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Paradigm Shift on 29 Jan 2010 with Thomas and Eliza. Interviews with local Murris on Invasion Day. Sam Watson gives welcome at Speakers Corner

Paradigm Shift 24 Jan 2021 Today's show 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 to protect them), and Ramji (videographer for "Forest Defend...

Intro by Jeff Ricketts and Sam Watson speaking at UQ Union Forum 25 Feb 2019.

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 Tasmania’s ancient forests, and Leon Pateman about locking on to Adani’s bulldozers in central Queensland – all people putting themselves in the way of the machines destroying our planet. Miranda Gibson is from Forrest defende...

Ian chats with film director Sally Ingleton about her film "WILD THINGS: A Year on the Frontline of Environmental Activism"

Ian chats with film director Sally Ingleton about her film "WILD THINGS: A Year on the Frontline of Environmental Activism"

Major stories from Paradigm Shift in 2020 - Trade war, Refugees, Aboriginal farming, Assange, & Qld College of Art. Intro by Ian, Andy on Refugees and Aboriginal farming practices, Ian on the extradition of Julian Assange, Bec Mac on cuts to Qld College of Art. Playlist Dorothy & friends - Down Under (satire) Mo'Ju - Native Tongue Sarah Calderwood and Paul Brandon - Exploring the Blue Jumping Fenc...

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? Food Standards Australia New Zealand wants to make a blanket approval for the irradiation of all fresh fruits and vegetables. We’ve been fighting this since 1999, when the long-fought-for moratorium of the 80s was lifted. Argh! Ian...

With Julian Assange still facing extradition, this week we talk about secrecy and the Iraq war. Ian interviews Kasun Ubayasiri about significance of the campaign to free Assange. We hear from Ethan McCord who was a soldier on the ground when the shooting depicted in the “Collateral Murder” video occurred. Ian also spoke to a psychologist about the ethics of secrecy and privacy when war crimes have...

"Incidents like 'Collateral Murder' happen almost daily in Iraq" - Ethan McCord, former US soldier in Iraq

Ian interviews lecturer In Journalism at Griffith University and delegate for the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA). It is about Julian Assange returning home to Australia. Photo - Collateral Murder - a film about US gunships murder of unarmed civilians.

Welcome to the Paradigm Shift on FM 102.1 4ZZZ Fridays at noon. We challenge the assumptions of our current society, to resist oppression ... DECEMBER 4, 2020 Following the release of the Brereton report into war crimes committed by the Australian SAS, we speak with Alison Broinowski about the need to reform Australia's war powers, and to Greg Rolles about the past and present of protesting the SA...

Scott Ludlam gets response from Vice Admiral Griggs and Army representative about assaults on protestors at Swan Island SAS Base in 2014.

Interview with Senator Jordan Steele-John, Greens spokesperson on Peace and Disarmament after Australian war crimes in Afghanisatn revealed by government inquiry. Music: Pete Seeger sings 'Keep your eyes on the prize' at Carnegie Hall. Image: Australian SAS soldier shooting a young unarmed civilian in Afghanistan (from Afghan Files - ABC).

Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at Noon) Broadcast 27 Nov 2020 about KP Prison Forceable extracton of Refugees from KP Prison. Image: Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton, slinks away when spotted at a rock concert in Brisbane.

Paradigm Shift November 20, 2020 4 ZZZ fm 102.1 Friday 20 Nov 2020 – 12:00 – 1:00 PM Welcome to the Paradigm Shift on radio 4ZZZ FM 102.1 Fridays at noon. We challenge the assumptions of our current society and resist oppression. We talk about the Brereton report (released yesterday) into war crimes committed by Australian SAS troops in Afghanistan. We interview academic John Blaxland about the re...

Andy interviews Mark Davis, one of David McBride's lawyers about terrorism charges brought against his client for being a whistleblower. David McBride's revelations led to the Brereton Inquiry into Australian Army murders in Afghanistan. Image: Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers protest outside SAS base on Swan Island in Victoria

Andy interviews John Blaxland (academic from ANU) about the Brereton Inquiry into SASR War Crimes In Afghanistan. The various court cases affected by the release of the much redacted Brereton Inquiry are summarised below: (1) Potential criminal charges in the Federal Court against the SASR soldiers that carried out the murders of unarmed civilians in Afghanistan as shown on national TV programs su...

November 13, 2020 This week’s Paradigm Shift features a 1965 speech by James Baldwin at the Oxford University Union where he presages the current racial crisis in the US . He accurately predicts the election of a African American President (Obama) almost down to the year but cautions us on what it may deliver. John Jiggens, Greg Chipp (Drug Law Reform), James Baldwin (Essayist), and Barack Obama s...

Interview with Meredith Bergmann about 60s radicals, the subject of her forthcoming book. Image: I am a man march in Memphis

Paradigm Shift November 6, 2020 "Lowering expectations of Democracy" 1. What are our expectations of democracy? 2. Qld's Democracy sausage by Dr John Jiggens 3. What now Labor governs?

Paradigm Shift 9 - 23 October 2020 23/10 - Meredith Burgmann – ‘cutting cane for the revolution in Cuba’ 16/10 - Many Mountains to Climb 9/10 - Assange on ‘Desolation Row’ at the Old Bailey

Aunties Karen Goori and Jenny support refugees and call for support to save Deebing Creek from developers. Refugee Rally 30 Oct 2020 at Emma Miller Place.

An NTEU union member was brutally attacked by police on Sunday at a refugee protest. MIchael McNally, the State Secretary of the NTEU had this to say in his defence and in support of refugees under in humane conditions at Kangaroo Point. Yet another refugee has been forcibly removed to Villawood from Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation (BITA). Michael McNally responds to SERCO's forced remo...

Discussion with Meredith Burgmann about the New Left. Q Can union Green Bans be used to stop climate change? Q Why a book about transformation of conservatives to radical in the 1960s? Why not a book about radicals who align their politics with self-interest? Q Why did you join the Labor Party? Image - Qld Premier Frank Nicklin meets LBJ on 22 Oct 1966 at Brisbane airport.