Join your hosts Linda and Kymbeaux for a massive one hour inside the temporary autonomous zone that is the 4ZzZ Anarchy Show.
Sit back and prepare to be outraged by the bastardly acts of governments and multinational corporations, informed about issues which affect you, and intrigued by the ideas and philosophy that lie behind the often misconstrued notion of anarchy.
Most of all be prepared to be inspired to act, take part in our community and help us all to work towards something better than the current status quo.
For the show we gather news, and views from our favourite sources - read live or prerecorded – or report about events we have witnessed or been involved in. We also like to play music most of which has some kind of political message.
The Anarchy Show welcomes new volunteers. Contact Linda [here]
Franklin Lopéz from subMedia (Canada) produces a semi regular show called it’s the END of the world as we know it and I feel fine which we play on a semi regular basis.
The Regulars B.C. = Brisbane's dragstar bike appreciation society, who meet up in various locales and cruise around on their bikes. As featured on this show 09.06.08 .
Classic clip from G20...
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Through the best of times,
Through the worst of times,
Through Nixon and through Bush,
Do you remember '36?
We went our seperate ways.
You fought for Stalin.
I fought for freedom.
You believe in authority.
I believe in myself.
I'm a molotov cocktail.
You're Dom Perignon.
Baby, what's that confused look in your eyes?
What I'm trying to say is that
I burn down buildings
While you sit on a shelf inside of them.
You call the cops
On the looters and pie throwers.
They call it class war,
I call it co-conspirators.
'Cause baby, I'm an anarchist,
You're a spineless liberal.
We marched together for the eight-hour day
And held hands in the streets of Seattle,
But when it came time to throw bricks
Through that Starbucks window,
You left me all alone.
You watched in awe at the red,
White, and blue on the fourth of july.
While those fireworks were exploding,
I was burning that fucker
And stringing my black flag high,
Eating the peanuts
That the parties have tossed you
In the back seat of your father's new Ford.
You believe in the ballot,
Believe in reform.
You have faith in the elephant and jackass,
And to you, solidarity's a four-letter word.
We're all hypocrites,
But you're a patriot.
You thought I was only joking
When I screamed "Kill Whitey!"
At the top of my lungs
At the cops in their cars
And the men in their suits.
No, I won't take your hand
And marry the State.
'Cause baby, I'm an anarchist,
You're a spineless liberal.
We marched together for the eight-hour day
And held hands in the streets of Seattle,
But when it came time to throw bricks
Through that Starbucks window,
You left me all alone.
Radio Democracy is on sabbatical at the moment but you'll hear plenty of independent news on The Anarchy Show and Eco Radio.
Democratic media is the backbone of a democratic society. In our current society, media is controlled by individual capitalists and corporations make up our societies elite. This is directly due to their control and power over societies resources or capital.
In relation to the media, control over the resources required to create media is increasingly being monopolised in the hands of a few corporations. They then have the power to control what type of media content is produced. Essentially this means that they have control over what ideas the rest of the community is exposed to. Control over ideas is the most effective method of social control.
All corporate media is oriented towards one overriding goal, the business interests of the owner. All other considerations are secondary, including their responsibility and role of honestly informing the public, to facilitate open, public discourse. This role is critical for a dynamic and healthy democratic society, but is necessarily considered after the need for profits.
The corporate media have a product, you the audience. The corporate media's real customers are other corporations, who are sold the opportunity to expose the audience to their propaganda, otherwise known as advertising.
Regardless of the content, this corporate propaganda always promotes a consumerist culture above all other democratic and egalitarian values and processes. No one is immune. Successful indoctrination require you to be unaware of it.
Here lies the importance of media activism. The process allows people within a community the opportunity to create alternative forms of media to reclaim democratic impulses and expressions. It is the ability to prevent our lives, our ideas, our communities being co-opted by corporate domination.
The forms of media activism are diverse. It is putting up a poster on a wall, creating a zine, or flyer, it is community radio, community TV, Indymedia and culture jamming. It can be painting on your car, t-shirt, or on an empty wall. It is making and sharing your own music, art, literature, video; or a simple as using your own mouth whenever you can. It is as much about creating and maintaining the resources to produce and distribute media, as it is about creating the content.
Regardless of the form of the media, the processes of media activism should be about self-empowerment that informs, entertains or connects others in the community. It should not be driven by the 'profit motive' or recreate hierarchies of power and domination. Anyone can do it. There are no rules, just values. The way we organise and live, is just as important as the message we spread.
A Brave New World is here. Just turn on the TV news to see it. There is no way to buy ourselves out of this.
Sam Watson speaks one week after Kevin Rudd's 'sorry' speech about his trip to Canberra and what he thinks the event will mean for indigenous people and their living conditions. HERE
Conscientious Objection and living in Israel- Linda Rose interviews conscientious objector Rotem Dam Mor. Rotem visited Brisbane to speak as part of the Students of Sustainability Conference. He spoke on Radio Democracy about his journey as a Conscientious Objector and about media and life in Israel.
Program put together from November 18 rally to demand justice for Mulrinji Doomadgee who died in custody November 19 2004. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley has been found to be responsible for the death after in inquiry by Queensland deputy coroner Christine Clements. The case has been refered to DPP Leanne Clare. A spokesperson for Ms Clare has said she has requested and is waiting for further information. This edit features Sam Watson, Dennis Walker, Rev Alex Gator and others. Music is from DJ Morphism, Non Bosse Posse and Justin Mullins.
Interview with Darlene Lieblich producer of Heart of the Beholder. This film is about a video shop owner who was bankrupted because Fundamentalist Christians didn't like some of the films he was playing. The interview covers some of the difficulties the makers of this film have had due to 'fundies'.
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