Shows
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 28th February 2025 RELAUNCHLIVE! from Hardout Bar in Preston... A Friday Rave Relaunch with Jacob Grech & new Co-Host Mercedes Zanker2025-02-2800 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 13 September 2024: Land Forces Timor Leste SymposiumToday I talk with Clinton Fernandes about the Syposium on Timor Leste's 25th anniversary and with Merceds Zanker about the Land Forces 2024 protests.2024-09-1300 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 30 August 2024: Fathers' DayToday is a special Fathers' Day edition...What does that mean? listen.2024-08-3000 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 23 August 2024 Missiles, Subs, NukesToday, a new missile factory.... repairing nuke subs in WA... australian nuclear surface ship... B2 Stealth Bombers in QLD2024-08-2300 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 16 August 2024 AUKUS AUSMINAUKUS, AUSMIN and Keating2024-08-1600 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 28 July 2024: Australia's arms trade historyToday a bit of background on how Australia got into the whole arms industry bullshit.2024-07-2600 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 19 July 2024How Australia is complicit in Genocide.Albanese taken to the International Criminal Court.Faux outrage with the CFMEU2024-07-1900 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 05 July 2024A bit about yesterday's protest at Parliament House2024-07-0500 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 28 June 2024JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE!... oh, and Austal.2024-06-2800 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 21 June 2024A note to the crazies: Workers are not the enemy!2024-06-2100 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave RADIOTHON SHOW 14 June 2024ITS RADIOTHON TIME and I'm joined by Mercedes Zanker from Uprise Radio! who's in the studio doing a gallant job of panelling while I'm crouching out of the rain under an awning outside a hospital in Sydney... but that's another story. If you haven't donated to keep A Friday Rave and 3CR on air its not too late do so. go to 3CR.ORG.AU.... go there now!2024-06-1400 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 7 June 2024Today we talk about the space lainches on indigenous land in SA as an introduction to the Whole of Government Approach to defence2024-06-0700 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 24 May 2024A short piece today as I'm stuck in Sydney.. the news of Julian Assange's right to an appeal2024-05-2400 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 17 May 2024A little talk about Eisenhower's rave amongst other things.2024-05-1700 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 10 May 2024A bit of a trubute to a mate and a yarn about the intrusion of the US military2024-05-1000 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 26 April 2024 Palestine AfricaThe Lab, a film about using Palestine as a test range. What's going on in Africa2024-05-0300 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 19 April 2024It takes time to raise children to kill2024-04-1900 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave: Assange, AUKUS II, Japan, Missiles, Grave Robbing VulturesA mixed bag today:Ole Cotton Eye's off the cuff remarks on AssangeJapan and AUKUS Pillar IIAir Based Defence Architecture (ffs)and the grave robbing ghouls, vultures and parasites that others may call venture capitalists and PR firms (and former Ministers)2024-04-1200 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave: Global Supply Chain.. how we can affect things 5 April 2024The privatisation of the global supply chain for the F-35s is causing major headaches for the Pentagon... but presents us with an opportunity.2024-04-0500 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave: Alice Springs and DarwinThe real crime spree in Alice Springs and expanding the military in Darwin for Uncle Sam2024-03-2900 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave Rheinmettal Arms Deal 22 March 2024Today I talk about the Rheinmettal export deal with Germany and how it changes everything we previously took for granted about the Australian Arms Export Drive2024-03-2200 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Act 2023The scariest piece of Legislation that you've never heard of: the Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Act 20232024-03-1500 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave: IWD Special, Pine Gap, HTA, RosebankLiz Turner and Mercedes Zanker present A Friday Rave for International