http://accessradioblog.org Wellington Community Zone 783AM Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:36:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en People aren't killed by the State in Wellington. Never. They are in Tehran, too often. It's an horrific reality that is alien from our day to day lives. We hide from news of murder and the destruction of human rights- and our media makes it easy. French Iranian Journalist Fariba ... http://accessradioblog.org/archives/357 Finding a man in a City like Wellington can be the ultimate struggle. Would you believe me if I said I knew a girl who won a boyfriend of two years in a raffle? Raffling men worked so well for her in fact that she’s bringing this unique fundraiser to ... http://accessradioblog.org/archives/344 Laura and I interviewed a bunch of quite admirable women on our show this Tuesday. First, we had award-winning local artist Jane Kellahan talk about an auction event coming up just over the weekend, Molly from Refugee Services tell us about organising a jazz fundraising event for refugees and ... http://accessradioblog.org/archives/335 Yolanda and Jen on community happenings: The International Day of Climate Action from 350 Aotearoa and the ukulele world record breaking event. Plus Jen and Yolanda's favourites from Letterman's Top 10 List of reasons to visit NZ. [caption id="attachment_325" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="350.org Internation Climate Action Day"][/caption] [podcast]http://accessradioblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/internationalclimateaction.mp3[/podcast] http://accessradioblog.org/archives/324 Catch Community Zone Monday's Jen and Yolanda's recent interviews with NZ's finest musicians: Erin from Delgirl talks about their latest release Porchlight, the 2009 APRA Silver Scroll winner Lawrence Arabia, and Hopepa from Fat Freddy's Drop on their world tour and vinyl release. [caption id="attachment_322" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="APRA Silver Scroll Winner ... http://accessradioblog.org/archives/321 Community Zone Monday's Jen and Yolanda bring you the best of Wellington's thriving arts and culture scene. In this podcast Ken Duncum, winner of the NZ Post Mansfield Literary Prize, Kirsty from City Gallery on the Yayoi Kusama Mirrored Years Exhibit, plus an interview with Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie about ... http://accessradioblog.org/archives/318 Dave from Community Zone Thursday catches up with the one and only Captain Imon Star from Olmecha Supreme. It's a family affair with his two wee kids! [caption id="attachment_311" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Captain Imon Star"][/caption] [podcast]http://accessradioblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/olemacha.mp3[/podcast] http://accessradioblog.org/archives/313 Last Saturday I got my palm read. I sat in the most beautiful cottage garden, drinking red wine, eating chocolates and heard a complete stranger sum up everything about me. Julian had been in on for Community Zone and his passion for the art (or science?) of palmistry got ... http://accessradioblog.org/archives/302 Grassroots activism is dead right? Been swallowed up by a big pit of self loving, consuming, Gen X/ Y apathy… right? Us younguns have nothing worth fighting for, all the good battles have already been waged. Struggles for free love, nuclear free and feminism were sorted out by our parents ... http://accessradioblog.org/archives/297 There are times when Laura and I are both simultaneously hit by a change in our work schedules, new commitments in our daily lives and a spell of illness. In times like that, it does unfortunately take a little while for us to get our pods up. I must mention ... http://accessradioblog.org/archives/284