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1. If you don't hear these 10 political albums, you're missing out

   Me", Carlile sings of her love for another woman, and on hit song "Redesigning Women" the ... BRITTANY HOWARD- JAIME  On September 14 in Sydney, pro-choice women and their supporters rallied for ... albums would you suggest? Comment on  Twitter,  Facebook, or  email.  The-Highwomen-album-cover-artwork ...

2. I thought the world was fucked, then I heard these 10 albums

   PALMER- THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION  On March 1, the Geelong Women Unionists Network kicked off a week ... of International Women’s Day celebrations in Victoria. A week later, on the day itself, acclaimed US ... BEWARE OF THE DOGS  Scooping the prize for world's biggest dickhead on International Women ...

3. Sexism gives hip-hop a bad rap, says radical rapper

   forms of oppression." History Will Absolve Us tackles many forms oppression head-on, from war and ... touches on the US wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Libya, and the propaganda war that has long been ... lyrics." The empathetic emcee hits chauvinists where it hurts on his new album, History Will Absolve Us. On ...

4. Heavyweight hip-hopper builds a fine body of work

   "Every man's got a war story." Tell us about that. Yeah, it just goes back to reflecting on ... I couldn't move my arm for a while so it really put a halt on everything, but this time, this June, this ... does not take body-building lightly- it has helped lift a great weight off his shoulders. As he raps on ...

5. Ten new political albums that will make you smile

   related to this month's political news. What albums would you suggest? Comment on  Twitter,  ... status and treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Yet on July 12 the Wangan and ... Deadly Hearts 2, released to celebrate NAIDOC week. On it, Murrawarri drummer and vocalist Dobby covers ...

6. Author charts long history of Islamophobia

   Anti-racism Mat Ward Religion war oil Islam Muslims Islamophobia, anti-Muslim racism and ... a peaceful protest on September 15 against the film The Innocence Of Muslims. GLW ’s account was backed up by ... an SBS news report. But Senator Mason tried to justify his motion on September 18 by saying: “Is ...

7. What cost conquest?

   A poll published on August 18 showed most Americans have already turned against the war. But ending the ... — Rethink Afghanistan tackles aspects of the war in 10-minute segments. Greenwald split the film into ... Pakistan is involved in the war. Simple graphics show how nuclear-armed India, through its involvement as ...

8. Urthboy gives slacktivists a bad rap

   "slacktivists"? It's just one of the questions posed on Smokey’s Haunt, the new album by the persistently ... war criminal Joseph Kony. "We exist online and virtual lives are really important, but they also ... have this great limitation where there’s a massive amount of smug communication that goes on- with good ...

9. Like music? Like books? Then you'll probably like Graphic's new album, Raw Intelligence

   traditionally-dressed Indian women carrying their goods home or to shop fronts. Real people, real lives. On "Get ... rapper graphic ebook Raw Intelligence Graphic Released May 26, 2015 $27.99 Buy it on iTunes Perth rapper ... from John Pilger's documentary The War You Don't See. He is referring to clear and ...

10. Summer reading: Recommended books of the year

    fighting a forgotten war on the side of the indigenous whose land is being stolen by mining corporations. ... Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng Yellow Jersey Press, 2011 Gary Speed hanged himself on November 27. ... war that ended with the destruction of the Tamil Tigers and the victory of the Sinhala state. Lionel ...

11. Julian Assange's latest book skewers Google

    popular on the internet — to the war effort, inserting a line below the search box reading 'Live! ... Schmidt's then-partner Lisa Shields, a vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations; Scott Malcomson, ... a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and Jared Cohen, who had moved to Google after serving ...

12. Homeless actors aim to get people talking

    audience finish it on their way home or over the weekend with their friends.” Todd is talking up Milk ... a very different thing than having the real conversation.” There are more than 100,000 people homeless on ... with mental health issues they tend to fall through the cracks and end up on the streets.” Homelessness ...

13. Powerful portrait of a Koori artist

    for a children's book. She told Landon that when she was growing up on the Aboriginal mission of ... event last night stood up and thanked me for telling my story. She said most Koori women will not speak ... Harrison's family was seen as being the most stable on the mission. It was for this reason that in 1963 they ...

14. 18 questions for radical rapper Intikana

    of War by Sun-Tzu; Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper; The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and ... peace, but lied and ended up slaughtering our people. They raped our women and stole our land. Then, they ... [on the southwest coast of] Borikén. Growing up, I used to spend my summers in that house. Running ...

15. Rapper Miss Hood speaks out for her sisters

    female fighters on the frontline. "Both of the tribes were matriarchal, so women were equal to ... a chance to stand up for women." On her high-quality debut album, It's Fatal, the track ... wearing revealing clothes at the time. To still have that kind of attitude on women — it was just one of ...

16. Exhumed bury sharp politics in cryptic lyrics

    for people to get a sense of what's going on with the lyrics and everything. I guess you could ... focused on death, and I've always tried to keep that as the main theme or the main metaphorical tool ... Want to expand on that? Absolutely. Corporate personhood and privately funded elections have basically ...

17. Rapper Lucky Luke digs up truth in Mount Isa

    for men and 9.5 years for women. On "Hey Dad", Lucky Luke raps about the death of his ... it is a 'lifestyle choice', but because we are connected with this land." On March 10, ... subsidise the "lifestyle choices" of Aboriginal people to remain on their tribal homelands. Yet ...

18. A biting musical voice for Roma

    with World War II roundup of Jews by French police on behalf of the occupying Nazis. Hutz describes ... sterilisation. The Czech Republic apologised last year for enforced sterilisations carried out on Roma as ... eight Romani women who suspected the reason for their infertility might be that they were sterilised ...

19. Hip-hop activist shows rap's power to politicise

    growing up turned you on to politics. When I first heard a song called "Black and Proud" by ... one of the many historical figures who were name-dropped on various songs throughout the “Golden Era” ... BDizzleNY06. In the latest of your four books, "A Hip-Hop Activist Speaks Out on Political Issues", ...

20. Ten new political albums worth a listen- April 2015

    album, or albums, would you suggest? Comment below, on Twitter or Facebook. 1. SUPER BEST FRIENDS- STATUS ... UPDATES On April 4, Australian politics reached a fresh low as anti-Islamic "Reclaim Australia" ... update reading: "Like any other brand capitalising on idiots, we thought in light of the Reclaim ...

21. Marcel Cartier gets his rap lines from the frontline

    position on Palestinian liberation by falling into the “proxy war” trap that demonises all the forces who ... clarity of a clarion call- and the messages on his latest album are as loud and clear as ever. As he tells ... a degree of neutrality and at least quasi-objetivity in the way you not only report but behave yourself on ...

22. 52 left-leaning albums from 2014

    your only goal is to slap legislation on women's bodies preventing them from making an already ... Comment below, on Twitter or Facebook. * * * 1. BRISBANE BLACKS- INVASION DAY MIXTAPE Radical newspaper ... holiday, which commemorates the landing of the First Fleet on January 26, 1788, is celebrated by most ...

23. Campbell’s cuts make for razor-sharp rap

    particular, on my father's side, he was a Chetnik during World War II. There's different thoughts on ... have disappeared." On gaining office last year, the Liberal Premier cut to the quick, scything ... through services within hours. Newman wasted no time in laying waste to the arts- on his first day, he ...

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