Last week United States Senator Cory Booker gave a marathon 25-hour speech, or “filibuster”, in the Senate.
Booker’s speech included a broad range of criticisms of President Donald Trump, including his widespread cuts with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and his threat to annex Greenland and Canada.
Booker had over 1,000 pages of prepared material, including stories from 200 Americans who had written to Booker about Trump’s actions.
Wire Host Caeden spoke to Charles Hunt from Boise State University in Idaho about Booker’s speech, its historical basis, and its impact on a growing anti-Trump movement in the United States.
They started by asking if he could explain what a filibuster is.
A new report led by the University of Otago Wellington has found high rates of abuse and harassment against female members of parliament in Aotearoa.
Eleven MPs from across the political spectrum participated in the study which found they were regularly harassed, threatened with rape and even death threats.
The study is led by Dr Rhiannon Watson and Dr Lucy Hammans and builds on previous research into harassment of MPs.
Thursday Wire Host Caeden spoke to Dr Lara Greaves (Ngāpuhi, Pākehā, Tararā), associate professor in politics at Victoria University, about the study and its broader context in Aotearoa and global politics.
Caeden started by asking if she could explain the key findings of the study.
Chris discusses how changes to drug-driving rules are a cause for concern for some medicinal cannibas users, two thousand kgs of hashish has been seized by a New Zealand-led task force, the Brazillian Supreme Court has affirmed that adults may grow cannabis for personal use, plus more! Thanks to The Hempstore.
💚 My penultimate show here on bFM before flying the coop to London. Full of good music, fun, and love! Thank you for all the lovely texts and calls during today's show, it means a lot.
Eccentric Track of the Week: Napes, Snowy - Shooters Hill Live Before the Entertainment Guide: Deki Alem - Shadowman (Live)
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See you beautiful creatures next week for the final dance, we'll be playing a bunch of favourites, thank you always for supporting bFM 💚
Sinéad O’Connor - All Apologies Hailu Mergia, The Walias - Tezeta Prince - 17 Days (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version) The Petch Phin Thong Band - Soul Lam Plearn Jennifer Lara - Our Love Orville Peck - Dead of Night Tom Lark - Fuselage MĀ - BIOTW MOKOTRON - REATLESS TIDE Coen - Drongo Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Heaven 7 Jessica Pratt - Moon Dude Napes, Snowy - Shooters Hill Insideinfo - Lost it Koherent - Bleep Test fern - Sauna Research (ferndub) Kedr Livanskiy - Anna Lisa Crawley - What You Can Do Jenny Hval - The Artist Is Absent (89 Seconds Rewrite) Hailu Mergia, Dahlak Band - Anchin Kfu Ayinkash New Order - Leave Me Alone Cocteau Twins - Frou-frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires Fèng - C-SAW (ruins) MELOWDOWNZ, Jappa, Kingman Dewuro - REVOLUTION Deki Alem - Shadowman (Live) Viagra Boys - The Bog Body The Clean - Tally Ho! Deki Alem - Fun Clams Casino, Imogen Heap - I’m God Blondie - Rapture The Mutton Birds - White Valiant Joe Probert - Landslide Dub Alix Perez, Visages - Reset KHYA, Mirasia - OUR GIRL MIRI J 160BPM The xx - Intro
Playlist
💚 playlist is also available here for streaming on spotify. (But if you listen and like, please consider supporting on bandcamp / otherwise) <3
Sinéad O’Connor - All Apologies Hailu Mergia, The Walias - Tezeta Prince - 17 Days (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version) The Petch Phin Thong Band - Soul Lam Plearn Jennifer Lara - Our Love Orville Peck - Dead of Night Tom Lark - Fuselage MĀ - BIOTW MOKOTRON - REATLESS TIDE Coen - Drongo Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Heaven 7 Jessica Pratt - Moon Dude Napes, Snowy - Shooters Hill Insideinfo - Lost it Koherent - Bleep Test fern - Sauna Research (ferndub) Kedr Livanskiy - Anna Lisa Crawley - What You Can Do Jenny Hval - The Artist Is Absent (89 Seconds Rewrite) Hailu Mergia, Dahlak Band - Anchin Kfu Ayinkash New Order - Leave Me Alone Cocteau Twins - Frou-frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires Fèng - C-SAW (ruins) MELOWDOWNZ, Jappa, Kingman Dewuro - REVOLUTION Deki Alem - Shadowman (Live) Viagra Boys - The Bog Body The Clean - Tally Ho! Deki Alem - Fun Clams Casino, Imogen Heap - I’m God Blondie - Rapture The Mutton Birds - White Valiant Joe Probert - Landslide Dub Alix Perez, Visages - Reset KHYA, Mirasia - OUR GIRL MIRI J 160BPM The xx - Intro
Featuring a bFM exclusive of LOLA's new single Spirits off their debut EP Outside World (out tomorrow), Marijuana Media with Chris Fowlie - thanks to The Hempstore, and Weapon of the Week.
Wednesday Wire Host Oto spoke to Valerie Morse from Peace Action Wellington for their take on the government’s $12 Billion dollar boost to defence spending.
Peace Action have referred to the defence boost as a “shocking waste” that would have been better spent on our infrastructure and medical system and that The Defence Capability Plan ties NZ to America’s territorial ambitions against China.
Parliament’s Justice Committee recently released a report into the ACT Party’s Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill.
With 90% of the bill’s 300,000 submissions being opposed to it, the select committee’s 45-page report recommended that the treaty principles bill should not proceed, with National and NZ first both committed to voting it down in its upcoming second reading.
Just this week, the government announced that they would be investing $12 billion dollars into the New Zealand Defence Force over the next four years, as part of a plan to bring defence spending to 2% of our GDP.
And Prime Minister Christopher Luxon recently condemned the tariffs of 10% that had been placed on New Zealand exports by US President Donald Trump.
For their weekly Catch Up with the Green Party’s Ricardo Menendez-March, Oto talked to him about the party’s take on all of these issues.
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