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We hear Dr. Shahd Hammouri Jordanian Palestinian Lawyer speaking at the Rally for Palestine on Sunday 15 September about the importance of arms embargoes. Then from Carlos, Columbian filmaker and activist, speaking about what Land Forces is and what is planned for the activities of Disrupt Land Forces 2024. More from Dr. Shahd Hammouri: 'The Palestinian people have the right of resistance by all means consistent with the principles of the UN Charter'.
Eddie, a concerned community member involved with Disrupt Land Forces 2024 discusses this year's Land Forces expo in a wider context of weapons conferences - and actions against them. They also discuss the companies involved in the event this September, why we push back, and the various events happening throughout the week and how you too can get involved.
For our third week in a row we once again bring you the voices on the streets for a Free Palestine to the airwaves.Earlier in the week, Mercedes sat down on the steps of Victorian Parliament with Uncle Ihab of the Sit-Intifada on their 59th day to talk about their demands and encouraging you to come down.From the Free Palestine Rally held in Dandenong on the 13th of December, we hear from Minnah Sabawi, a Palestinian high school student in the south-east who has been part of the School Strikes for Palestine. Also, Rathi Bartholte, a Tamil refugee and co-founder of Refugee Women Action for Visa Equality.Riyad, a registered nurse from Gaza now living in Naarm Melbourne speaks outside the Preston Town Hall at a rally organised by Darebin for Palestine that was held prior to the Darebin Council was to vote on a motion calling for a ceasefire on Monday 18th of December.Palestinian Mauritian organiser and artist Lana speaks from the Free Palestine Rally on Sunday 17th of December.
This week we take you to the gates of Thales in North Bendigo to the blockade that shut down work for the day. Get in amongst the action with poetry, interviews, music and some rabble-rousing straight from the belly of the beast. Plus, we chat to Iain McIntyre about the release of this new book with Alex Ettling, Knocking the Top Off: A People's History of Alcohol in Australia.
We bring you more speeches from the weekly Free Palestine Rallies. The relentless bombardment of Gaza and genocide of Palestianians by Israel continues. Amplifying the voices for a Free Palestine is paramount. Speeches from:- Mae - Free Palestine Melbourne, spekaing about Union Solidarity- Dr Gary Foley - Gumbaynggirr man and Professor of History- Dr Micaela Sahhar - Australian Palestinian writer and educator- Hash Teyer - Australian Palestinian and CEO of Burgertory
We bring the voices on the streets to the airwaves this week, playing speeches from the weekly Free Palestine rallies at 12pm at State Library. Today, hear from:- Nasser Mashni - President of APAN- Moira - Yorta Yorta Boonwurrung Jewish writer and artist- Nazeem Hussain - comedian and actor
James is joined int he studio by Jacob Grech, producer and host of 3CR's A Friday Rave, anti-military activist and researcher, Renegade Activists to talk abou the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Biden's trip to Israel and central role of the military flow of capital.
We hear speeches from Sovereignty in the Time of the Voice, an event hosted by the Black Peoples Union and Renegade Activists in the lead up to the referendum. Hear from:- Keiran Stewart-Assheton - President of the Black Peoples Union and a Traditional Owner of Wani-Wandian Country in the Yuin Nation- Leah House - Ngambri Ngunnawal woman currently working at the Human Rights Commission - Victims of Crime supporting Aboriginal men, women and children impacted by crime and Vice President of Black Peoples Union- Robbie Thorpe - legend of 3CR and the resistance - Mc: Shiralee HoodYou can watch the whole panel discussion here.
We take a deep dive into the class politics and responses to Rich Men North of Richmond by Oliver Anthony, a song that shot Anthony to fame overnight.
We talk to NTEU orgainsers Liz Strakosch, Kim Alley and Thomas Waite during the record week-long strike actions by UniMelb staff and students. The strike actions comes with clear demands to force the uni to pull its head out of the sand. We also discuss the methods unionists emplyed to build numbers for a successful action.
