First Voices Radio

Sitting in for Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse this week is First Voices Radio’s Guest Host Anne Keala Kelly, (Kanaka Maoli), who is an independent journalist, filmmaker and activist from Moku Nui (Big Island) in the illegally occupied Hawaiian Islands.

For the full hour, she speaks with Ronny Kareni, a Canberra-based West Papuan activist, musician, youth worker and bilingual health educator. Ronny discusses the movement to free West Papua. For more background, read this article: https://bit.ly/3OXHaaO

Ronny graduated in diplomacy studies at the Australian National University and is the co-founder of Rize of the Morning Star, a musical and cultural movement. Ronny also is a consultant for the Pacific Mission of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, a coordinative and consultative body of the national liberation movement.

Ronny has a band called the Black Orchid Stringband. Their music is available at bandcamp.com. (Photo credit: Foreign Correspondent Greg Nelson, ACS)

Production Credits:
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer
Anne Keala Kelly (Kanaka Maoli), Guest Host
Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer
Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor
Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor

Music Selections:
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
(00:00:22)

2. Song Title: West Papua Anthem feat. Will Golja (vin) and Eve Gold
Artist: Black Orchid Stringband
Album: Black Orchid Stringband (2017)
Label: Black Orchid Stringband
(00:04:05)

3. Song: Country Mama
Artist: Black Orchid Stringband
Album: Black Orchid Stringband (2017)
Label: Black Orchid Stringband
(00:16:45)

4. Song: Yako Pamane
Artist: Black Orchid Stringband
Album: Black Orchid Stringband (2017)
Label: Black Orchid Stringband:
(00:31:05)

5. Song Title: Akai Bipamare
Artist: Black Orchid Stringband
Album: Black Orchid Stringband (2017)
Label: Black Orchid Stringband
(00:35:40)

6. Song Title: Mystery of Life
Artist: Black Orchid Stringband
Album: Black Orchid Stringband (2017)
Label: Black Orchid Stringband
(00:52:40)

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