7:15AM // Phuong spoke to India, who is a community organiser in the Act on Climate collective at Friends of the Earth Melbourne and a local in the City of Port Phillip. The Port Phillip Council is looking to establish no camping zones in the area that would target rough sleepers. India has lived in the area her whole life and has always loved the diversity of people around Port Phillip. She is a member of Care Not Cruelty - a coalition of locals and people from Progressive Port Phillip, RAHU, the Greens and Vic Socialists organising to oppose local law changes to homelessness in the City of Port Phillip.
7:30AM // Last night, community members rallied at Coburg Town Hall to save the social worker position at Merri-bek libraries. In February, Merribek Council ended the successful 2-year pilot program for a permanent social worker in the library, and had refused to commit to the program. The protest called on the council to fund a full time in-house library social worker in this time of crises, recognising that libraries are the heart of our communities. This segment includes speeches outside Coburg Town Hall, starting with rally MC Yas, member of Vic Socialists, who provides some context to the community campaign.
7:45AM // Laura John, who is an Associate Legal Director at the Human Rights Law Centre in their Migration Justice team. Laura was back on 3CR Tuesday Breakfast to update us on the migration laws that were passed by the Albanese Government and the Coalition in November of last year. More specifically, we discussed the government's new third country deportation powers and the case that has just returned to the High Court, challenging these laws.
8:00AM // Jules from Queers for Palestine Naarm speaking about Queer Cinema for Palestine and the BDS movement. For more details on the event tonight, as well as all the BDS movement actions this week, check out @freepalestinecoalition.naarm on Instagram
8:15AM // Greta Carroll, a campaigner from OCEAN the Otway Coastal Environment Action Network. Greta joined us to chat about OCEAN's campaigns potential gas exploration and gas developments off the coast of Victoria and the potential threats they pose to the environment in the Otway region. She also discussed OCEAN's recent actions and what's next in the campaign.
Songs:
Phuong, Juliette, Fiza, Elena, Julia, Kannagi
