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Community or Chaos - 08-10-2024 - Civil Disobedience against Fontera's coal trains - Ben Neville Attorney( 0:51:13)
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Civil Disobedience against Fontera's coal trains - Ben Neville Attorney representing Extinction Rebellion Protesters against Fontera's coal trains. We will discuss our ethical moral obligations in the face of central crisis for humanity and the rest of life on earth. Do we have an obligation to save the lives of our great grandchildren where is our present comfort more important than their life?
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 8/10/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 24-09-2024 - Predatory Electricity Prices - Craig Rennie( 0:51:11)
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Predatory Electricity Prices - Craig Rennie Economist and Director of Policy at New Zealand Council of Trade Unions. We will
We will talk about The extraordinary high price of electricity in New Zealand and his effect on householders and industry in New Zealand. We also talk how the present freemarket structure producing electricity rewards power shortages and this disincentivises new carbon free sources of electricity. We will also talk about how the rising cost of electricity is further destroying New Zealand's remaining industries.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 24/09/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 17-09-2024 - Dunedin Hospital Rebuild Crisis - Pete Hodgson( 0:50:41)
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Dunedin Hospital Rebuild Crisis - Pete Hodgson Former MP and former overseer of the construction of the new Dunedin hospital. We will asking if the is the hospital rebuild is in serious danger of cuts that may affect it's capacity to meet Otago's healthcare needs in the future and may also impact on the medical school and the hospital as a teaching facility. Should we reignite the campaign against the cuts?
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 17/09/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 03-09-2024 - Free market profit driven Power Crisis - Prof Stephen Poletti( 0:53:59)
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Free market profit driven Power Crisis - Prof Stephen Poletti’s expertise is in energy economics & industrial organisation.
We will discuss allowing the free-market to control our energy development and distribution to be driven by profit motive policy encourage the drive for profits over the need for secure non-carbon energy.
And have electricity user particularly householders but also manufactures and industrial users such as forest products and Wood product mills been protected from energy profiteering by power generators who have quadrupled their profits and enormously increased their dividends recently.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 3/09/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 13-08-2024 - Civilisation and Democracy in Crisis - Jonathan Boston( 0:51:47)
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Civilisation and Democracy in Crisis - Jonathan Boston, Professor of Policy Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Government.
He is the Author of a report prepared for the environmental Defence society on Managed Retreat and was the author of Transforming the Welfare State and Moving Towards a New Social Contract.
In August he will be giving a lecture In Wellington On The Future Of Democracy!
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 13/08/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 06-08-2024 - Remembering Hiroshima - Kevin Clements( 0:48:1)
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Remembering Hiroshima - Kevin Clements is the former director and Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies center at the University of Otago, and Secr Gen.f the International Peace Research Association. Kevin Clements, is t now Director of Toda Peace Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research) Japan> we will be discussing the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what we can learn from that and how we can use the memories to promote Peace and nuclear disarmament.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 6/08/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 30-07-2024 - NZ infrastructure crash Local effects - Jim O'Malley( 0:44:14)
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NZ infrastructure crash Local effects - Jim O'Malley Dunedin city counsellor Jim O'Malley Chair of the Infrastructure Services Committee. &the DCC representative of the Otago-Southland Regional Transport Committee.
How Dunedin can deal with critical infrastructure crisis nationwide with a government governing as though for the mid 20th century?
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 30/07/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 16-07-2024 - The Politics of Europe - Prof Robert Patman( 0:51:22)
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The Politics of Europe - Prof Robert Patman is a leading New Zealand University Otago academic in the field of international relations. Robert Patman on his recent accolade; the 2024 Critic and Conscience of Society Award, given by Universities New Zealand’s Gama Foundation. We will discuss the surge of right-wing populism in Europe and the Response to that crisis.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 16/07/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 09-07-2024 - No Ferrys for the South Island - Victor Billot( 0:47:10)
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No Ferrys for the South Island - Victor Billot, Maritime Union. Communication and media spokesperson on the grounding of the Aratee Cook Street ferry shortly after the government cancellation of the order for two large roll on rolloff capable ferrys. Is the present government going back to the 20th century do we have a retrograde government when it comes to policy decisions or lack of?
