Post by roger on Apr 20, 2005 14:46:28 GMT -5
Roger Bunn
Hon chief ANC. Director - Music Industry Human Rights Association. Director - the promotion of a European Union and UK DCMS Select Committee investigation into monitoring, collection and reward conduits of the European music industry,
www.mihra.org
policy-office@mihra.org
A single standard on sport, drugs and apartheid
Sydney 2000 - Athens 2004 - Beijing 2008 - Burma Out!
busca.baja.com/stream/up4grabs2.rm - RealPlayer
The intro, though I'm not sure if so doing is the best thing, I usually prefer to "creep" into peoples consciousness;-) So gonna talk about/to me in the 3rd person. Thus this posting talks "music" - hope you don't mind. Roger, AKA His Bunnship, resides in London and was the first person from the international community to be banned from S Africa by FW de Klerk, after the UN had lifted sanctions. But while Mandela quickly ended the death sentence, he does not agree with Mandela that apartheid only existed in S Africa, but says that right now apartheid is endemic of the US and other prison systems.
Roger has an ongoing interest in the Okla City bombing and communicates with those who consider that more than only Mc\/eigh and Nichols planned and executed 186 human beings. 2 months ago he took his butt to Brussels where he spoke about the music industry to the EU, and now there is to be an enquiry into the reward system of UK and Euro music industry.
What people say about him? Prelude - Piece of Mind. (The "lost" Dutch recorded 1969 album that - 35 years later - took me to speak to the EU. )
Fortissimo – Piece of Mind
“Roger Bunn spent a large part of his life fighting racism, corporate corruption and human rights abuses across the world. In December 20004, Doctor of politics, Stuart Hodkinson of Red Pepper magazine UK, caught up with him to find out more.”<br>
Roger, What is the most rebellious thing you've ever done?
Well, apart from single-handedly storming a Springbok’s party at Richmond Rugby Club, where decades before some out-of-tune rock band called the Stones played their first ever gig, and sliding past the massed security guards waiting for me, to “welcome” S African (white) rugby “back into the fold”? Unfortunately, my arrests have tended to be cannabis drug-busts - but I am a sixties musician, man. I suppose one of my most rebellious act was in 2001 when I phoned Buckingham Palace with a warning for Prince of Golf, Andrew, to take care if he was to attend that year's British Open at St Andrews. As Burma pro-democracy protesters were planning to 'break the legs' of the Burmese Military Junta's star golfer, Kyi Hla Han, who wanted to upgrade golf tourism of the junta’s morally and financially bankrupt land and who had received an automatic invitation to compete. There are 135 different ethnic groups in Burma – Under the military junta they are represented in international sport by just one. Anyway, there must have been some kind of 'misunderstanding' at the Palace as 3 weeks later I received my first visit from Special Branch.
The next was just after the US Election, which brought Geo Dubya Bush to power. And after a joke between the DEA London and myself went so wrong, I was investigated by the American Secret Service, Scotland Yard, Special Branch and uncle Tom Cobblers an'all. For being what that grimy old handbag, Thatcher had called - the now sort of lost the Freedom Charter plot – Comrade Nelson Mandela. A “terrorist”.
Roger, what's your rebel yell?
I've got two - 'Shostokovich!' as I despise so many orchestral musicians, the money-grabbing industry controlling sell-outs that they are. And a 'Yoodle' - the traditional sixties musician's shout, which loosely translated means 'f*ck you and your ol'lady too'.
Disc Jock Pete Drummond - BBC 1970 – "It is a wonderful album. It’s far too musical and intelligent to succeed."
I had to laugh at some of your antics ;D i love a rhebel with a cause, especially if it's a cause close to my own heart. Look forward to getting to know you. Rock on, love Mo.