The logging of Gumbaynggirr Country by Forestry Corporation NSW has been long and destructive, and the resistance to it has been staunch. Gumbaynggirr Elders, Custodians and accomplices set up Camp Newry to protest the destruction of culturally significant sites and it wasn't long until the cops rolled in to remove Elders and people at camp and extinguish the Sacred Fire. We talk to Maddie from Bellingen Activist Network about their staunch resistance at Camp Newry and how people can get involved.
We chat to Jacob Grech from Renegade Activists about Hiroshima Day and some stories about those behind it. We also discuss nuclear proliferation and how nuclear weapons are currently being used globally.
We sit down with Charlie Hill-Smith, writer of Crime Scene Australia: Terror Nullius, a mixed genre graphic novel that combines real Australian history and forensic sciences with contemporary social critique and satire; in a pop-culture narrative of supernatural-horror. Charlie talks about how the project came about in collaboration with the legendary Robbie Thorpe. Find out more here
It's NAIDOC Week and this week we tell about the NAIDOC Events throughout the week and play some freestyles from 3CR's 2022 Beyond the Bars program. We also play Aunty Barbara Flick's speeck from the Blak Sovereign Movement Press Conference at Parliament. Always Was. Always Will Be. Aboriginal Land
2023 Radiothon Special! Bringing the stories from Uprise Radio's Radiothon fundraiser at Hardout, reflecting on the year that's been and wax lyrical about how bloody good 3CR is! We hear an exclusive, previoulsy unreleased track from local band Standing Circle, and a special mention from Naarm-based MC Tumi the Be! And we draw the Radiothon raffle live on air!Plus, hear Noongar Woman and Member of the Blak Sovereign Movement Marianne Mackay and her speech from the BSM Press Conference in Canberra.
Australia is facing a full-blown housing emergency. House prices have been increasing faster than wages for decades, meaning that for many people, the prospect of ever owning a home is now vanishingly remote.James chats with James Plested of Red Flag about the housing crisis and Socialists solutions.
Mercedes and James speak to Omar Jabing of Free Palestine Mebourne about the commemoration of 75 years of Al Nakba. We speak about how Israel capitalises on the sale of weapons off the backs of Palestinian people, the ever-increasing illegal occupation and theft of land, the surveillance and censorship by Israel and the powerful ongoing resistance by Palestinian people.
Hear the speeches from May Day for Freedom and Liberation! Featuring: Uncle Robbie ThorpeKeiran Stewart-Assheton, President of the Black Peoples UnionTaslima Akhter, President of Bangladesh Garment Workers Solidarity
Mercedes speaks with Keiran Stewart-Assheton, President of the Black Peoples Union about the Voice, the BPU's position that "we deserve better than just a Voice", and why it's imperative to listen to grassroots First Nations voices.We also chat with Abbas Saeidavi of Voice of Revolution Iran - Melb about the recently released Manifesto for Minimum Demands by Independent Trade & Civil Organisations in Iran, the the upcoming May Day for Freedom and Liberation rally and how you can show up on the streets in solidarity.
James caught up with US radical singer-songwriter David Rovics to chat about his upcoming David Rovics - Songs of Social Significance tour, among other things. Plus, Mercedes gives a brief run down of the last couple of weeks in politics, and upcoming solidarity events.
Mercedes and James discuss the announcement of $368 billion AUKUS budget. We talk about the war machine, the military enroachment on students and workers and how we as activists might respond.
This episode of Uprise Radio features a short history of anti-arms fair protests from Iain McIntyre. And...We are joined by anti-military activist, researcher and host of A Friday Rave, Jacob Grech, to discuss the Stop Aidex '91 and APDSE campaigns in more detail, as well the importance of diversity of tactics of resistance in a rapidly shifting political, social and increasingly securitised landscape.As the military industrial complex continues in its attempts to infiltrate all aspects of the public sphere and incessantly beats the drums of war, resistance is paramount.