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 9/07/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 02-07-2024 - Climate emergency human catastrophe - John Drummond( 0:51:10)
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Climate emergency human catastrophe - John Drummond has written a series of articles on the need for urgent action on mitigating Climate Change and repairing resilience.
The question is is it possible for us to respond to Climate Change and why and what political and economic realities hold us back from dealing with Climate Change in an effective way? Do the powers are be care more about profit and power today then for the future of the human race and their grand and great grandchildrens life?
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 2/07/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 25-06-2024 - RIMPAC Pacific Rim military exercise - Kevin Clements( 0:52:21)
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RIMPAC Pacific Rim military exercise - Kevin Clements on RIMPAC former director & Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies Center at Otago, and Secr. Gen. of the International Peace Research Association. Kevin is now Director of Toda Peace Institute located in Japan. We're talking about NZ participating with 29 other nations including Israel in the islands building and practicing military alliances tactics together we will also be talking about AUKUS and the relationship these events and alliances have with the Treaty of the 1997 Treaty of Rarotonga declaring the South Pacific and nuclear free zone.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 25/06/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 18-06-2024 - Community Dialogue to Community Peace - Jeremy Simons( 0:40:38)
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Community Dialogue Community Peace - Jeremy Simons is a senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Restorative Practice at Victoria University of Wellington. Jeremy wrote after Dunedin Bus Hub knifing that before, during and after any eruption of violence, are a variety of personal fears, social pressures, and unmet human needs.The recent death was no exception. So far, responses have highlighted the long-standing safety concerns of pupils at the Dunedin bus hub. We will talk about open dialogue and community peace,
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 18/06/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 11-06-2024 - Gaza an unacceptable humanitarian crisis - Stephen Zunes( 0:50:49)
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Gaza an unacceptable humanitarian crisis - Stephen Zunes - Professor of international relations at the University of San Francisco specializing in the Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, and strategic nonviolent action. We speculated on whether Israel's overwhelmingly disproportionate response to Hamas sneak terroristic attack on Israe citizens amounted to genocide. We also talked about President Biden's support of Israel going well beyond international lawl and its political implications for the American election. We also talked about the possible future of Palestine and Israel.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 11/06/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 04-06-2024 - This is budget sacrificing the future - Craig Renney( 0:49:43)
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This is budget sacrificing the future - Craig Renney Economist and Director of Policy at New Zealand Council of Trade Unions. Craig and I talked about how this budget is sacrificing future generations for Apparent political gain. We also talked about the tax savings going to those like landlords who needed at least while those who need the most financial help got the least help. We also talked about how the revenue and taxation system had to be reformed if New Zealand physical and social infrastructure was not going to crash. We also wondered if fast fast track they legislation wouldn't cause more distrust of the government !
