Podcasts about police accountability project

Acknowledgement of Country// Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane - Stop LAPD Spying CoalitionPriya caught up with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane in July 2024 to talk about organising with unhoused community in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row and beyond against militarised policing and surveillance by the Los Angeles Police Department. In this wide-ranging conversation about the group's work, broadcast in three parts across August 2024, Hamid and Matyos also discuss Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's abolitionist ethos, the importance of a structural analysis of police violence, and emphasise why it is crucial to resist liberal reformism and academic and non-profit complicity in state violence.// Tamar Hopkins and Ilo Diaz - Centre Against Racial ProfilingWe replay a conversation from October 2024 with Tamar Hopkins and Ilo Diaz of the Centre Against Racial Profiling, who joined us to speak about the launch of the Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project. The project's website, racialprofilingresearch.org, hosts important data showing the extent of racial profiling in Victoria Police during street searches obtained via Freedom of Information requests covering four years worth of police search records. Tamar has been working in the area of police accountability and racism since 2005. She was the founding lawyer of the Police Accountability Project at Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre in Melbourne Australia in 2009. She has a PhD from UNSW on racial profiling, and has appeared as an expert witness at inquests and commissions investigating police accountability and racial profiling. Ilo has worked directly with communities experiencing human rights abuses in Melbourne, South America and Palestine. His background is in Human Rights observing in areas of conflict. Ilo also volunteers with Melbourne Activist Legal Support, providing his expertise to Legal Observer teams that observe police actions in protests.// Justice for Sonya Massey Oakland RallyThe Anti Police Terror Project joined organisations around the United States to coordinate a rally calling for Justice for Sonya Massey on the 29th of July 2024 in Oakland, California. Sonya Massey was a 36-year-old Black mother who was shot and killed by Deputy Sean Grayson of the Illinois Police Department on 6 July, 2024, after she called the police with concerns about an intruder entering her home. The rally was MC'd by APTP's Cat Brooks, and the recording we played in today's show (originally broadcast in August 2024) features poetry by Oakland's first Poet Laureate Dr Ayodele 'WordSlanger' Nzinga, as well as reflections from Uncle Bobby and Big Oscar, the uncle and father of Oscar Grant, who was killed on New Year's Day 2009 by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland.//

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// We replayed the opening speech from this Monday's Vigil for Gaza, 7th Oct 2024, at the Marquis of Linlithgow Monument, by Evelyn Araluen. Evelyn is a Bundjalung Nation descendant born and raised on Dharug Country. She is a poet, researcher, co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. You'll hear Evelyn deliver an emotional speech from an Aboriginal perspective on the psychological toll of genocide and settler colonialism, followed by a poem called "The Power of Prayer, the Promise of Peace."// Autistic disability activist Shaun Bickley caught up with Priya last week to discuss the labour exploitation of disabled people in so-called Australia with a focus on the issue of wage theft by Australian Disability Enterprises or ADEs. Shaun has educated on disability and access issues on 3 continents and organised the first successful city-level campaign to ban subminimum wage anywhere in the world, in Seattle in 2018. Today, you heard part two of that conversation (part one here). Shaun is campaigning for an end to subminimum wage for disabled people in Australia, and has created an open letter, which you can sign onto as an individual or endorse on behalf of an organisation [Plain English version linked at top of letter].// Tamar Hopkins and Ilo Diaz of the Centre Against Racial Profiling joined us to speak about this week's launch of the Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project. The project's website, racialprofilingresearch.org, hosts important data showing the extent of racial profiling in Victoria Police during street searches obtained via Freedom of Information requests covering four years worth of police search records. Tamar has been working in the area of police accountability and racism since 2005. She was the founding lawyer of the Police Accountability Project at Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre in Melbourne Australia in 2009. She has a PhD from UNSW on racial profiling, and has appeared as an expert witness at inquests and commissions investigating police accountability and racial profiling. Ilo has worked directly with communities experiencing human rights abuses in Melbourne, South America and Palestine. His background is in Human Rights observing in areas of conflict. Ilo also volunteers with Melbourne Activist Legal Support, providing his expertise to Legal Observer teams that observe police actions in protests.// David Mejia-Canales is a senior human rights lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre. He joined us today to discuss the call from the HRLC that condemed the NSW Police Commissioner's Supreme Court application last week whichsought to stop people gathering for pro-Palestinian anti-genocidal rallies and candlelight vigils in Sydney over the weekend. This follows a history of concerning legislature across the continent on the right to protest, particularly in NSW. Earlier this year, the Human Rights Law Centre's Protest in Peril report found that the right to protest has been under attack by governments and institutions over the last 20 years.// Rally for Public HousingSaturday 19 October, 11:30AM-1PM126 Racecourse Road, FlemingtonThis rally has been called in opposition to the Labor Government's plans to demolish and privatise all 44 public housing towers in Victoria, starting with towers on the Flemington and North Melbourne estates. The rally is supported by RAHU, BPU, SPHC, Friends of Public Housing Vic, Vic Socialists, Socialist Alliance, and 100% Public (formerly Save Barak Beacon).// Winter in GazaPalestinians in Gaza are approaching winter with very little to survive the season. With the increasing cost of commercial goods, families can't afford to feed or clothe themselves or their children making them vulnerable to illness or fatality. They need support to survive! A group of folks campaigning for different families in Gaza have decided to combine our campaigns to reach a total goal of $12,000 AUD by 18th Oct.//DONATE HERE:ACC NAME: Metals 4 Mutual AidBSB: 313-140ACC NUMBER: 1250 7209
Reference: Winter Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2024. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//

