Bendigo St and the Case for Dwelling Justice - a podcast by Amy McMurtrie, Anya Saravanan, Ayan Shirwa, Emma Hart, and Iris Lee

Today we discuss the intersections of dwelling justice, incarceration, private land and the coloniality of housing.We hear an excerpt of Yuin woman and architectural design activist Linda Kennedy speaking at the Dwelling Justice Forum held in August 2022. You can listen to her full speech and others here.We then turn to a conversation about the Bendigo St documentary which chronicles a campaign to occupy a street of government-owned empty houses that were planned for demolition for the failed east-west link highway in Naarm/Melbourne. We sit down with documentary maker Jasmine Barzani, a Kurdish self-described troublemaker based in Naarm. She’s an anti-fascist, prison abolitionist, no borders activist, and she is completing her honour’s project at Melbourne University. She’s a visiting fellow at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies and on the steering group of the Homes not Prisons campaign.Bendigo St is crowd-funding to make a feature-length documentary, you can support the project on the documentary Australia website. 

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