I recently recorded the voice over for a video called The Age of Democracy produced by AntiMidia from Brasil. It's a great take on voting and elections emphasizing that for real change we need to organise horizontally. Over the last 15 years, several social movements and anti-capitalist groups have answered the call of the Zapatista National Liberation Army and the entire Zapatista Movement for a campaign "from below and to the left" for radical changes. Since the first march that traveled throu...
Oct 28, 2020•17 min
Well it's been a while since I've uploaded a podcast. I've been taking a break partly due to the craziness in the world and partly because I want one. The sedition was actually produced for the 4ZZZ program Eco Radio. First up on the show is an interview with Izzy Brown about the protest and festival at the Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia. The protestival was planned for the end of July but because of COVID-19 has been postponed until the end of September. I went the the Vomit Cabare...
Jul 02, 2020•1 hr 1 min
With protests continuing in cities all over the world, the Channel Zero Network has some reminders on how to support those who have been arrested, and those who may be arrested in the future. More info available here -https://rebelsteps.com/episodes/6-jail-support.html
Jun 09, 2020•4 min
No-one in Australia can go to a pub right now but Andrew Leavold is still hell bent on making a film called PUB. The film which is in production is about St Kilda artist, satirist, and musician Fred Negro (real name). It's also about the changing face of that Melbourne suburb and the Australian music scene. Andrew called into the show and we found out all about the film which is currently the subject of a crowd funding campaign. This film can give us a hope for the future. One day the pubs and l...
Mar 29, 2020•38 min
COVID 19 is spreading fast around the globe. While we can thank the virus for infecting people like Peter Dutton and Prince Charles it's killing a lot of innocent people and affecting our lives enormously. Governments, elites, and some in the middle class are more concerned about the crash diving 'economy' than people. The economy is not actually a real thing but people are. A swift complete shut down would have this thing crushed in less time with fewer casualties. Mutual Aid groups are springi...
Mar 26, 2020•13 min
This is a special bonus interview sedition of Subversion #1312. It features an interview I did with American singer/song writer David Rovics who is currently in so-called Australia. David is an indie/folk political sing/song writer. He identifies as an anarchist. Since the 1990s he's been writing songs and touring the world performing them. My friends and I used to joke that no matter what the topic David Rovics has written a song about it. War/peace, refugees, free media, workers' rights, stude...
Mar 11, 2020•30 min
This show is a banger! We have an interview with Izzy Brown about BHP Billiton and their plans for the Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia. This will be the third time the lizard is returning to Roxby Downs. Olympic Dam and Arabunna and Kokatha country. So yeah, this is this is volume three of the Lizard. Well, BHP is being very sly they, are pushing through for an expansion, have been doing it in a very uncouth manner with the help of the South Australian government, they're expanding t...
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr
During this sedition of Subversion #1312 we are joined in the studio by members of Brisbane's all abilities, all inclusive Whoopee-Do Crew. Tom Smith created the Whoopee-Do Crew and it combines his passion for music and caring for people. Tom and Nigel joined us to share their stories because the Crew are launching their new album All The People Cheer Me Up. Surprise is too that Colin Young our co-host is also in the Whoopee-Do Crew. Tune in to find out about this grassroots initiative which giv...
Feb 26, 2020•1 hr
This sedition of Subversion #1312 features an interview with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief member Jimmy Dunson. So-called Australia where this show is - as was predicted - feeling the brute force of climate change. When I conducted this interview fires were and had been destroying large parts of the country, now there's been huge destruction caused by floods. Brisbane where I live and Australia in general does not have an organisation like Mutual Aid Disaster Relief but we really need one. That's w...
Feb 16, 2020•1 hr
The members of Vomit Cabaret join us this week to read the play The True Story of Karl Marx by Bernadette Le Goullon. One thing striking in this play is how Jenny Marx did a lot of work on Das Kapital but received little credit. In among the play is new songs from Anti-Flag, The Songs of Tom Smith, and Mau Power. Police brutality and misconduct is reported in Bad Cop No Donut.