*Content Warning: This episode of Doin' Time may contain audio images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have died, and discussion of Deaths in Custody.First on the show is Chloe de Silva, who is an activist with the Refugee Action Collective, a member of the Socialist Alliance and presenter of the Friday breakfast time 'Green Left Weekly Radio' show, which has its home here on 3CR Radio. Chloe talks in commemoration of Reza Barati's horrifically brutal murder, in which he was beaten to death by guards and other contractors during a violent rampage inside the Manus Island detention centre in 2014. Reza Barati was 23 when he was murdered. She discusses Australia's brutal and cruel border policies and the ongoing struggle faced by refugees and their families in their fight for basic human rights.An event hosted by the Refugee Action Collective called 'Why does Labor support corrupt and racist border policies?' Will be held at the Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre in Carlton on 18th March at 6.30pm.Next up on the show is Ilo Diaz, the advocacy coordinator for the Police Accountability Project, which is associated with Inner Melbourne Community Legal. Ilo reports back on the 17th of February Speak Out at Melbourne's State Library that was held to commemorate the tragic death of 17 year old TJ Hickey, in 2014. The event was organised by mother of TJ, Gail Hickey, who is still seeking truth and justice for her son. The conversation also discusses topics such as police accountability and the failure of police mechanisms to adequately investigate police complaints. Last on the show, Marisa talks with Sarah Schwartz, who was a speaker at the TJ Hickey Speak Out, and is the manager of the Wirraway Police and Prison Accountability Practise at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, as well as a lecturer at the Melbourne Law School. Sarah talks about her work in taking action against the police, protecting the rights of prisoners, and coronial inquests into Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander deaths in custody. She has previously represented the family of Veronica Nelson, who died in custody in January 2020, and is currently attending court for the coronial inquest of Heather Calgaret who also died in custody on November 2021. They discuss these cases in terms of prison healthcare, Victoria's harsh system of parole, and how this has lead to the violation of human rights and contributed to the mistreatment of people in prison.Since the Royal Commission into deaths in custody, there have been over 560 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody. Sarah highlights the bravery and determination of the families fighting for justice on behalf of their loved ones who have died in custody, and highlights the importance of such organisations as the Dhadjowa Foundation in supporting their struggle. 

