Show #36, February 28, 2009

This week we turn to psychoanalyst and academic superstar Slavoj Zizek to unravel the inner-workings of Otago student culture. What does orientation and the carnivalesque Toga party have to do with fascism? You'll get a satisfying answer I assure you.

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Also, check out this link to David Harvey's lecture on the 'Neoliberal City', it provides a crucial insight into our stadium fiasco and how city governments are on the frontline of neo-liberal globalization.

Playlist

Fela Kuti - VIP
Killah Priest - One Step
Gregor Issacs - Payroll
Mos Def & Cornell West
Stevie Wonder - You Ain't Done Nuthin'
Gil Scott Heron - H20gate Blues
Sage Francis - How to Write a Political Poem
Ice Cube - I Wanna Kill Sam
Zizek on Israel
The Coup - 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO
The Abyssians - Declaration of Rights
George Akaeze - Business Before Pleasure
Curtis Mayfield - Other Side of Town
Richard Pryor on the Cops
Junior Murvin - Strikes And Demonstrations
Gil Scott Heron - Madison Avenue
JBs - Watergate
Sunz of Man - Israeli News
Capleton - Wings of the Morning
Dead Prez & Talib Kweli - Suffering & Smiling
AntiBalas - Small Man Big Man

Show #35, February 21, 2009

The Revolution is Back

Has the world gone to shit since we've been off air? Yeah, probably. Click here for an astoundingly thorough assessment of the Gaza atrocity by known other than the great Professor Chomsky.

So much to catch up on but most importantly we feature an in-depth interview with acclaimed author Raj Patel whose 'Stuffed and Starved' has been dubbed by Naomi Klein as 'a gift to a world hungering for Justice'. Patel delves into the foundations of the world food system and finds staggering levels of inequality, exploitation and imperialism. What about NZ? We're a good guy aren't we? Well you'll have check your nationalist myths at the door if you want to know the facts.

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Check out Raj at: http://rajpatel.org/


Playlist

Fela Kuti - Coffin for Head of State
Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
Ice Cube - Bird in the Hand
Willie Williams - Addis A Baba
Nina Simone - Revolution
Sizzla - Words of Truth
The Coup - Dig it!
Stevie Wonder - Big Brother
Wailing Souls - Back Out With it
Sly & The Family Stone - It's A Family Affair
Geto Boys - The World is a Ghetto
Gil Scott Heron - The Bottle (live)
Gregory Issacs - Sinner Man
Michigan & Smiley - Nice Up The Dance
Company Flow - Patriotism
Me'Shell & Kweli - Hot Night
Dennis Brown - Revolution