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Dear friends & comrades,
We’re back with a special DOUBLE EPISODE of the Justice for Palestine Magan-djin podcast. If you’ve been following the Justice for Palestine movement, you’ll know that there’s been a lot happening here in so-called brisbane over the past few weeks, mirroring a massive upsurge in Palestinian justice organising globally. From the extraordinary encampments being established by students on university campuses across the globe (including the University of Queensland, here in so-called brisbane); to growing union solidarity movements pushing for work stoppages at export ports, construction sites and factories; to the freedom flotilla desperately working to find ways to provide direct aid to the people of Gaza; and the many countless discussions, meetings, pickets, teach-ins, rallies, and blockades happening across the world: work is happening on every horizon, and there’s more still to come.
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If you’ve been listening to the podcast so far, you’ll know we focus our attention on the ways that organisers are agitating for freedom here in so-called australia. We try to draw out the links and connections between this movement and the longer histories of anti-colonial, anti-racist, Indigenous and abolitionist struggle on this continent and across the world. And one of the most consistent themes in this podcast - and in this movement - is the recognition that all oppression is connected; that practices of dispossession, incarceration, exploitation, occupation, and subjugation must be challenged everywhere if the current “colonial-racial-capitalist-heteropatriarchy” is to be truly abolished.
This kind of revolutionary, transformative work is difficult, messy, and imperfect. And one of the main reasons that we started recording and building this Justice for Palestine podcast was to carve out space to think more deeply about key sites and strategies in the struggle for a world in which every Palestinian - and therefore, everyone - might be free. In the last episode, we set out the foundational commitment to Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions as a primary part of the Justice for Palestine strategy, especially here in so-called australia. This week, in this special DOUBLE episode, we look at another key site in the global movement for freedom and justice: the military industrial complex and the global weapons trade.
In this episode, Roshan draws together speeches from protests and blockades, pre-recorded discussions and older interviews and recordings that focus on weapons manufacturing, development and trade. Through these speeches and interviews, we learn about some of the ways that australian companies are directly supporting the continuing genocide in Gaza (and West Papua, as well as the continuing targeting of First Nations people on this continent), and the role that the australian government is playing in exporting weapons and components to support Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
We also hear a lot in this episode from activists and organisers who are working to directly challenge companies implicated in the genocide in Gaza, including Ferra Engineering in Tingalpa, who are responsible for manufacturing the component of the F-35 bomber jets that enables them to drop bombs. Ferra Engineering is one of the key targets at the moment, given their role in providing essential components to some of the world’s largest military aerospace companies including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon.
But Ferra Engineering are not the only company implicated in the military industrial complex in so-called Brisbane. Companies like Heat Treatment Australia, or HTA, in Coopers Plains; L3 Micreo in Eight Mile Plains; G&O Kert in Acacia Ridge; and TAE Aerospace in Bundamba, Ipswich, are all deeply implicated in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. You can read further details about these companies and others around the world via the Workers For Palestine factsheet:
* ‘Who Arms Israel’ fact sheet: https://www.workersinpalestine.org/who-arms-israel#australia
* Declassified Australia article: AUSTRALIA’S ROLE IN THE BOMBING OF GAZA: https://declassifiedaus.org/2023/11/17/australias-role-in-the-bombing-of-gaza/
* ABC News article: Controversial Israeli weapons company awarded $917 million Australian army contract: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-28/israeli-weapons-company-awarded-australian-army-contract/103519558
Over the course of this episode, you’ll be hearing from a bunch of local organisers and activists, including: Birri Gubba & Wanjiriburra activist and film-maker Sam Woripa Watson; Palestinian academic and activist Remah Naji; Palestinian poet and activist scholar Dr. Jamal Nabulsi; Muslim community organiser and activist Binil K. Mohideen; long term peace activist Lenny & Wage Peace organiser Margie; Students for Palestine UQ member Louisa McCarthy; Papuan organiser Ronnie from the Free West Papua movement; community organiser and activist Dane; Justice for Palestine Magan-djin founder and organiser Phil Monsour; and Greens Member for Griffith Max Chandler-Mather.