Womens Day today. They put together a great show as expected and I hope that we don't need to wait until next International Women's Day for them to take it over again!They talk Pine Gap, International Solidarity and arms industry.They're also joined by Amanda VillaLobos from Dandenong for Palestine to talk about Rosebank Engineering in Knox.2024-03-0800 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 1st March 2024The Defence Industry Strategy.along with this week's grants to weapons manufacturers.and a little about CEA, Droneshield, U-Neek and everyone's favourite, Elbit.2024-03-0100 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 23 February 2024 Assange & Military IndustryToday I'm joined by Felicity Ruby to talk about the latest hearing in the medieval cosplay that is the witch trial of Julian Assange.2024-02-2300 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 9 Feb 2024 More on HTAToday I give an expanded version of a speech I gave at a rally at HTA this morning, going into the reasons behind the rise of the Military Indusytrial Complex's influence in Australia2024-02-0900 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 2 February 2024 HTA GlobalToday we look at HTA Global... making a killing from their factory in Campbelfield2024-02-0200 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 19 January 2024 The Big PictureA look at the big picture via the Pope's message!2024-01-1900 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 12 January 2024: St Africa at the ICJToday I talk a little about Sth Africa's case calling for an injuction against Israel pending the Genocide hearing2024-01-1200 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 5 January 2024: How did we get here? PalestineToday a bit of a Rave about why... why, why why why WHY?2024-01-0500 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 15 Dec 2023 Australia's role in the War on PalestineTalking about the role Australia plays in the ongoing attempts at genocide of the Palestinian people2023-12-1500 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 8 December 2023 the new US Base in WAA new space base has been announced for Exmouth in WA... but what is it for and why is it there.2023-12-0800 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
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave: 24 November 2023 Why are we doing this?Why the hell are Australian politicians assisting in the execution of war crimes?2023-11-2400 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 17 Nov 2023: New AUKUS LegislationToday a bit on the Renegade Solidarity Audio Force, the Curious Case of the Bomb Disposal Expert and the Exploding BBQ... and finally new legislation that ties us closer than ever into the US Military Industrial Complex2023-11-1700 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 10 Nov 2023 Palestinian Gas/ Pine GapThis week, a somewhat scattered show as I was in less than ideal conditions to put a show together. But still...! Gas & Oil implications of the Gaza War and the Role of Pine Gap in the War.2023-11-1000 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 3 Nov 2023: Palestine RalliesThis week, I talk about the Loud Jew Collective Rally at the Parliament Gardens yesterday and then go off on somewhat of a tangent on why and how we can support the Palestine Rallies. an insight into Jacob's mindset.2023-11-0300 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 27 October 2023: Whats with the ALP & Palestine?Whatever happened to Albanese's support for Palestine?A little rant about politics2023-10-2700 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 22 Oct 2023... What's the US up to in Israel?We need to be able to tell the difference between the tail and the dog...2023-10-2000 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
A Friday RaveAFridayRave13Oct2023 Voice PalestinePalestine and the Voice Referendum.2023-10-1300 min
A Friday RaveAFridayRave06Oct2023 The New EstablishmentThe way that Capitalism is being sold is changing2023-10-0600 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 29 Sept 2023 - AUKUS, Philippines, Niger, ClimateAUKUS's role, military excercises with Philippines, Austin in Africa. Militarism's effect on climate2023-09-2900 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave 22 Sept 2023 Latest in West Africa. Depoliticising the LeftLatest in West Africa: Niger, Nigeria & Cameroon.A yarn about the depoliticisation of the Left2023-09-2200 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave: The Indigenous Voice. Australian Subimperialism in the Philippines2023-09-1500 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave: 