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 4/06/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 28-05-2024 - NZ + AuKus - Robert Patman( 0:46:30)
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NZ + AuKus - Prof Prof Robert Patman is a leading New Zealand University Otago academic in the field of international relations. He Received the accolade; the 2024 Critic and Conscience of Society Award, given by Universities New Zealand’s Gama Foundation.. We talked about Aukus and it's impact on nuclear free Pacific as in the treaty of Rarotonga and New Zealand's foreign policy in the Pacific and Asia. We also discussed the importance of an international rules based order for small and medium size countries such as New Zealand.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 28/05/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 14-05-2024 - Funding Crisis in Healthcare Impact on Nursing - Anne Daniels( 0:54:44)
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Funding Crisis in Healthcare Impact on Nursing - Anne Daniels President NZ) urses Organisation NZNO Anne Daniel 14th May 2024
Early in her nursing journey Anne’s strong sense of justice led her to become an NZNO delegate, then Convenor for Thames Hospital/Hauraki Plains NZNO members, leading nurses through strikes and restructuring. She worked with the Thames Hospital Clinical Director, a local Councillor and the community to fight the reduction of many health services under the National Government.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 14/05/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 07-05-2024 - Neoliberalism A conspiracy? - Charles Pigden( 0:49:5)
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Neoliberalism A conspiracy? - Charles Pigden Professor of Philosophy at Otago University He is Burtrude Russell scholar'. More interestingly Pigden also an expert on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories, being the first to revive the issue after Popper’s denunciations of conspiracy theorizing in the fifties. We will be discussing the case for Neoliberalism as a conspiracy.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 7/05/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 09-04-2024 - Gun Control or Gun Massacres - Kevin Clements( 0:45:3)
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Gun Control or Gun Massacres - Kevin Clements is the former director and was the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies, Founding Director of the New Zealand National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) at Otago, &Sec. Gen. of the International Peace Research Association. Kevin Clements, is the new Director Toda Peace Institute is an independent, nonpartisan institute committed to advancing a more just and peaceful world through policy-oriented peace research and practice.
We will be discussing I need to keep and indeed strengthen New Zealand's gain control regulations!
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 9/04/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 12-03-2024 - Abolish The Military - Prof Richard Jackson( 0:50:38)
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Abolish The Military - Prof. Richard Jackson Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS). His interest’s nature, causes, & resolution of organized forms of political violence. He is the Editor of the Critical Studies on Terrorism. He has recently written “Abolishing the Military” Published by BWB text.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 12/03/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 05-03-2024 - Fringe Festival - Kate Schrader and Ruth Harvey( 0:50:52)
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Fringe Festival - Kate Schrader and Ruth Harvey were appointed last year as co-directors of the 'Dunedin Fringe Festival
Both Ms Harvey and Ms Schrader have previously held part-time senior roles in the organisation, and are enjoying the transition to jointly steering the DFAT stable of projects.
We will discuss the history of Fringe Festival's internationally and the history of the 'Dunedin Fringe Festival in particular.
We will also talk about how the COVID-19 affected the direction and nature of events like the Fringe Festival and what we can look forward to in this Fringe Festival.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 5/03/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 27-02-2024 - World Beyond War - Dr John Reuwer( 0:47:53)
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Dr. Reuwer is a retired doctor and a veteran of Unarmed Civilian Protection teams in Palestine/Israel, Ukraine, South Sudan, Haiti, Colombia, and Central America, as Reuwer share sWBW’s vision for alternative security. His goal is to learn what in the New Zealand record of peacemaking (such as New Zealand’s declaration of a nuclear-free zone) complements and how we can best focus our work for the abolition of war.
The tour is supported by the Religious Society of Friends of Aotearoa and by World BEYOND War Aotearoa.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 27/02/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 02-11-2021 - Archibald Baxter Memorial - Prof Kevin Clements( 0:44:41)
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Archibald Baxter Memorial - Prof Kevin Clements - The Archibald Baxter memorial to conscientious objector's.Diplomatic and Non-violent Alternatives to war to war.
Kevin Clements 23 Feb 2021 is the former director and was the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies, Founding Director of the New Zealand National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS)
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin https://oar.org.nz/
Published: 2/11/2021 10:29:51 a.m.
Community or Chaos - 17-03-2020 - Peace Poetry Forgiveness - Padraig O Tuama( 0:47:39)
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Peace Poetry Forgiveness - Pádraig Ó Tuama is leader of the Corrymeela Community, a poet, theologian and mediator. He has worked in conflict resolution in Ireland, Africa and the Middle East.
From 2014-2019, Ó Tuama was the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization, which works with over 10,000 people a year to transform division through human encounters, with focuses on sectarianism, marginalization, public theology and the legacies of conflict. Ó Tuama lives in Ireland.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 17/03/2020 6:05:24 p.m.