You’ll also be hearing excerpts from an incredibly insightful discussion between Palestinian organiser Amal Naser and Greens Senator for New South Wales, David Shoebridge, which we are grateful to be able to share with you all. We strongly recommend that you go and watch the rest of that discussion here. In Amal & David’s conversation, they dig into some of the fundamental challenges of examining the military industrial complex in so-called australia, and the damning lack of transparency around weapons exports and imports in this country. For more details:
* ‘AUSTRALIA EXPORTED $1.5 MILLION WORTH OF WEAPONS TO ISRAEL IN FEBRUARY 2024, FRESH DFAT DATA SHOWS’ from David Shoebridge’s office: https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/australia-exported-15-million-worth-weapons-israel-february-2024-fresh-dfat-data
These companies receive considerable political support in so-called australia, including through the deep relationships between weapons manufacturing companies and australian universities. In this episode, we learn a little about the ways that universities and research institutions are co-opted into the military industrial complex: “cutting edge” research put to the service of manufacturing death and destruction. You can read more about this here:
* Declassified Australia article: REVEALED: THE PENTAGON’S INFILTRATION OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES: https://declassifiedaus.org/2024/04/18/revealed-the-pentagons-infiltration-of-australian-universities/
We’ll also be following this thread further in a future episode of the podcast, which will focus more directly on the student encampments growing at universities across the globe, and the role of universities in enabling and sustaining genocide in Gaza. Remember to subscribe to our substack if you want to make sure you get notified when new episodes are released!
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All in all, another huge DOUBLE episode of the Justice for Palestine Magan-djin podcast. A reminder, as usual, that the primary purpose of this podcast is to encourage listeners to get actively involved in the movement for Palestinian liberation, in whatever ways you can. If you’d like to get in touch with us to talk about ways you might be able to support the work of Justice for Palestine Magan-djin, Shut Down Ferra, Queensland Muslim Incorporated, Students for Palestine UQ, and other affiliated groups, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We strongly recommend that you sign up to the Justice for Palestine Magan-djin mailing list, if you haven’t already, to make sure that you always hear about upcoming events. And if you have any questions, criticisms, or reflections on this episode or the podcast so far, please let us know.
This podcast is one small contribution to the much bigger and ongoing work of collective political education and solidarity building. It is dedicated to everyone who is contending with the relentless violence of colonial racial states: from the Palestinians in Gaza and worldwide who are grieving for their loved ones and for their lands, to West Papuans struggling against Indonesian occupation, to First Nations peoples across the world fighting against ever-changing forms of settler colonial violence and dispossession, to people in prisons and detention centres fighting for freedom and justice. We stand together in the fight for freedom, without exception.
Yours in solidarity,
Anna (for the Radio Reversal collective)
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Dear friends & comrades,
Welcome back to the Radio Reversal podcast! Happy Sunday, and Eid Mubarak to those of you celebrating this week.
We are very excited to be releasing Episode 7 of our current podcast series, following the Justice for Palestine movement here in so-called brisbane, and working to understand the political and moral imperatives of this moment. This series is a small labour of love and solidarity dedicated to everyone who is contending with the relentless violence of colonial racial states: from the Palestinians in Gaza and worldwide who are grieving for their loved ones and for their lands, to West Papuans struggling against Indonesian occupation, to First Nations peoples across the world fighting against ever-changing forms of settler colonial violence and dispossession.
In this series, we are working to honour the commitment of everyday people struggling here on the ground, as well as learning from the long-standing and sustained struggle of Palestinian people across the world in their ongoing fight for their homelands. One of the things that comes up consistently across this series is the recognition that struggles against oppression and colonisation must be fought everywhere at once. If you’ve been listening to the past few episodes of this podcast, you’ll know that this is what we’ve been tracing for the past few episodes. We’ve been following both long-standing and emergent solidarities: between people struggling against colonialism and racism globally, between people fighting systems of incarceration and surveillance, between people experiencing the brutality of oppression and subjugation in diverse forms.
In this episode, we begin to turn to the everyday work of liberation, and the ongoing struggle to build modes of resistance that can disrupt systems of oppression wherever they take root. We begin in this episode with the Palestinian-led movement that uses strategies of Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions to build global support for Palestine. In broad terms:
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.Israel is occupying and colonising Palestinian land, discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel and denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the BDS call urges action to pressure Israel to comply with international law.BDS is now a vibrant global movement made up of unions, academic associations, churches and grassroots movements across the world. Since its launch in 2005, BDS is having a major impact and is effectively challenging international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.
