Over the next month we’ll be playing repeats from the last 12 months, so you can catch-up if you missed out! ☼ Sat 24/12/11: We talk to Fregmonto Stokes about the role of theatre in popular education and social movements +++plus we’re joined by Max Gillies as Robert Doyle for #Occupy Christmas. ☼Sat 31/12/11: We… [Read more…]
December 10, 2011
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This week we discuss popular education through theatre with prolific political playwright Fregmonto Stokes (Melbourne Model the Musical, Endarkenment…) Plus we’re joined by renown satirist Max Gillies as our Lord Mayor about town Robert Doyle, talking about Occupy Melbourne and all he wants for Christmas! >Listen to the full podcast here<
Today marks four years of Blazing Textbooks on the air — that’s a long time in radio years! Broadcasting form 3CR Community Radio in Melbourne (as well as live streaming and in podcast) Blazing Textbooks has been scorching the airwaves with news, views, interviews and analysis from an anti-capitalist perspective on current issues in education… [Read more…]
November 5, 2011
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5/11/2011 This week James and Sharne provide an update on what’s been happening with Occupy Melbourne since the eviction of 21/10, and OM’s upcoming events, including a public forum in the Treasury Gardens on 2pm, Sunday 6/11, by the Melbourne Free University on ‘What would happen if education was free?’. James reports on Occupy San… [Read more…]
October 8, 2011
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Change is in the air. It is in the networks. It is in ourselves. As the waves of shocks and crises in the global capitalist system have moved closer and closer to the core zones of the global economy in recent decades of global neoliberalism, the answer to ‘shock capitalism’ has finally landed in the… [Read more…]
September 3, 2011
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Blazing Textbooks covers the campaign to save Ballert Mooroop college, Melbourne’s only Koori school. Keep up with the campaign at ballertmooroop.org and look out for the fundraiser gig coming up at UC Hall in Northcote Fri 16th September with Kutcha Edwards. And check out the podcast at: http://www.3cr.org.au/podcast
September 4, 2010
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In the wake of Morrissey’s racist comments about the animal trade in China, Liz and James question the politics of human/animal relations, including PETA and research use of animals at universities and research institutes. Morrissey article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2010/sep/03/morrissey-race-taboos-tom-clark <– morrissey article on chimps: http://www.theage.com.au/world/in-science-v-ethics-its-the-chimps-in-the-sandwich-20100902-14rlz.html http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-alamogordo-chimps-20100903,0,5905193.story <– la times article on animal testing on Peta http://vegansagainstpeta.blogspot.com/ <–… [Read more…]
May 1, 2010
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Student Visa News: International Students had a win in the Federal Court recently. The court decided that automatic visa cancellations that occured between 1 July 2007 and 16 December 2009 were invalid. This is set to affect some 6000 students. Students can have their visas revoked placing them in the precarious position of being unlawful… [Read more…]
April 23, 2010
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“when it is just you being oppressed and silenced and patronised and belittled, you’re not gonna learn anything! you’re just gonna be, like, I wanna get out of here.” kati cubby on blazing textbooks this week on creation+destruction skillshares, a new skillshare project centred on giving oppressed people (especially people of colour, women, queers, and… [Read more…]
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December 22, 2011
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