In this episode of Research Radio, we have with us Sanjana Meshram and Aditya Rawat discussing conservation law in India and how it perpetuates Brahminical environmentalism. Today's discussion is based on their paper titled "Entrenching Brahminical Conservation: An Analysis of the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act". Sanjana Meshram is a lawyer and heads the litigation team at the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project, Bhopal. Aditya Rawat is a law student and an intern with the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project, Bhopal. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Supplement head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

Kulja and Dylan talk with Emma Sherry, Professor and Co-director of the Sport Innovation Research Group at Swinburne University of Technology about the new report 'Out of Bounds: Coal, gas and oil sponsorship of Australian sports'; Spokesperson for Police Accountability Project, Ilo DIaz presents new research into lowered trust in the community towards vic police; and Dave Nichols discusses 50 years of South Parkville being declared a heritage precinct.

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Dr Dale Tweedie and David Wild of Macquarie University join us to talk about the sinister growth of "bossware" or workplace surveillance technologies allowing your manager to keep tabs on what you're up to on the computer. They'll speak with us about the rationale behind its development and application and how bossware impacts worker performance. Dale and David recently published an article in The Conversation about bossware- you can read it here.// Miss Cairo is a cabaret and burlesque superstar, conceived in Egypt, born in the UK and blossomed on Wurundjeri country. Her career has taken her around the world exploring many avenues in creative fields. Miss Cairo mixes burlesque, live vocals, comedy and activism to smash stereotypes, while entertaining the masses. She joins us today to speak about her fantastical cabaret show for Fringe Festival called Breasts Become Her. Miss Cairo is giving away TWO FREE TICKETS to the show's premier on Saturday the 15th of October at 10:30pm to the first 3CR subscriber to call (03) 9419 8377 this morning!// Nerita Waight is a proud Yorta Yorta woman with connections to the Ngarrindjeri and Taungurung people, and the CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS). She joins us today to speak on the joint letter from VALS, the Police Accountability Project, community legal centres and Aboriginal organisations that are calling on Daniel Andrews to overhaul the state's failed police oversight system by introducing a Police Ombudsman.// Dr Michelle Blewitt is the program director of AUSMAP, the Australian Microplastic Assessment Project. She joins us today to talk about mapping levels of microplastic pollution in Australia's aquatic environments with the help of citizen scientists, and the importance of this work as part of finding solutions to address the growing problem of plastic pollution in our waterways.// Songs// Hoodie Girl - June Jones// GUAP POP - Agung Mango ft. Genesis Owusu//Flick - Pookie//

On August 15, 11 convicts in the case relating to Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat Riots were released. The 11 convicts were serving life sentences, and the jail time was commuted. Bilkis was 21 years old and five months pregnant when she was gang-raped while fleeing riots. In this incident, her three-year-old daughter along with six others were killed.Menaka and Padmapriya DVL discuss the stringent remission policy, its fairness in the context of Bilkis Bano convicts, and remission and other reformative practices that should be available to more prisoners. We spoke to Anup Surendranath, Nikita Sonavane, and Mrinalini Ravindranath. Anup Surendranath teaches law at the National Law University, Delhi and is the executive director of Project 39 A- a criminal justice programme which works with death penalty convicts, and others. Nikita is the co-founder of the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project in Bhopal, while Mrinalini works as a research assistant there. References Special Remission Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) (Module in ePrisons) Ministry of Home AffairsSection 435 in The Code Of Criminal Procedure, 1973Convicts in Bilkis Bano case came out on frequent parole as witnesses cited threats | Cities News,The Indian Express‘There is fear': Muslim families flee village, take shelter in relief colony | Cities News,The Indian ExpressBilkis Bano Case : Supreme Court Erred In Holding That Gujarat Govt Has Power To Decide Remission - Sr Adv Rebecca JohnFrom Segregation to Labour, Manu's Caste Law Governs the Indian Prison SystemSpecial Remission Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) (Module in ePrisons) Ministry of Home AffairsSee sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Local News Live's Teia Goodwin speaks with the NPAP's Legal Director Lauren Bonds about polices that can be adopted to help end police brutality.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/local-news-live-daily/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In April, the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill was passed in both houses of the Parliament. This new law allows law enforcement agencies to collect a range of private information from people arrested under any offence. The information can be stored for 75 years.  In this episode, Suno India's Menaka Rao and Suryatapa Mukherjee try to understand the government's objectives in introducing the law and understand the different dangers that are inherent in the law. Suryatapa talks to Nikita Sonawane, co-founder of Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project, and Praavita Kashyap, a member of Article 21 Trust and Rethink Aadhaar campaign. This is part two in a two-part miniseries. You can listen to the first part of this series here.  References Home Minister Shri Amit Shah's reply on The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 in RS. Mahua Moitra's Remarks on Criminal Procedure Bill 2022 । TMC MP Mahua Moitra को LS Speaker की फटकार Mahesh Jethmalani's Remarks | The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022  Decoding DNA Bill: Will storing DNA solve crimes? – Suno India In Refrence vs Ravi @ Toli Malviya on 9 September, 2021 India Enterpise Architecture (IndEA) | Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. Why state data hubs pose a risk to Aadhaar security | Latest News India – Hindustan Times. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on March 28. And by April 6, it was passed in both houses of the Parliament. This new law allows law enforcement agencies to collect a range of private information from people arrested under any offence. The information can be stored for 75 years.  In this episode, host Suryatapa Mukherjee talks to Nikita Sonawane, co-founder of Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project, and Praavita Kashyap, a member of Article 21 Trust and Rethink Aadhaar campaign. We explore who this new law will impact and we tease out its ambiguities. This is part one in a two-part miniseries.  Additional reading: Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 NCRB data: Higher share of Dalits, tribals, Muslims in prison than numbers outside | The Indian Express See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

