Samah Sabawi is a playwright, poet and activist who is passionate about fighting for the rights of the Palestinian people. Just days after the horrific massacre in Christchurch, Samah explains to me why she was "disappointed but not shocked" by the horrific attack and how nearly two decades of poisonous Islamophobia has led us to this point.
Samah also lays out what life is like for Palestinians in their own land, what the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions movement is calling for and why it's important you #BoycottEurovision2019.
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My stand-show ENOUGH is on at the Brisbane Comedy Festival this week
Then ENOUGH heads to the Melbourne & Sydney Comedy Festivals. It’s funny! Please come!
My play #KWANDA will be on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for 8 shows only
Donate to the families of the Christchurch victims
See Samah's play Them at La Mama Courthouse
ARTICLE: We told you the threat is white supremacy by Randa Abdel-Fattah
ARTICLE: 2,891 Murdoch Media Stories Trashing Islam In A Single Year, Study Reveals by Michael Brull
Cause of the Week: The BDS petition to #BoycottEurovision2019
Melissa Davey is the Melbourne Bureau Chief for Guardian Australia. She’s done brilliant reporting about lots of different things over her career, but over the past few weeks has been diligently covering on the trial and conviction of George Pell.
As Pell receives his sentencing today and as we learn more about his case for appeal, Melissa explains what it’s been like following this massive story, the journalistic ethics at play, the judicial process and the reactions from the media and the Church to the guilty verdict.
WARNING: This conversation contains discussion of sexual assault and abuse
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My stand-show ENOUGH is on at the Brisbane Comedy Festival next week
Then ENOUGH heads to the Melbourne & Sydney Comedy Festivals. It’s funny! Please come!
My play #KWANDA will be on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for 8 shows only
The School Strike 4 Climate is on this Friday!
Melissa's writing at Guardian Australia
ARTICLE: Cardinal Pell's Conviction: The Questions That Remain
ARTICLE: Five Times Guilty: How George Pell's Child-Abusing Past Caught Up With Him in Courtroom
ARTICLE: The inconsistencies of George Pell's defenders just displays their power by Richard Cooke
Cause of the Week: Dementia Australia (dementia-australia.org)
Emma is in Year 11, Anthony has just started uni and together they're involved in organising the second School Strike 4 Climate on Friday March 15th. It's a nation-wide, non-partisan, student-led protest demanding our political leaders take some GODDAMN REAL ACTION on climate change for once please.
It was an honour to sit down with these two passionate, funny, committed young people to discuss their motivations for organising the march, their hopes for what it might achieve and their thoughts on the very dumb criticism it's received from right-wing dumbos.
Trust me: listening to this will fill your heart with hope.
Become a Patron of the show and rest in peace knowing you’ll go to heaven
My play #KWANDA will be on at the Melbourne Comedy Festival for 8 shows only
Unite For The Night @ The Metro, Thursday March 7th
Luke McGregor and I are coming to Nelson Bay and Belmont in March
The Swedish 15-year-old who's cutting class to fight the climate crisis
Cause of the Week: SUPPORT THE STRIKE ON FRIDAY MARCH 15TH! SEE YOU THERE! THANKS!