to get involved with this project visit the Chuffed website and search ‘flights for domestic workers fleeing Lebanon’. https://www.chuffed.org/project/flights-for-domestic-workers

 

Songs

Briggs ft. Thelma Plum - Go to War

Hoodzy - The Land