Show #32, November 2, 2008

Do not miss our interview with NZ Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen . It promises to be an important week on the campaign trail as Labour starts to go after John Key's career as a crapshooter in the world market casino. Also what do Clarke and Cullen mean when the say capitalism, as we know it, is finished?

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Also, Prof Will Harris, on the US attack on Syrian soil as a potential stoking of Arab nationalist fires. This also at a time when Iraqis have defied the US's demands for a long term status of forces agreement. What are the implications for Middle East politics?

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Playlist

Fela Kuti - Let's Start
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Wu Tang Clan - Can it be...
Pablo Moses - A Step Before Hell
Funky Four Plus One - That's The Joint
BDP - The Real Pimps
Peter Tosh - You Can't Blame The Youth
Lou Donaldson - Turtle Walk
Antibalas - Small Man, Big Man
Gil Scott Heron - Johannesburg
Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto
Al Campbell - Take A Ride
Mr Lif - I Phantom
Alpha Blondy - Bloodshed in Africa
Black Brothers - School Children
Quasimoto - Low Class Conspiracy
Vast Aire - Mecca & The OX
Wooden Glass - In The Rain
Blackstar - What's Beef?
Three Sounds - Repeat After Me

Show #31, October 25th, 2008.

Chris Trotter, joins us to talk about the upcoming New Zealand election. Will the NZ crown prince of finance, John Key, pull out this election in these times of financial crisis? Maori party, corporate warriors or flaxroots? What is up with the NZ middle class, still going blue?

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Correction from last week's show, Najibullah Lafraie was the foreign Minister from 1992-96 of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, NOT the Interior Minister. He was AGAINST the NATO invasion, I mistook his statement that Afghans were initially acquiescent.

Playlist

Bill Withers - Lovely Day
Stevie Wonder - Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing
Meshell Ndegeocello - Hot Night
The Coup - 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO
Tony Benson Sextet - Ugali
Ice Cube - I Wanna Kill Sam
Junior Murvin - Strikes and Demonstrations
Cee-lo - Sierra's Song
The Dramatics - Whatcha See is Whatcha Get
Ice - Bacubah
Reflection Eternal - Eternalists
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not be Televised
Fela Kuti - Olulufu Mi
Miriam Makeba - Uthando Luyapela
Organized Konfusion - Extinction Agenda
Bounty Killer - Guns In The Ghetto
JBs - The Grunt pt1
Chrissy Zebby Tembo - Gone Forever
Jimmy Cliff - 400 years
Get Boys - The World Is a Ghetto
LL Cool J - Pink Cookies
Fred Wesley - Breakin Bread

Show #30, October 18, 2008

Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living intellectual on the end of US exceptionalism. Time to take stock. US Soft Power = 0, Economic Power = $10 trillion debt, Military budget = $500 billion per annum. Does that scare anyone? Tune in to hear our exclusive 30 minute interview with Professor Chomsky.

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Playlist

Bobby Hutcherson - Ummh!
Freestyle Fellowship - 7th Seal
Cornell Campbell - Natty Don't Go
Stevie Wonder - Ain't Done Nuthin'
Ike Turner Getting Nasty
Organized Konfusion - Stray Bullet
Gil Scott Heron - We Almost Lost Detriot
Junior Murvin - Stop the Crime
JBs - Blow Your Head
Dennis Brown - Revolution
King Geedorah - The Fine Print
Alpha Blondy - Brigadier Sabari
The Unemployed - They Won't Let Me
Jimmy Cliff - Struggling Man
Jimmy McGriff - The Worm
Manu Dibango - Groovy Flute
The Coup - I Love Boosters!
Geto Boys - Damn It Feels to be Gangsta
Gene Harris - Higga Boom

Show #29, October 11, 2008

DJ Baxter holds it down for the Revolution

Show #28, October 5th, 2008

This at 9:30 week on 'The Revolution...' we welcome back Russell Norman, Greens co-leader and Finance spokesperson. With the financial chickens coming home to roost and laissez-faire capitalism on the ropes we'll ask Russell what opportunities there are for progressive change or will it be more of the same.

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Also Victor Billot, Dunedin North Candidate for the Alliance, joins us to talk about being barred from campus debates. What is going on with student political culture?

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Playlist

Fela Kuti - Colonial Mentality
Freddie McGregor - Africa Here I Come
Mr Lif - Arise
Mulatu Astatke - Tezeta
Notorious BIG - Sky's the Limit
Torri Wowo - Goodwin Ezike & The Ambassadors
Horace Andy - If I Wasn't a Man
Wu Tang Clan - Cream
Ernie & The Top Notes - Dap Walk
King Geedorah - I Wonder
Gil Scott Heron - Inner City Blues
Alpha Blondy - Aparthied
The Coup - Sho Yo Ass (An Anthem For Our Times!)
Jean Grae - Excuse Me
Eddie Bo - Check Your Bucket