In Episode 9 of the DAKSH Podcast we discussed “de-notified tribes” or “vimukta” communities and what they show us about policing culture in India. They are communities that were notified under a colonial legislation - the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 - as people who, by birth, are "addicted to the systematic commission of non-bailable offences." Though this Act was repealed after India gained independence, discretionary powers of the police coupled with social stigmas of the judiciary continue to haunt these communities, many of whom are subject to oppression, surveillance and imprisonment, sometimes without even being convicted by a court of law. We talked to Nikita Sonavane, co-founder of the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project in Madhya Pradesh about her work with these communities, the origin of the idea that some people can be labelled criminals by birth and how this prejudice and injustice lives on in the India of today. More importantly, Nikita asks some crucial questions about our tendency to look to the police for solutions to problems that have little to do with law and order. In the wake of the pandemic we are experiencing, she dares us to reimagine legal and policy responses to public crises rather than let only some marginalised groups take the fall.  Reading list: Ameya Bokil & Nikita Sonavane, Why Charan Singh Bolts His House From Inside And Out https://www.article-14.com/post/why-charan-singh-bolts-his-house-from-inside-and-out-before-he-sleeps Milind Bokil and Vijay Raghavan. "Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: The Case of De-Notified Tribes in India." Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration. Springer, Cham, 2016 Nikita Sonavane and Ameya Bokil, Condemned without Trial - India's undertrials problem is spurring the COVID-19 outbreak in prisons https://caravanmagazine.in/law/india-undertrials-problem-spurring-covid-19-outbreak-prisons Nikita Sonavane and Ameya Bokil, How Poverty-Struck Tribals Become ‘Habitual Offenders' https://www.article-14.com/post/born-a-criminal-how-poverty-struck-tribals-become-habitual-offenders Bangalore International Centre Masterclass by G N Devy on Denotified Tribes https://youtu.be/4rG6IzxGOHM CREDITS: Host: Anindita Pattanayak This is a Maed in India production. Production Head & Editor: Joshua Thomas Sound Mixing: Kartik Kulkarni Project Supervisor: Shaun Fanthome