This episode is timed to coincide with a major upsurge in global BDS organising. As many of you likely already know, April 15th has been called as a date for a global economic blockade of Israel, including a call for workers across the world to strike from their jobs and participate in direct action to disrupt business as usual for companies complicit in and benefiting from the genocide in Palestine. Here in so-called brisbane, organisers from Shut Down Ferra have called for a half-day blockade of Ferra Engineering in Tingalpa, kicking off bright and early at 5am. You can find more details of that event here and here.
In this episode, Roshan digs into the archive to pull out some older conversations about using strategies of Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions here in so-called brisbane, as well as field recordings from Justice for Palestine events over the past decade. You’ll hear a lot in this episode from Justice for Palestine organiser Phil Monsour, who has been one of the architects of the BDS movement here in so-called brisbane. You’ll also hear some older interviews from the Radio Reversal crew, including the Anna’s (Cerreto & Carlson) speaking with the indomitable Palestinian organiser, writer and theorist Jeanine Hourani in 2021. You’ll also hear field recordings from the more recent Radio Reversal archive, including discussions of the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions strategy at community meetings and rallies. We’ve also borrowed some archival material for this episode from the Brisbane BDS YouTube page. You can find the videos of earlier Justice for Palestine events and BDS actions here: https://m.youtube.com/user/BrisbaneBDS
If you want to dig deeper into the material you’ve heard in this episode, we recommend checking out Jeanine & her sibling Hasib’s article for Overland, which is referenced in our 2021 interview: https://overland.org.au/2021/06/the-politics-and-solidarity-of-food/
You can find lots of detail about the origin and goals of the BDS movement and how it supports the struggle for Palestinian liberation by heading over to the BDS Movement website, the BDS Australia website, and the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network.
There’s also some helpful explainers in the following news reports from Al-Jazeera in 2018:
As always, another jam-packed episode of the Justice for Palestine Magan-djin podcast. A reminder, as usual, that the primary purpose of this podcast is to encourage listeners to get actively involved in the movement for Palestinian liberation, in whatever ways you can. If you’d like to get in touch with us to talk about ways you might be able to support the work of Justice for Palestine Magan-djin, Shut Down Ferra, Queensland Muslim Incorporated and other affiliated groups, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We strongly recommend that you sign up to the Justice for Palestine Magandjin mailing list, if you haven’t already, to make sure that you always hear about upcoming events. And if you have any questions, criticisms, or reflections on this episode or the podcast so far, please let us know.
Yours in solidarity,
Anna (for the Radio Reversal collective)
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In Episode 1.6 Until All of Us are Free, None of Us are Free we focus on the fundamental connections between the struggle for an end to the genocide in Gaza and the liberation of Palestine and Palestinian people with oppressed peoples everywhere. In particular in this episode we recognise interconnections and entanglements across the movements for prison abolition, queer and trans liberation, and for disability justice.
You’ll hear recorded speeches from Turtle Island (US)-based Black lesbian abolitionist Prof Andrea Ritchie at last November’s Sisters Inside conference, and from trans woman and abolition organiser Necho Brocchi at Magandjin’s Trans Day of Resistance gathering that took place on November 25, 2023. Both of these speakers trace the importance of recognising the co-constitution of struggles for an end to incarceration and to oppression and violence against trans people with the struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and to end the genocidal settler-colonial occupation of Palestine.
Also in this episode, you’ll hear Han in deep discussions with queer Palestinian academic and community organiser Fahad Ali, and with Wiradjuri, Irish and Flemish disability justice organiser and writer Vanamali (Mali) Hermans. And we have extracts from an interview conducted by Anna in collaboration with Belle from 4ZZZ’s Only Human with deaf Palestinian Mazen Al-Khaldi, who went viral for his video sharing how to sign “Free Free Palestine” in Auslan, the sign language of the majority of the australian deaf community.
If you’ve just found your way to our podcast, our aim is to archive the ongoing movement for Palestinian liberation as it unfolds on the unceded lands of the Yuggera, Yugarapul, Jagera, Turrbal and Yugumbeh peoples, across so-called brisbane and the surrounding cities of south east queensland. You can start here with Episode 1.6, but you might want to scroll back a bit further to begin with Episode 1.1 Settler Colonialism and the Current Crisis.
