Building Unity Against Fascism study circle, Palestinian solidarity with Muhib Nabulsi, Jesse Noakes on housing justice for Aboriginal families, Trasharama A-Go-Go Film Festival, Blockade Australia
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In our first conversation, we will be learning more about Building Unity Against Fascism; a six session study circle co-hosted by Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party in Reservoir. Immersed in the daily fight against racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-trans bigotry, and labor exploitation, Radical Women believes in multi-issue organising around the needs of the most marginalised. The Freedom Socialist Party is a feminist, working-class organisation, fighting for an end to all capitalist exploitation and oppression. Register and find out more about the Building Unity Against Fascism study circle here.//
Muhib Nabulsi is a Palestinian writer, editor, filmmaker and activist living in exile on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation. He joins us today to speak about the fight for Palestinian liberation and solidarity. Muhib mentioned the following in the interview with Inez, following the Black People's Union and RMIT University's partnerting with ''so called Israel'' arms company Elbit Systems, and showing up for the Palestinian Solidarity Rally this Sunday 12pm at the State Library Victoria in Naarm (so called Melbourne).//
Housing justice campaigner Jesse Noakes caught up with Priya earlier this week to discuss the campaign to stop the Western Australian government's Department of Communities from evicting Aboriginal families from public housing and into homelessness. While public housing is frequently referred to as the benchmark for secure rental tenancy in Australia, the Stop Evicting Families campaign highlights how state and territory governments can choose to end public housing tenancies with no reason, process for challenge or sufficient notice to tenants. These decisions are disproportionately made about Aboriginal families in Western Australia's public housing system, and Jesse speaks about the dire consequences for families as well as their fight to end arbitrary evictions. Find out more about the campaign by heading to StopEvictingFamilies.org, and keep an eye out for news later today about one family's racial discrimination complaint about their eviction notice from public housing, which is currently under investigation by the Australian Human Rights Commission.//
We will also be having a phone conversation with the founder of the Trasharama A-Go-Go Australian Short Film Festival Dick Dale. Trasharama A-Go-Go Film Festival caters to the low-budget/no-budget end of the movie market focusing on genre films (Horror/Sci Fi) under 15 minutes in length, it is being held at the Nova Cinema this weekend and Dick is in Naarm/Melbourne to host the festival and screen his feature "Ribspreader". We will be talking to Dick about the video nasty genre, the Trasharama A-Go-Go film festival and his feature "Ribspreader".//
Blockade Australia is an organising network established in response to the destruction of the ecosystems that support all human and non human life. The network helps to build a political movement that can physically resist Ausrtralia's planet destroying operations with disruptive and targetted action that shuts down the everyday functioning of this machine. Today we will hear the first instalment of a three part conversation with "James" an activist from Blockade where we discuss Blockades mission, the reasons he got involved with the organisation, the role a commitment to social and environmental justice plays in Blockades work and the importance of direct action.//
Emily Cowlrick, Inez Winters, Leila Baptist, Priya Kunjan
