Episode 31- Juice Rap News with Christina Tobin

Free & Equal Network Podcast with Christina Tobin

Christina Tobin talks with Giordano Nanni and Hugo Farrant of Juice Rap News (http://thejuicemedia.com/). The Melbourne-based pair talk about their innovative way of delivering information about important political issues. Their popular video channel offers news parodies in rap conflict style. Farrant plays characters who rap their different perspectives in a rap battle. At the conclusion of each episode, a balanced synthesis is offered. The combination of entertaining satire and thorough research has made Juice Rap News a successful show worldwide. The interview with Tobin features a number of rap episodes, including one on net neutrality. Farrant and Nanni note that their success is a direct result of net neutrality, the fair chance to be heard. They—along with other alternative news outlets—have helped raised the globe’s “net consciousness” of important social justice issues. They also talk about their episode on FIFA, the World Cup organization that they dubbed THIEFA, which has drained away money from the Brazilian people, a recent (controversial to some) episode on the Israeli-Palestine conflict, criticizing U.S. involvement, and an episode, especially important to Free & Equal’s mission, on the corruption in the Commission on Presidential Debates. Juice Rap News plans to be at Free & Equal’s 2015 United We Stand Festival.