This week’s Paradigm Shift 24 Jan 2021 is all about independent filmmaking to document activism and protect the environment. We chat to Sally Ingleton (director of the new film “Wild Things – A Year on the frontline of environmental activism”), Jane Hammond (director of “Cry of the Forests” about Western Australian forests and the fight […]
Welcome to the Paradigm Shift on FM 102.1 4ZZZ Fridays at noon. We challenge the assumptions of our current society, to resist oppression … January 15, 2021 This week we hear from the environmental frontlines around the country. We speak to Miranda Gibson about Olney State Forest in New South Wales, Erik Hayward about protecting […]
Welcome to the Paradigm Shift on FM 102.1 4ZZZ Fridays at noon. We challenge the assumptions of our current society, to resist oppression …more January 8, 2021 – Listen @ http://4zzz.org.au/program/paradigm-shift This week we look back over 2020 and play some of the best Australian protest songs of the year. Fingermae – Scotty’s bad week […]
Major stories from Paradigm Shift in 2020 – Refugees, Aboriginal farming practices, Assange, & cuts at Qld College of Art. Intro by Ian, Andy on Refugees and Aboriginal land use, Ian on the extradition of Julian Assange, Bec Mac on cuts to Qld College of Art. PlaylistDorothy & friends – Down Under (satire)Mo’Ju – Native […]
Why do Australia and New Zealand governments want the power to irradiate all fruit and vegetables? More trade, pure and simple. But what about human and animal health? Previously there was only one food irradiation plant at Narangba on the outskirts of Brisbane, now there are two. The second being at Vic Markets in Melbourne […]
What is music if it isn’t a social relationship, a communication, a prayer for the living? I’m gonna chuck in a couple into Andy’s playlist, if that’s Ok. The first are the buskers at Kangaroo Point Central Apartments in Brisbane during the refugee solidarity blockade in the latter half of 2020. Here is Dorothy and friends singing a cover “Many the Miles” to the men locked up inside, many for 8 years.
I recommend also the songs of Jumping Fences … http://www.jumpingfences.com.au/
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