We listened to a song by hani-abdile and yarrie bangura called Poetd We have an interview from the Doin Time show with updates from advocate Simone for the Tamil family.  We finish with a song from Ajak Kawi with Life is a Mystery. 

Refugee Radio

Refugee Radio - Update on Priya, Nades, Kopi and Tharni

Interview from Women on the line https://www.3cr.org.au/womenontheline Updates from Renuga Inpakumar, a spokesperson for the Tamil Refugee Council, speaks about the current threat of deportation thousands of Tamil refugees face in Australia and the impacts of the pandemic on the community.Then, we hear from Nur Azizah who speaks to us about her lived experience as a Rohingya refugee living in limbo in Indonesia as a result of Australia’s operational border policies. Azizah appears in Freedom Street, a documentary(link is external) about the lived experiences and stories of people seeking refuge, stuck in Indonesia, that also deconstructs Australian policy.Freedom Street is currently fundraising, donations can be made at Documentary Australia's website:

Refugee Radio - Update on the Tamil Refugee Council and Freedom Street- Refugee documentary

This week we listen to a documentary film maker Rihab Charida about her project A Disturbed Earth, in which she embarks on a journey with her father, a Palestinian refugee, back to his home village which was destroyed in 1948. Prodcued by Women on the line show on 3cr in 2016. Please follow the updates around the documentary below:https://www.facebook.com/adisturbedearth/(link is external) 

Refugee Radio - Second Intifada Anniversary- A Disturbed Earth

This week we listen to an interview from Tuesday hometime with an update for the family, plus others in detention.  https://www.3cr.org.au/hometime-tuesday

Refugee Radio - Update on Priya, Nades, Kopi and Tharni and legal processing for others

This week we start with some informatino from Voice from Belarus, a quick insight into the issues with people trying to reach safety and now dealing with the new border push back at the blraus border to the "EU".https://voicesfrombelarus.org We remember the Tampa Affair which started a huge Anri refugee policy adn attitude on this land, we will focus on Afghan refugees struggles. We listen to an interview from an Afghan refugee Essan Dileri from an interview from Refguees on air http://syn.org.au/refugees-air-episode-6/ We finish with a song by Hazara refugees at the Refugees for Refugees performance in Brussels. Performaed by Aman Yusufi with the song Amina (Hazaragi song)   

Refugee Radio - At the Belarus border and Afghan refugee/ Tampa affair 20 years later

We play some songs from Mariem Hassan (Arabic: مريم حسن ‎‎; May 1958 - 22 August 2015) A Sahrawi singer/  Western Sahara singer who grew up in the refugee camps in Algeria.  We play Shouka, La Intifada  Australia Western Sahara Associationhttp://awsa.org.au

Refugee Radio - Remembering Mariem Hassan

We listen to a show from the Spoken word show with Lujayn Hourani a palestian whos family has expiereneced generational displacement. "Palestinian writer and editor, Lujayn Hourani(link is external), shares some of their new work, reflecting on the resistance and resilience of the Palestinian people through generations of colonial violence and oppression.Lujayn is a recipient of The Wheeler Centre's Next Chapter Scheme(link is external), and has been published in Meanjin, Overland, Australian Poetry, Going Down Swinging and The Lifted Brow, to name a few.Lujayn is Associate Producer at Next Wave and Online Editor at Voiceworks(link is external).This episode features music from Jowan Safadi(link is external), Nour Harkati(link is external), and Muqata'a(link is external)."https://www.3cr.org.au/spoken-word/episode-202105200900/spoken-word-lujayn-hourani

Refugee Radio - Lujayn Hourani

 We listen to an interview from In Ya Face program on 3cr. Renee Dixson discusses the gaps and silencing that queer refugees and forcibly displaced people experience and why the work of the Forcibly Displaced People Network is essential.  Forcibly Displaced People Network – The voice of LGBTIQ+ people in forced displacement (fdpn.org.au)https://www.3cr.org.au/inyaface/episode-202107231600/political-commentator-neil-pharaoh-victorian-pride-centre-chair-hang We listen to a recording from The Walk project about ‘Little Amal’, the 3.5 metre-tall puppet of a young refugee girl at the heart of the project to show the journey of young refugees. Please follow their project on www.walkwithamal.org We finish with a song from a Syria refugee artist MACK- Briding bridges  

Refugee Radio - Forcibly Displaced People Network and The Walk

From Salaam radio show"An incredible event took place in Naarm/Melbourne on the 26th of June 2021, Blak and Palestinian poets, artists and activists came together for a special evening of poetry, performances and discussions. On this show Salaam rebroadcasts this event.Blak Palestinian Poetry night was organized by Sara Saleh, Jeanine Hourani from Road to Refuge and featured a line up of insipiring and estremly talented poets and writers including  Micheala Sahhar, Samah Sabawi, Luniyuk, Lujayn Hournai and Tony Birch."https://www.mixcloud.com/Salaamradioshow/salaam-presents-blak-palestinian-poetry-night-26-june-2021/

Refugee Radio - Blak Palestinian Poetry night

In solidairty with refugee on hungry strike and one man who has been in detention for over 12 years we listen to music from Ajak Kwai and South Sudanese Refugee and her empowering songs.  http://www.ajakkwai.com

Refugee Radio - Ajak Kwai

We listen to part of a podcast from the Eletronic Intifada about the village of Liftahttps://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-41-village-lifta-and-expulsion-palestinians  We play a song in solidarity for medavac refugees on hunger strike, some have been without food for 40 days and are at the Northern Hospital under guard. Playing United Struggle Song from the compliation. 

Refugee Radio - The village of Lifta and medavac refugees on hunger strike

We listen to speeches from a vigil ro Rajan, a Taiml refugee who has Leukemia and been detained for over 12 years. We play a tamil song about friendship for Rajan; Mustafa, MustafaLook for updates https://tamilrefugeecouncil.org.au

Refugee Radio - Free Rajan

We listen to an interview from the Palestine Remembered show about Candy Royalle who was a Palestinan spoken word queer activist who passed away 3 years ago.  http://candyroyalle.com   

Refugee Radio - Remembering Candy Royalle

We start with info about Belarusian anarchists seeking asylum in Poland. We also play a song "Freedom Belarus" from Lyapis Trubetskoy https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/06/20/poland-authorities-use-neo-nazi-threat-to-extract-information-from-belarusian-anarchists-seeking-asylum/ Updates for the Tamil Murugappan family, recordings played for the family a story and songs for Thrani and Kopika.An interview with Aran from the Tamil Refugee Council from Asia Pacific Currents https://www.3cr.org.au/asiapac/episode-202106260900/fight-tamil-refugee-family-australia-continues Lastly we play a song for the refugees on hunger strike for over two weeks, who had been held in MITA Detention centre in Melbounre. Song by Nine Rose and Fran called Waiting for the light. 

Refugee Radio - Belarusian Asylum seeker, Murugappan family update and refugees hunger strike continues in Melbourne

We listen to an interview from the Doin Time Show"Marisa then interviewed Human Rights Law Centre Senior Lawyer Josephine Langbien about the depth of Australia's coercive refugee family separation policy revealed in new report, written by the Centre."https://www.3cr.org.au/dointime/episode-202105031600/frontier-war-stories-and-refugees

Refugee Radio - Refugee family separation

Can you imagine what it would be like to have to flee terror in your own country, spend days or weeks in a leaky boat on dangerous, rolling seas ready to swallow you at any moment, and then arrive in a new country, where you are terrorised even more?

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