Uprise Radio are joined by Ben Eltham, President of the Monash Branch of the NTEU for a lively discussion on widespread casualisation, bureaucratic sleight of hand and wage theft in the tertiary education sector.
This week, Uprise Radio took to the streets. This episode will feature speeches from the 2022 Nakba Commemoration and vigil for Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was murdered by Israeli occupying forces while covering a raid on Jenin Refugee Camp in the occupied West Bank.Listen to Palestinian activists tell the stories of their homeland and of their resistance to violent settler-colonialism from 1948 until now.From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.Content warning:This episode includes stories of military and police brutality, settler-colonial violence and murder.For First Nations listeners, this episode mentions the names of people who have died.
Live and loud from the Abolition Block Party at MIDA Detention Centre. Plus, James and Mercedes discuss the upcoming election, concerns, hopes and everything in between.
Mercedes talks with Leandra, a Southern Arrernte woman living on Widjabul-Wia-bul country at Terania Creek. Leandra shares her experience of the disaster, the community response and the total lack of state support. The floods are discussed within the broader context of climate collapse, what lessons can be learnt from such disasters and how communities can prepare as they become more frequent and intense.
On today's show we talk all things parenting with Melbourne comedian Rose Callahan, whose new show Young Dumb and Full fo Mum premieres on Monday April 4th at the Butterfly Club, South Melbourne. Part of the returning Melbounre International Comedy Festival. Rose became a parent during lockdown and we talk all those baby goodies - names, sex and gender, partners, grandparents, filth and feaces. Tickets on sale now.
Today talk to Costas Laoutides, professor of international relations at Deakin and expert in secessionist struggles in post-soviet states. Much of Putins justification for this war in Ukraine rests on the supposed cause of the Donbas separatists so we chat with Costas about the voracity of those claims; the further breakdown of multilateralism and the hypocracy of Israel’s offer to mediate the parties.
Uprise Radio is joined by Sam Floreani, Program Lead at Digital Rights Watch, to discuss surveillance capitalism, misinformation and alternative approaches to internet harm reduction that don’t include censorship or encroachment on our privacy.Sam talks us through the scope and over-arching findings in the soon-to-be-released Digital Rights Watch 2021 Retrospective. The report will be launched online this Thursday the 3rd of March at DWR’s event ‘The State of Digital Rights’ at 1pm. Be sure to get along to find out more and to hear from the great line-up of speakers.
Timothy Lynch, Great Power Commentator, Professor of International Politics and Associate Dean of Arts at University of Melbourne joins Uprise Radio to unpack the situation on the Russia Ukraine border. With increased militarism globally, a less formidable USA confronts an old adversary in Russia. What is a leftist response to this unfolding crisis? What role does the USA play in global security? What is driving Russian expansion? We tackle all these questions and more in a wide ranging conversation.
James, Jackson and Mercedes return for 2022 speaking about upcoming Invasion Day activities and 50 years of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Music by King Stingray and Ciggie Witch.
For our second episode of a 2-part series on prison abolition, we are joined by sara, a campaigner for Homes not Prisons. The Victorian Government has allocated almost $189 million to upgrade the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Ravenhall. Changes tyo the Bail Act has resulted in an increase in people being held on remand, people which in the DPFC make up a majority of the incarcerated persons.
The first in a two part special on Australia's growing Prison Industrial Complex. Did you know that NSW and VIC are commiting billions of dollars to expand prison units and beds, while nearly every catagory of violent crime has decreased since 2000?Tonight we are joined by Sydney based anti-prison activist and writer Paul Gregoire to discuss the government's addiction to prison spending. We also touch on why alternarives to prison are so rarely considered, despite report after expert report showing how ineffective they are. Image by @laurachowfun
This week we have a chat and reflect on time spent in lockdown and our excitement and concerns as we begin to move out if it. Plus we bring some of our favourite tracks that have got us through. Song list:Star Wars Imperial March (Techno Club mix)- Beaten Track(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River- TISMWarning- Shy FX feat. Gappy Ranks (Bou Remix)Greenhouse Holiday- No Fixed AddressHard Drive- Evan Dando
This episode on Uprise Radio we are joined by Dr Emma Shortis and Prof. Clinton Fernandes to discuss the offensive capabilites of nuclear submarines, the geostrategic implications of AUKUS and the ever-increasing drums of war. Why does Australia continually throw it's weight behind a belligerant US, and is a future war in the Pacific inevitable?
