Labor’s small-target strategy risks gains for the right || Voices from inside MITA | Muslim Women's Council: One Coffee, One Chat

Green Left Weekly Radio

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics. Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha & Chloe DS.NewsreportsHeadline news discussion from the presenters responding to the developments in the United States around Abortion Law drawing on the Green Left article United States: New frontal attack on abortion.Report on the Moreland Council workers striking for a pay rise from Green Left.Interviews and DiscussionsRecording of a interview by Socialist Alliance candidate for Wills Sue Bolton who explained why the Australian Labor Party's "small target" election strategy risks helping the right make more gains. You can view the interview here.Interview with Joey Tangaloa Taualii a man who has been unjustly detained under section 501 of the Immigration Act within the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accomodation (MITA) detention centre in Broadmeadows for years.Joey spoke about the conditions of the centre and how they're worse than prison, he spoke about some of the detainees who are imprisoned inside and what has happened to them following deportation by the government. You can listen to the individual interview here.Interview with Afshan Keng-Mantoo, founder of the Muslim Women's Council of Victoria to speak about some of the essential work servicing food for marginalised sections of the community following the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the current cost-of-living crisis. You can listen to the individual interview here.