Feb 07, 2020•1 hr
Let cop cars burn, not forests. Subversion #1312 aired on 4ZZZ on 31/12/2019 and we did a two hours music extravaganza. The program starts off though with Linda and Peter discussing the bush fire situation currently razing large amounts of Australia and around 500 000 million animals. Also because we all know NYE, calendars, and clocks are bullshit we play The Tyranny of the Clock by George Woodcock. For playlist go to - http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/program/subversion-1312/
Jan 06, 2020•2 hr
Radio play of The Real Story of Christmas by Bernadette le Goullon. This play was performed at the final Vomit Cabaret of 2019 @ Backbone East Brisbane Bowls Club. Also during this show we play Peter's pre-recorded report back from the Extinction Rebellion occupation of a Brisbane Bridge. He has some good analysis of the potential outcome of XR appealing to the government to do 'something' about climate change.
Dec 20, 2019•1 hr
Nauroze Anees is in the heart of the beast that is the Australia Immigration Detention Network. Earlier this year he made a claim that he had been told by a fellow detainee $80 000 cash could 'buy' a visa. The detainee who is alleged to have said this is a convicted drug trafficker from New Zealand now living on the Gold Coast. Under legislation introduced by the current Liberal/National government a person can be refused a visa if they fail a character test which revolved around criminal activi...
Dec 12, 2019•10 min
The major thing to celebrate this week was the 20th anniversary of the 'Battle in Seattle' protesters shut down the WTO meeting in 1999. We play a soundscape editing together from a documentary called Breaking the Spell. Gerald Keaney and I discuss the Seattle success and the other major convergences which happened around the country and world last decade. This special sedition of S #1312 features a surprise debate between Linda and Gerald Keaney in which Gerry announces 'neither Tehran nor Canb...
Dec 05, 2019•1 hr
This sedition features the debut of Mic Smith's production Mozart and Coltrane. A former prime minister is the target of satire in The Parky Warky Show. Election Loser, Tony Ibbitt. Also a reading of Gerald Keaney's short story The Perfect 21st Century Murder. Hear Linda's new Punk Flamingo song 'Just say Fuck the Police'. Stick around til the end when Linda and Gerry fight over whether civil liberties are worse in Australia or Iran (or the same).
Dec 02, 2019•1 hr
For this sedition I'm joined by Jeffrey Tan and Colin Young. Jeffrey is the director of Open Homes a theatre production which features everyday people in their own homes, telling their own stories. Colin who has joined us before as part of Vomit Cabaret is one of the story tellers welcoming guests into his home with An Essential Guide to Becoming Fab. During the hour we talk about how this production came to be, Colin's show and surrounding issues including anarchy and community. Towards the end...
Oct 28, 2019•1 hr
This program features members of the Queer Anti-Colonial Action Bitchez a Brisbane based group who were active recently at the Climate March and Pride Rally. Queer Anti-Colonial Action Bitchez are a collective of queer and trans artists, workers, students, families, and community organisers who have come together to help resist the ongoing occupation of First Nations lands and waters by the Australian settler-colonial regime. We discuss the issues surrounding the Brisbane Pride March welcoming p...
Oct 18, 2019•1 hr
Last week we had local band The Songs of Tom Smith in the studio chatting about what they do and playing some songs. We also talked about anarchism what it is/means ... which was great. After the show Tiffany from the band says what about rape. How would an anarchist society deal with rape? What a great question! And what a great way to make the show more interactive. This is something I really want to do.. Ask an Anarchist. What do you want to know about anarchism? Email me linda@subversion1312...
Sep 08, 2019•1 hr
*Warning* real live musicians in the studio. Brisbane band The Songs of Tom Smith join Linda in the studio during this sedition. Song writer Tom Smith assumes characters in different iterations of The Songs on Tom Smith. The band featured in this podcast is The Songs of Tom Smith - Bent Cop. Dodgy cops are a frequent topic on Subversion so it's the perfect band for the show. We also talk about anarchism and what members of the band think it is. And other projects they are involved in including a...
Sep 06, 2019•1 hr
Brisbane artist Anthony Jigalin recently returned from Berlin and wanted to come and talk about his experiences including meeting Ai Wei Wei, cheap food and freedom he says is not found in Australia. We also talk with Gerald Keaney and other members of Vomit Cabaret an anarchist cabaret night which happens monthly in Brisbane.