While men's sport has been near-cannonised during Covid as essential for the community's wellbeing, and heaven and earth moved to ensure it continues, the already chronically-underfunded field of women's sport has languished with little public backlash. Today on Uprise Radio we speak to jounrlist Marnie Vinall about the unique vulnerabilities of women's sport and the unique challenges facing female athletes during this global pandemic.
Columnist for The Monthly Rachel Withers joins Uprise Radio to discuss Scott Morrison's appearance at last week's National Women's Safety Summit - where he gave the keynote speech. Despite his crafted rhetoric, Morrison's government have continually failed women in policy and personally, with numberous government figures accused of gross improprieties and archaic sexism. Rachel Withers has written award-winning coverage of women's issues and the federal government.
This week we continue our discussion on the IPCC Report #6. We are joined by Gooreng Gooreng man, Yellong Bulla to chat about Indigneous fire management, the importance of centring First Nations voices in climate change adaptation and mitigation, overcoming the "doomer narrative" of climate crisis, sovereignty and land back. Always was. Always will be, Aboriginal Land.
Uprise Radio is joined by legendary Friends of the Earth campaign coordinator Cam Walker to discuss the release of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 6th Assessment Report, released August 8th 2021. While wildfires rage in Greece, Turkey and the North American drought worsens, Australia's political leadership remains obstinantly wed to fossil fuel producers and climate denialists. Cam talks about the report's strengths and weaknesses and campaigning opportunites in the lead up to the looming federal election.
There is a tendency in the mainstream progressive press to paint the anti-lockdown protestors as conspiratorial, uneducated, anti-science, selfish bogans - and some of those in attendance may fit the bill perfectly. But it is also important to remember that people are protesting due to some catastrophic policy failures - many of which result from various governments treating this health crisis as a security threat.
We are joined by conceptual artist, theorist and spokesperson for the Nicholas Building Association, Dario Vacirca, to hear about the campaign to Save the Nicholas Building from sale and potential development, and to ensure that it remains a space for artists, galleries, art-adjacent businesses and the creative soul of the CBD. Presented by James Brennan, Jackson McInerney and Mercedes Zanker with special guest, Dario Vacirca
Mercedes brings a report from the Coronial Inquest into the death of Raymond Noel during a police "intercept" in 2017. We hear music from Ziggy Ramo and discuss the merits of American comedian Bo Burnham's pandemic-themed Netlfix special Inside.
Uprise Radio are happily joined by their new co-host Mercedes and discuss the plans and upcoming actions of the Save Fawkner Outdoor Pool Committee - who are opposing unjust council planning in Melburne's oft-looked-over North.
Jackson and James are joined by formers guests for the 3CR Radiothon show, rasing money for another year on the air!
James and Jackson are joined by two high school educators, who have been doing some ongoing work with teenagers about respectful relationships. This has become a hot button issue in many high-school with many young people inspired by the actions of Grace Tane and Brittany Higgens, and many others who have shared their stories via social media as part of the Me Too and March4Justice events. The shameful accusations levelled at Cristian Porter and his shameless response, alongside the sexist bumbling of scotty from marketing has highlighted the the inadequacy of political leaders to change their own workplace cultures, let alone provide any justice to women who experience sexual violence. Schools are more than ever being asked to educate children on these matters - but are they getting the support they need from Government?
James is joined by Free Palestine activists and organisers to discuss the compelted and planned protests in Melbourne in response to a fresh wave of violence by Isreali armed forces in May 2021.