This podcast is produced and recorded on unceded Jagera & Turrbal country. Our deepest respects to the rightful owners of these lands, and to all First Nations peoples listening. Musicking on these episodes is by cyberBanshee (aka Han), and our series artwork is by Anna.
If you’re interested in accessing or supporting the audio archive from which this podcast draws, please get in touch with us via substack.
For some additional reading and listening on this topic, check out:
Why Palestinian Liberation is Disability Justice | Alice Wong
Palestine is Disabled | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Disability Justice Network of australia Palestine Solidarity Statement (this one is from 2021 – the disability community has long recognised israel’s tactics of violently disabling Palestinians en masse)
Stronger Than Words – Deaf in Gaza | Al Jazeera Remix
Statements from Queers in Palestine
Pinkwashing | BDS Movement
Why Queer Solidarity With Palestine is Not "Chickens for KFC" | Saed Atshan
Black Queer & Trans Justice | Triple A Let's Talk Social Justice (Kevin Yow Yeh)
The central purpose of this podcast is to honour the power of Palestinian resistance in this moment, and to learn from the struggle as it unfolds here in Magandjin. If you’re listening in and you’re not yet involved in the Justice for Palestine Magandjin movement, please consider signing up to our mailing list so that you can get up to date details about upcoming events, calls-to-action, and ways to support the movement for Palestine. You can also follow us on facebook, instagram and twitter to stay up to date. You can also follow the amazing work of Queensland Muslim Incorporated, and campaigns directly targeting the expansion of the weapons industry here in so-called queensland, including Shut Down Ferra and Wage Peace.
If you’re listening in from further afield, we suggest following the incredible work of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) to keep up to date with organising happening in your area.
We also encourage everyone who is getting involved in the struggle for justice for Palestine to also recognise the intimate connections between settler colonialism and racial violence in Palestine and the continuing violence of occupation on this continent. There is a rich and powerful tradition of Blackfulla Palestinian solidarity in this place, which you can trace here and here.
We also encourage listeners to get involved with and support campaigns against settler colonial violence on this continent, including the work of the Black People’s Union, Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, Stop Blak Deaths in Custody, Treaty Before Voice, the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, and independent Black media sites like Amy McQuire’s incredible substack, Black Justice Journalism.Solidarity with all Indigenous peoples’ globally struggling against injustice, extraction, occupation, and oppression.
Yours in the strength of our combined resistance,
Han for the Radio Reversal Collective
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In Episode 1.5 Palestine to the Pacific: Land Back & Climate Justice we focus on understanding the connections between the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the crisis conditions of climate change that are destroying Indigenous knowledges, communities, kinship networks and lifeworlds, all across the world.
Settler-colonialism violence works to steal the land from the people and remove Indigenous Peoples from their land. Climate change is an outcome of this alienated and exploitative theft of land – and so often, the people on the frontlines in the struggle against climate change are Indigenous Land and Water Defenders and First Nations Peoples. These struggles are interconnected. In this episode, we explore these interconnections, and the ways that climate justice demands, and indeed cannot exist without, justice for First Nations Peoples. We look at entanglements between fossil fuel extraction and settler-colonial regimes from Palestine to the Pacific, land degradation and contamination as a technique of dispossession and genocide, and the failures and complicities of mainstream/whitestream environmental movements. And we turn and turn again to land, learning to hear ‘land back’ as a rallying cry for climate justice, and learning to understand how climate justice is predicated on the return of land to Indigenous Peoples. We also look at the ways that movements for climate justice and Palestinian liberation are working together to contest the destructive forces of colonialism, capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy and white supremacy that are the root causes of the crisis conditions of the present. You’ll hear recordings and excerpts from a speech by Aunty Linda Fairbanks at a march for Palestine held on the so-called gold coast in January of 2024, an interview with Aunty Tracey Hanshaw at the Rising Tide Blockade, an interview with Guy Rithani from the Pacific Climate Warriors, reflections from Dr Jamal Nabulsi at Weaving our Stories, hosted by 350.org, Our Islands Our Home, Gudanji for Country & Conscious Mic. And throughout the episode, you’ll hear Anna and Malaak Seleem from Justice for Palestine - Magan-djin in conversation on 4zzz (102.1fm) in November last year, drawing some of these threads together to help us interrogate the relationship between climate change and racial colonial capitalism, to connect the struggle for a Free Palestine with the struggle for climate justice, and to help us better understand why land back is climate justice, and why there is no climate justice without justice for the dispossessed. If you’ve just found your way to our podcast, our aim is to archive the ongoing movement for Palestinian liberation as it unfolds on the unceded lands of the Yuggera, Yugarapul, Jagera, Turrbal and Yugumbeh peoples, across so-called brisbane and the surrounding cities of south east queensland. You can start here with Episode 1.5, but you might want to scroll back a bit further to begin with Episode 1.1 Settler Colonialism and the Current Crisis.
