Jeremy Poxon is a social security activist and the media officer for the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. His spicy twitter account regularly draws attention to the plight of unemployed and underemployed people in Australia, from those living on Newstart to people on Work for the Dole to folks just trying to survive in the gig economy.
Here Jeremy explains exactly how organising unemployed workers in a union works, why capitalism is antithetical to the idea of (actual) full employment, why Labor's centrism SUCKS BUTT, what's involved in a jobs guarantee and what an Australian Green New Deal might look like.
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ENOUGH is on in Collingwood in Melbourne this Friday & Saturday night
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
ARTICLE: What Good Are Billions of Surplus Dollars When People Are Starving? by Jeremy Poxon
ARTICLE: Living on Newstart: 'I don't eat every day. That saves some money I guess' by Gay Alcorn
Cause of the Week: The Unemployed Workers Union (unemployedworkersunion.com)
Something a little bit different for you this week: highlights from a live performance of A Rational Fear at Queensland's inaugural Climate Week.
There were jokes and songs and facts about the impending climate crisis, featuring myself, Dan Ilic, Melinda Buttle, Steph Tisdell, Lewis Hobba, Prof. Hilary Bambrick and Bridie Connell & Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd. Enjoy.
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ENOUGH is coming to Newcastle this Friday night
Then Geelong and Melbourne later in the month
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and the Soho Theatre in September
Jonathan Green is a veteran journalist and broadcaster who presents at the ABC and edits the literary magazine Meanjin.
He's been working as a journo since the late 70s so I thought he'd be a good person to reflect on how the political media is serving us in 2019 (hint: it's not). We talk about exactly why Jonathan thinks politics is "bollocks", the corrosive influence of the Murdoch media empire and whether there's anything to do about it, the smallness of the "Lucky Country" and the challenges ahead for progressive politics.
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ENOUGH is coming to Newcastle, Geelong, Sydney & Melbourne
A Rational Fear is coming to Brisbane for Climate Week this Thursday June 6th
I’ll be back in Brisbane on Sunday June 30th for the MELT Gala
ENOUGH is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August
ARTICLE: 'Prefer to battle News Corp than Scott Morrison': Michael Miller slams Labor by Jennifer Duke
ARTICLE: What counts as rich now? by Mike Seccombe
Cause of the Week: The Smith Family's Sponsor-A-Child Program (thesmithfamily.com.au)