Workers BushTelegraph discusses current and past events, books and film with the aim of sharing worker political education and consciousness.
WBT poses 3 questions: who owns the land, workers control of production and democratic rights.
You don’t hear the four shots fired out – echoing along the ridge. Or the heavy thuds of three horses collapsing, one taking that second bullet to fold down: ‘An act of kindness,’ she’ll tell you later, try to explain to anyone who’ll listen. ‘I couldn’t let them burn.’ – Alice Bishop, Out of Range.
Andy interviews Piero Moraro about civil disobedience. Ciaron O’Reilly talks about Julian Assange.
Playlist BLF – when our turn comes Feraliza – Like it or Not Spoonboy – My Generation Ruby Thorburn – Extreme Behaviour The Lurkers – Galilee
Image – Feminists marching for Women’s Rights in Brisbane during street march ban in the late 1970s
Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 29 Nov 2019 Friday at Noon.
Sam Watson 1952 – 2019
Tribute Intro Sam Watson speaking at UQ Union Forum 25 Feb 2019 Sam Watson gives welcome in King George Square at Muslim Lives Matter rally after Christchurch mass murder Sam Watson speaks at parliament against kids incarcerated in watchouses Sam Watson’s grandson speaks out for Mapuche, West Papuans and Palestinians.
Please Note ** Sam Watson’s funeral will be held at 11am on Friday 6th December at Musgrave Park, Brisbane. Sam’s family welcomes all to attend.**
Tribute to Sam Watson
the very first Australians around the very first people to be down and why we fight, is to be recognised only to be failed by your blind eyes yes, only to be failed by your blind eyes – Brisbane Blacks by Mop and the Dropouts
Paradigm Shift 4zzz fm 102.1 22 Nov 2019 Friday at Noon Banks of Marble Medevac & Refugees in detention in PNG Interviews 1) Anna Bligh, former Premier of Qld and CEO of the Australian Banking Association (satire). 2) Jacob Rice, former teacher at Australia’s detention centre on Manus Island. 3) Fr Gerry Heffernan, member of Catholic delegation to Australia’s detention centre in Port Moresby PNG.
Westpac Bank – shall one of the four pillars fall? – Analysis Can
Westpac survive the allegations levelled against it? Will one of the
four pillars fall? In setting up the royal commission in November 2017
then Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said: “It will not put
capitalism on trial.” In this country at least, capitalism is not even
on trial.
Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 22 Nov 2019 Friday at noon
Medevac Bill Fr Hefernan speaks about how the repeal of the Medevac Bill…
Andrew and Jaz do Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Friday at Noon 8 Nov 2019
Playlist Ian Curr – Ballad of a Bulliman Banawurun – Bullymen Scabz – Feel Good Summer Tom Robinson Band – Better Decide Which Side You’re On Thelma Plum – Woke Blokes Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – Talk About the Weather Tenzin Choegyal – Safe Passage May Lyn – Soldiers TISM – The Phillip Ruddock Blues
Andrew & Jaz Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 8 Nov 2019 Friday at Noon
Intro toBallad of a Bulliman The Liberal National Party has chosen 33-year-old Senior Constable Nathaniel Jones to take on the Green’s Cr Sri in the Gabba Ward, which includes Kangaroo Point, Dutton Park, South Brisbane and West End.In 2012 that same police officer arrested Uncle Kevin Veritz, a Yuggera man, for lighting a sacred fire in Musgrave Park. Jones claimed that Uncle Kevin had obstructed…
“My guitar is not for the rich no, nothing like that. My song is of the ladder we are building to reach the stars.” – Victor Jara
The right to live in peace! Increasingly difficult in a world where right-wing forces collude with big business against the aspirations of ordinary people. Great to see tens of thousands of people uniting in Chile against the government and the military! #ChileDesperto #FuerzaChile #solidarity
Ian interviews Yari from Chile Desperto (Brisbane) about recent solidarity demonstrations in Brisbane about events in Chile.
Interview with Tim from IMARC Blockade in Melbourne about the violence of mining.
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Playlist Artistas Chilenos unidos en una voz – Derecho de vivir en paz (Victor Jara) Lunar Junction – Take Some Time Jumping Fences – Distancia y Latido Jumping Fences – sueno con serpientes
Ian interviews Liliana and Marcela about the uprising in Chile
1) Are you surprised by what is happening in Chile?
2) The Chilean economic system was presented as a successful formula in Latin America. Is this true?
3) Successive Chilean governments have followed the path of neo-liberalism but did not privatise Codelco, the state owned copper mine, why not? What political creed is the Chilean government following?
4) Australia was involved in the coup against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, what can people do about this? See open letter to PM below?
5) Neoliberalism assumes that the right to property is superior to the right to life, so where does the anger that has erupted in Chile come from?
Broadcast on Paradigm Shift 4zzz fm 102.1 Friday 11 Oct 2019.
Ian interviews: Adela from Reclaim the Night Edwina from Bjelke Blues Noelene from Extinction Rebellion at occupation of the William Jolly Bridge.
Reclaim the Night is a women’s rally and march that demands the end of men’s violence against women. On October 25th we band together and take our voices to the streets. All women have the right to safety and to live free from violence. See https://www.facebook.com/events/2405278069685429/
Bjelke Blues – timely reminder of how our democratic rights were taken from us once before during the reign of Joh Bjelke Petersen. Ian talks with Bjelke Blues editor Edwina Shaw about personal stories from the Joh years. See https://www.facebook.com/events/395887871083040/
Launch of Edwina Shaw’s Bjelke Blues
Turning back the clock. The Queensland government is attempting to turn back the clock 40 years to stop protests against climate change in the CBD…
“Locking on – the great Australian political tradition” – Andy Paine
Paradigm Shift 4 Oct 2019 Friday at noon.
Intro Defending Greta by John Curr.; Ian interviews Bri from Action Ready; and, Andy from Frontline Action on Coal.
It is hard to keep the climate action camps going, i f you wish to donate to keep Frontline Action on Coal going please go to https://protectgalilee.raisely.com/
Playlist Monster Machine by Madeleine Hudson Make some Music by Paul Spencer Old Growth by The Great Shame
Intro Much criticism has been levelled at Greta Thunberg following her address to the United Nations. She has been cast as puppet of climate activists.
Scientists addressing climate change have abandoned attempts to persuade people and governments about the science knowing that their efforts at truth to power are being ignored. No-0ne seriously doubts that human activity is contributing to climate change which will adversely impact life on earth. What her critics believe (probably wrongly) is that wealth and power will permit them to avoid those adverse impacts, they care nothing for the suffering of others.
Is it any wonder that Thunberg does not attempt to address the facts of climate change, but resorts to oratory and rhetorical devices, even some hyperbole and invective to make her point.
Lincoln’s “Four score and seven years ago….”, Churchill’s “ We will fight them on the beaches…”. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream …” speeches are revered as powerful calls to their respective societies to address the serious challenges before them.
Are the same oratorical devices to be denied to a member of the generation which will bear the burden of climate change ?
John Curr
October 2019
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