Reset checks in with a police accountability expert following State's Attorney Kim Foxx's decision not to file criminal charges against the officers who shot and killed 13 year-old Adam Toledo and 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez. GUEST: Craig Futterman, Clinical Professor at University of Chicago Law School; founder of Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Priya caught up with Gregor Husper, Principal Lawyer at the Police Accountability Project, to discuss the Department of Justice's review into Victoria's police complaints system and the serious problem of police investigating police. The review responds to a range of concerns outlined in the 2018 Independent Broad-Based Anti-corruption Commission's Inquiry into the external oversight of police corruption and misconduct in Victoria and the Royal Commission into the management of Police Informants. Gregor recommended that listeners read the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service's policy brief 'Reforming Police Oversight' to find out more.//  Lloyd Williams, National Secretary for the Health Services Union joins us to discuss the devastating number of deaths due to Covid-19 in aged care facilities, the Government's recent announcement of bonuses for aged care workers and the HSU's case for higher wages currently before the Fair Work Commission.// Xen, founder of Red Pocket Press, joins us to discuss Lunar New Year, and their new zine for the Year of the Water Tiger. Red Pocket Press is a publishing project for Queer Asians who celebrate Lunar New Year. Since 2019 (Year of the Golden Pig) they've been making cute moments and connections through zines, food and gatherings.// Aboriginal activist and veteran 3CR broadcaster Robbie Thorpe joins us along with collaborator Mindy (Melinda) Michail, sovereign Remenkermi woman whose ancestral lands are in the south of what is now called Egypt, to discuss working in solidarity, Indigenous sovereignty and the Black GST movement. Read the 'No Jurisdiction' writ that Black GST launched on 26 January 2022 at the 50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra here, find out more about Black GST and how to support via their Facebook page.// Songs// L'Idole Des Jeunes - Ngaiire//

Indian films with hero cops often glorify police violence. At times, encounter killings are celebrated by the public at large. According to NHRC data, there are five custodial deaths in India every day. The minister of state for home affairs, Nityanand Rai has said that there have been 151 custodial deaths in 2021.  On this episode of the Suno India Show, reporter Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to Ameya Bokil, a legal researcher and co-founder of Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project. They discuss how custodial violence started in India, why it is so common and what some of the legal remedies are. Tune in. Show notes: Death Due To Custodial Torture: State Government To Pay 5 Lakhs To Family Of Minor Victim; Madras High Court Adjourns The Matter | Live Law Problems of Violence, States of Terror: Torture in Colonial India – Anupama Rao Police's Continued Victimisation of ‘Denotified' Tribal Communities Can No Longer Go Unchallenged | The Wire Over-policing in India is not the answer to COVID-19 | OpenGlobalRights  See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

It's a newsy week and we've got a long newsy show for you all. This week we're serving up... Aperitifs: Crown Casino lose their license but also don't, featuring Noon singing. The Federal Government is trying to bring in voter ID laws. And Michael Leunig has been fired from the age. We also have a SPOTW for Meag's Leunig knock-off.  Positivity Corner: ICAC continues to ICAC, with both Gladys Berejiklian and Daryl Maguire taking the witness stand this week. We re-enact some of the tapped phone calls and get you up to date with all the major drama.  First Nations: New funding for Indigenous artists is cool but doesn't address with the huge problems and rampant exploitation in the Aboriginal art industry, which artists and art collectives have been calling for help with.  ACAB: Former head of ethics at Victorian Police, Brett Guerin, will receive no punishment for making several hundred of some of the most vile and racist internet comments either of us have ever seen. Fashy Australia: Zac takes us through the Online Safety Act, the changes to privacy laws, and the Online Defamation Bill, three attempts by the Federal Government to regulate social media platforms.  Mains - Nat Zero Carbonara: Scott Morrison is going to COP26 (the annual international climate policy conference) with a completely useless and meaningless "the plan" for net zero emissions by 2050. It's actually impressively bad.  Shoutouts to the Police Accountability Project: https://twitter.com/Police_Acc_Proj  Watch Noon on Cam Wilson's twitch talking about ICAC and IBAC and more: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1187349478  Support the show financially and get a monthly bonus episode! This month we watched and discussed an Australian horror film, Long Weekend: www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod 

Like many of my peers, I would describe myself as interested in “civil rights work” after completing my first year of law school. But there's no 1L core curriculum around the concept of “civil rights.” What that means to us depends on our influences, neighbors, mentors, and what sort of issues and systems we are paying attention to in the news and in academia. Understanding modern civil rights work requires listening to people in need and de-centering lawyers' ideas and priors about what sort of lawsuits and changes oppressed people need. This week, with two leaders of the National Police Accountability Project, I discuss the different forms that modern civil rights work can take and the shifting targets of impact litigation and policy reform. Rachel Pickens, NPAP's Executive Director, and Lauren Bonds, NPAP's Legal Director, emphasize the need to challenge entire systems like policing, immigration detention, and the non-profit industrial complex.

