Show #18, 28 June 2008

Chris Trotter on 'Blood for Butter' and the myths of ANZAC. Why do we persist with a militaristic nationalism? What is New Zealand's role in the war on terror? Are fascist forces politically ascendant?

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Show #17, 21 June 2008

Winston Peters (NZ Foreign Minister, Leader on NZ First), Winston an unabashed economic nationalist takes on the 'intellectual ineptitude' of Chicago school economic neo-liberalism and the two major parties who can't see that the 'emperor has no clothes'. Speak on brother! 'If you think the only political choices you have is between Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber, you'll get what you deserve'.

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Fela Kuti- Why Black Men They Suffer
Stevie Wonder- Master Blaster
Common- Ain't Nuthin to do
Malcolm X- On Africa
Roy Ayers- No Deposit, No Return
The Coup- Ghetto Manifesto
Ghetto Boys- The World is a Ghetto
Cannonball Adderley- Walk Tall
Sizzla- Every Move I Make
Arsenik & Passi- Bisso Na Bisso
Gil Scot Heron- Gun
Cappadonna- '97 Mentality
Revolution Compared to What?- Go To Work
Marlena Shaw- Women of the Ghetto
Alpha Blondy- Election Koutche
BlackStar- Resperation

Show #16, 14 June 2008

Sue Bradford (Green MP and social policy spokesperson) gives us a history lesson on the unemployed workers struggle of the 80s-90s. We ask Sue given the present economic crisis how the unemployed and working class are doing as compared to the shock treatment of the 80s-90s.

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Playlist:
Roy Ayers- Red, Black and Green
Electric Wire Hustle- Gimme That Kinda
Heath Brothers- Smilin' Billy Suite pt. 2
Reflection Eternal- Human Element
Ebo Taylor- Heaven
Jeru The Damaja- Come Clean
Tapper Zukie- Revolution
Gil Scott Heron- Possum Slim
The Coup- Piss on Your Grave
Stevie Wonder- Black Man
BDP- Why is That?
Pablo Moses- Last Straw
Ghana Sounz- Wei Ne Kadoda
Dead Prez & Talib Kweli- Suffering + Smiling
Katchafire- Frisk me Down
Mavis Staples- Chocolate City
Madvillan- Raid
Ahmad Jamal- Swahililand

Show #15, 7 June 2008

Playlist:
Gil Scott Heron- Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Jimmy Cliff- Struggling Man
Markeo- Special Way
Mulatu Astatke- The Panther
Wu Tang Clan- Can't go to Sleep
Malcolm X- I'm a Field Negro
Recloose- So Cool
Mokobe Du 113- Sur Les Traces de Fela
MC Shan- Jane! Stop That Crazy Thing
Bobby Womack- Across 110th St
Katchafire- This World
Non Phixion- Futurama
High & Mighty- And1
Kurtis Blow- Basketball
Fela Kuti- Authority Stealing
Peter Tosh- You Can't Blame the Youth
Noam Chomsky- On 'Globalization'
Barrington Levy- Englishmen
Alpha Blondy- Superpowers
Cymande- The Message
Bronze Nazareth- Street Corners
The Coup- Get Up
Marvin Gaye- Inner City Blues

Show #14, 31 May 2008

Jeanette Fitzsimmons (co-Leader of The Greens) responds to artist Graeme Sydney's statement that nuclear would preferable to wind power. What's up with bourgeoisie "don't ruin my view" environmentalism? Who cares if they put another coal plant in Huntly.

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Nandor Tanczos (Green MP & Justice spokesperson) on the challenge to our civil liberties in NZ. Did former PM Sir Geoffrey Palmer really call for revoking the right to silence? What the Feck?

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Abe Grey (NORML), it's been a busy week for student activists as the University puts the pressure on NORML. A NORML member is arrested for possession marking it the first arrest in 15 years on campus. Was this done as a result of conservative Gulf state student exchange interests?

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Playlist:
Cornell Campbell- Blessed are They
Fela Kuti- Let's Start
Planet Asia, Khalid, Littles- Listen
Yusef Lateef- Like it is
Wu Tang Clan- One Blood
Dam Native- Horrified One
Alpha Blondy- Brigadier Sabari
Mulatu Astatke- Yegelle Tezeta
BDP- Sound of the Police
Gil Scot Heron- South Carolina
Dead Prez- We Need a Revolution
The Coup- We are ones
MC Soolar- Bouge De La
Lakeside- Fantastic Voyage
Bobby Hutcherson- A Night in Barcelona

Show #13, 24 May 2005

Fliss Butcher, Dunedin City Councilor, speaks on the loss of F&P, Worker Ownership (WORD!), corporate welfare and Dunedin's $180 million penis enlargement surgery (Awatea st stadium).

