Welcome to the Paradigm Shift (on FM 102.1 4ZZZ Fridays at noon). We challenge the assumptions of our current society, to resist oppression.
June 26, 2020
Black Lives Matter.
Susan interviews Peter Gray from 'Radical Times' in the United States.
There is an uprising going on in the United States after police murdered George Floyd, an African American man living in Minneapolis. Some parallels exist with the rioting that went on after Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. Not because George Floyd was a public figure like Dr King but because of the frustration felt by the community for ongoing racism. No political party in the US has come out attacking the root causes that stem from capitalisms inability to deal with poverty, lack of public housing, mass incarceration, drug and alcohol abuse. Wall Street surely must crash.
James Baldwin on ‘Black Lives Matter‘ in 1963, 100 years after the abolition of slavery in the South. Malcolm X on 'Police Brutality', Martin Luther King's 'Dream' and Corretta Scott King on 'Racism', Michael Cogswell on 'Louis Armstrong' [thanks to 'Fresh Air' for the Cogswell recording ... see https://www.kazu.org/post/fresh-air-remembers-jazz-archivist-and-historian-michael-cogswell#stream/0 ]
Playlist
A Change is Gonna Come – Aretha Franklin (Sam Cook originall from Atlanta Records 1967)
Soldier we love you – Rita Martinson
Southern Man - Neil Young
Mack the Knife - Lotte Lenya & Louis Armstrong
Transcript @ workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2020/06/17/…-in-the-us/
