Anna, Maureen, Kamala, Jaden and Ian on Women’s Rights in the lead up to the 2017 State Election on 25 Nov 2017.

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PJ Harvey – When Under Ether
Sissy – Sail And Rail
Cars Can Be Blue – Abortion
Digable Planets – La Femme Fetal

Paradigm Shift 4zzz fm 102.1 on 27 Oct 2017 chat with the Brisbane Rape and Incest Survivors Support Centre about community accountability and transformative justice responses to sexual violence. Andy interviews Amber and Kendra from Brisbane Rape and incest survivors support group.

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Broadcast 4zzz fm 102.1 Friday 20 Oct 2017.
Andy and Ian discuss recent developments in Australian government treatment of refugees as it gets a place on the UN Human Rights Commission.

Andy interviews Dr Claire Higgins who wrote and just published: “Asylum by boat: origins of Australia’s refugee policy”.

They discuss grilling of Australian officials after receiving a position on the UN Human Rights Commission. Last nights interrogation by the Human Rights committee in Geneva questioned the Ambassador John Quinn and officials on concerns about Australia’s policy compatibility with the human rights agreements which they have signed.

” It was revealed that there are now 5 people in detention on ASIO concerns. Two of these arrived by boat and three arrived lawfully and were subsequently detained. We remember only too well when 58 men women and children were held for years until their spirits were broken, before a magical new assessment saw them released into the community where they have proved to be no threat what so ever.

Those of us watching on the UN LIVE CHANNEL were gob-smacked to hear Australian officials state that Australia does not have a mandatory detention system. We were also told that people were not arbitrarily detained because case managers keep assessing their cases. We know this is rubbish because Case manager recommendations have to pass through the labyrinthine bowels of the Canberra bureaucracy and exiting this nasty process has become almost impossible. [Notes by Pamela Curr].”

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Bolo Mantist – Story telling time
John Butler Trio – Home is where the heart is
Phil Monsour – Let them stay
Nadine Shah – Holiday destination
K’Naan – My old home

UN TV
http://webtv.un.org/search/consideration-of-australia-contd-3419th-meeting-121st-session-of-human-rights-committee/5616286582001/?term=John%20Quinn&sort=date

Paradigm Shift. 4zzz FM 102.1 Broadcast 29th September 2017

Andy interviews two people (Anne and Ona) from Catalunya about the independence referendum. Also Andy talks about Iraqi Kurdistan and other independence struggles.

“When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.” ― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.

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Combat Wombat – Let them know
Glitter Rats – A las barricadas
Manu Chao – Rumba de Barcelona
Sin Fondos – Money
Koo Nimo – Adowa palm-wine set: You will be overtaken by events
Kev Carmody – Attack attack

Paradigm Shift 4zzz fm 102.1 Broadcast 22 Sept 2017 Friday at noon.

Andy interviews Henry Reynolds the historian who did much to inform Australians about its colonial wars with aboriginal people in the 20th century.

Andy chats with Helen about Australia’s frontier wars, about what its like to blaze a trail where no historian has gone before, and what we can do to move forward from being a colonial settler state to country with our own indigenous history.

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Ancestress – WAR
Ted Egan – Tjandamarra
Apakatjah – The dead heart
Paddy McHugh and the Goldminers – Gin’s leap
Birdz – Black lives matter
Decide Today – Against white supremacy

Photo: Front cover of “Curr family in far North Queensland 1865-1912” by Fred Curr.

8 September 2017

Andy discusses the approval of more coal mines. He speaks with Peter McCallum about the opening of new mines in Qld.

A lobbyist is working for Labor and Andy covers this … a guerrilla lobbying offcie at 16 Peel Street South Brisbane, Labor’s headquaters.

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On Demand
http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift/2017-09-08

Notes by Ian Curr

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The Lurkers – Couldn’t be better
The Bushwackers – Leave it in the ground
Seasta Chani – Boom boom boom
Ancestress – Air water land
Ruth Mundy – Adani
The Drones – Oh my

PShift broadcast 4zzz fm 102.1 Friday 15 Sept 2017 at noon.

Andy talks with Helen Razer about her new book on Marx particularly ‘millennials’ embracing Marxism. One comment … Helen has claimed in previous interviews that Hitler was elected democratically. Not true, his party was in a minority and he was not elected to any position in the Reichstag and certainly not the Presidency. While the Nazis did become the largest party in Parliament at once stage, and Hitler managed to secure a significant number of votes for President it was the terror that got them into power.

https://soundcloud.com/ian-curr/das-kapital

Ian Curr

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