This podcast is produced and recorded on unceded Jagera & Turrbal country. Our deepest respects to the rightful owners of these lands, and to all First Nations peoples listening.
If you’re interested in accessing or supporting the audio archive from which this podcast draws, please get in touch with us via substack.
For some additional reading and listening on this topic, check out:
https://overland.org.au/2023/12/where-is-the-australian-climate-movements-solidarity-with-palestine/
https://triplea.org.au/category/listen/programs/lets-talk/lets-talk-social-justice/climate-justice-land-back/
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/5/interwoven-struggles-the-green-paradox-meets-the-palestine-paradox
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/600-our-history-is-the-future
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If you’ve just found your way to our podcast and you’re jumping in fresh, welcome to Episode 1.4 of the Justice for Palestine Magandjin podcast. This podcast aims to archive the ongoing movement for Palestinian liberation as it unfolds on the unceded lands of the Yuggera, Yugarapul, Jagera, Turrbal and Yugumbeh peoples, across so-called brisbane and the surrounding cities of south east queensland.
In this episode, Globalise the Intifada, we pick up where we left off in Episode 1.3, by paying attention to the power and practice of Indigenous solidarity as it connects the struggle for Palestinian liberation with other movements against colonial occupation and exploitation in all its forms. As we listen back to speeches from rallies and public meetings, to interviews and discussions, we hear activists and organisers drawing clear connections between the intersecting genocidal systems of colonialism, capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy, transphobia, and ableism that are operating with such destructive consequences in this moment.
We open this episode with reflections from First Nations organisers on this continent, who find clear material and ideological connections between the experiences and struggles on this continent, and those unfolding through unthinkable violence in Gaza. We then trace the connections being drawn through the Justice for Palestine movement as they criss-cross the globe, creating the conditions of possibility for a mass solidarity movement grounded in the deep understanding that colonialism cannot be ended anywhere until it is uprooted everywhere.
In order of voices in this episode, you’ll hear Muslim solidarity activist and Queensland Muslim Inc. organiser Binil Mohideen, followed by President of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network, Nasser Mashni, and then Justice for Palestine Magandjin organisers Malaak and Remah. Then you’ll hear excerpts from Darumbal and South Sea Islander academic, journalist and writer Dr. Amy McQuire, First Nations poet and writer Cheryl Leavy, Noonuccal Ngugi writer and rapper Ethan Enoch, Mununjahli and South Sea Islander Professor Chelsea Watego, Palestinian writer, academic and organiser Dr. Jamal Nabulsi, Gamillaroi Kooma podcaster and activist Boe Spearim, and Yuin community organiser and current President of the Black People’s Union, Kieren Stewert-Assheton. Next up, you’ll hear Birri Gubba & Wanjiriburra activist and socialist organiser Sam Woripa Watson, Nasser Mashni again, then diaspora Tamil organiser, poet, musician and Greens candidate for Mayor of Brisbane, Jonathan Sriranganathan, followed by academic, writer and Afghan community organiser, Dr. Mujib Abid, (Jonathan Sriranganathan again), then diaspora Arab poet, writer and youth worker Lamisse Hamouda. Rounding out the episode, you’ll hear Dr. Jamal Nabulsi again, followed by Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Black feminist abolitionist academic and organiser Prof. Andrea Ritchie, Palestinian student and organiser Malaak Seleem, Binil from QMI, and finally, a short reminder from Palestinian poet and high school student Dania.
As always, this podcast is produced and recorded on unceded Jagera & Turrbal country. Our deepest respects to the rightful owners of these lands, and to all First Nations peoples listening.
If you’re interested in accessing or supporting the audio archive from which this podcast draws, please get in touch with us via substack.