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Playlist:
Fela Kuti- Alu Jon Jonki Jon
Rakka Irriscience- The Revolution Will Not be Televised
Recloose- I Know
Mc Soolar- Les Tempes Changent
Richard Groove Holmes- Groovin With Mr G
Alpha Blondy- Cocody Rock
Stevie Wonder- Big Brother
Noam Chomsky- The New World Order
Feelstyle- Savagefeel
Public Enemy- Louder Than a Bomb
Curtis Mayfield- Man Can't Put Nothing on me
Victor Jarga- Commandante Che Guevara
Horace Andy- Conscious Dreadlock
Gil Scott Heron- Must Be Something
Common- Real People
Tony Allen- NEPA

Show #12, 17 May 2008

Malcolm X's 83rd Birthday. This famous speech was delivered after the Nation of Islam fire bombed his house in Queens on Valentine's Day 1965,

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Playlist:
Fela Kuti- Everything Scatter
Recloose- Can it be
Mr Lif- Success
Funky 16 Corners- Rain
Noam Chomsky- Us/Israel and Human Rights
Bobby Humphries- Harlem River Drive
Pablo Moses- A Step Before Hell
BDO- Love is a Gonna Get You
Keith Olberman on Bush Quitting Golf
Gil Scot Heron- Gun
Neil Young- Let's Impeach The President
Malcolm X
Stevie Wonder- Ain't Gonna Stand for it
Cornell Campbell- Jah Jah me no Born Yah
The Coup- Sho Yo Ass
RA Rugged Man- Mental Chains
Kurtis Blow- The Breaks
The JBs- Doin' it to the Death

Show #11, 3 May 2008

Nicky Hager, Journalist/Author and the man responsible for shining light on the darkest corners of New Zealand politics, joins us to talk about the corporate media. John Key is still a hollow man and national successfully continue to 'feed the chucks' of the reactionary media.

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Abe Grey, of NORML, pops in for a background of the group and its activities.

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Playlist:
Ahmad Jamal- The World is a Ghetto
Miriam Makeba- Keep Dialoguing
Jeremiah Wright on Liberation Theology
Koile- Holomio
The Roots & Roy Ayers- Proceed II
Freestyle Fellowship- 5 O'clock Follies
Gil Scot Heron- We Almost Lost Detroit
Katchafire- Collie Herbman
Marvin Gaye- Inner City Blues
Jimmy Cliff- No Justice
Rick James- Mary Jane
Gary Butz- Celestial Blues
Mr Lif- Arise
Bill Withers- I Can't Write Left Handed

Show #8, 19 April 2008

Assoc Prof. Hugh Campbell, Director for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment (University of Otago), gets to the heart of food market issues and environmental challenges.

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Show #7, 12 April 2008

Russel Norman (Greens co-Leader). They ink on the NZ/China FTA is dry and we get our first chance to actually examine the contents. What does this deal, that was hammered out with intensive participation by business groups, mean for most NZers. The 2$ shop? More jobs making lattes for the financial class? Choice!

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Chris Perley(Sustainability Expert and Land Management Consultant). Will markets and entrepreneurial endeavour solve the massive energy and climate change issues facing us? Not bloody likely!

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"Neo-liberalism: Ultra logical like certain forms of insanity" (Pierre Bourdieu)

Playlist:
Fela Kuti- Zombie
Feelstyle- Feels Like Forever
Ghostface, Raekwon & Slick Rick- The Sun
The Coup- 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO
Victor Jarga- Commandante Che Guevara
Sam Cooke- It's Been a Long Time Coming
Stevie Wonder- Black Man
Gil Scot Heron- 1980
DJ Green Lantern- Impeach The Pres
Last Poets- White Man's Got a God Complex
Alpha Blondy- La Guerre
Brand Nubian- Allah and Justice
William DeVaughn- diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin the scene..

Show #6, 5 April 2008

Finlay Macdonald (Sunday Star Times Columnist) speaks to us about his lecture titled, "The Audacity of Hype; The New National Socialism".

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Playlist:
Fela Kuti- Water no get Enemy
Lakeside- Rock Skate Roll Bounce
Blackseeds- So Good
Quasimoto- Tommorow Never Knows
Gil Scott Heron- Winter in America
BDP- Why is That?
Dennis Brown- Revolution
A Tribe Called Quest- Check the Rhyme
Dam Native- Horrified One
Dead Prez- We Need a Revolution
The Honeydrippers- Impeach The President
Marvin Gaye- Time
The Coup- Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Grenada
Cornell Campbell- Girl of my Dreams
The JBs- More Peas

Show #5, 29 March 2008

Keith Locke (Green MP, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson) takes on Labour's timid foreign policy in confronting China's aggression towards the Tibetan autonomy movement. NZ's FTA with China, a deal with the devil? What kind of political concept is proportionality? You can kill some just not to many?

