Radio A & A:Incarcerated Trans and Gender Diverse Support Fund, Things Will Be Different doco, Alana Lentin: ‘critical race theory’ debate, General Mills Strike

Thursday, 24 June 2021 - 7:00am to 8:30am
General Mills Strike image by Sam Wallman

Acknowledgement of Country

 

News Headline

 

Coronial Inquest into death in custody of Raymond Noel Lindsey Thomas

RISE statement on Refugee Week/Day

 

We hear a segment from Episode 2 of Radio A & A, a new program on 3CR talking about community and individual accountability, transformative justice, support, healing & prison abolition in Narrm. In this interview Anne-lise & Ani speak with Aunty Lisa, Keith and Iris about the Incarcerated Trans and Gender Diverse Community Support Fund

 

Lucie McMahon (director and producer), Celeste de Clario Davis (cinematographer and producer) and Will (Walker st tenant) join us to talk about their work-in-progress documentary film Things Will Be Different, which focuses on neighbours Will and Najat who were displaced from their communities when the Walker Street Public Housing Estate was sold for private development. You can donate to support the production of this documentary here. 

 

Alana Lentin, Associate Professor of cultural and social analysis at Western Sydney University, joins us to unpack some of the current conservative uproar about 'critical race theory', and to discuss the importance of critical engagements with racism. Her latest book, Why Race Still Matters, was published by Polity Press in 2020.

 

Tom Sayers is a United Workers Union Spokesperson and Union Organiser who is on site with striking General Mills workers at Rooty Hill. Tom joins us this morning to discuss the ongoing strike action by workers at General Mills who are fighting for wage increases and to protect conditions. Support their campaign here and follow the hashtags #PassOnOldElPaso #WorkersRaiseWages

 

Songs

Still Standing - Kobie Dee ft. Liyah Knight

Tip of the Spear - Pataphysics