If you want to follow any of these threads further, we recommend the folowing:
https://stevesalaita.com/an-honest-living/
https://triplea.org.au/listen/programs/lets-talk/lets-talk-black-politics/lets-talk-black-politics-with-dr-jamal-nabulsi/
“to stop the earthquake”: Palestine & the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation by Dr. Jamal Nabulsi (via https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12980)
“Enduring Indigeneity & Solidarity in response to Australia’s carceral colonialism” by Dr. Crystal McKinnon
“The Shape of Dust” by Lamisse Hamouda & Hazem Hamouda (you can read an editorial on the book here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/08/hazem-and-lamisse-hamouda-cairo-tora-prison-the-shape-of-dust)
“Another Day in the Colony” by Chelsea Watego (you can read an excerpt here: https://e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/chelsea-watego-im-not-afraid-of-the-dark/)
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In this episode, we amplify the rich and powerful tradition of Blackfulla Palestinian solidarity in this place. We contextualise the understandings of settler colonialism, racial violence and genocide that are shaping the struggle for Palestinian liberation in relation to the history of this country, drawing clear connections between the struggle against colonisation on this continent and the fight for Palestinian liberation and land.
To start this episode, you’ll hear Dr. Jamal Nabulsi reflecting on the power of movements that understand Indigenous sovereignty as the primary frame of reference for struggle, and the political possibilities that have emerged from Blackfulla Palestinian solidarity in this present moment. Then, we dig back into the Justice for Palestine Magandjin archive to share a recording of the Blackfulla Palestinian Solidarity dinner hosted by Justice for Palestine Magandjin & the Institute for Collaborate Race Research in March 2023.
Like other episodes, this podcast includes descriptions of state-sanctioned colonial violence, racism, settler colonisation, discrimination, and dispossession. If anything you hear in this episode triggers feelings that you need help processing, we encourage you to reach out to friends and family, or contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 for confidential, free, 24/7 counselling support.
We also encourage everyone who is getting involved in the struggle for justice for Palestine to also recognise the intimate connections between settler colonialism and racial violence in Palestine and the continuing violence of occupation on this continent. The rich and powerful tradition of Blackfulla Palestinian solidarity that you hear described in this episode can also be followed here and here. Later in this podcast series you’ll also hear recordings from the Blackfulla Palestinian Solidarity Symposium, hosted in Magandjin in late 2024.
We also encourage listeners to get involved with and support campaigns against settler colonial violence on this continent, including the work of the Black People’s Union, Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, Stop Blak Deaths in Custody, Treaty Before Voice, the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, and independent Black media sites like Amy McQuire’s incredible substack, Black Justice Journalism.Our solidarity is with all Indigenous peoples’ globally struggling against injustice, extraction, occupation, and oppression.
If you have any questions, or want to follow up on anything you heard in this episode, please get in touch with us via our substack.
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In this episode, we pick up where we left off in the last episode, following the threads that Dr. Jamal Nabulsi introduces in Righting the History of Palestine, and digging deeper into the origins of zionism as a modern political ideology. With help from staunch anti-zionist Jewish academics and activist collectives, as well as Palestinian organisers and activists, we aim to better understand the function of zionism in the present conjuncture, and what we need to do to contest the powerful zionist narratives that sustain and mask the genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza.
In this episode, you’ll hear from Jewish academic and activist Dr. Liz Strakosch on behalf of the newly formed Doykeit collective. You’ll also hear from Palestinian Dr. Muntaser, Jewish academic and long-time Palestinian solidarity organiser Dr. Jordana Silverstein, Palestinian organisers Remah, Omar, and Dania, as well as a brief excerpt from Tamil activist, community organiser & Greens candidate for Mayor, Jonathan Sriranganathan.
Over the course of these conversations, we learn more about the role of zionism in shaping the settler colonial occupation of Palestine, and it’s profound limitations as a response to the persistent problem of anti-semitism in Europe. Over and again across the Justice for Palestine Magandjin movement we’ve been offered the critical reminder that the genocidal settler colonial occupation of Palestine can never resolve the problem of anti-semitism, white supremacy, and racism, because, as Dr. Liz Strakosch puts it, “there is no safety in building a fortress on stolen land….the only safe world is a world where white supremacy has ended.”