Carolyn Harding with Jonathan Beard and David Harewood, organizers with the Columbus Police Accountability Project, “To provide information for empowered citizens to learn more about how to exercise our collective power to ensure police accountability. Finally..” Jon Beard's life goal is to help make the world a better place. He now works in the field of career technical education after working for 22 years in community-led redevelopment of distressed neighborhoods. He has helped lead multiple citizen ballot initiatives to reform Columbus City Council and regulate campaign contributions, coached and then ran a youth baseball league, and volunteered with many social welfare associations in his 30 years in Columbus. David S. Harewood is an advocate and artist who's spent the last decade in Columbus to give voice to the voiceless and help shorten the ”long arc of history” toward justice with every project and campaign. Having forged alliances and friendships with multiple organizations addressing, and victims of, police abuse, he joined with the Columbus Police Accountability Project as a way to provide protection for and a voice to those long afraid to speak out about the wrongs committed against them in the name of “law and order”. This is from the Columbus Police Accountability Website: “We are a collection of African American community leaders and involved citizens and our allies who are calling for the federal protection from a rogue division of police that has a pattern and practice of violating our community's rights under the Constitution of the United States of America and the country's various federally-ensured civil rights. We seek federal protection because for the past decades city political leadership has failed in that task. We will support our call for federal oversight by providing collecting and the testimony of Columbus residents who have experienced such lawless policing since the DOJ last investigated Columbus in 1998.” Columbus is a dangerous city, the Columbus Division of Police's violence and killing of our Black and People of Color citizens is next to that of New York City and Chicago. What is going on in Columbus with the Division of Police? https://c-pap.info GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!

Following the verdict in the George Floyd court case in the USA, Richard Hermer QC and Helen Mountfield QC speak with Prof. Craig Futterman, a Professor at the University of Chicago and the founder of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, and Raju Bhatt, a leading civil rights lawyer in the UK and a founding member of the Police Action Lawyer Group. Listen as they draw parallels with the UK experience of race and policing and ask the question: is this a pivotal moment in policing in the USA and how the country deals with race?

In this episode Sam Elkin interviews Gregor Husper from the Police Accountability Project about the disturbing incident of brutality during an arrest in Victoria this week.  

In this episode, we have two lawyers from the Criminal Justice & Police Accountability Project which is based out of Bhopal, talking about the Criminal Tribes Act, the Habitual offender's act, police brutality as a phenomenon, and what does police reforms mean & what's the idea of defunding in the Indian context. The website of Criminal Justice & Police Accountability Project: cpaproject.in Some of the pieces they have written on these issues: https://www.article-14.com/post/born-a-criminal-how-poverty-struck-tribals-become-habitual-offenders https://www.article-14.com/post/why-charan-singh-bolts-his-house-from-inside-and-out-before-he-sleeps https://www.article-14.com/post/indramal-bai-s-death-and-how-the-police-got-away https://www.thewire.in/article/video/police-brutality-reforms?utm=authorlistpage

On this episode of The Grapevine, Heidi Lee, project lead for Beyond Zero Emissions' ‘One Million Jobs Plan' initiative gets on the line to discuss how job creation and industry modernisation can lead Australia out of a post-covid economy and into a carbon free future.And following an interview by local musician Remi with Flemington Towers resident Najat Mussa, Executive Officer at Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre & The Police Accountability Project, Anthony Kelly, explains the importance of an immediate recall of police officers sent in to enforce the initial ‘hard lockdown', and a redesign to future emergency covid responses.Then Professor Dennis Altman from La Trobe University calls in to chat with Dylan and Kulja about his piece in The Conversation, ‘Watching Hamilton Today - musical Drama can be radical, just don't believe all the hype' about how relevant the production is to an Australian audience in the wake of Black Lives Matter movements worldwide.