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Playlist:
African Brothers- Self Reliance
Katchafire- This World
Miriam Makeba- Click Song
Gil Scot Heron- We Almost Lost Detroit
Curtis Mayfield- Beautiful Brother Mine
Recloose- Catch A Leaf
Immortal Technique- Peruvian Coke
Jay-Z- Minority Report
Cannonball Adderley- Walk Tall
Reflection Eternal- Love Is
Cornell Campbell- 100 Pounds of Collie
Noam Chomsky- Clash of Civilizations Fallacy
The Coup- Show Yo Ass
Ahmad Jamal- Suicide is Painless
Freestyle Fellowship- 7th Seal
James Brown- It's a Brand New Day
Madlib- Slim's Return

Show #4, 22 March 2008

John Minto, Social Justice Advocate and key member of HART (Halt All Racist Tours) during the anti-Springbok tour movement, joins to discuss the inherent anti-democratic tendencies of free trade agreements.

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Playlist:
Ali Farka Toure- Ai Du
Electric Wire Hustle- Gimme That Kinda
Cornell Campbell- Blessed are They
Fela Kuti- Sorrow Tears and Blood
Dave Chapelle- George Washington was a Slave Owner
Kolab- Inner Beat
Wu-Tang Clan- I Can't go to Sleep
Dick Cheney (1994)- Going Into Bagdad Would Have Been a Quagmire
The Coup- Head (of State)
Feelstyle- Su'ga ea!
Stevie Wonder- Ain't Gonna Stand for it
Gil Scott Heron- No Such Thing as a Superman
Rick James- Mary Jane
Madvillan- Raid
Alpha Blondy- Aparthied is Nazism
The Jbs- Even a Blind man can see

Show #3, 15 March 2008

Andy Tait our main man from the International Socialists drops in to talk about student debt culture and the Awatea st White Elephant. They must've been seein' pink elephants when they agreed to fund this thing.

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Playlist:
Fela Kuti- Coffin for the Head of State
Upper Hut Posse- Wise Up
Gil Scot Heron- Inner City Blues
West Coast All Stars- All in the Same Gang
Koile- Holomio
Jimmy Cliff- No Justice
Passi & Arsenik- Bisso Na Bisso
The JBs- You Can Have Your Watergate
Nina Simone- All on That Day
Mos Def- New World Water
Katchafire- Frisk me Down
Peter Tosh- You Can't Blame the Youth
Wu Tang Clan- Ghetto
Common- The People
Stevie Wonder- Don't Worry Bout a Thing
Dave Chapelle- Black Hostage
Slum Village- Disco
Peter King- Ajo
Brand Nubian- Drop the Bomb

Show #2, 8 March 2008

INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN"S DAY!

Playlist:
Fela Kuti- Gentlemen
Stevie Wonder- Big Brother
Ahmad Jamal- The World is a Ghetto
Dubwize- Dancehall State of Mind
Ghostface Killah- Malcolm X
Noam Chomsky- Enlightenment Principles
Curtis Mayfield- Curtis Mayfield
Katchafire- This World
Miriam Makeba- Pata Pata
The Coup- Ghetto Manifesto
Feelstyle- Keep Pushin' On
BDP- Sound of the Police
Gil Scot Heron- Gun
Common- Respiration
Bill Withers- I Can't Write Left Handed
Alpha Blondy- Afriki
Aaron Neville- Hercules
Horace Andy- Conscious Dreadlock
Tony Allen- NEPA
Brand Nubian- Allah and Justice

Show #1, 1 March 2008

Playlist:
Fela Kuti- Trouble Sleep
Rakka Irrascience- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Bobby Womack- Across 110th Street
Dubwize- Fire I Blaze
Black Uhuru- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Freestyle Boundaries- Innercity Boundaries
Gil Scott Heron- Vild (Deaf, Dumb and Blind)
King Kapisi- The Old Plantation
Dj Green Lantern- Impeach the Pres
5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO- The Coup
Cannonball Adderley- Pyramid
Katchafire- Collie Herbman
Stevie Wonder- Living for the City
BDP- Beef
Alpha Blondy- Brigadier Sabari
Feelstyle- I Ain't Mad at You
Roy Ayers- We Live in Brooklyn
Quasimoto-Tommorow Never Knows
Sizzla- Enemies Confounded
Common- Can I Borrow a Dollar
Mareko- Ohh Shit!
Jimmy Cliff- Under the sun Moon and Stars
The JBs- Doin' it to the Death
K-Rob VS Ramelzee- Beat Bop