A couple of weeks ago in Melbourne, 9 public housing towers were subject to a police-enforced lockdown with no notice. Melbourne musician Remi Kolawole spoke to Najat Mussa, a resident of one of those blocks, shortly after 8 of the 9 towers had been released from lockdown. The hard, localised lockdown has now been lifted across the board – but the way this has unfolded says a lot about the way the government views race, class and its selective duty to protect. Part of this interview originally aired on Melbourne community radio station 3RRR. We're grateful to be able to bring it to you here on the podcast too.

A couple of weeks ago in Melbourne, 9 public housing towers were subject to a police-enforced lockdown with no notice. Melbourne musician Remi Kolawole spoke to Najat Mussa, a resident of one of those blocks, shortly after 8 of the 9 towers had been released from lockdown. The hard, localised lockdown has now been lifted across the board &ndash; but the way this has unfolded says a lot about the way the government views race, class and its selective duty to protect. Part of this interview originally aired on Melbourne community radio station 3RRR. We're grateful to be able to bring it to you here on the podcast too.

Race Matters is an anti-racist show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. In-depth interviews and unique story telling and spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events, plus experimental audio and community takeovers.

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Listen to our Solidarity Syndicate series - sharing across airwaves and borders and our Liquid Homelands series - an experimental, queer audio offering

We honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where fbi.radio broadcasts out of.  

Our logo design by Jessica Mulet, our theme songs was composed by Mateo Baskaran 

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Race Matters is an anti-racist&nbsp;show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. In-depth interviews and unique story telling and spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events, plus experimental audio and community takeovers.
Listen back to <a href="https://www.fbi.radio/programs/race-matters">all our episodes on fbi.radio</a> including radio exclusives, and stay up to date on our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/race_matters/">instagram</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/fbiradiosydney/sets/race-matters-sol-dar-ty-synd">Listen to our Solidarity Syndicate series</a> - sharing across airwaves and borders and our&nbsp;<a href="https://soundcloud.com/fbiradiosydney/sets/racematters_liquid-homelands">Liquid Homelands</a> series - an experimental, queer audio offering
We honor all hosts, producers, storytellers that have made this work possible as well as the long tradition of storytelling, resistance and resilience that has taken place on Gadigal Country, where fbi.radio broadcasts out of.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Our logo design by Jessica Mulet, our theme songs was composed by Mateo Baskaran&nbsp;
Race Matters is made possible thanks to the&nbsp;<a href="https://cbf.org.au/">Community Broadcasting Foundation</a>

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Race Matters

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Beyond representation. Anti-racist radio with in-depth interviews and unique story telling spanning arts, music, global politics, local events + more

Melbourne muso Remi in conversation with Najat Mussa, a resident of one of the blocks that was subject to a hard lockdown in Melbourne.