Perth Indymedia

Karun Cowper speaks to Dr Michelle Maloney of the New Economy Network Australian about the upcoming ‘Building a New Economy for Australia’ which is being held from 1-3 September 2017 in Brisbane. Building on the inaugural 2016 conference held in Sydney, the 2017 gathering invites people to come together to share stories of success, address challenges and join the broader movement so we can continue working together to build a ‘new’ economic system.

Lenny van den Haak and Rosanne Scott on the Activate Tree Planting festival - "ACTIVATE the Wheatbelt invites you to join us in York for the weekend of July 28th-30th to help us plant 26000 seedlings. This enjoyable weekend will consist of tree planting, live music, DJs, dancing, community and education. This is a drug free and family friendly event open to all age’s, where everyone is welcome to come and help out planting trees. " https://www.facebook.com/events/216683732072748/

On Friday, the Supreme Court in Perth issued a shameful verdict on the killing of indigenous boy Elijah Doughty, who was run down by a utility vehicle in August last year in Kalgoorlie while riding a small motorcycle. Despite evidence that the driver had intended to at least injure the boy, and social media posts in the community urging vigilante violence against Aboriginal people, the jury refused to convict the man of manslaughter, instead returning a verdict of dangerous driving occasioning death - essentially a traffic infringement. Despite being in mourning, the local Aboriginal community has been galvanised into supporting the family, with a vigil being held on Friday evening and a rally on Sunday to stand in solidarity with the Kalgoorlie community. We're now going to play a speech from yesterday's rally, by community leader Dennis Simmons, who organised a cultural dancing group to take part in the event.

Karun Cowper speaks with Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth Melbourne on the battle to maintain Deductible Gift Recipient status for environmental groups as the Turnbull government renews their attack.

Karun Cowper chats with Katie Stubley, co-director of the Social Impact Festival - a platform for cutting-edge knowledge and ideas, celebrating initiatives creating positive change, and generating insights that address complex social problems. Running from July 18-28. https://socialimpactfestival.org/

Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell was in Hamburg for the G20 Summit, covering the events for Indymedia. There were impressive demonstrations and riots throughout the summit including a Block G20 action that managed to delay delegations arriving and disrupt events, including stopping Melania Trump attending a G20 leader's spouse event. Saturday saw an estimated two hundred thousand people take to the streets for the Solidarity Without Borders demonstration. Raymond spoke to a number of people taking part in the demonstrations as well as organizers such as Jana Schneider from Block G20 who we hear from first in this piece from the streets of G20.

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to Timon Simons on the social strike that shut down Hamburg's port.

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to Robert Borba from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) in the USA about why they are demonstrating at the #G20 summit in Hamburg.

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to organizer Andreas Blechschmidt about the anti-capitalist movements who are taking direct action against #G20 in Hamburg. https://g20tohell.blackblogs.org/international-anticapitalist-demonstration/

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to Jana, an organizer with the Block G20 demonstration that aims to shut down the city and creatively but militantly stop delegates arriving to the G20 conference in Hamburg. www.blockg20.org

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to Max from sea rescue organization Sea Watch. The group engage in direct action to rescue refugees and migrants in the mediterranean sea. Max discussed the relevance of G20 and why the organization are demonstrating in the protests. More about Sea Watch: Since the year 2000 more than 23.000 people died trying to reach Europe’s shores. After the end of the Mare Nostrum operation in the Mediterranean Sea three business partners from Germany decided to found the nonprofit NGO Sea-Watch. https://sea-watch.org/en/

Indymedia's Ray Grenfell speaks to Britta who is organizing one of the camps at the global G20 summit in Germany. There has been heavy police repression of camping in the city with police removing protesters from established camping spots. Ray spoke to Britta as they were building a new camp in the grounds of a church.

Karun Cowper spoke to Sally Hunter, human rights activist and member of the magnificent WACA (Whistleblowers Activist Citizens Alliance) about their action on Friday hanging a banner reading “Border Force Tortures Refugees - Deportations = Death” off the Channel 7 building in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct. The building was in a direct line of sight of the Border Force headquarters in Customs House, where operational matters in Manus Island and Nauru refugee detention camps are managed. WACA spokesperson Zianna Fuad said on Friday “The federal government and its refugee detention industry contractors have again sought to avoid being held to account with their proposal to settle the Manus class action compensation case out of court. WACA has staged this action to call on the Federal Government to repeal the Border Force Act, evacuate the camps immediately, bring them here and end the illegal indefinite detention of refugees”.

In a week where Treasurer Scott Morrison has been accused of blackmailing his state and territory counterparts after threatening to cut their GST share for placing restrictions on fracking, Karun Cowper spoke to local Lock the Gate regional campaigner Simone Van Hattem. Apart from these very concerning noises on a federal level, there are some equally concerning developments from the newly elected WA Labor government on the fracking front. To stay in touch with the Lock the Gate campaign here in WA head to http://www.frackfreefuture.org.au/.

Last weekend a group of concerned citizens conducted a tour of US/Australia military facilities in WA such as the spy base near Geraldton, in order to raise awareness of the role these facilities play in US hegemony. The trip coincided with a National Day of Action to ban nuclear weapons ahead of UN negotiations to develop a ban treaty. Indymedia's Karun Cowper joined the group who travelled over the weekend to visit the US/Australia spy base. On location, in close proximity of the base, he spoke to local veteran anti nuclear and peace activists Mia Pepper, Bilbo Taylor, Marcus Atkinson and K A.

Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell chats to filipino activist Noel regarding their infoshop and the community mutual aid taking place after the typhoon in the Philippines. More info: http://greenhouseinfoshop.blogspot.com.au/

Peer-to-Peer theorist and activist Michel Bauwens is a leading figure in P2P and commons oriented thinking and a swiftly emerging alternative post-capitalist world. Indymedia's Karun Cowper spoke to Michel about this emergence and what hope and tangible solutions it provides in the Trump era.

Jaz, an organizer of the annual Students of Sustainability conference speaks to Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell re the conference and movements for environmental and social justice in Australia.

Aboriginal Gumbainggir activist, academic, writer and actor Gary Foley speaks to Indymedia's Aleesha Hanczakowski and Raymond Grenfell regarding the governments Recognise campaign and the future of struggles for Aboriginal self-determination.

Psychiatrist, author and social commentator Dr Tad Tietze speaks to Alex Whisson about the social and political roots of the Manchester atrocity.