James and Jackson are joined by Patrick Gordan from the Renters and Housing Union of Victoria, who discusses the imapct on renters of ther ecently cancelled hosuing suppprts during Covid 19. With an end to mortgage freezes and rent increase moratoriums - how are the precariusly housed going to cope in a still drastically Covid-effected economy. patrick gives some good tips to keep ahead of rapacious landlords and real estate agents.
With Scotty from Marketing recently annoucing a commission into the terrible mental health of soldiers, and new Minister for Defence Peter Dutton complainging the defence forces have come to be too "woke" Jackson and James analyse the defence industry and it's inevitable outcomes.
Jackson and James speak with Brad Homeward, XR activist, organsier and spokesperson about the recent Spring Rebellion, and the challegnes facing popular organising during a pandemic.
James reviews two new releases - Nomadland and Judas and the Black Messiah, while Jackson speaks with John Simons about a broad-based coalition between Vic Socialists, Gereens, Extinction Rebellion and Bike West to improve bike safety in the city of Maribyrnong.
Jackson and James travelled to Bendigo to speak with John Shipton, father of Julian Assange and Jacob Grech, anti-war activist and presenter of 3CR's A Friday Rave. Jacob and John are on a East Coast Tour in support of Julian - The Hoem Run for Julian, gathering community support for his safe passage home. Assange has been in poltical isolation, and more recently prison, for his journalism, which highlighted war crimes and corruption among the world's most powerful nations.
Covid 19 has proven that many jobs can be done remotes - but this dopens't always mean that they should be. Call Centres in Melbourne are quickly realisign they can save squillions on inner-city rents and have their workers (often casual and with minimal security) cover the over-heads of a working office. Jackson and James chat with a call centre worker and an Organiser from Untied Workers Union about who is benefiting from the new wave of "Enforced Flexibility".
After the realese of the Australian Labor Party's damning report into their own catastrophic failure in the 2020 Federal Election, Jackson and James are joined by Harry Stratton, a lawyer, anti-corruption activist and ALP analyst from Sydney to ask - what would affective federal Labor leadership look like, and why can't anyone in the party find it?
On Inauguration Day in the United States, Jackson and James are joined by author and historian Dennis Glover to reflect on Trump's legacy and whether his poltical relevance will continue - particulalry on the far right. Dennis discusses the parallels between Donald and another vitriolic nationalist narcissist named Adolf, as well as Dennis' new novel Factory 19 - which highlights the 'lost working class' in which Trump and other populists have found such fertile poltical ground.
With Black Lives Matter making terrific ground in 2020 and another Invasion Day looming, James and Jackson are joined by Pay the rent Campaigner Jess Morrison about the Pay the Rent movement, and why it is different from other indigenous fund-raising initiatives. With special audio from Uncle Gary Foley.
Regular guest Jacob Grech joins James and Jackson to discuss the findings of teh Brereton Report, which investigates accusations of war crimes by Australian SAS personel in Afghanistan during the obscure and long running conflict. Already one of America's and Australia's most unjustifiable wars, the revelations have shocked even mainstream Australia.
James and Jackson look at recent developments in Venzuella, Eduador and Bolivia with former host of Stick Together on 3CR Denis Rogityuk, who has spent the last few years following campaigns in South America as a journalist for Jacobin and the Chilean paper El Ciudadano and as a communications advisor to former Ecuadorian president Rafeal Correa.
Uprise Radio is joined by regular US poltical commentators, comedian Melissa McGlensy and Jacobin editor Daniel Lopez to digenst the fall-out on Biden v Trump - still to close to call as we went to air.
After her commanding electoral victory, James and Jackson cast the microscope over our near neighbour and their exciting young leader Jacinda Adern - is she the darling of the liberal left that progressive Australia years for? Or just another marketing exercise?
