Perth Indymedia

Year 11 North Albany Senior High School student and climate activist Kaelin Abrahams joined Sara Morrison and Alex Whisson to discuss the local plans for the 20th September school strike for climate action.

Author, commentator and activist John Rees spoke to Alex Whisson about the latest twists and turns in the saga that is Britain's attempt to leave the European Union.

Brian Mier is an author, journalist and co-editor of the news site Brasil Wire. He recently returned from Rondonia, one of the Amazonian states in Brazil most affected by the devastating fires that have shocked the world.

West Papuan activist Wiwince Pigome joined Alex Whisson to discuss the recent escalation of pro-independence protests in the Indonesian province, and the repression meted out by the Widodo government.

Mark Goudkamp is an activist with the Refugee Action Coalition in Sydney, and a founding member of Teachers for Refugees. He spoke to Alex Whisson.

We speak to Aran Mylvaganam from the Tamil Refugee Council concerning the attempted deportation of a Tamil family from rural Queensland.

We speak to Professor Damien Kingsbury regarding the declassification of US Intelligence documents connected to the 1999 East Timorese Independence.

We speak to Jennifer Kaeshagen, the director of First Nations Homelessness Project and Vachel Spirason, the Community Legal Education Coordinator for Tenancy WA about issues facing people in public housing in WA.

We speak to Jane Hammond from Lock The Gate Alliance regarding the WA Labor government's lifting of the ban on fracking.

We speak to democracy activist Jojo about the ongoing demonstrations in Hong Kong.

Kevin Ovenden, author of Syriza: Inside the Labryinth, speaks to Alex Whisson about the results and political lessons from the recent Greek parliamentary elections.

Campaign coordinator for the Australian Council of Social Services' Raise the Rate campaign, Pas Forgione, spoke to Alex Whisson about the need to increase the Newstart Allowance, which hasn't been increased in real terms since 1994.

In February 2018, in an extremely important development that might yet prove to be a historical turning point, teachers in the so-called red state of West Virginia, a Republican Party-supporting state which helped sweep Donald Trump to the White House, decided to go on strike. Remarkably, this would be the beginning of a teachers' strike wave that would engulf not only other red states like Oklahoma, Arizona and Kentucky, but eventually spread to Oakland and Los Angeles in California. Eric Blanc is a former teacher and writer whose Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics, published earlier this year by Verso Books, is the single best account of the still ongoing strike wave.

We speak to Fremantle councillor Rachel Pemberton regarding Fremantle's new Walyalup Reconciliation Action Plan.

We speak to award-winning activist and former Manus Island detainee Abdul Aziz Muhamat about his experiences inside Manus Island Detention Centre and his ongoing struggles for justice and freedom.

Could hosting US marines in Darwin increase the likelihood of Australian involvement in foreign conflict? We speak to Nick Deane from the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network.

As the City Of Perth roll out new CCTV cameras with facial recognition software we speak to the Vice President of Civil Liberties Australia, Tim Vines, about potential privacy and civil liberties concerns.

We speak to Stop Adani campaigner Scott Harney on the current state of the campaign to stop the carmichael coal mine.

We speak to Jess Beckerling from the WA Forest Alliance about a growing blockade in our south-west and the need to save the Lewin karri forest.

All eyes turned to Venezuela on April 30th, when the self-declared interim President Juan Guaido announced what he called "the final phase" of his effort to wrest power from the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro. Brazil-based freelance journalist Michael Fox was in Caracas on the day of the attempted coup. Speaking late last week to our own Alex Whisson, Michael began by outlining the day’s events and what he personally witnessed on the streets of the Venezuelan capital.