Kaliyugan Pathmanathan and Sarah Ross discuss the importance of the voices of refugees in the movement for refugees, strategies for effective refugee activism and who is to blame for harsh policies towards asylum seekers?
Sarah Ross is an activist with the Refugee Rights Action Network: http://rran.org/
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:
https://soundcloud.com/perth-indymedia/tamileelamcricket
www.tecricket.com/
facebook.com/TamilEelamCricket
You can read Tad Tietze's article 'Why We Shouldn’t Blame Voters For Our Appalling Asylum Policies', which was referred to during the interview, here: https://newmatilda.com/2014/07/14/why-we-shouldnt-blame-voters-our-appalling-asylum-policies/
This interview was played on the 28th of December 2015 episode of RTR92.1FM Indymedia. You can listen to this episode at this link (just select 28th December episode on the little calendar on the left): rtrfm.com.au/shows/indymedia/
