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Acting Up!War Crimes Start Here! A history of protesting arms exhibitions.On this edition of Acting Up! we bring you some of the history of protest against weapons exhibitions on this continent. We have a look back into the archives and listen to some 3CR coverage of the Australia International Defence Exhibition (AIDEX) in Canberra in 1991 with an edition of the Stick Together program from 7 December 1991 where presenter Dave Sweeney reports from on the ground at the protests in Canberra. First up we'll listen back to an episode of Uprise Radio from 21 September 2022 in the lead up to Disrupt Land Forces in Muggan Djin - Brisbane. James Brennan and Mercedes Zanker bri...2024-08-3000 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 29 December 2023: Uprise RadioOn today's Friday Rave, I'm giving you a taste of Uprise Radio, another program on 3CR hosted by two of my Renegade Activist colleagues, Merceds Zanker & James Brennan.But... on this week's show they broadcast my speech from the Palestine Rally... so... here goes.2023-12-2900 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 1 December 2023 DSR (reprise)A family emergency has occupied all my time the last couple of days, so I'm reprising an interview I did in June with James Brennan on the Stick Together Show about the 2023 Strategic Defence Review.2023-12-0100 min
Uprise RadioIsrael unleashes another assault on PalestineJames is joined int he studio by Jacob Grech, producer and host of 3CR's A Friday Rave, anti-military activist and researcher, Renegade Activists to talk abou the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Biden's trip to Israel and central role of the military flow of capital.2023-10-1800 min
Radioactive ShowPacific Peace Tour: Combined opposition to Talisman SabreAs the Talisman Sabre military war games held on this continent draw to close and we mark the 78th anniversary of the dropping of a nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki we take a look at the corporate greed and colonisation that see the ongoing manufacture of these weapons and create the conditions for their use.Today we’ll hear from Monaeka Flores from Guahan and Shinako Oyakawa from Okinawa who are touring some of the continent with the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network’s current initiative the Pacific Peace Tour and Conference.Monaeka Flores is a Guahan representative – indigenous people...2023-08-0500 min
Uprise RadioHiroshima Day 2023We chat to Jacob Grech from Renegade Activists about Hiroshima Day and some stories about those behind it. We also discuss nuclear proliferation and how nuclear weapons are currently being used globally.2023-08-0200 min
A Friday RaveDefence Strategic Review with Stick Together ShowJames Brennan from the Stick Together Show interviewed me on the Defence Strategic Review2023-06-2300 min
Stick TogetherForward defense AustraliaOn this episode we remember Daniel Ellsberg who passed away and his contribution to the anti-war movement and we go into more detial about the Australian strategic review on defense policy with Jacob Grech.2023-06-2000 min
Stick TogetherCampaigning with classThis episode continues the interview with James Brennan speaking to David Spratt and Jacob Grech. For Stick Together's 'Make Love Not War' episode on 15 February they spoke about the 20th anniversary of the Valentines day peace protest. This episode looks at how political organising has changed since then and how we reflect on the peace movement in its succeses and failures.2023-03-1400 min
Stick TogetherMake Love Not WarOn the Valentines day weekend in 2003 millions of people took to the streets across the world to protest the invasion of Iraq. This year marks the 20th anniversary of those protests. On this week's episode of Stick Together host James Brennan speaks with two organisers of the Melbourne protest that kicked off the weekend David Spratt and Jacob Grech.2023-02-1400 min
Uprise RadioEpisode Seventy-Something-And1- Anti-militarism through the decades-Stop AIDEX '91 to Disrupt Land ForcesThis episode of Uprise Radio features a short history of anti-arms fair protests from Iain McIntyre. And...We are joined by anti-military activist, researcher and host of A Friday Rave, Jacob Grech, to discuss the Stop Aidex '91 and APDSE campaigns in more detail, as well the importance of diversity of tactics of resistance in a rapidly shifting political, social and increasingly securitised landscape.As the military industrial complex continues in its attempts to infiltrate all aspects of the public sphere and incessantly beats the drums of war, resistance is paramount.2022-09-2100 min
Monday BreakfastAustralian Film Content in Age of Netflix, Afghanistan Update, and Australian Prison UnionsMonday Breaky October 18thwith Phuong and Jacob // 7.00AM: Annie McLoughlin on Showreel brings an excerpt from an interview where Ebony Bennett hosted Matthew Deaner, CEO of Screen Producer Australia and actor/producer Erik. They spoke on how Australian content can be maintained with the supremacy of the Streaming Services like Netflix. You can find the full interview on Australia Institute's YouTube page. // 7.30AM: Alice Golds on Wednesday Breakfast caught up with Azadah Raz Mohammed, lawyer and PHD student at the University of Melbourne, talks to us about Afghanistan under the Taliban, her own life in Kabul and experience coming to Austr...2021-10-1700 minStick TogetherStick Together - Building a prisoners unionOn this week's episode Jacob Grech interviews Brett Collins from Justice Action on life inside Australian prisons during the covid-19 pandemic and the campaign the build a prisoners union. Presented by host James Brennan2021-10-1200 min
Uprise RadioUprise Radio - Episode 37 - Home Run 4 Julian; a conversation with John ShiptonJackson and James travelled to Bendigo to speak with John Shipton, father of Julian Assange and Jacob Grech, anti-war activist and presenter of 3CR's A Friday Rave. Jacob and John are on a East Coast Tour in support of Julian - The Hoem Run for Julian, gathering community support for his safe passage home. Assange has been in poltical isolation, and more recently prison, for his journalism, which highlighted war crimes and corruption among the world's most powerful nations.2021-03-0300 min
Uprise RadioUprise Radio - Episode 32 - The Brereton Report: Australian War CrimesRegular guest Jacob Grech joins James and Jackson to discuss the findings of teh Brereton Report, which investigates accusations of war crimes by Australian SAS personel in Afghanistan during the obscure and long running conflict. Already one of America's and Australia's most unjustifiable wars, the revelations have shocked even mainstream Australia.2020-12-0200 minStick TogetherCDP & the War IndustriesIndigenous workers are fighting CDP - Kara Keyes from the ACTU explains.The closing of factories, unemployment and lack of investment in manufacturing in Australia has been turned around apparently by massive investment in manufacturing weapons and other war requirements. We hear from Jacob Grech who spoke at this years May Day Rally in Melbourne about what this means on the ground.2018-05-3000 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Ravewith James Brennan on the state of the world2018-05-1100 min