Human Rights

Housing is a Human Right

Join the team from 3CR's Roominations program at the Where The Heart Is Festival on Friday 21 March. The show will be broadcasting live between 12 and 2pm from the only annual festival set up specifically to provide an enjoyable day out for Melbourne's homeless population. There are lots of free activities and services available to access, and entertainment provided by local artists.

3CR Station Tours

Do you want to see how a busy radio station works? Curious about how nearly 400 broadcasters come together to produce radio 24/7? Interested in being in a studio? Want to find out more about 3CR's unique radio philosophy? 3CR runs Station Tours for groups and organisations such as tertiary and secondary institutions, special interest community groups, conference visitors and just about anybody else! For more information click here!

Freedom Fighters - Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner
This year marks the 172nd anniversary of the execution of the two Freedom Fighters; Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner. They were executed on 20 January 1842 on the corner of Bowen & Franklin Sts Melbourne.


3CR is serving up a juicy menue of listening delights for you this Summer.

Nelson Mandela
We present a very special breakfast on the 25th December as we dig into the archives to bring you a unique address by Nelson Mandela to the Victorian trade union movement in 1990 at Melbourne Town Hall. Mandela had come to thank them for their solidarity work and for their support in bringing down the apartheid system in South Africa, and 3CR was there broadcasting live. Listen in Wednesday 25 December from 7am.

Historic Broadcasts
Wednesday
December
3CR has an amazing history of broadcasting important political and activist events. Here are a few from our archives.
Sovereignty and Struggle for Independence

Human Rights Day is fast approaching! On Sunday 8 December, 3CR is holding a Human Rights public forum to increase awareness and build support for sovereignty and independence in Australia, Sri Lanka and West Papua.

3CR wins CBAA Award for Beyond the Bars

We are very happy to announce that 3CR has won the 2013 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) Award for Contribution to Indigenous Broadcasting for Beyond the Bars! The award was accepted by Shiralee Hood via phone at the 2013 CBAA Conference in Sydney on the weekend.

Beyond the Bars CD Launch

Once again 3CR is very proud to announce the launch of the Beyond the Bars CD. This is the 10th CD to feature highlights from the Beyond the Bars NAIDOC week broadcasts. The launch will feature excerpts from the CD, a panel discussion with Vickie Roach, Shiralee Hood and Daniel Skipper, MC'd by Beyond the Bars founding member, Kutcha Edwards and with music by Johnny Mac. Thursday 21 November 6-8pm at the New Ballroom, Trades Hall, cnr Victoria and Lygon Sts, Carlton. Light refreshments and non-alcoholic beverages available. Please come to the launch and celebrate with us the achievements of this amazing project.

3CR Fundraiser - Pussy Riot

Join 3CR for an evening of punk and protest on the big screen with Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer. Five women wearing brightly coloured balaclavas rushed the altar of a Moscow Russian Orthodox Cathedral with microphones, speakers and a guitar and launched into a "punk prayer" in protest against Vladimir Putin's "excessive nationalism". Come to the 3CR film fundraiser and get the real story of what happened next.

Freedom Flotilla

The Freedom Flotilla to West Papua was an unprecedented event of creative resistance to the Indonesian occupation of West Papua. Highlighting the abuses of human rights and land rights carried out under the occupations of their lands on an international stage. The Freedom Flotilla sucessfully completed their sacred mission on Friday 13 September 2013.