I talk to Nathan Leitch of Barpirdhila Foundation (9:59) about their fundraiser to support Indigenous artists & community affected by COVID-19; yarn with Anthony Kelly of the Police Accountability Project (43:24) about increased copper powers in the pandemic and how they're misusing them; and I visit & revisit some old mates, such as prominent Australian nationalists, Nazis, conspiracy theorists & cooked Facebook groups, to learn about the shit that they're making up about coronavirus. I record The Poor Can Feed The Birds aboard the hull of the abandoned Ruby Princess, where I ride atop a mighty, enormous pangolin steed.  I control an army of horseshoe bats that flock around me like a cloud of night.  We steer the disease hulk around the nation.  I am Dread Coronavirus.  Support me on Patreon:  https://patreon.com/tomtanuki The Poor Can Feed The Birds is part of the Channel Zero Network. --- LINKS: Barpirdhila Foundation fundraiser:  https://covid19-first-nations-community-impacts.raisely.com/ Police Accountability Project:  http://www.policeaccountability.org.au/ COVID Policing report tool:  https://covidpolicing.org.au/

Tuesday 17 March 2020 Acknowledgement of country//  News headlines//  Anthony Kelly, CEO of the Flemington-Kensington Legal Service discussing the Police Accountability Project’s new police complaints chat bot//  An excerpt from Wild Black Women’s live show at Perth Festival. Angelina Hurley and Chelsea Bond were joined by Aunty Professor Pat Dudgeon and Aunty Gningala Yaran-Mark//  Helen Dickinson from the Centre for Excellence in Disability and Health talks about their recent report that provides recommendations for the disability sector to respond to COVID-19// SONGS//  Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You HappyEmma Russack - If You Could See Me Now

As the federal government announces an overhaul to the controversial Robodebt scheme, Victoria Legal Aid's Charley Brumby-Rendell explains what heralded the move.And with increasing reports of clashes between police and protesters, Gregor Husper from the Police Accountability Project lays down some much needed reforms.

This week Kulja and Dylan speak with Anthony Kelly, Executive Officer at Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre - which runs the Police Accountability Project - about police misconduct, complaints procedures and the police's accountability to the public. And Economist Ross Garnaut phones in to The Grapevine to discuss his new book Super-Power: Australia's low-carbon opportunity, Australian climate and energy policy discussion and the opportunities that a transition to renewables will bring for the Australian Economy.Finally, The Big Issue Editor Amy Hetherington steps into the studio to celebrate the magazines monumental 600th edition and look back at the evolution of The Big Issue over the last 23 and a half years.

This week on the program we speak with Tamar Hopkins, researcher and founding lawyer of the Police Accountability Project at the Flemington and Kensington Legal Centre, about racial profiling by police. Tamar discusses how racial profiling functions in Victoria, lessons that can be learned from the Canadian legal system, and how positive change can be made going forward.

Steffan with Police Accountability Project director John Burton on the shooting of a black man in Colorado Springs by police. Listener calls react. Then, the Knights of Columbus in Minnesota honors STEM school shooting hero Kendrick Castillo, we have a local MN CBS report on the event.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Marisa interviewed Ali, who is imprisoned in Adelaide Detention Centre. He spoke about a 23 year old man who eied tragically in the custody of Mita Detention Centre, Melbourne.Marisa then interviewed Anthony Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of Flemmington, Kensington Community Legal Centre, about the Royal Commission into mental health, and the submission that was prepared by the Police Accountability Project.Finally, Marisa interviewed Naomi Murphy, a First Nations woman, who rejected a Naidoc Award for her incredible work in Community, because the Award was sponsored by Serco. Naomi also spoke about Stolen generation, and the criminalisation of Aboriginal people and Asylum seekers. An underlying theme of the interview was Naomi's lived experience of the justie system, and how she acquired healing. 

