Perth Indymedia

We speak to Joana Partyka from Disrupt Burrup Hub after her apartment was raided by police and state security in connection to her actions in the campaign to protect the Burrup peninsula from Woodside's proposed developments. https://disruptburruphub.com/

Notorious far-right anti-trans activist Posie Parker is coming to Perth for a 'speaking tour' - a series of rallies to galvanize the far-right around anti-trans rhetoric. The trans community and our allies are coming out to counter her rally at Parliament House at 11:30 14 March. Indymedia's Joni Boyd talks to Danica Scott from Socialist Alliance to talk about why it's important to organise and counter rallies like these. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1366495174171728

On Wednesday 1st February, some half-a-million workers undertook strike action in the United Kingdom, the largest singe day of industrial action in that country in over a decade. It served as something of a culmination of a long wave of strikes currently taking place in the UK. To discuss the causes and contours of the strike wave, Alex Whisson spoke to author, commentator, activist and journalist, Kevin Ovenden.

We speak to Chris Sheed from the campaign to save Bulga Forest in NSW and the importance of ending native logging in Australia.

Indymedia's Joni boyd investigates the experience of trans people in Australian prison, who routinely experience sexual violence, extended periods in solitary confinement and extreme discrimination from inmates and staff. She chats to community members including a trans woman with experience in the justice system and Socialist Alliance's Nova Sobieralski about potential changes to the prison system.

Following the Congress-led coup against leftist President Pedro Castillo in early December, a huge protest movement has erupted in Peru, calling for the resignation of Castillo’s replacement, his own Vice-President Dina Boluarte, and a new round of elections. Alex Whisson had the opportunity to speak to Sydney-based Peruvian community organiser, Leonor Luna.

After two years of occupying a village in Lutzerath, Germany, tens of thousands of climate activists have faced off against the full force of the German state, resulting in hundreds of arrests. Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell speaks to Luka Scott, a spokesperson for Ende Gelaende, a grassroots environmental organisation that has been campaigning against the expansion of the Garzweiler coal mine in the area.

Christine Duckham speaks to indymedia's Raymond Grenfell about the significance of the Cockburn Wildlife Corridor and the need to preserve the area from development.

Queer Youth Event, Glitter Nova, was cancelled last Thursday after safety threats from a Neo Nazi group. The event, which was organised by @stronningtonyouthservices and the council will be postponed to another date; however, was canceling the right option? While the event was cancelled, 200+ showed up in solidarity, including Drag performers and community allies alike. @tomtanuki - Antifascist commentator and community organiser, unpacks what happened, why cancelling such events is not conducive to any assurance of safety, and how the activist and anti-fascist community will always stand in solidarity with those at risk.

Murrawah Johnson from Youth Verdict spoke to Indymedia about their landmark win in the Queensland Land court. The case, which ruled in favour of rejecting Waratah Coal / Clive Palmers coal mine, is an amazing step forward for not only preservation of environment and country, but for First Nations connection to it. Murrawah explains how they won, and what it means for the future.

Clinton Fernandes is an author, a former intelligence officer on the Indonesia desk for the Australian Army, and currently a Professor of International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra. He spoke to Alex Whisson to discuss his latest book, Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena, published by Melbourne University Press.

On Friday 25th November, after many twists and turns in a fiercely fought campaign for better wages and conditions, Western Australian nurses went out on strike. It was the first strike by Western Australian nurses since 1998, one held, remarkably, in defiance of an Industrial Relations Commission order, the same industrial umpire, so-called, which later threatened to suspend the Australian Nursing Federation's registration as a union. To discuss these dramatic developments, and what might happen next, Alex Whisson was joined by Tyler Ray, a rank-and-file ANF activist and enrolled nurse at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

While in Australia for the International Trade Union Confederation World Congress, currently being held in Melbourne, Deputy Chairperson of the Independent Mineworkers Union of Ukraine, Nataliya Levytska, spoke to Alex Whisson about the immense difficulties of carrying on her work in conditions of war and privation.

Rikki Dank - Fracking The Beetaloo Basin & COP 27 by Perth Indymedia Collective

On the eve of Palestinian Independence Day, and in the wake of Benjamin Netanyahu's return to Prime Ministerial office, Alex Whisson spoke to Palestinian writer and commentator, Jafar Ramini, who has recently moved to Perth from the UK.

In the wake of Ethiopia’s government brokering a deal to permanently halt hostilities with the Tigray People's Liberation Front, we speak to Amhara Ethiopian man Mesfin Tadesse and his partner and longtime advocate for peace in Ethiopia Janet Bastyan.

The State Government is considering potential future land use and zoning opportunities for the western section of the land corridor originally reserved for the Roe Highway extension proposal. The East- West corridor which runs from the Beeliar wetlands to Clontarf hill is a deeply loved and an environmentally essential path for not only our wildlife and biodiversity but, for its mental and physiological benefits for those that utilise them. While the space is now free of a highway, those who fought to protect it did not do so for the sole purpose of preventing Roe 8/9. Christine outlines what exactly the Green corridor (also known as the Cockburn wildlife corridor) is, the ecological value it provides and why its preservation is so important.

The DPLH are currently conducting a study to explore potential land uses for the Cockburn Wildlife corridor - originally reserved for the Roe 8/9 Highway. The corridor crosses 7 distinct ecological zones, including wetlands, paperbark forests and banksia woodlands as well as 3 dune systems. This environment not only houses hundreds of reptiles and small marsupial species, native to WA but it is also the home to our beloved black cockatoos which face extinction threats. Paddy Cullen, a prominent environmental activist who has dedicated much of his life to raising awareness for the preservation of these endangered majestic creatures, spoke to Zoe about what threat any development would have on our endangered Black Cockatoos.

While news of Georgia Meloni's neo-fascist party, Brothers Of Italy, rising to power in Italy has caused much concern for people of conscience everywhere, there are also signs of hope from the Mediterranean Basin. The GKN Factory Collective, an organisation born from a workers struggle and general strike in florence and occupation of the Campi Bisenzio GKN plant, have joined forces with the Fridays For Future student climate justice movement. This new movement "Insorgiamo" translated as "we rise up" has brought together a coalition of ecological, economic and social justice movements to confront the crisis of Italian Capitalism. On Saturday an estimated 15 thousand people gathered in Bologna in the latest manifestation of this movement, marching and dancing through the streets and occupying a highway. Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell was there to speak to some of the participants of this new movement.

Co-editor of Brasilwire, and Brazil correspondent for the Telesur news service, Brian Mier, joins Alex Whisson to discuss the outcome of the first round of the Presidential elections, and the prospects for the second and decisive round.