Common Cause
Common Cause
Common Cause was a weekly radio show on 2XX from around 1994 to 2005. The show featured news, interviews and commentary on various campaigns and issues – especially opposition to the US invasion of Iraq, the struggles of refugees in Australia’s immigration detention centres.
Discussion with worker Sharmouk Nathan and union organiser Glenn Parry about working conditions on the construction site of a Hindu temple in Mawson, which sparked a strike of migrant stonemasons. Also coverage of the reestablishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in protest at Howard’s attacks, with commentary from Ernie Creighton, Bill Craigie and Isobelle Coe.
Common Cause recording of Canberra’s Unite Against Racism protest, November 23 1996. The rally was chaired by Tanya, and coincided with protests against Pauline Hanson’s racism and Howard’s cuts. Featuring Isabelle Coe from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, union and socialist speakers.
Iranian refugees under threat of deportation. Australian government in full cooperation with the repressive Iranian regime.
An extended interview with Amer Abdelhadi, manager of TMFM in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. Discusses the current situation of siege and curfew by the Israeli army, and the role of the radio station in keeping community and civil resistance alive.
A special show to promote a solidarity fundraiser with radio TMFM in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. TMFM manager Tariq Al Mahabbe describes life under siege and curfew from the Israeli army, and the role of the radio station in helping people survive a brutal military siege and curfew, and to promote civil resistance to occupation.