Latest Programs
Analyzing Stephen Harper's budget bill
June 5, 2012, 9:21 p.m.
From May 22-25, the NDP organized hearings across the country into the federal government's Budget Implementation Act. Jane Williams went along to the hearing in Vancouver and brings this report.
The speakers at the hearing were
Robyn Allan, independent economist;
Art Kube, president of the Council of Senior Citizens' Organizations;
Joey Hartman, president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council;
Margot Young, associate professor of Law at UBC;
Peter Prontzos, professor in the Department of Political Science at Langara College;
Max Cameron, professor at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at UBC
Rachel Tutte, co-chair of the B.C. Health Coalition.
Interviews Dr Kim Pate and Dr Michael Geist
June 5, 2012, 9:02 p.m.
On this weeks show we speak to Kim Pate who is the executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. This umbrella organization advocates for women and girls in the justice system in Canada. She speaks about the human rights violations in the women's criminal justice system, how the system targets aboriginal unfairly targets aboriginal women from cradle to death and what she things are some solutions to this terrible injustice.
We also have a short interview with Dr. Michael Geist, Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. Dr. Geist is an internationally syndicated columnist on technology law issues with his regular column appearing in the Toronto Star and the Ottawa. He speaks to us about new trade agreements being signed by the Canadian government behind closed doors that would change Canadian IP laws (Intellectual Property)and what we need to do to resist as Canadians.
How Do You Like Your Stringband Smorgasbord?
June 5, 2012, 8:59 p.m.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMgood!
Enjoy a random plateful of oldtimey, bluegrassy, bluesy goodness.
It's good fer ya!
Oh, hey, don't forget to "like" us on the Facebook! It validates us!
JB&OK
Marxist Dennis Talks About China
June 5, 2012, 8:49 p.m.
Dennis compares marxism and anarchism, old socialist China with the new capitalist China and finishes with his new age atheism.
June 5, 2012, 8:25 p.m.
summary of the tactics chapter in Alinsky's classic Rules for Radicals.
see also on this site:
Free the Land: How William McRaven Got Bin Laden
and
Free the Land: How Egyptian Revolutionary Got Thousands into the Streets
June 5, 2012, 7:43 p.m.
Pirate Radio song
Station ID
Palestine Today for June 5
Between the Lines report on hunger strike among Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails
War Update: 12 killed in US drone strike
Station ID
Between the Lines: The uprising in Montreal that began as tuition increase proteszts
Occupy DC marches on Canadian Embassy in solidarity with Montreal/Quebec uprising
DC residents, unions march on Wal-Mart's DC lobbying office
Occupy our Homes invades JP Morgan Chase, forces loan modification talks for Deborah Harris
Re Hagler speaks on NACA loan modification programs at JP Morgan Chase action
US Marshalls assault a home defended by Occupy DC from eviction after landlord foreclosed upon
Back story about the 917 MD Ave NE eviction fight
National Park Service plans to shoot and kill 75% of all deer in Rock Creek Park
Fight For Your Right To Dissent!
June 5, 2012, 6:48 p.m.
National and local speakers address current attacks on our civil liberties.
I'm A Man - Getting My Game Face On For Guy-Getaway Weekend
June 5, 2012, 2:40 p.m.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 11 PM to 1 AM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
June 5, 2012, 2:17 p.m.
What a collage can do is focus attention so that the "what else" that is usually hidden can become manifest. Here the secret show is in the title, but the truth is beautiful, as is what is heard. Suppose conflicts resolve without you -- what will you do then? Or is that too hard to accept, or even to believe? Or is there no time to think?
A Beach Made of Glass and Hands in Acid: One Man and Many Stories
June 5, 2012, 2:04 p.m.
This week Radio Curious takes you to Glass Beach in Ft. Bragg, Ca for a visit with Captain Cass Forrington, the creator and owner of the Glass Beach Museum. While traveling the world as a merchant marine, Cass Forrington has transported munitions, dipped his hands in acid and chewed glass.
Weekly News in Review 5 June 2012
June 5, 2012, 1:29 p.m.
