FIRE MICHAEL LAWS

The 'Glen Beck' of New Zealand Michael Laws has done it again. Not content with the standard facist line of hate, bigotry, jingoism and neo-colonialism this angry white male has called for 'The Final Solution', sterilize the underclass. Check out the Post story at Stuff. This is intolerable and all NZers of conscious need to put a stop to it. That's why I'm calling for a letter campaign to Radio Live and Sunday Star Times to demand he resign.

This kind of open unabashed vile hatred has no place within a society of liberal principles of universality, equality and freedom. We should not only reject his ideas but reject the idea that we should even have this conversation. This has no place in the public discourse, would you like to hear someone debating whether rape should be legal, or sodomites be flogged. This is the level at which Laws is operating.

Particularly shameful in this case is the support of Radio Live for this 'man'. Trying to get some of that Jon Stewart edgyness, they claim to facilitate interesting ideas and debates. There is no debate to be had unless we wish to fundamentally undermine the core substance of democracy and subject the vulnerable to further maliciousness and debasement.

I urge you to write a sincere letter the good old fashioned way to the following:

Radio Live
PO Box 8880
Symonds St
Auckland
New Zealand

Sunday Star Times
attn: the Editor
PO Box 1327
Auckland 1140

Show #58, October 30, 2009

The struggle continues. This week on The Revolution... we are pleased to welcome onto the program veteran campaigner Mike Treen of Unite to talk about the continuing battle for equity, a living wage and pushing back the right wing surge.

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Also, check out Bill Moyers Journal for a superb interview with Judge Richard Goldstein, head of the UN Human RIghts Council inquiry into the Gaza massacre.

PLaylist

Fela - Lady
Dead Prez - Revolution
Curtis - Get Down
Jay-Z - Hello
Dizzy Gillespie - The Matrix
Erykah Badu - The Healer
BDP - The Racist
Mumia - The People Say Ow
Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
The Coup - SHo Yo Ass
Mos Def - Universal Magnetic
Boris Gardiner - Negril
Prince Far I - Prison Discipline

Show #57 October 23, 2009

This week On The Revolution...we get you prepped for the Labour Day Rally at the Octagon (2pm). David Harvey at Marxism 2009 offers a dialectical conception of the assemblage of values necessary for an emancipatory socialist project. Check our post for Andrew Tait's (ISOs) take on the present political moment.

Playlist

Moody Scott - Gotta Bust Out the Ghetto
Organized Konfusion - Black Sunday
The Coup - Ass Breath Killers
Stevie - Higher Ground
Black Uhuru - solidarity
Erykah Badu - Honey
Curtis Mayfield - Keep on Keeping On
Highlanders Group - Funky 16 Corners
Raekwon
Gil Scott Heron - Pieces of a Man
The Itals - Run Bald Head Run
Mos Def - There's Only One
Jimmy McGriff - Blue Juice
Tekitha - Walking Through the Darkness
Eddie Bo - Funky Yeah
Common - Real People
The Roots - Mellow my Man
Ramsey Lewis - Spring too High

Show #56, October 16, 2009

This week on The Revolution... we welcome back Prof Will Harris, a tremendous local resource and expert on the middle east. Last year he told me that one thing you can expect in the middle east is that things can always get worse. Boy was he right. As the Goldstone report has been released we've seen a total lack of willingness to condemn Israel for clear atrocities, cynical manipulation from the US and Israel, and a total crisis of leadership for the Palestinians. Prof Harris will assess the current crisis.

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Also this week, we catch up with Chris Matahaere, local Unite Union organizer, as we get pumped for the labour day festivities and the drive for the living wage. Visit the Unite website for information on activism across the country and download a petition for the 15$ minimum wage campaign: http://unite.org.nz/

Playlist

Eddie Henderson - Kumquat Kids
Ill Bill - American History X
Rod Taylor - Them Top Ranking
MC Soolar - Doin Fine
Donald Byrd - Stepping into Tomorrow
Mos Def - Dollar Day
Chub Rock, Jeru, O.C. - Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
Bobby Hutcherson - Ummh!
Jimmy Cliff - Struggling Man
Immortal Technique - Peruvian Cocaine
Quasimoto - Low Class Conspiracy
Gil Scott Heron - Inner City Blues
Nina Simone - I Shall Be Released
Heribe Hancock - Gentle Thoughts

Show #55, October 9, 2009

This week on The Revolution...Slavoj Zizek at Marxism 2009 with the lecture 'What Does it Mean to be a Revolutionary Today?'

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Also check out Zizek in The Guardian on Israel-Palestine



Playlist

MC Solaar - Solaar Power
Marvin Gaye - Time to get it Together
Reflection Eternal - Eternalists
Eddie Bo - We Like Mambo
Donald - Wind Parade
Marlena Shaw - California Soul
Wu Tang Clan - Can't Go To Sleep
Over Night Low - Witch Doctor
Ike Turner - Thinking Black
Bob Andy - Unchained
Del - The Wacky World of Rapid Transit
The Coup - Kill My Landlord
Gil Scott Heron - Hello Sunday, Hello Road
Herbie Hancock - Hang Up Your Hang Ups
Mr Lif - Arise
Orlando Julius - Psychedelic Afro Shop
Barrington Levy - Black Heart Man
Bobby Hutcherson - Going Down South

Show #54, October 2, 2009

Sue Bradford, we take the time to reflect on the laundry list of accomplishments Sue achieved as a parliamentarian. Does she feel its time to head back to the community to start the struggle again in these times of dislocation?

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Playlist

Fela Kuti - Suffering & Smiliing
The TSU Tornados - The TSU Tornados
Pharoe Monch - Let's Go
Organized Konfusion - 3-2-1
Wadladi Experience - We See Jah
Black Brothers - School Children
Aesop Rock - Battery
JBs - The Grunt
Gil Scott Heron - The Guerilla
Antibalas
Peter Tosh - Stand Firm
the Itals - Truth Must Reveal
Rob - Make it Fast, Make it slow
Parliament - Children of Production
Goodie Mob - Cell Therapy
Sadat X - Wild Cowboy