50 Commemoration of Chile Coup2023-09-0800 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave: Preemptive Coup in Gabon2023-09-0100 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave: More Australian Military Purchase. Is BRICS Getting Off The Ground2023-08-2500 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave - More on Niger and Nigeria2023-08-1800 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave - Niger2023-08-1100 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 RaveA Friday Rave - Latest Military Spending2023-07-2800 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave... Lawyer X2023-07-2100 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave: The Russian 'mutiny' & short emeoriesThis week I talk about the historical revisionism of Simaon Crean and the ALP in regards to the war in Iraq and I also have a different look at the 'mutiny' of the Wagner Group2023-06-3000 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
A Friday RaveA few masters...2023-05-1900 min
A Friday RaveA Friday RaveJacob raving about the US mid-terms. the new Israeli government and the latest in Australian military news.2022-11-2500 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
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave - COP 26A rant connecting the two major issues putting Australia on the world stage: COP26 and AUKUS2021-11-1200 min
A Friday RaveRaucous Anti-AUKUS Caucus IIExcerpts from the Second Raucous Anti-AUKUS Caucus held on 4 Nov 20212021-11-0500 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave - Dave SweeneyJacob is having a chat with Dave Sweeney about some of the broader nuke issues around AUKUS2021-10-2200 min
A Friday RaveAustralian Prisoners Union: Julian Assange: AUKUS & Defence IndustryAt the heart of every just cause is the cause of justiceWhat do the issues of prisoners' rights, AUKUS & Julian Assange have in common?2021-10-1500 min
A Friday RaveRaucous Squawkus: Its the Anti-AUKUS Caucus!Excerpts from Renegade Activists' Raucous Anti-AUKUS Caucuswww.renegadeactivists.org2021-10-0800 min
Monday BreakfastThe Raucus Anti-Aukus Caucus, The F List Report, Tarkine Rainforest Campaign, and Australia's Role in Chile's 1973 CoupMon Breaky 4/10/21with Phuong and Jacob // 7AM Jacob Grech on Friday Rave speaks with Clinton Fernandes about Australia's role in the 1973 coup against democatically elected Chilean President - Salvador Allende and the reasons behind Australia's involvement. Clinton Fernandes is Professor of International and Political Studies at UNSW. // 7.30AM: Meg Kimber on City Limits speaks to Scott Jordan, a Takanya/Tarkine campaigner from the Bob Brown Foundation, about the campaign to stop a toxic tailings dam in this irreplaceable temperate rainforest. // 7.45AM: Phuong speaks with Mercedes Zanker, organiser of The Raucus Anti-Aukus Caucus and fellow 3CR presenter on Uprise Radio. Renegade Acti...2021-10-0300 min
A Friday RaveAUKUS 12021-10-0100 min
A Friday RavePolice V Protests and AUKUSJacob on the Police v Protests and of course, AUKUS2021-09-2400 min
A Friday RaveAustralia's Secret Involvement on the Chile coupClinton Fernandes, talks about Australia's role in the 1973 coup against Allende... and the reasons behind Australia's involvement.2021-09-1700 min
A Friday RaveWith Clinton Fernandes on the US AllianceJacob speaks with Clinton Fernandes on the power dynamics of the US Australian Alliance.2021-09-1000 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave - Joined by Peter Cronau on the 70th anniversary of the ANZUS TreatyPre-recorded on Wednesday 1 Sept due to Covid restrictions, Peter Cronau joins Jacob in the virtual studio to discuss our alliance with the USA.2021-09-0300 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave with Anthony Snowden of Box4Jacob is joined by Box4's Anthony Snowden about his life fiming protest rallies and his recent work filming the anti-lockdown rallies.2021-08-2700 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave on AfghanistanA Friday Rave's take on Afghanistan? Its the money of course.setting it up for a more benevolent takeover.... before we let China become too involved.complete with a little backgrounder on Ahfar Ghani and a couple of snippets of Julian Assange on Afghanistan from ten years ago.2021-08-2000 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave with Indigenous defence spending &Felicity Ruby on AssangeJacob speaks with Felicity Ruby on the preliminary hearing to determine the grounds that the US can appeal the No Extradition verdict of Julian Assange's case.