Show #71, April 30, 2010

This week on the Revolution...we celebrate May Day, International Workers Day with Joe Carolan of Unite and get you ready Saturday's festivities in Dunedin.

Also Green MP David Clendon on Gerry Brownlee's committee to turn New Zealand and a financial services hub. What kind of banking utopia is this and what does it mean for the rest of us?


Playlist

Public Enemy - By the time I get to Arizona
Jackie Bernard - Jah Jah Way
King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
KRS One - Sound of the Police
Curtis - Move on Up
Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle
Scotty - Johnny Too Bad
Jay Z - American Dreamin'
Black Ivory - I keep Asking You Questions
Mr Lif - Live From the PLantation
Nas - Sly Fox

Show #70, April 23, 2010

This week on the Revolution...Dr Brendan Hokowhitu of Te Tumu joins us to discuss the government's signing on to the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Surely its been a good news for all non-reactionary New Zealanders. The attempts to contain the significance of this document to mere symbolism and aspirations don't sound convincing. Surely this will help frame and reaffirm all future struggles for self-determination. We put these issues to Brendan.

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Also this week...Suzette Jackson from Greenpeace on the quiet war being waged on tropical rain forests. What has developed country's demand for bio-fuels done to bio-diversity, indigenous peoples and Orangutans? Are consumer boycotts enough or should we push for new international investment guidelines around the environment and agro-food production?

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Playlist

Three the Hard Way - Hop Hop Holiday
Lisandro Mez - Shacalo
Milton Howard - Shingaling
Sizzla - Black Woman & Child
Fondle 'em Fossils - Farewell Fondle 'em
Cappadonna - Love is the Message
Oh No - Wildchild
Dudley Perkins - Testing Me
Aesop Rock - Kill 'm All
Joni Haastrup - Greetings
Funkadelic - You can't miss what you can't measure
Camu Tao - Wireless
Dam Native - Horrified One
Sir Victor Uwaifo _agho

Show #69, April 16th 2010

This week on The Revolution...Odalys Lopez on the Cuban relief effort in Haiti. 'Doctors not Guns', what a crazy idea! While the US/UN/NGO imperial complex prioritized security over immediacy, Cuba and Venezuela sent in urgently needed medical support teams. How are these events reflective of the imperial legacy and what is the impact on the Bolivarian resurgence?

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Playlist

Cage - Grand Ol' Party
Cyril Neville - Gossip
Gil Scott Heron - The Klan
Zoot Sims - Small Garden
Lee Dorsey - Give it up
Latryx - Lady Don't Tek No
Mr Lif - Earthcrusher
Basa Basa Soundz - Dr Solutsu
The Emotions - If you think it
Mos Def - Crime & Medicine
Black Uhuru - Happiness
Eddie Bo - Hey Bo
The Saints - Sleeping Trees
Wu Tang - The City
Donny Hathaway - Ghetto
Chi-Lites - Power to the people
Jadakiss - Why
Dennis Alcapone - Run Run Run
Black Nasty - Party on 4th St

Show #68, March 26th, 2010

This week on The Revolution...REVOLUTION! IN NEPAL!. Ben Peterson Joins us for a first hand account of revolutionary transformation in Nepal. An inspirational account of how a people with nothing transformed their lives to embrace radical egalitarianism and universality.

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Also Greens co-leader Metiria Turei will be in the studio to discuss National's mining policy and the turning mood of the country. Also why does Phill Goff get to monopolize this issue? Are the Greens being marginalized even as we embrace conservationist values?

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Playlist

Willie Bobo - Spanish Grease
Slum Village - I Don't Know
Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce
Menelik - Nightwork
Fela Kuti - Mr Follow Follow
PB Wolf & Encore - Run the line
Cornell Campbell - Never Change
Rae & Ghost - Crimonology
Dramatics - Get Up Get Down
Milton Wright - Keep it Up
Group Home - Tear Shit Down
MHZ - Widespread
Grover Washington Jr - Knucklehead

Show #67, March 19th 2010

This week on The Revolution...we welcome a man with his own 'nomics', Act MP Roger Douglas the neo-liberal boogey man himself! Douglas has two private member bills before parliament, one abolishing compulsory student union membership (VSM), the other reinstating discriminatory youth wages. At the tender age of 73 what is behind Roger's new found passion for youth issues?

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Also this week...Kerem Blumberg Israeli peace activist joins us to talk 'Occupation and Resistance' a photo exhibition being held at 5b Buller st on the 21th-22nd & 26th-27th (12-3pm, opening party Friday night from 9). While the Gaza blockade drags on, the political peace process stagnates, we get a sense of what's been going on at ground level. Visit activestills.org.

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Also on Friday night Quixotic opening at 5:30 Fringe Fest Goodness at None Gallery 24 Stafford st.


