Dhopec - BLF Green Bans
Channel: azane83
Date: 2013-01-24

A modern hip hop piece about the epic BLF Green Bans of the 1970's. Many thanks to Pat Fiske whose amazing documentary Rocking The Foundations was and is a massive inspiration and which to this day helps keep this piece of Australia's radical history alive;  the black and white footage in this clip is from the film. 

Mad Props to Meridith and Verity Burgmann for their amazing book "Green Bans, Red Union" (You should totally print some more of them, seriously). Thanks also to Billy Bragg for letting us sample his track "There is Power in a Union", to Tom Hunter-Leahy and Evan Drinkwater for making the clip and Jacquie Lomas for helping us liberate this clip from its plastic prison (it was stuck on a glitchy DVD for YONKS). Thanks heaps to Jack Mundey for giving us a shout out on our album. 

And above all thanks to the men and women of the NSW Builders Labourers Federation whose brave and visionary actions are more relevant today than ever before. We salute you.

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The definitive 1986 documentary about the Green Bans *Rocking the Foundations* is now available on DVD from http://www.roninfilms.com.au  please do yourself a favour and get a copy and show it to your friends and family. You will be amazed by this piece of Australia's recent radical history...

For the (updated) lyrics go to http://zane4newcastle.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/thoughts-on-the-left-blf-green-bans-amended-lyrics/