Show #46, May 29, 2009

A day of student protest, we get you primed for the joint Young Labour and EAG action decrying the student financial crisis.

Playlist

Gil Scott Heron - The Bottle (live)
Bobby Hutcherson - Montara
James Reese and the Progressions - Let's Go
Malcolm X - No Such Thing as a Non Violent Revolution
Al Campbell - Bad Boy
Master Killah - Street Corner
Anitbalas - Talkatif
Juggaknots - Loosifa
Ethiopiques - Unknown
Medina Green - Full Court Press
Tapper Zukie - Revolution
Harry J Allstars - Liquidator
Stevie Wonder - Living for the City
Jeru - The Bullshit
Bill Withers - Use Me
Cornell Campbell - Natty Dread Don't Go
Slavoj Zizek on Israel
Organized Konfusion - 3-2-1
Delfonics - Trying to make a fool of me
Marvin Gaye - Anger

Show #45, May 22, 2009

This week on The Revolution...Dr Geoffrey Craig speaks on the media's crisis of legitimacy, the death of the newspaper and the reactionary populist tenor of our news today.

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Also, one year on from the dramatic action taken at Waihopai we catch up with Ploughshare activist Adi Leason. Has the cause for peace taken a hit with National's military emphasis.

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New Zealand Music Week in EFIZZ-ECT BOY!


Playlist

Katchafire - Get Away
Holy Sheep - Foxton
Tama Iti - I'm Not a Terrorist
Herbs - Nuclear Waste
Feelstyle - Savage Feel
Barnaby - Bag of Money
Katchafie - This World
Dam Native - Horrified One
Koilie - Holomio
Jeff Simmonds - Lets Shut Down Waihopai
Jeff Simmonds - Say You So
Open Souls - In Your Hands
IMC - Wooo!
Dubwize - Fire I Blaze
Feelstyle - Going Home

Show #44, May 15th 2009

Dr Najibullah Lafraie, former Afghan foreign minister (1992-1996) joins us to talk about the civil strife in Pakistan with global consequences. As America rains death from above with dystopian killing machines, will Pakistani civil society remain vibrant, does America want to restore the military's role in Pakistani political life, will Central Asia be Obama's Indo-China? Who better to consult than Najib.

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Playlist

James Brown - It's A New Day
Public Enemy - Fight The Power
Tiken Jah Fakoly - Soldier
Rail Band - Fankante
The Coup - Head of State
DJ Green Lantern - Impeach the President
Tapper Zukie - Revolution
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
Gil Scott Heron - Delta Man
Antibalas - Pay back Africa
K-Rob vs Ramelzee - Beat Bop
Erykah Badu - Penitentiary Philosophy
Outkast - Liberation
Marivn Gaye - What's Going On (Al Fingers Revolution Remix)
Peter Tosh - Let Jah be Praised
Ghost, Rae & Slick Rick - The Sun
African Brothers - Self REliance

Show #43, May 8th, 2009

The death of carbon trading? Good or Bad? We ask Greens co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimmons.

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Pete Seeger, folk legend, the oracle of class consciousness, turned 90 this week, we celbrate.

Finally David Harvey on the future of capitalism and the necessity of Marx.

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Playlist

SOUL - Can You Feel It
Erykah Badu - On & On
Jeru The Damaja - Ain't The Devil Happy
Al Campbell - Free Up Rasta
Mos Def- New World Water
Gil Scott Heron - South Carolina
Junior Murvin - Champagne and Wine
Aesop Rock - Easy
Eddie Bo - Getting to the Middle
Gary Burtz - Celestial Blues
BDP - Who are The Pimps
Mystic One - Forward with Jah Orthodox
The Highlanders Group - Funky 16 Corners
JBs - Doing it to the Death
Killah Priest - one Step

Show #42, MAY DAY! 2009

Workers of the World Unite!

This week on the Revolution... We marinate on the badness that is Curtis Mayfield and Superfly, a discussion with the MC Rhymefest and Princeton Professor Cornel West.



Also, we relive the best moment of the W. Bush years, an oxymoron like no other. Shouts to Colbert at the White House Press Dinner 2006.



Playlist

Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man
The Coup - Piss on Your Grave
Fela Kuti - Black Man's Cry
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Moody Scott - Gotta Bust Out of the Ghetto
Junior Reid - One Blood
Sage Francis - Hot to Write a Political Poem
GIl Scott Heron - Madison Avenue
Stevie Wonder - We Can Work it Out
Gregory Issacs - Mr Cop
Geto Boys - Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangster
Michigan & Smiley - Studio One Compliment
Nina Simone - Revolution
Tribe - Check the Rhyme
Fat Boys - Liez
Leo Fadaka & The Heros - Blak Sound