As with our previous episodes, this content includes graphic descriptions of colonial violence, as well as individual reflections anti-semitism and racism. If any of these conversations trigger difficult emotional responses, we encourage you to reach out to trusted family and friends to process those responses, or to seek free, confidential counselling support from Lifeline on 13 11 14.
If you want to dig deeper into the material you’ve heard here, we recommend checking out the following sources:
https://www.instagram.com/loudjewcollective/?hl=en
https://www.tzedekcollective.com/
https://overland.org.au/2024/02/here-and-now-our-call-for-justice-and-liberation/
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In this first episode, we draw together speeches, interviews, public discussions and readings, to get a sense of what has been happening in Gaza since October 2023, and the relationship between the current atrocities and a much longer history of Israeli settler colonialism. In the second half of the episode, we listen to a reading from Dr. Jamal Nabulsi's formative essay "Righting the History of Palestine". You can read the full essay here: https://overland.org.au/2021/06/righting-the-history-of-palestine/
Like most of the episodes in this series, this carries a strong content warning for graphic descriptions of genocide, war crimes, racial violence, gendered and sexual violence. If any of this content is likely to be triggering, we recommend that you make a plan for supporting yourself in advance, including making sure you have friends or family to call if you need help or care, or contacting services like Lifeline (13 11 14) for free, anonymous counselling support.
In this episode, you’ll hear from staunch Palestinian organisers and community members, including (in order) Khawla, Malaak, Remah, Hidaya, Zayd, Jamal and Muntaser. You’ll also hear from Muslim comrade and organiser Binil, and Radio Reversal producer Anna.
If you’d like to access the full audio archive of the Justice for Palestine Magandjin struggle, please get in touch with us via substack and we’ll organise access to anything you need.One of the primary goals of this podcast series is to encourage listeners to become actively involved in the struggle for justice here in Magandjin, so-called brisbane, and wherever you're listening.
To get involved in so-called brisbane, sign up to the Justice for Palestine Magandjin mailing list here: https://facebook.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=852d9d811ba1f7225b7dd3570&id=5264e5d000Find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justiceforpalestinebrisbane/
Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justiceforpalestine.magandjin/
If you're further afield, find your local movement via the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network: https://apan.org.au/
We also encourage listeners who are concerned by the atrocities in Palestine to recognise the similarities between Israeli settler colonialism and the settler colonial occupation in so-called australia. As we learn each week at our protests, colonisation is a global system that must be defeated everywhere. To get involved in the struggle for Indigenous sovereignty on these lands, check out the following:
https://www.blackpeoplesunion.org/
https://www.facebook.com/treatybeforevoice/
https://www.facebook.com/WARcollective/
If you haven't already, you should also try and follow independent Indigenous journalists and media makers, including:
https://www.blackjusticejournalism.com.au/
https://triplea.org.au/
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Reversers! Welcome to Sunday morning and to the third episode of the Radio Reversal Podcast.
Today’s episode is the third and final instalment of our introductory mini series, Learning Out Loud, and it follows on from last week’s sampling of our joint podcast launch party with fellow fresh Zed-casters Paradigm Shift on Sunday 24th September 2023. For that event, we welcomed our incredible community of listeners and contributors to join the RR collective (Anna, Nat, Shreya & Han) and Paradigm Shift’s Andy Paine for a wholesome-as-heck live-radio-style mixtape, accompanied by the slightly chaotic fun of everyone’s favourite experimental house band, It’s Science And Feelings - aka Jodie Rottle, Matt Hsu, and RR's own Han Reardon-Smith.
The soundmaking-as-kinmaking continues throughout today’s episode, which features performances by protest-as-pedagogy singer-songwriters Phil Monsour and Andy Paine, along with Lamisse Hamouda performing a poem by Portuguese artist Grada Kilomba along with her own work.
To gear you up for the density of all this brilliance, Nat and Han got together to recap our favourite moments of the launch, and to engage with some of the thinking about making art that is entangled with politics. We dig into “companion thinking” - an extension upon Sara Ahmed’s idea of “companion texts” (found in her 2017 book Living a Feminist Life) - and the article by Han and their companion thinker & bestie Jodie Rottle, “Companion Thinking in Improvised Musicking Practice.” Other texts mentioned in this intro include Julietta Singh’s Unthinking Mastery, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable Series novels, Joyful Militancy by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, and the work of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Don’t worry, this is not the last substantial reading list you’ll get from us (you’re welcome)!
