95bFM: The Monday Wire with Kim Choe

95bFM: The Monday Wire with Kim Choe

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95bFM Monday Wire with Kim Choe
25th May 2009

12:00 bNews, Weather and Surf

12:10 Hikoi in Auckland
Earlier this morning Kim nabbed hikoi coordinator Ngarimu Blair to see how things were shaping up, and to talk about why Maori are going to such lengths to ensure they’re represented in the supercity.

12:30 USdairy subsidies: a step backwards?
Any progress made in moving towards free trade with the United States has taken a definite slide backwards with the U.S. announcing it will subsidise dairy exports from that country. The Federated Farmers of New Zealand say the potential for damage to this country’s dairy industry is huge. Kim talks to President Don Nicolson.

12:50 bFM Live from the Hikoi
Kim checks in with Monday Wire producer Sibyl Mandow for the latest on the hikoi action. She will be down in Aotea Square finding out what has prompted people to venture out in protest on such a miserable day.

1:10 The Green Desk
Simon Miller talks to Rachel Brown, CEO of the Sustainable Business Network, and business journalist Rod Oram about the Reinventing Business’ forum organised by the Sustainable Business Network to "push the boundaries of new sustainability thinking and the next industrial revolution." The forum is on May 26th at the Aotea Centre.

1:30 Photojournalism: Telling Stories of Trauma
Award-winning photojournalist Jim MacMillan is visiting to deliver a seminar at Auckland University tomorrow night. He was a photographer and video-journalist for the Philadelphia Daily News until 2008, when he found himself on his way to Iraq to cover the war for the Associated Press. He is well versed in the challenges of reporting traumatic events and dealing with the ethical treatment of his subjects.

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