Protesting native logging in lutrawita/Tasmania | Fundraising for LGBTQI+ people in Georgia | Bolstering Cross-Movement Support for Activists |

Monday Breakfast

Welcome to the Monday Breakfast show for the 20th of January 2025. On today's show: last week Hannah sat down with Erik Hayward from the Bob Brown Foundation to give us an update on the ongoing protests happening in lutrawita/Tasmania against native forest logging and mining in the critically endangered swift parrot habitatFrom the anti-imperialism fundraiser at the Schoolhouse Studio in so-called Coburg on Friday the 17th of January: Marcia Galea, speaking about Camp Sovereignty and the importance of showing up for Indigenous people here in Naarm and across the continent in protesting Invasion Day. Marcia is the Chairperson of the Victorian NAIDOC Committee. For more info on the camp sovereignty dawn day service on Invasion Day go to @vicnaidoc on Instagram - or vicnaidoc.com.au. We also heard poetry performed by Jamila of the African Solidarity Collective at the fundraiser.Hannah then spoke with Lloyd O'Hanlon about the protests in Georgia, his upcoming fundraiser which is raising funds for the grassroots organisation Queer Initiative for LGBTQ rights in Georgia, and the Footscray Hotel Choir. The fundraiser is taking place at Bell City Take Away in Preston on the 1st of Feb at between 2-6. For more info go to @footscray_hotel_choir on instagram. To find our more about what's happening in Georgia go to https://oc-media.org/ and follow @queer.initiative on instagram.In their 'Protest in Peril' report released last year, the Human Rights Legal Centre revealed that 49 laws affecting protesting have been introduced across so-called Australia over the last two decades. These laws have 'disproportionately targeted enviromental defenders and advocates of action on climate change,' the report says. As such, cross-movement support among activists and those incarcerated has never been more crucial. To help foster this, Violet CoCo and Brad Homewood, both social and environmental justice advocates, have founded the Activist Reinforcement Movement. Rob spoke with both Violet and Brad about ARM and how it will help activists facing arrest and/or incarceration. Songs played:1. Who Am I But Someone - Kate Bollinger2. The Children Came Back - Briggs, Gurrumul, Dewayne Everettsmith