Tuesday Breakfast 27 November 2018 7.00 am  Acknowledgement of Country7.05 am  News headlines  7.10 am  Pre-record: Ayan chats to  Daisy, the head of audio at Future Creatives Initiative. They discuss the structural issues that exist for women in the Australian screen industry, how listeners can enter their script for a chance to win the Emerging Screenwriter Award 2019 and have their story made into a film by Taival Films to be premiered at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival in 2020.   7.30 am Lauren talks to Nicole Lee, survivor advocate who works in the family violence and disability sectors, about her experience of running as an independent candidate in the Victorian state election, the impact of the election results on the community, and why we need more diverse voices in the parliament. 7.45 am Arielle and Jayde from Women's Heath East join us in the studio, and talk to George about the #16DaysofActivism and the #Together4GE campaigns, and the work that health services across Victoria are doing (such as TFER) to address gender-based violence. [Tuesday Breakfast committed, on air, to cover topics relating to gender-based violence on our show, especially in relation to women & NB people who exist at intersections ignored by mainstream media - you can also make similar commitments, check out http://whe.org.au/news-events/16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence-together4ge/)8.10 am Anya chats to Tamar Hopkins, founding lawyer of FKCLC’s Police Accountability Project (PAP) about how the PAP began, how the work and the narrative around the need for police accountability changed over the course of this project, her report on the implementation of a racial profiling data collection scheme, and what else the team is currently working on.8.25 am The team reflects on the election results and the importance of holding the state government accountable on issues relating to the criminal justice system and representation of First Nations people in any treaty talks, amongst various others.  8.30 am End Songs song: Droppin' artist: Leikeli47 song: Thank u, next artist: Ariana Grande song: Wiggleartist: Huntlysong: Girlartist: Destiny's Child

Today on Accent of Women, we revisit the issue of African gangs and the vilification of Sudanese youth by the conservative media, and the Victorian state opposition.We feature the voice of Sudanese community campaigner, Nawal Ali, addressing a public meeting in Flemington – a western Melbourne suburb with a large Sudanese community. And then in the second part of the show, we revisit our interview with Sajda Yaccoub from the Peer Advocacy Team of the Police Accountability Project at Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre.

Today on Accent of Women, we look at the supposed crime wave of African gangs that is sweeping Victoria.To discuss this issue, two young women are featured on Accent of Women, who in very different ways, are both working towards combating the media's racist rhetoric, and ultimately to ending this kind of racism. These two young women are Eunice Gabboyi, chairperson of the Afro Australian Student Association, and Sajda Yacoub ffrom the Peer Advocacy Team of the Police Accountability Project at Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre.

This summer saw a frenzy of reports into so called ‘African gangs’. Some media outlets and politicians claimed Victoria is facing a ‘crisis’ in youth crime, so much so that it is no longer safe to eat out at restaurants. Fingers were also being pointed at the courts for being too ‘soft’. However, the State government and police rejected claims of a crisis, labelling them 'utter garbage' and unproductive. Members of the African community also warned against the harm this rhetoric causes, including discrimination and vilification.We speak to Sajda Yakub, a Peer Advocate from the Police Accountability Project, to unpack this issue and provide us with some perspective.

Kevin Myles is a civil rights activist for NAACP and our Maurice Blackbun Visiting Activist. We talked to him about civil rights issues facing the black community in America such as incarceration rates, police brutality and more. --- This episode's Community Partner is the Police Accountability Project . It is a specialist, innovative, public interest legal practice within the Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre. TheProject takes the lead in Victorian police accountability law and strategies, supporting young and vulnerable clients from the complaint stage to litigation along with ongoing systemic advocacy. The Project includes the Peer Advocacy Outreach Project, public interest casework, Victoria’s first Police Complaints Clinic and strategic law reform and advocacy work against racial profiling and for the independent investigations ofpolice misconduct. One-of or monthly tax deductable donations are very welcome and can be made via www.givenow.com.au/fkclc

Independent investigation and Parliamentary Review on racial profiling.  Zenab and Anthony Kelly from Flemington Kensington Community Legal Center spoke about racial profiling of African communties by Victorian Police and a new inquiry on external oversight of police corruption and misconduct in Victoria.  The deadline for submission is in August.http://www.policeaccountability.org.au/