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Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ FM 102.1) Fridays @ Noon: Paradigm Shift
International Working Women’s Day
Sat 6 Mar 2021AT 1 PM IWWD RALLY ACTION: Poverty is a war on women, stop the LNP attacksKing George Square, Brisbane Paradgm Shift 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Friday 5 Mar 21 Listen at https://www.4zzzfm.org.au/program/paradigm-shift Sian and Ian discuss International Working Women’s Day organised by Feminist Action and Qld Anti-Poverty Network. Issues discussed were: 1. What is international working […]
Stop Land Forces Expo
Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at noon) February 26, 2021 This week we talk all about weapons expos. Inspired by the upcoming “Land Forces 2021”, we hear Zelda Grimshaw talk about how Australian manufactured weapons end up killing West Papuan civilians, and Iain McIntyre about how protestors shut down the AIDEX weapons fair for […]
Vlad the Impaler came to Queensland
Paradigm Shift – Vlad Laws In Queensland – 8 Nov 2013 PShift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Noon on Fridays) interviewed the attorney general, Jarrod Bleijie, about the rise to power of Vlad’s gang and his attempt to put its leader in jail for 400 years. In introducing the toughest laws in the world, Vlad’s nemesis Bleijie […]
The Otways – still wild, still free!
Paradigm Shift 1 Nov 2013 Ian talks with Otway Ranges Environmental Network OREN spokesperson and Andy Paine, sometime forest blockader. This is the story the Otways Ranges Environment Network (OREN), a diverse grassroots network of people who devoted seven years of their lives to successfully end clearfell logging and woodchipping of biodiverse native forest in […]
Free West Papua
Free West PapuaParadigm Shift Friday’s at noon 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Friday 25 October 2013: Andy’s got a good show lined up this week about the flotilla to West Papua with live guests in the studio. In the 1970s Matthew Meyer a member of the One’s Peoples Army from West Papua came to Brisbane. Matthew spent […]
The union movement tied in with a Labour bureaucracy and the loss of the elections.
The one problem there is is no working class involv(ed) to break away from Union bureaucracy and the Australian Labour Party.
This is going to be a catastrophe.
Whose mine goes ahead?
I think my union (CFMEU) made a major blunder because when (there was) was split over ‘Stop Adani’, a lot of the mining sector support(ed) maintaining jobs in regional Australia and in Far North Queensland. This pressured the Labor Party to make a decision to give the go ahead for the (Adani) mine despite massive resistance on the streets.
The big problem (with the environment movement) was that we needed to get unions onside to realize the mine is not going to be in their interests.
Coal is a dead industry.
As China transitions to renewables (the same with the European Union) there will be no market for Australian coal because when the mine is not (economically) feasible.
Damage will be done … horrific environmental impacts for very short term gain.
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