4PR - Voice of the People

Lee Rhiannon who has recently returned from Burj el-Barajneh camp in Beirut remembers the work of Olfat Mahmoud who passed away on Sunday, 24 Sept 2023. My questions (after a short intro): 1) Can you please introduce yourself? 2) Can you please tell us about your recent visit to burj el-barajneh refugee camp in Beirut? 3) When did you last see Olfat Mahmoud? 4) Olfat wrote a book 'Tears for Tashih...

Pakistan has been talking about a secret document, the cipher,which shows how the United States removed former prime minister Imran Khan from power. Thanks to the US podcast 'The Intercept' for breaking the story. Image: Former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, in jail.

US-Australia Critical Minerals Compact tightens US noose around our necks. BEVAN and ANDREW, 19 SEPT 2023 As always, we welcome listeners comments and suggestions, which can be emailed to peacecentre@cicd.org.au

Andy looks back in history to the time of the military coup in Chile in 1973. Paradigm Shift commemorates the 50th anniversary of the original September 11th tragedy - the CIA-backed coup when Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Chile. It's repercussions are still being felt in Chile and elsewhere. Andy spoke to Chilean refugee Rodolpho Allemand about the...

Bevan and Andrew speak on ALP Betrayal on Foreign Policy The ALP Government’s betrayal of Australia’s national sovereignty increases the US grip on Australia, enmeshes Australia in US war plans and endangers peace in our region. Contact peacecentre@cicd.org.au that is peacecentre@cicd.org.au. For the transcript go to https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2023/08/21/public-trustee-liar/

Interview with Theresa Creed and John Tracey about the failure of the public trustee of Queensland. After 20 years of struggle, they won their court case in the Court of Appeal on 4 August 2023. Song Mother Dear - Theresa Creed - words and vocals Leroy Cummings - music

What you're doing is neither good nor bad and Buddy it is bad. Not for you because you've probably got homes to go home to ... hundreds of people in Brisbane have got nowhere to live. This house is not needed for a year. This is irrational, totally and completely irrational. And you're part of it. Don't think you're just doing the job. You're not. You're being used by this government. You're being...

We've got another guest on the blower from Queensland this week: Ian Curr. Ian was born in a private hospital and nearly died! Lucky for his Italian doctor (Aldo Castellani), the only one in the state. Ian has got up to all sorts of activist mischief in his life, including preventing freeways. Check out 'The Battle for Bowen Hills' on Vimeo. Ian was a lifelong unionist during his working life, inc...

In July 2015, the USS Blue Ridge moored on the north side of the Brisbane river (Meanjin) near the old Hamilton No 4 wharf. This ship was participating in the Talisman Sabre exercises in Rockhampton along with Australian & Japanese ships. It was guarded by two police boats on the water nearby. Here is the 4PR report just 100 metres from the deck of the warship. Song Live recording of 'Candile de N...

ALP Leadership’s fear of the USA underpins their foreign policy decisions - Radio program for Alternative News by Bevan Ramsden and Andrew Fullarton. There’s much more to be said on this issue, but that’s all we have time for now. As always, we welcome listeners comments and suggestions, which can be emailed to peacecentre@cicd.org.au that is peacecentre@cicd.org.au. Good morning and thanks for li...

Paradigm Shift 4ZZZ Friday is at noon 23 June, 2023 Andy interviews climate change activists about the blockades last week in Brisbane Melbourne and Newcastle: "Today we talk to Taylah and Jemika from Blockade Australia - the group who this week have been disrupting operation at three different ports around the country. They've been refused bail, abused, assaulted, demonised in the media and had t...

'Australia in the Middle' by John Curr Drone Lament by Franz Dowing China and Taiwan Bevan Ramsden and Andrew Fullarton from IPAN examine the policy of the US and Australia concerning Taiwan. John Lander made contributions to this program. John Lander is a former Deputy Ambassador to China (1974-76); former Ambassador to Iran (1985–88).As Director of the China Section of DFAT on three separate occ...

Drone Lament by Franz Dowling

Fourteen (14) years after war crimes were committed by Ben Roberts-Smith, an Australian court has ruled that the SAS veteran is a murderer. This was apart of a defamation action by Ben Roberts-Smith not part of a criminal trial. Only one other soldier has been charged for the 39 murders committed by 25 SAS troops in Afghanistan. - Ian Curr, 1 June 2023. Song Drone Lament by Franz Dowling Breaker M...

Mundy-Turner duo sing at Anita Reed concert for Peace

Mundy - Turner sing 'Fly Away' at Anita Reed concert for Peace.

Annette Brownlie's Keynote Speech on behalf of Just Peace at Anita Reed Peace Concert The Songshine choir - Senzeni Na Song by Voice Of Spanish Speaking Women Dermot The Submarine Song & The Dinosaur Song Jenny and Lyn's - The Undefeated

'Frank and Fearless' Jenny Fitzgibbon and Lyn Bardsley pay tribute to activists for Peace in this song The Undefeated. Played at the Anita Reed Peace Concert at the Coorparoo Memorial Hall on 21 May 2023.

Dermot Dorgan sings about the extinction of dinosaurs at Anita Reed Peace concert at Coorparoo Memorial Hall on 21 May 2023. IMAGE: Dinosaur at Hughenden Qld.

Dermot Dorgan sings his submarine song against AUKUS at the Coorparoo Memorial Hall on 21 May 2023

Alba, Carmen, Gladys, Penny, Adele and the Orellanas sing and dance in national costumes at the Anita Reed Peace Concert at Coorparoo Memorial Hall on 21 May 2023.

Annette Brownlie speaks at Anita Reed Peace Concert at Coorparoo Memorial Hall on 21 May 2023.

This is an anti apartheid song sung by the Songshine Choir at the Anita Reed Peace Concert held on 21 May 2023 at the Coorparoo Memorial Hall. The song was led led by their musical director Greta Hunter who has a beautiful soprano voice in a call and response refrain so common in African music. Origins of the song are not clear. I know the song was sung at Steve Biko's funeral. Zimbabwean poet Alb...

Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZ Fridays at Noon 19 May, 2023 You will hear an interview Andy did with Kamaran Osman about politics in Iraqi Kurdistan, peacemaking work here, and what it was like to be a part of the Arab/Kurdish Spring wave of protest movements sweeping across the Middle East back in 2011. Songs and interviews Horgan Safin - Xarajyani ashti Kamaran Mustafa - Bedang Nabin HaniJin - Jyan azad...

This is a re-enactment of Israeli soldiers storming the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, depicted at al Nakba 75 in Meanjin / Brisbane on 13 May 2023. People are carrying the names of the Palestinian villages and towns destroyed during al Nakba in 1948. Solidarity with Palestine, al Nakba 75 in Meanjin. The rally and march was organised by Justice for Palestine (Meanjin).