Show #39, March 27, 2009

This week on The Revolution... we catch up with local politics and activism.

Dr Rob Hamlin will be joining us to build up to the upcoming town hall meeting which hopes to give shot in the arm to the anti-stadium movement. Hamlin has been a outspoken critic of the local fiscal crisis entailed by stadium construction but if this is the case then it begs the question, "what corporate interests are served by the stadium?"

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Also, we'll be catching up with our friends at NORML as at looks like being another year of battling the University for the right to political protest.

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Show #38, March 20, 2009

As our National government has decided to slash aid and intensify its politicization, we call upon an expert opinion in the field of poverty reduction Professor Tony Binns. As John Key tells us to spend tax cuts on charity what about the 20% of the world that live on less than a dollar a day? Somebody better tell them that we're having a financial crisis and they'll have to hang in there. Oh wait Madagascar! What are you doing? You can't depose your corrupt president!

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Check out in Counter Punch this week: David Harvey "Is This The End of Neo-Liberalism"

Playlist

Fela Kuti - Gentleman
Gil Scott Heron - Vild (deaf, dumb & blind)
Rakka Irriscience - The Revolution...
Organized Konfusion - Stray Bullet
Lionel Hampton - Where were You
Wooden Glass - In The Rain
Mr Lif - Success
Funky Four+One - That's The Joint
Wailing Souls - Back Out With It
Roy Ayers - We Live In Brooklyn
Quasimoto - Tommorrow Never Knows
Opotopo - Belema
Heath Brothers - Smilin Billy Suite
Rod Taylor - Where Is Your Love Mankind
Blackstar - What's Beef?
The Coup - Ghetto Manifesto
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues
Roy AYers - Proceed II

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Show #37, March 7, 2009

This week on The Revolution... we welcome Green party MP from Dunedin Metiria Turei, into the studio to talk on the growing 'Prison Industrial Complex' in NZ. As we face an unprecedented down turn what are we to do with a population surplus to requirements? I get it, impose draconian laws and privatize the prisons. Now if only we can instill the proper fear and reactionary fervor within the middle classes then we'll be set.

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Playlist

Fela Kuti - Observation is no Crime
Black Uhuru - General Penitentiary
Nas - One Love
Gil Scott Heron - Possum SLim
Sam Cooke - Chain Gang
Richard Pryor - Just Us
Irriscience - Caution
Gregory Issacs - Jailer Bring Me Water
Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour
Erykah Badu - Penitentiary Philosophy
Common - A Song for Assata
Jimmy Cliff - No Justice
BDP - 30 Cops
Junior Murvin - Police and Theives
Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto
The Coup - DrugWarz