Invasion Day Wrap-up || Behrouz Boochani on freedom, hope and Manus Prison Theory

Green Left Weekly Radio

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics. Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Chloe DS.NewsreportsHeadline news report back on the large Invasion Day protests across the country on January 26. Rallies around the country called for Australia Day to be abolished, the return of stolen land, an end to Black deaths in custody and mass incarceration and the abolition of the racist “child protection” system that continues to steal Black children in record numbers. What's in Green Left this week?Presenters discussed issues raised from the following articles in Green Left this week.France: New battle raging against Macron over retirement pensions | Green Left - Millions of workers and youth in France mobilised on January 19 against the government's latest attack on pensionsClimate activists found guilty and fined for trying to stop Scarborough gas | Green Left - Three climate activists have been found guilty and charged for resisting Woodside's Scarborough gas hub in the BurrupBillionaires: We don’t need them but they need us! | Green Left - Oxfam's annual report on global inequality is a damning indictment of the chronically inequitable capitalist system.Interviews and DiscussionRecording of Green Left Show #31 - Behrouz Boochani on freedom, hope and Manus Prison Theory. Journalist and author Behrouz Boochani is the guest on the latest Green Left Show featuring discussion about his latest book Freedom, Only Freedom. The discussion covered "Manus Prison Theory", hope as a secret weapon, the role of journalists and more. You can listen or watch the recording here.