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Carceral Complex Bonus Episode: Sumarlinah Raden WinotoThis week our bonus episode features a familiar voice: its my co-host Linah! This was one of the first interviews I conducted while in Australia and it was the beginning conversation that got us thinking about creating this podcast together. Linah has experience as an activist and organizer, they are part of the organization Whistleblowers, Activists, and Citizens Alliance (WACA), and they also are a regular detention centre visitor. RESOURCES: "A refugee is a person who has fled their country of origin and is unable or unwilling to return because of a well-founded fear of being persec...

2018-07-2450 min

Carceral Complex Shen NayaranasamyShen Narayanasamy is GetUp!'s Human Rights Campaign Director. She founded the No Business in Abuse project, targeting corporate involvement in offshore detention of asylum seekers, and led #LetThemStay, which prevented the deportation of hundreds of asylum seekers to Nauru. Recently, she led GetUp's response to the Federal Government's attempts to change the Racial Discrimination Act, and ongoing attempts to change citizenship requirements. Shen's background is as a human rights lawyer and advocate, working in Australia and across the Asia Pacific on issues of economic justice and land rights. RESOURCES: No Business in Abuse [see...

2018-07-041h 09

Carceral Complex Lavanya ThavarajLavanya Thavaraja is a Melbourne based refugee activist and unionist. She is a founding member of Tamil Workers Council. *Note: Apologies on the sound quality of this recording, there is a lot of background feedback noise in this episode and it was very hard to remove. Sorry for any inconvenience to your listening pleasure. REFERENCES: 1989 Migration Legislation Amendment Act was a precursor to 1994 Mandatory Immigration Detention October 1999 – Prime Minister Howard introduced temporary visas (TPVs). Instead of getting a permanent protection visa, refugees were instead given only temporary protection (a 3 year protection visa). After that, thei...

2018-06-261h 02

Carceral Complex Uncle Jack CharlesJack is an actor, musician, potter and gifted performer but in his nearly 70 years he has also been homeless, a heroin addict, a thief and a regular in Victoria’s prisons. A member of the Stolen Generation Jack has spent his life in between acting gigs, caught in the addiction/crime/doing time cycle. RESOURCES: Interview with the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/australia-culture-blog/2014/aug/15/actor-jack-charles-the-tumultuous-life-of-a-stolen-child TEDx Talk: Mentoring Indigenous Inmates Archie Roach Foundation Shut Youth Prisons Indigenous Social Justice Association Won Wron Prison William Cooper Vicky Roach on Doin Time (3CR) "Roach was given her fir...

2018-06-121h 25

Carceral Complex Aran MylvaganamAran Mylvaganam is a spokesperson for the Tamil Refugee Council and an activist. He is a father, a unionist, and came to Australia as a refugee from North-East of Sri Lanka. RESOURCES LIST Tamil Refugee Council Santharuban Case Tamil Family (Nadesalingam, Priya, and two daughters) from Biloela https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/03/15/09/53/qld-town-wants-asylum-seekers-back-home https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/13/tamil-asylum-seekers-taken-in-dawn-raid-supported-by-tens-of-thousands What It Means To Turn Back A Boat UK activists charged for anti-deport action Australia considers fast-track visas for white South African farmers ASRC statistics on process of seeking asylum in Australia (see pg 13 specifically) Exclus...

2018-06-051h 11

Carceral Complex Samantha CastroSamantha is a mother of three, an organiser and activist committed to environmental, social, cultural and political transformation. She is the co-founder of WACA (Whistleblowers, Activists and Citizens Alliance) and currently works as the Operations Coordinator for Friends of the Earth (FoE) in Melbourne, Australia. Sam has previously worked in International Aid and Development and has a background in media production and community radio. She has a Masters in Communication with her specialty being on the intersection of Global Media and the War on Terror. RESOURCES LIST Overview on WACA’s work on rig...

2018-05-221h 14

Carceral Complex Roj AmediRoj Amedi is a writer and editor, and a Senior Human Rights Campaigner at GetUp. She was a guest editor of the 38th issue of Acclaim Magazine. She has written for The Saturday Paper, SBS, Meanjin, Swampland, Vault and and is a regular columnist for Right Now. A seasoned public speaker and commentator, Roj has appeared at the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Wheeler Centre and the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. She is also a regular host on PBS 106.7FM. Roj is of Kurdish heritage, and sought refuge after being displaced in Iraq in...

2018-05-151h 14

Carceral Complex Teaser Condemned to the LabyrinthWelcome to Carceral Complex's Condemned to the Labyrinth! This is a mini series of conversations hosted by Marlee Raible and activist Sumarlinah Winoto exploring the frustratingly complex nature of the detention industry in so called Australia. We discuss how immigration policies are designed to exhaust and confuse people seeking asylum. Connecting these issues to the ongoing discrimination of People of Colour and the hypocritical position of a colonial government attempting to control access to land they have stolen. We enter into dialogue with people who have critically thought, written and spoken about the immigration apparatus an...

2018-05-1402 min