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Also on the show, jacob exposes how Federal Government grants earmarked for Indigenous Australians ends up in the coffers of the Military Industrial Complex.Tags:Julian AssangeIndigenous Defence & Infrastructure ConsortiumBarpaNational Indigenous Australians Agency2021-08-1300 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave - Recent US troop moves in the Asia PacificJacob discusses recent US troop deployments in the Asia Pacific and a short piece on Hiroshima from last year's award winning short film Hibakusha .2021-08-0600 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave back on home turf with Defence IndustryJacob on some recent Australian defence industry moves... in particular, Accenture.2021-07-3000 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave with Dr Yoni Molad on the PandemicJacob is joined by Dr Yoni Molad to discuss the philoshophy of the reaction to the Corona Virus2021-07-2300 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave A mixed bag: Parklea Prison Riot, Pandemic, Siggi Thordarson & CubaJacob discusses the left's response to the pandemic, Cuba, the Parklea prison 'riot' and Siggi Thordarson.2021-07-1600 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave - Episode 202107021700Jacob was a bit sick with a croaky voice, so he strung together other pieces on the Assange case from other sources.2021-07-0200 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave - Episode 202106251700A mixed bag this week, with Barnaby Choice, the 'right to protest', ICAN & union action at the Atomic Weapons establishment in the UK.2021-06-2500 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave - Episode 202106181700RADIOTHON...and a bit about NSW copper's Fixated Person's Unit and Friendly Jordie.2021-06-1800 min
A Friday RaveA Friday Rave - Episode 202106111700Radiothon with Joe Lorback of the Solidarity Sound System, Nasser Mashni of Palestine Remembered and Australian military Whistleblower David McBride2021-06-1100 minA Friday RaveA Friday Rave - ASIO Threat AssessmentJacob asks 'what are the real threats to Australian security?'2021-03-1900 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 minA Friday RaveA Friday Rave: In conversation with Clinton Fernandes2020-08-0700 minA Friday RaveA Friday Rave - Hacking, Privacy & ASIOOn A Friday Rave today, I want to have a yarn about the hacking into the Dept of Defence database, facial recognition tech company Clearview and the former head of ASIO going through the revolving door.2020-03-0600 minA Friday RaveA Friday Rave - Trial of Julian AssangeToday of course I'll be talking about the show trial of Julian Assange.2020-02-2800 minA Friday RaveA Friday RaveThis week's rave is on Julian Assange as we prepare for the rally, broadcast from the wide open road with help from Leanne in the studio.2020-02-2100 minA Friday RaveA Friday RaveThis week I'll be raving about the upcoming trial of Julian Assange and, being Valentine's Day, love and marriage...wtf? And OF COURSE, its 3CR Subscriber Week, so call in on (03) 94198377 and subscribe.2020-02-1400 minA Friday RaveA Friday RaveToday’s rave centres around The State of the State of the Union, and making the world safe for capitalism!2020-02-0700 minA Friday RavePalestine - Yemen - TrumpMore Israeli atrocities. Netanyahu's graft, ongoing Australian involvement in the war on Yemen2019-03-2900 min
A Friday RaveBrexit to Christchurch2019-03-2200 min
A Friday RaveAttacks on WikileaksFrom the international stage to anti Assange graffitti on the streets of Brunswick... from the Grand Jury to undercover cops in Melbourne2019-03-1500 min
A Friday RaveAvalon Military ExtravaganzaA running commentary on the planes flying at the Arms Show as we speak.2019-03-0100 minA Friday RaveA Friday RaveA bit of history about the events leading up to Al Nakba in 1948.2018-05-1800 minA Friday RaveA Friday Ravewith James Brennan on the state of the world2018-05-1100 min
A Friday RaveJacob speaks with David Bradbury about his new fil; America and MeJacob is joined in the studio by David Bradbury to dicuss the launch of his new film America and Me and end up talking about everything from Hanging Rock to the hopeful imaginations of the Old Testament Prophets.2018-03-1600 min
A Friday RaveAustralia's New Satrap: Admiral Harry Binkley Harris JrJacob raves about the new US Ambassador Admiral Harry Binkley Harris Junior.2018-03-0900 minA Friday RaveWith Matt Wilson talking police matters & the rise of the rightJacob is joined by Matt Wilson who was having a yarn about police matters like their response to protests and their role in the rise of the right in Australia.2017-12-0100 min