Refugee Visa Encampment Rally, Mutual Aid for the Housing Crisis with RAHU, S.L.O. Rally - Labor Hates Crips, Measuring Housing Stress in Australia

Thursday Breakfast

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We listened back to sounds and speeches from the "Unite to Support the Refugee encampment" rally, a solidarity event held by the Refugee Action Coalition last Friday 16th August in support of refugees camping out in front of the Home Affairs office on Bourke Street in Docklands. The collective of refugees who initiated the encampment are demanding permanent protection from the government and have vowed to stay put until their permanent visas are granted, despite hostilities from police and local council and harassment and intimidation from neo-nazis. You’ll hear organisers responding to confrontation by a small group of neo-nazis and speeches that resumed after the disruption by two refugee women from the encampment, Nagez and Rati. The Tamil Refugee Council, Unionists for Palestine and Campaign Against Racism and Fascism are organising another rally in solidarity with the encampment and against nazi attacks this Friday 23rd August from 5:30PM at 808 Bourke Street, Docklands.// Ishtar Hope, a North Branch delegate with the Renters and Housing Union (RAHU), joined us to recap the Housing Crisis Survival Expo protest which ran during National Homeless Week earlier this month and to discuss the importance of collective action as well as mutual aid in the struggle for housing justice, particularly for queer and trans people. Get your tickets for RAHU's Evict the Evictors fundraiser event this Saturday 24th August from 7PM at the Thornbury Bowls Club here, and check out Ishtar's political artworks by heading to @artfuldolebludger.// Shoshana and GG are members of Sicko Liberation Organism or S.L.O, a recently formed disabled/sick/mad led social and political group based in Naarm and working towards a future vision of liberation from all oppression and domination. On today’s show, they speak about the Labor Hates Crips community picket organised by S.L.O. for 11AM today outside Bill Shorten's office at Suite 1A, 12 Hall Street Moonee Ponds to protest the federal government's rejection of the Disability Royal Commission recommendations and the ongoing exploitation and abuse of disabled people in so-called Australia.// Dr Alistair Sisson, Macquarie University Research Fellow in the Discipline of Geography and Planning, speaks with us about his current research into the calculation of housing stress in Australia. His current project, ‘The politics of housing data,' is a critical analysis of the ways that contemporary housing problems are quantified and how data is used to frame the housing crisis. Alistair is an early career researcher whose work focuses on housing, gentrification, and urban development and planning.// Songs// Still No Justice - Dem Mob// Push Up - Miss Kaninna//