Jackson and James talk about 2 films The Social Dilemma & The Great Hack. The Social Dilemma was released on Netflix Australia in August as is a documentary aimed at late high school which attempts to explain the economic underpinnings of free internet services like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Google. In explaining how these products make huge sums of money by making human behaviour the product to sell, The Social Dilemma touches lightly on the role this enormous market is playing to undermine democracy and human agency. The Great Hack (released last year) deals more closely with the political impacts of this technology and the economic logic it supports - exposing the role data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica played in manipulating voters via Facebook during the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US Presidential Election.
Today on Uprise Radio we are talking about local council elections and the Victorian Socialists expanded plans - the youngish party is running council candidates in 5 electorates across Melbourne, giving people in Hume, Maribyrnong, Darebin, Moreland and Melbourne City a chance to put an anti-capitalist presence into their local council machinery. Local councils are often characterized as the petty, grasping cousins of Oz’ large political family - filled with puppet candidates driven by developers and single issue obsessives. Yet the local council also shapes a community’s values and can project and protect citizen’s aspirations towards economic justice, access to amenities and a vibrant community life. More recently we have seen small communities activate through councils to provide subsidised clean energy, transport and even broadband. We are joined today by two Victorian Socialist candidates - Liz Walsh is running in Maribyrnong and Daniel Taylor is running in Moreland. Voting will be done via post and closes Friday 23rd of October.
Comediene Melissa McGlency and Jacobin's Daniel Lopez return to Uprise Radio to discuss the looming US Election. With James and Jackson they try to paint a rosy picutre of Trump v Biden and search for optimism in a poltical landscape blighted by proto-fascists and milqutoaste centrists. The fail fairly spectaculalry to get excited.
Jackson and James welcome Sarah Ward (Yana Alana, Queen Kong) and Mitch Jones (Captain Ruin, Autocannibal, Caravan of Dooom) to the show to talk about the role of art-making in a critical, empathetic society. Covid has seen the arts landscape radically altered and Sarah and Mitch reflect on ways and means of making meaningful, emancipatory art that is accesible to all, often with little government assistance. The imapct of capitalism on arts practice is explored, from alienation, hyperindidualism, mental health and the self as product. Proscriptions are made for "poetic terrorism": a spontaneous arts practice embedded in community, accesible to all, which detonates holes in the grey veneer of capitalist realism. Featuring music by Justin Townes Earle and Mike Noga.
James is joined by Liz Ross to discuss a lifetime of activism, from worker's rights to gay liberation in Australia. Liz' new book follows the struggles of workers to resist the introduction of ALP's Prices and Income Accord of 1983, from conception through its phases of implementation. Liz tells a story of class collaborationsim, wealth transfer, and worker's being short changed. through the Accords, Labor facilitated a transition from worker's gains in the 60s and 70 to neoliberalism by the 1990s.
Author Sam Oldham and Publisher Alex Ettling talk about Sam's new book "Without Bosses" a celebratory history of the high-watermark of Australian Unionism in the 1960s and 70s. Featuring Green Bans, Pink Bans, the BLF and the connection between union power and the ALP's creep rightward under Hawke and Keating onwards - listen in for an inspiring chat!
Part 1 of a special series on Interventions, a new left-wing publishing imprint. James and Jacksn speak to founding publisher and writer Alex Ettling about the project, as well as recently published auther Sam Oldham. Discussion includes why publishing is essential to a thriving counter-culture, the continued relevance of books, and how Interventions plans to beam this content straight to the proliatariat's collective bookshelf.
Spirit of Eureka was formed in 2004 to remember the success of the eureka stockade and reflect the voice of Australia’s ordinary people and the struggle for present day endeavours and struggles for justice, democracy and sovereignty. It has an online forum coming up on July 4th - US Independence Day - titled "Does Australia need independence from the USA? We are lucky to be choices by Spirit of Eureka convenor Shirley Winton one of the forums key organiser and a long time anti war activist and Professor Clinton Fernandes, one of the forum’s key speakers and an expert in the future operational environment for Australia’s military.
