Perth Indymedia

Indymedia speaks to filmmaker Dujon Pereira about his documentary Black Hole which reveals unseen footage of coal, corruption and community resistance of one of Australia’s most controversial mining projects – Whitehaven’s Maules Creek Coal Mine in the Leard State Forest.

Indymedia speaks to International Solidarity Movement activist Phoebe on the escalating violence in the West Bank over recent weeks.

We speak with Refugee Rights Action Network campaigner Sarah Ross on the horrific suicide of Afghan asylum seeker Khodayar Amini who self immolated whilst on a video call to her and another refugee campaigner. In his message before he died he said - "My crime was that I was a refugee. They tortured me for 37 months and during all these times, they treated me in the most cruel and inhumane way, they violated my basic human right and took away my human dignity...They killed me as well as many of my friends such as: Nasim Najafi, Reza Rezayee and Ahmad Ali Jaffari"

Jenny Ejlak from Reproductive Choice Australia is interviewed by Katie on the various state and territory laws on abortion in Australia, exclusion zones, Planned Parenthood and #shoutyourabortion. You can find out more about Reproductive Choice Australia here: http://www.reproductivechoiceaustralia.org.au/ You can also read Ejlak's article exploring some of the issues covered in the interview and more here: http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/weblog/article/a-health-issue-not-a-criminal-one/ This interview was played on the 19th of October 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 19th October episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/

Journalist Michael Brull discusses what has changed and what hasn't as a result of the government's new rhetoric around Islam and terrorism, in the wake of the Parramatta shooting. For more on this, see Michael Brull's article 'The Parramatta Shooting: New Rhetoric, Same Old Problem?': https://newmatilda.com/2015/10/07/parramatta-shooting-new-rhetoric-same-old-problem/ You can view more of Brull's work here: https://newmatilda.com/users/michaelbrull This interview was played on the 12th of October 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 12th October episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/

Recently returned from Greece, where she covered the some of momentous struggles that took place there for the newspaper Red Flag, Melbourne-based journalist Colleen Bolger speaks to us about the results of the Greek elections and what might happen next.

Author, blogger, commentator and former Guardian columnist Richard Seymour discusses the stunning emergence of socialist backbencher Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the British Labour Party.

Kaliyugan Pathmanathan is Project Coordinator of Tamil Eelam Cricket. Kaliyugan had to leave Sri Lanka as a refugee to Australia himself and he co-founded this project in order to create a platform for the Tamil diaspora around the world to participate in national and international cricket competitions and also to bridge the gap between newly arrived Tamils in the local community and the pre-existing Tamil community. Online Crowd-funder: https://www.chuffed.org/project/tamil-eelam-cricket/ Other links: http://www.tecricket.com/ facebook.com/TamilEelamCricket twitter.com/TE_cricket instagram.com/TE_cricket Song: Ulagathin Sondhakaran (Man who owns the World) Album: Azhagu Puratchi (Beautiful Revolution) Artist: Kaber Vasuki / facebook.com/kabervasukiofficial This interview was played on the 21st of September 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 21st September episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/

Meredith Hammat, Secretary of UnionsWA, discusses the union campaign against the Liberal government in the Canning By-Election and beyond, due to this government's attacks on workers. You can find out more about this campaign here: http://www.unionswa.com.au/canning_by_election_about_jobs_bring_it_on This interview was played on the 14th of September 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 14th September episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/

Maria from the Self-Organised Solidarity Initiative for Refugees based in Athens speaks to Indymedia's Alex Whisson about the amazing things ordinary Greek people are doing to provide real solidarity and assistance to the refugees making their way across the border. This interview was played on the 7th of September 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 7th September episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/

Samah Sabawi is a Palestinian Australian Canadian writer and human rights advocate. She discusses the ongoing oppression Palestinian people face, including between widely publicised bombing raids. She also reads her poem 'Red Shirt, Blue Jeans'. Check out her website http://talesofacitybythesea.com/ which also has links to her social media pages. She recommends people look into the following resources: http://www.bdsmovement.net/ https://electronicintifada.net/ http://www.palestinechronicle.com/ You can find out more about the upcoming Boycott Divestment & Sanctions Conference Samah will be speaking at here: http://vpm.org.my/events/events-calendar/eventdetail/24/18/boycott-divestment-sanction-conference This interview was played on the 7th of September 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 7th September episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/

The Trade Union Royal Commission has descended into high farce with head commissioner Dyson Heydon ruling, of course favourably, on his own ability to continue the job. We speak to CFMEU National Secretary Michael O'Connor about what lies behind this discredited investigation, and touch on the reasons why the union is campaigning against Australia's free trade' agreement with China. Image via @CFMEU_National

Jasmina Brankovich on the recent ‪#HESTAdivest‬ win which has seen industry super fund HESTA divest from its Transfield Services holdings for that company's involvement in the Australian detention industry. Image via Sarah Maynard (@sarahmaynard191) | Twitter

For the radiothon edition of Indymedia, we speak to renegade Catholic legend Father Bob Maguire about the importance of political struggle, love and spirit.

Capitalism is in crisis, the politics of austerity and debt are crippling much Europe and the world. Meanwhile we face some of the biggest environmental challenges any generation has ever faced. But within the social, environmental and economic crisis, alternatives are being born. The squatted social centre movement in Spain has played a key role in shaping alternatives to Capitalism. Indymedia spoke to sociologist and political scientist Dr Miguel A. Martínez who has been a long time squatter, researcher and activist in this movement. Miguel is a member of SqEK (Squatting Europe Kollective) and has published numerous articles and books about squatting and urban movements (available here: www.miguelangelmartinez.net www.sqek.squat.net)

Celeste Liddle is an Aboriginal, working class, feminist, which she argues makes her intersectional "by default". Intersectionality is a theory which highlights the similarities between different forms of oppression and the importance of opposing all oppression, rather than just focusing on one form. Look into Celeste's work @Utopiana on Twitter and her blog is: http://blackfeministranter.blogspot.com.au/ This is a talk from the 2015 Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) Oceania conference, which was held in Melbourne: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/conference-schedule/

Coggo from the Melbourne Street Medic Collective discusses police violence against medics and anti-fascist protesters at the recent counter-rally against Reclaim Australia in Melbourne. For more on this, see: http://melbsmc.org/rallies/medics-statement-on-july-18-anti-racistfascist-demonstration/

Adjunct Research Fellow Curtin University in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, Director, Director Games and Interactive at FTI and founder of Games We Play Kate Raynes-Goldie on our Orwellian times and the gaming industry in Australia.

All eyes remain on Greece in the wake of what many observers are calling an act of historic capitulation by the Syriza government, with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agreeing to provisional terms for a third bailout of the depressed Mediterranean economy. Indymedia’s Alex Whisson spoke to Greek socialist and anti-austerity activist Petros Constantinou about the latest developments in this pivotal struggle.

Debriefing the weekends Reclaim Australia v Racial Equality clashes over the weekend with Love Makes a Way campaigner Jarrod McKenna, Refugee Rights Action Network WA organiser Victoria Martin and comedian and Muslim woman Leah Aliyyah Cornish-Ward.