Playlist

Syl Johnson - Is it because i'm black
Black Sheep - The choice is yours
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Ekassa 40
Sadat X - Daily News
Lisandro Meza - Shacalao
Leroy Huston - Ghetto 74
Alton Ellis - Blackish White
Bill Cosby - Hicky Burr
Mr Lif - Arise
Fela Kuti - Chop & Quench
Rod Taylor - Them top ranking
Ill Bill - American History X
Cappadonna - Run
24 Carat Gold - Ghetto Misfortune's Wealth
Talib Kweli - Get By
Ramsey Lewis - Living for the city
Lootpack - crate diggin'

Show #66, March 5, 2010

This week on The Revolution...Dr Leonore Tiefer of NYU joins us to talk on the medicalization of life by the pharmaceutical industry. Are you Shy? You must suffer from 'general anxiety disorder'. Hey ladies are you not a raging nympho? You have what's called 'female sexual dysfunction'. Ask your doctor about our newest drug that we trialled as an antipressant but didn't work so we've created a new disease just for you!

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Check Dr Tiefer's activist work on the New View Campaign


Playlist

Biggie - Sky's The Limit
Ronnie Lewis - Always There
Ernie & The Dap Notes - Dap Walk
Grover Washington Jr - Inner City Blues
Outkast - 2 dope boys in a cadillac
Tiken Jah Fakoly - Foly
Curtis Mayfield - Little Child
Common - The People
Ike & Tina - Whole Lotta Love
Brass Construction - Movin'
Lonnie D - Dream On
Mumia - The Haiti Response
Slyvania East Side Symphony - Egbe Mi O
Dave & Ansel Collins - Monkey Spanner
King Geedorah - Take Me To Your Leader
De La Soul - Breakadawn
The Propositions - Africana
Wu Tang - Uzi
Antibalas - Talkatif

Show #65 February 26, 2010

This week on The Revolution...Labour MP Pete Hodgson, what does he make of National's new class war (are we allowed to call it that?), the anti-democratic assault on MMP and the plans to open DOC land to mining?

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Also 'My Name Is Rachel Corrie' is being put on over the next two weeks, we are joined by director Stuart Young and lead actor Nadya Shaw Bennett. Listen in for a chance to win two double passes.

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Steele Beautah - Africa
Stevie Wonder - Golden Lady
Ghostface Killah - I'll Die For You
Howard Scott Band - Slippin' Into Darkness
Soul Searchers - Blow Your Whistle
Gil Scott Heron - Must Be Something
Juggaknots - Liar, Liar
The TSU Tornados
The Upsetters - Tighten Up
Bahamadia - Uknowhowwedu
The Itals - Run Baldhead Run
Outkast - BOB
MC Solaar - Superstar
The Coup - We Are The Ones
Jimmy McGriff - Blue Juice
BDP - You Must Learn
Freestyle Fellowship - Inner City Boundaries
Doom - Superfrendz

Show #64 Febraury 19, 2010

This week on The Revolution...Frances Nelson of the NZEI the national union for primary school teachers. As teachers and parents across the country try to put the breaks on standardized testing for kids we ask what is really going on. ACT's Heather Roy is talking about choice and vouchers, sounds like privitization. Appealing to the reactionary sentiments of disengaged parents National wants to create a new managerial level of bureaucracy to do some bean counting and make it look like they are doing something. Oh has anyone mentioned that public spending on education has been frozen if not cut over the last 10 years? This looks alot like the 4th season of The Wire.

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Check out the Hands Up For Learning Campaign.



Playlist

Donald Byrd - Change
MC Solaar - Les Tempes Changent
War - The World is a Ghetto
Erykah Badu - Twinkle
Company Flow - Krazy Kings Too
BT Express - Do it
Boot Camp Click - I Need More
Earth, Wind & Fire - Sweet Sweetback's Theme
Blach Uhuru - Sponji Reggae
Blackalicious - Shallow Days
Funkadelic - I'll Bet You
Weathermen - Same As It Never Was
Peter King - Shango
Mf Doom - Red and Gold
Gil Scott Heron - Me and the Devil
Bobby Hutcherson - Oyo Como Va
Bobby Franklin - Hit and Quit It
Kaze - For The Record
Erykah - Window Seat

Show #63, February 12, 2010

The Revolution is back...
Last year our holiday break was marked by the Gaza massacre, this year Haiti. The injustice is staggering. And before your right off the Haitian catastrophe as an act of god or nature, check the history. The remarkable people of Haiti have staged two of the greatest emancipatory acts of our collective history. From its inception through the slave revolution to the 1991 election of Aristide, Haitians have been bleed dry for their indomitable political will. This is as much a natural disaster as Hurricane Katrina. If you want some background check out Zizek's reveiw of Peter Hallward's book.

On the home front we get you started in proper fashion as nation wide demos are planned to protest the lack of a real living wage. Unite's Mike Treen will join us at 10:30 to talk about the paltry 25c increase in the minimum wage, Jon Key's raising of GST to 15% and the campaign for a 15$ minimum wage. For more info visit www.unite.org.nz.

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Playlist

Philadelphia International All Stars - Lets Clean Up The Ghetto
Kool G Rap - The Streets of New York
Mr Lif - Live from the Plantation
Marvin Gaye - Got to Give it Up
Sahara All Star Band Jos - Enjoy Yourself
El-P & Camu Tao - Jukie Skate Rock
Gil Scott Heron - NY is Killing Me
Tupac & Scarface - Smile
William DeVaughn - Diamond in the Back
Players Association - Turn the Music Up
Juggaknots - Smile
Slick Rick - Sleazy Gynecologist
Ray Charles - The Right Time
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Kirikisi