Aug 08, 2019•1 hr
This episode is the culmination of our coverage of Emma Goldman's birthday as we interview Jessica Harrison who recently returned from a trip to North America during which she attended a symposium on Emma Goldman and visited a few other anarchist sites. Also mentioned is the campaign to save the Djab Wurrung sacred trees in Victoria. And a bit of critique of Extinction Rebellion with Dissident Island Radio and the Green Anticapitalist Front And Bad Cop No Donut
Aug 01, 2019•1 hr
Hosts Linda and Mark got fancy and went to the theatre on Sunday night. They were so enthralled by the story and show they invited two of the devisors of the show to join them during this program. Their guests are La Silhouette director/devisor Daniel Gough, and actor/devisor Esther Dougherty from the Sui Ensemble. La Silhouette was an immersive theatre experience set inside a Brisbane cabaret club. The audience was inside the club setting and interacted with the performers and environment. La S...
Jul 05, 2019•1 hr
We were lucky enough to be chosen for this rare candid interview with Donald J Trump.
Jul 04, 2019•6 min
In this sedition of Subversion we pay tribute to Brisbane graffiti artist, musician and personality Magnus McTavish by playing some songs which were on his playlist. Magnus and Linda did a hip hop radio program called Outlawzzz Radio together in 2014 on 4ZZZ. Jen and Mark are in again this week and talking about Trump's visit to England, the fashion, and the latest baby leech set to drain the public purse. Plus Bad Cop No Donut.
Jun 10, 2019•1 hr
Have you heard of Larry Davis? His story really has to be one of the greatest cases of resistance to the police state. Ever. This episode includes a special about Larry Davis, plus a brief run down on Direct Action... Which Australia needs to get into after somehow the conservative government got voted back in. "When he became a symbol of resistance in New York in the 1980's, he became a black folk hero, an urban legend, because he fought back at a time when African-Americans were being killed b...
May 28, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Good evening Subverters a warm welcome to this (anti) Australian Election podcast. The polling date is this Saturday May 18 and it's boring as fuck. Whoever wins we still have to fight you'll get no anarchist don't vote arguments from me but you're not going to get an reformist do vote arguments either. Do whatever knock yourself out ..... and I'll see you at the barricades.
May 15, 2019•1 hr
Subversion #1312 recently spoke with Yelling At Racist Dogs conspirator Tom Tanuki to have a chat about the different types of racist dogs getting around the place pissing on anything they don't like. Tom also chats about ways the left could respond to touring racist dogs as a way to avoid pushing the narrative they are trying to ride on. We also get the low down on the latest YARD t-shirt and future plans for the group.
Apr 20, 2019•13 min
Do you remember why Assange was forced to go into hiding? You'd be forgiven for forgetting about the sexual assault charges laid against him in Sweden. Obviously Wikileaks exposure of war crimes with the Collateral Murder videos is important and as is fact the US has charged him with conspiring to hack a government computer, but sexual assault charges are important too. Especially considering how often they are minimised and women's trauma is ignored. Assange's arrest last week was for skipping ...
Apr 20, 2019•30 min
At Subversion #1312 we totally love music but we hate racists. Another announcer from 4ZZZ Marty is from New Zealand where former Panterra frontman Phil Anselmo 's shows were cancelled shortly after an Australiangunman murdered 50 Muslims inside a mosque in Christchurch. Since Anselmo was booked the play in Brisbane Marty felt it important to question to wisdom of letting a man who has promoted racism on stage since at least 1995 perform. This turned out to be a good topic to discuss on the prog...
Mar 28, 2019•1 hr
Do you struggle with the idea of sex work as legitimate work? Or whether feminists can be sex workers? In light of International Women's Day this week we air an interview with a sex worker and advocate. She tells us about the concerns sex workers have with legislation. Monday was International Sex Worker Rights Day and in Brisbane there was a rally held in King George Square. The main focus in Queensland is sex worker safety, in jeopardy because of State laws. Elena Jefferies is a doctor of poli...
Mar 08, 2019•1 hr
