Crisis Accommodation, Inside Out Newsletter, Defund Queensland Police Service, Our Members Be Unlimited

Thursday, 18 August 2022 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Acknowledgement of Country//

 

News//

 

Cathryn Murdoch//

Cathryn Murdoch, a member of People from Public Housing, Defend and Extend Public Housing, and Victorian Socialists, joined Zeb and Kevin on 3CR's City Limits show yesterday to discuss homelessness crisis accommodation and the Coburg Motor Inn. Catch the rest of the show here, and tune in to City Limits on Wednesdays from 9-10AM//

 

Miranda - Inside Out//

Then we are joined by Miranda, a queer prison abolitionist. They co-founded the Inside Out solidarity network 7 years ago and have been one of the coordinators ever since. They have been involved in other abolitionist projects such as the International Day of Solidarity with Trans Prisoners. They join us today to speak on the the importance of the Inside Out LGBTIQA+ Prisoner Solidarity Newsletter and fundraiser https://chuffed.org/project/inside-out-lgbtiqasb-prisoner-solidarity-newsletter For a starting resource on abolition please visit: https://millionexperiments.com///

 

Elizabeth Strakosch - Institute for Collaborative Race Research (ICRR)//

Liz Strakosch is a co-director at the Institute for Collaborative Race Research, which aims to do politically useful, community led research grounded in Indigenous sovereignty, and she joins us today to discuss the Institute's submission co-authored with Sisters Inside to the Commission of Inquiry to examine Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence calling to defund QPS. Liz is a white Jewish heritage settler and an academic at Melbourne University whose work focuses on Indigenous policy, bureaucratic violence and comparative colonialism.//

 

Sam Wallman - Our Members Be Unlimited//

Comics journalist and cartoonist Sam Wallman joins us to speak about his powerhouse comic 'Our Members Be Unlimited', a beautifully illustrated narrative of workers and their unions that inspires hope, solidarity and radical action. 'Our Members Be Unlimited' is published by Scribe, and is now onto a second printing after selling out since its original publication in late May this year.//

 

Songs//

 

Twisting Words - Miiesha//

RĀIN - The Merindas Samuel Gaskin//

Waitin' On Ya Remix - Genesis Owusu//