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Monday Jul 13, 2020
Monday Jul 13, 2020
For this episode of Green Left we spoke to Socialist Alliance Moreland Councillor Sue Bolton responding to the draconian lock-down of Public Housing Estates by the Victorian State Government and why the response of the Victorian government was racist and discriminatory.
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Hosted by Alex Bainbridge Produced by Jacob Andrewartha
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Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Green Left hosted a forum on June 28 titled: Defund the police & abolish the prison system: What does it mean & how can it be done?
Here is Debbie Kilroy's speech.
Debbie Kilroy is a prisoner rights activist, founder and CEO of Sisters Inside.
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Green Left hosted a forum on June 28 titled: Defund the police & abolish the prison system: What does it mean & how can it be done?
Here is Elizabeth Jarrett's speech.
Elizabeth Jarrett is a Gumbaynggirr Dunghutti Bundjalung woman who is a leading activist in the Justice for David Dungay Jnr campaign and stop deaths in custody campaign groups in Sydney.
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Green Left hosted a forum on June 28 titled: Defund the police & abolish the prison system: What does it mean & how can it be done?
Here is Mervyn Eades speech.
Mervyn Eades is a Menang/Wilaman man from the Noongar nation and Deputy Secretary of the First Nations Deaths in Custody Watch Committee.
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Zebedee Parkes, a filmmaker himself, sits down with Markela Panegyres, a visual artist, to discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on the arts community, why art is more important now than ever and how many of the issues have existed for years and being made worse with decades of government funding cuts and devaluing of the arts in society.
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Friday May 08, 2020
Friday May 08, 2020
On April 15 Prime Minister Scott Morrison took to the media to undermine state premiers and teachers and pit parents against teachers during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The federal Coalition government is exerting a lot of pressure on states to re-open schools yet what is the reality on the ground for School Teachers working in the midst of a health pandemic?
This episode of Green Left features a round-table discussion with school teachers Mary Merkenich, David Linden, Vivian Messimeris. All three are union activists and members of Socialist Alliance. Here they discuss the issues of: whether or not it's safe to re-open schools; their responses to the pressure from the Federal government; and how are schools that are open should address health and safety for workers and students. The podcast also addresses what teachers are campaigning for during this crisis?
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Hosted by Jacob Andrewartha, Meghan Street, Zane Alcorn Produced by Zebedee Parkes
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Podcast also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Antennapod, Itunes and PodcastAddict.
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Paul Le Blanc on COVID-19, Bernie Sanders and the future of socialism
This episode of Green Left is a recording of an online forum with long time revolutionary socialist and historian Paul Le Blanc, who is based in the United States. Le Blanc addresses the character of the COVID-19 disaster under late capitalism, Bernie Sanders' campaign for preselection as the Democratic presidential candidate and the future of socialism in the US. The forum took place on April 26 and was organised by Green Left & Socialist Alliance.
Paul Le Blanc has been a member of the Socialist Workers Party (US) and the International Socialist Organisation, among other organisations. He is the author of various books including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party and editor of Rosa Luxemburg: Reflections and Writing.
Hosted by Alex Bainbridge.
Produced by Jacob Andrewartha.
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Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
The Tertiary Education sector is in crisis with the federal government signalling that it is prepared to allow the wholesale destruction of most of the higher education sectors, worse the NTEU national leadership have caused an uproar amongst NTEU members by indicating they were prepared to make concessions on pay and working conditions rather than lead a fight.
This episode of Green Left features an important discussion with Jonathan Strauss and Helen Masterman-smith both NTEU Branch Presidents with their respective universities and members of Socialist Alliance about these issues in Tertiary Education and what kind of politics and fight is needed to save our universities.
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Hosted by Jacob Andrewartha, Meghan Street, Zane Alcorn Produced by Zebedee Parkes
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Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
This episode features a recording from a online forum that was organised by Green Left titled "Covid-19 and the Global South" on April 11th and features front-line socialists from countries such as the Philippines, Malaysia, India & Iraq.
The second part includes recordings of the following speeches by
Kavita Krishnan, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) and All India Progressive Women's Association
Dr Hawzhin Azeez is a Kurdish academic and feminist who specializes in gender and Middle Eastern studies and is currently teaching in the American University in Iraq.
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Hosted by Jacob Andrewartha, Produced by Zebedee Parkes
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Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
This episode features a recording from a online forum that was organised by Green Left titled "Covid-19 and the Global South" on April 11th and features front-line socialists from countries such as the Philippines, Malaysia, India & Iraq.
The first part includes recordings of the following speeches by
Reihana Mohideen from the Party of Labouring Masses (Phillipines) speaking about the impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines and what the left is doing in response.
Dr Kumar Jeyakumar, the ‘red’ medical doctor, from the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) speaking about the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for the politics of Malaysia and what the left is doing in response.
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Hosted by Jacob Andrewartha, Produced by Zebedee Parkes
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