Following the performances, Andy and Lamisse sit down for a chat along with radical poet, musicker, and political nerd Jonathan Sriranganathan about making art and making change. This is a deep and insightful discussion not to be missed, exploring some of the challenges to making bold statements and experimental works in an age of Everything Is Forever On The Internet. Picking up the themes of fumbling through artmaking in public, It’s Science And Feelings close us out with some more sonic theory-making.
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Hello! Happy Sunday!
If you listened in last week, you would have heard some of the RR collective (Nat, Anna, Han & Shreya) setting out some of the central ideas and commitments that we bring into this new digital broadcast project. We reflected on some of our own experiences of learning out loud on the radio, and the formative role that Radio Reversal has played in our lives as organisers, activists, writers, artists, and academics.
If you’ve come across the live radio version of our show before, it will probably come as no surprise that we got so excited about these ideas that we decided that they deserved their own introductory mini-series. So this week, we’re back with the second episode of our three-part podcast intro series: Learning Out Loud.
We’re super excited about these next two episodes. In addition to giving us a bit more space to think through some of the central commitments and values of the Radio Reversal podcast, they also give us a chance to share with you recordings from our podcast launch party - co-hosted with the incredible Paradigm Shift - on Sunday 24th September 2023.
If you’re in so-called brisbane and you came along to our launch party, then you’ll already know that we trialed a cute live-radio-style mixtape event, bringing together a glorious line-up of scholars and poets and musicians and radio producers and friends and partners, all of whom have shaped the Radio Reversal project over the years. The conversations were so rich, and the soundscape of the event so unashamedly joyful, that we decided they needed a series overlay all to themselves.
So, in this second episode of Learning Out Loud, you’ll get to hear some of the live conversations we recorded during our launch party. Over the course of the episode, you’ll hear a conversation with our dear friend and host of the Paradigm Shift on 4zzz, Andy Paine, talking about why our long-standing broadcast radio programs are finally going digital. You’ll also hear a chat between Anna and one of the *unmatched stars* of Gogglebox, the current host of Let’s Talk - Social Justice, Kevin Yow Yeh about the space that community radio creates for critical, thoughtful, engaged and grounded work. Kevin also gives a shout out to a recent interview with the wonderful Gunggari person and National Director of the Change the Record Coalition, Maggie Munn, and particularly their just-for-the-joy-of-it podcast side project, Gay Football Friends. We are also very excited to share a gorgeous poetry performance by the extraordinary poet, writer, community organiser & politics nerd Jonathan Sriranganathan (you can find more of Jonno’s poetry via Rivermouth). As Jonno says in their set, we’ve been thinking and dreaming and organising together for so long now that it is impossible to find where each of our projects begin and others end. It remains such a privilege and a joy to be learning out loud together!And if that’s not already enough, we wrap up with a rich and playful chat about the power and possibility of community-controlled media with the unbeatable duo behind Let’s Talk - Black Politics, Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr David Singh. We talk about their experiences of Aboriginal community-controlled media, and their upcoming podcast project - Advance Black Knowing - the first season of which is due to be released in December. That season is titled Read the Play, and you’re going to want to set aside some time in your summer diaries to listen to it in full. You’ll also hear David mention a rich conversation that we had on the live version of Radio Reversal a few months ago about the idea of the present conjuncture, interpreting the crisis, and the importance of conjunctural analysis. You can dig into some more of that thinking here, and if you keep listening to the Radio Reversal Podcast, you’ll hear David’s interview in our upcoming series, Police State.
Over the course of this episode, you’ll also be hearing the joyful musical theorising of Matt Hsu, Jodie Rottle, and our very own Han Reardon-Smith, playing together as It’s Science And Feelings. This crew created a whole audio soundscape for the event, which you’ll hear in this recording, shot through with the joyful sounds of a community coming together to celebrate community controlled media and the things we can do together. It makes for the most incredible and joyful You can find some details about their other projects here, here, and here!
Phew! A huge second episode, setting the stage for much more to come! We hope there’s something here for you. And as always, we are excited to hear your reflections, thoughts, suggestions, concerns, and queries.
Let us know what you think!
In solidarity,
Anna (for the Radio Reversal Collective)
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