Jess Morrison is a member of the adminstrative arm of the Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective. In the wake of enormous protests Australia wide in support of Blak Lives Matter and highlighting the horror of indigenous deaths in custody and racist policing, Jess joined Uprise Radio to tell listeners about Pay the Rent. It is is a Soverignty-based scheme designed by mob and for mob. It's not a donation, it's a recognition that non-aboriginal Australians live and work on stolen land. Paying reperations for the theft and the ongoing violence of colonialism is the first step. If you know it always was and always will be aboriginal land, then Paying the Rent is a logical step. Tune in and get invovled.
Today Jackson and James are talking about Superannaution - a critical and oft-ignored part of the countries economy. Superannuation is the combined savings of millions of workers - toally more than $3 trillion in Industry (Union-influenced) Funds alone. Daniel Lopez (contributing editor at Jacobin Australia and Victorian Socialists member) and Dave Kerin, (Founder of the Earthworker Energy Cooperative, a worker-owned business) join us to talk about what this huge chunk of cash could eman for our future - if we get it right.
What are universities for? Are they for education, research or profit? The CV19 lens has brought into sharp focus some of the cracks in the sector. Liz Crash and Dr Mark Bahnisch join James and Jackson to discuss these complex institutions - and why so many are outraged by recent efforts, by unis and unions alike, to recoup income lost due to COVIC19.Over the past 30 years it appears our universities have changed. They once were elite centres of learning available to the privileged few - but where depth and quality of research were paramount and academics (and students) were supported to achieve this. Today university is an option for many, presented as a near necessity for securing an ever dwindling array of secure vocations. While costs may be deferred, they have skyrocketed; face-to-face teaching hours have plummeted; degrees are no guarantee of secure employment and neither is being hired by the university itself!
Last week the price of oil went negative - producers had to pay people to take it off their hands. But what does this mean for our green future or a just transistion? James and Jackson discuss.
The economic impacts of the COVID19 pandemic are epic. Housing, a key human need in the best of times, is essential for the social distancing needed to curtail the spread. With many losing jobs and income, paying the exorbitant rent in Australian cities is even more challenging. Despite some positive noises, governments have been slow to protect renters, while property and business owners have recieved generous compensation through legislation. Jackson and James talk to Rent Stike Australia organsiers both before and after the Andrews Government announces new tenancy laws in Victoria.
Matilda Byrne, expert in automated weapons systems and media coordinator for Safe Ground, joins James and Jackson for a discussion of A.I. and warfare. Automated Weapons Systems are swiftly moving beyond unmanned drones and taking on some of the cutting edge developments in Artifical Intelligence, meaning robots will soon be making critical decisions of life and death.
Sean Kenny from the Australian Unemployed Workers Union joins James and Jackson to discuss the continuing obstinance of the federal government with regards to Newstart recipients. With Covid 19 forcing everyone to stay home, Job Seekers are still being asked to risk their lives to attend 'Mutual Job Obligations'. Meanwhile, surveillance of the unemployed continues online...
James is joined by American comedienne and writter Melissa McGlensey and Jacobin editor Daniel Lopez to discuss the propects of progressive candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on what is Super Tuesday in the US democatic primaries. Featuring music from Public Enemy.
Join Jackson and James for a discussion of the stations radical history and radical present. We speak with subsctibers, listeners and some staff to get an insight into the role 3CR plays in the activist community of so-called Melbourne.
After the horror bushfires of the Australian summer, Jackson and James discuss the dearth of leadership on Climate Change, at home and abroad.
With James oversees, Jackson has a solo discussion on the catastrophic bushfires sweeping Oz's east coast, the new powers requested by Scotty from Marketing and the year ahead.
Happy New Year!Jackson and James cast an eye of 2019 with (ahem) 20-20 vision, plus play a few tracks from the year that was.
James has just returned from Japan and he and Jackson are talking about pacifism, article 9 and East Asian geopolitcs.
