Welcome the Monday Breakfast show for Monday the 3rd of March 2025. On today's show:

Headlines covering:

• No automatic license loss for Victorian medicinal cannabis users
• 6 new gas drilling approved in the Otway Basin

• 40 hectares of precious native grassland has been bulldozed in the west of Melbourne

Then:

- Rob spoke with Wil Stracke, Assistant Secretary at the Victorian Trades Hall Council about International Working Women's Day, the legacy of Zelda D'Aprano and Helen Robertson, and capitalism's watering down of the motives behind IWD. Stay tuned to 3CR this Saturday the 8th of March aka IWD for a 24-hour broadcast dedicated to International Women's Day.

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Last Friday Hannah had a conversation with Heidi Everett who started the organisation Schizy Inc, an organisation that makes art spaces for people with diverse and complex mental health, and their upcoming events. World Schizophrenia Day is on the Saturday 24 May, support their Mojo Gala Event at the Fringe Common Rooms (Trades Hall), Carlton. To find out more about their upcoming events go to https://www.schizy.org/

- We heard

a speech from the rally against Islamophobia on Sunday the 23rd of February which took place outside Labor MP Andrew Giles' office in Thomastown. The protest was called following the rise in Islamophobic attacks, including the February 13 attack of two Muslim women at an Epping shopping centre. We heard Dr Nasser al Ziyadut from Muslim Votes Matter speak at the rally. Thank you to Marisa Sposaro from the Doin' Time show for recording the audio! Catch the Doin' Time Show on Mondays from 4 to 5pm or listen to previous shows at 3cr.org.au/dointime

- The show ends with Hannah's conversation with Violet Coco about the importance of protecting native forests, defending the right to protest and upcoming rallys. There's a march in March for Forests on the 23rd at 10.30am outside Peter Khalil's office in naarm which will join the free palestine rally, the march in March for Forests is also happening state-wide, calling for the protection of our ecosystems. On the 19th of March at 5.30pm at State Parliament there will be a rally defending the right to protest.

Songs played:

• Bread and Roses - Judy Collins
• Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves - Aretha Franklin and the Eurythmics
• Im Sane - Heidi Everett [https://heidie.bandcamp.com/track/im-sane]