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A collection of reports compiled by Ian Curr for the Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ fm 102.1) now podcast on 4PR - Voice of the People.

International Women's Day (Meanjin) 2021

Brian pays tribute to the work done by women counsellors who try to get violent men to realise that what they are doing is wrong. Men’s power plays are hurtful to everyone, to society at large.

At one point it seemed like he was making fun of "woke" people but when he explained it it turned out what he was saying was really good. And that he might have even taken on board what some woke people were saying, as evidenced by the use of the term "virtue signalling".

Brian Sullivan 'Creep' Speech

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks out after Republicans sexist attack.
Anna McCormack on men's violence.
Brian Sullivan on creeps speech.
Calypso - Anti-Poverty Network
Hannah on poverty.
Julia Gillard's anti-misogny speech.
Kath Deves - Save Women's Sport
Sian intro to IWWD
Taylor McGowan - poem
Jumping Fences - Yo Vengo a Ofrecer Mi Corazon
HELEN REDDY - LIVE GRAMMY PERFORMANCE OF I AM WOMAN - THE QUEEN OF 70s POP (couldn't be played here because of copyright restrictions.
Image - Snr Constable John Watt arresting a woman at the 1978 IWD rally in Brisbane (Meanjin) at KGSq.

Hannah on Poverty

We were standing on the railway tracks. It was 9pm. Over a 100 police lurked in the shadows. Special Branch was all around. The ABC evening broadcast came over the radio. The suave voice of an evening news reader declared we had been removed from the tracks. Yet here we stood blocking the uranium train. The police commander bellowed over the loud hailer that we should relent.

 From the middle of our sturdy throng, Keith Horsely let out the plaintive cry: Where’s 4PR – the voice of the people as Detective Senior Constable Domenico Cacciola whispered in my ear: “We’re gonna get ya, Mister”!

True enough, they did.

– Hamilton No 4 Wharf, Brisbane, August 1977.

4PR - Voice of the People

Anarchism and ‘the left hand of darkness’

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (misattributed to Kurt Cobain)

Anarchism and 'the left hand of darkness'

The broadcast – Report on International Women’s Day on Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ Fridays at noon) – has been widely misunderstood. Station management claims there have been many complaints about the program and so went on air to publicly apologise soon after Paradigm Shift. I resigned from 4ZZZ on the principle that this broadcast contained factual material and honestly held belief and so should not have been taken down. 

However I do regret putting the show to air because the reaction against a small part of the program has been so strong that it does not advance women’s struggle.

Strong reaction to International Women’s Day broadcast
I underestimated the bias against socialist ideas at the station and among subscribers generally. It seems identity trumps humanity. The humanity that underlies socialism seems to have evaporated with each groups desire to have their identity paramount. This individualism is typical of western consumerist countries where individuals of all ages get their information form social media.

Few people would be aware that International Women’s Day came from the collective struggle for socialism in the early part of the 20th century. Liberal capitalist countries like the US, Australia and Britain did not even recognise the day until 1977 when it became part of the United Nations calendar.

How 4ZZZ de-programmed the Report of International Women’s Day ’21
I was trying to login into Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA)’s music pages (amrap) to re-enter deleted playlists of shows played on Paradigm Shift on (4ZZZ on Fridays at noon) from 26 Feb till 26 March 2021 .

I couldn’t. I had been excluded from making any changes. My username had been deleted.

So I wrote to the CBAA asking: “Can you please explain why the (Paradigm Shift’s) playlists have been deleted?

I received the following reply from the CBAA on 1 April 2021:

“Thanks for reaching out to the CBAA about 4ZZZ’s Paradigm Shift Amrap Pages account. It appears that each episode from Fri March 5 onwards has not been ticked to be publicly viewable. I have attached a screenshot (below), you can see the checkbox at the top of the page needs to be ticked to be visible by the program maker.
Andrew Morris, Manager, Online Products & Services“

    Changes to Paradigm Shift’s Amrap page by 4ZZZ management

Screen shot of Paradigm Shift Amrap Pages account.

The CBAA does not have any published policies on Dispute Resolution.
Their website says this is under development. So much for fairness in bureaucracy.

Shooting the messenger
4ZZZ station management made no attempt to engage or discuss with me how this should be resolved or even why they wanted the broadcast to be taken down. They did however issue me with a series of written ultimatums that I should take the material down. When I spoke to management over the phone, they resorted to process refusing to discuss the substantive matter of why they wished to take the shows down.

I have been associated with the station since its inception so, given the circumstances, I had little choice other than to resign.
– Raymond Evans in The Future

Ian Curr
4PR – Voice of the People
3 April 2021

Opinion Police on Women

Australian manufactured weapons end up killing West Papuan civilians so stop weapons manufacturers touting their wares at the Brisbane Convention Centre.
See https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2021/02/26/free-us-from-the-land-forces-expo/ and https://disruptlandforces.org/

Playlist 
Joe Geia -  Freedom West Papua 
Irulekie - Full Freedom

Disrupt Weapons Expo

See https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2021/04/12/mugged-by-zed/ 

Playlist
From the Bim Bimbi's Blues

Mugged by Zed

Forecast 13th - 20th April '21
Trev’s Forecast for next 7 Days
The previous 3 months in total have been wetter than average, pretty much in line with La Nina Bureau of Meteorology forecasts. Now it’s looking dryer, and a great week to get out and about in nature. Fine mild weather is forecast for the next 7 days with minimum temperatures around 14 to 19C and maximums 25 to 30C, very little chance of rain and light winds. This is because large highs are moving slowly across the south of the continent and bringing more stable conditions. It’s a return to more typical autumn conditions although still showing the underlying global warming influence of higher temperatures, as maximums of 30C in April for Brisbane were rare in the long term historical record. 
So on your bikes or put on your walking shoes and get out there – great time to visit some water falls or the beach.
 
Source: Care of Bureau of Meteorology and www.seabreeze.com.au

Trev the Weatherman -  Forecast 13th - 20th April '21

Analysis of speeches given on International Women's Day 2021 in Brisbane.

Image: Special Branch dragging a woman from the steps of parliament during Reproductive Rights Struggle in Brisbane in 1980. This was part of a larger democratic rights struggle in Qld where over 2,000 people were arrested when the government banned street marches.

Playlist
Allie Sherlock - Fall in Line

The 'Trans' Dialogue

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