Save Footscray Park is a community campaign dedicated to opposing the development of a Melbourn Victory Soccer Training Facility in the public Footscray Park - a rare patch of green space in the West of Melbourne. The issue has dvided residents so Jackson and James spoke to Maribyrniong residents while in the Park, and also had Sharon Schwab from the SFP Committee in to talk about the issue. Just a few weeks later SFP would emerge victorious in this struggle.
China is at the centre of Episodes 3 and 4 of Uprise Radio. While fierce street protests calling for increased personal freedoms continue to rock Hong Kong, Beijing and Mainland China remains a closely controlled country with a growing global influence. Fear of all-things China (Sinophobia) is on the rise in Australia, with commentators across the political divide concerned about our place in the global order as the traditional ally of the US becomes less powerful and predictable at the same time.Episode 4 focuses on the stereotypes of Chinese people living in Australia often trotted out by the mainstream media. As the Hong Kong protests continue and Chinese students in Australia take to local streets to voice their political opinions, the image of the 'brainwashed' mainlander is common. But what role does Australians' own entrenched ideas - ideas of white settler-colonialists - play in their creation of the other?Jackson and James are joined by PHD-candidate and writer Shan Windscript to talk about the impact nascent white nationalism has on Australia's attitute towards Chinese students. Also discussed is the political awareness of Chinese nationals and future opportunties for collaboration to build a better world in both countires. Shan's recent writing can be found in Made in China Journal. Featuring music from NAS, Tears for Fears and Gang of Four and audio from Southpark.
China is at the centre of Episodes 3 and 4 of Uprise Radio. While fierce street protests calling for increased personal freedoms continue to rock Hong Kong, Beijing and Mainland China remains a closely controlled country with a growing global influence. Fear of all-things China (Sinophobia) is on the rise in Australia, with commentators across the political divide concerned about our place in the global order as the traditional ally of the US becomes less powerful and predictable at the same time.Of particular recent concern in Episode 3 is the role China plays in Australia's Universities and Research departments. Rhetoric denouncing China's methods abounds, as does the constant foreshadowing of conflict, but how does China compare to Australia or other western powers in regards to military aggression and technology, police brutality, surveillance and civic control. Jackson and James are joined by Malay-Chinese socialist and student Maddy to talk about the country on everybody’s lips. Featuring music from NAS, Tears for Fears and Hedgehog and audio from Edward Snowden.
Episode 2 of Uprise Radio covered the Morrison Government's continued attacks on Australia's most vulnerable - from illegal Robo-Debts, to draconian demerit systems that withhold payments, to drug-testing and the systemic failure of the Jobseeker network. These techiniques of demonising and attacking the poor are used around the world to divide the working class and distract from the true causes of widespread inqequality. The prime focus of the epsiode is the planned expansion of the 'Indue' Cashless Debit Card. Currently 35,000 Australians, many of whom are indigenous, are already saddled with this oppresive and demeaning scheme which quarantines 80% of income support - with horrendous results. The government are aiming to expand this cashless system to every government support recipient under the age of 35. Meg, Jackson and James are joined by Amanda from Facebook activist group "The Say No Seven" who have been fighting the CDC since it's inception. Also featuring music from Pema International, Ty Segall and The Dils and audio from Juice Media and David Lloynhelm.
This first episode of Uprise Radio aired on 20/09/19 - the day of the Global Strike for Climate - and weeks before Extinction Rebellion (XR) lauched their October Spring Rebellion, a program of non-violent civil disobediance around Australia. This episode looks at the history of Extinction Rebellion, its success in Europe and its organisational aims and modes. Hosts Jackson and James are also joined at the 20 minute mark by Dr Christine Canty, an XR Families Organiser to talk about non-violent direct action, children and the climate crisis and disrupting business as usual. Also featuring the voices of Zane Alcorn, Greta Thunberg, Roger Hallam and Gene Sharpe, and music from Jimmy Cliff, Elf Transporter, 1975 and Big Thief.