Mubarek goes to Egyptian prison but his sons are acquitted ... Charles Taylor of Liberia sentenced to 50 years ... the Obama "kill list" ... the Diamond Jubilee of the long useless Queen ... and a series of cannibalistic assaults make this a most memorable summer week.
The New Arctic Part II: "The Eskimo and the Oil Man"
June 5, 2012, 12:47 p.m.
When he began research for his new book, The Eskimo and the Oil Man, author Bob Reiss thought that he would affirm his belief that Arctic oil drilling needed to stop. But as he delved deeper into the myriad complexities surrounding the exploration for fossil fuels in northern Alaska, he eventually concluded that some drilling was OK. What changed his mind? This week on Sea Change Radio, the second part of our two-part series on the Arctic. This time we focus on the race to drill for oil in one of the last remaining pristine regions on the planet.
June 5, 2012, 8:39 a.m.
QUEBEC, OCCUPY, ALINSKY AND ASSANGE
Protest tactics around the world, today and through history, with:
Stereo audio verite of a midtown-Manhattan demonstration of a new tactic of the âOccupyâ movement : Sudden, unannounced, noisy street manifestations blocking traffic and calling attention to salient issues -- In this case, tuition costs, student loans and anti-protest legislation in Quebec, Canada;
A live interview with Montreal-based independent journalist ANDREW GAVIN MARSHALL, on protests by Canadian students in Quebec over tuition increases, student protest suppression, and the repressive legislation known as âBill 78â;
American radical organizer SAUL ALINSKY discusses his seminal 1971 protest manual, âRules for Radicalsâ in an archive encounter with legendary Chicago journalist STUDS TERKEL;
RISE AGAINST performs Buffalo Springfieldâs protest anthem, âFor What Itâs Worthâ;
Journalistic and whistleblower protest, with a live interview with former CIA Estimates Officer DAVID MACMICHAEL on the legal defense of Wikileaks founder JULIAN ASSANGE (now facing possible extradition to Sweden and US prosecution under a secret âsealed indictment,â and the Obama administrationâs manipulation of PFC BRADLEY MANNINGâs military tribunal to entrap Assange; and
âRap Newsâ with ROBERT FOSTER of thejuicemedia.com, summarizing the case of âJulian Assange versus Rupert Murdoch.â
June 5, 2012, 1:57 a.m.
We begin Drug Month 2012 as we usually do, with a bunch of songs about cocaine.
At the Show Episode 2: Twofers and More Rock
June 5, 2012, 12:43 a.m.
More live music from the world best concerts and live CDs.
June 4, 2012, 8:51 p.m.
"I remember how surprised I was the first time somebody dismissed my opinion by calling me âjust a granola.â It was an opinion about a décorâtoo much chrome, I said, too many hard, bright surfaces, too black and white. Oh youâre just a granola. I suppose so. Paisley and cushions. Incense, earth tones, and purple But just a granola? I thought combat boots and skirts like curtains were evidence of following a higher calling. Just a granola?..."
"In The Family"+Wong's zinger+colorful youth+LGBT news
June 4, 2012, 6:53 p.m.
An indy sleeper shows how bias becomes a beast "In The Family"; the Finance Minister's zinger scores for Aussie marriage equality; a play about queer youth of color sparks a conversation about what can be done until "It Gets Better"; Christian thugs thrash Russian rights demonstrators, a U.S. federal appeals court rules that "DOMA" should be dumped, Laa Laa discusses Tinky Winky's blanky blanky, and more LGBT news from around the world.
Yinka Dene Alliance freedom train
June 4, 2012, 2:57 p.m.
The Yinka Dene Alliance includes Nadleh Whut'en, Nak'azdli, Takla Lake, Saik'uz, and Wet'suwet'en First Nations in northern BC who have banned the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines from their territories. The Alliance traveled across Canada to confront the shareholders of Enbridge in Toronto. Here are some of their stories, truths and songs of the Yinka Dene Alliance.
June 4, 2012, 2:44 p.m.
historian Dr.Clayborne Carson has devoted most his professional life to studying Martin Luther King, Jr., and the movements King inspired. Selected in 1985 by the late Mrs. Coretta Scott King to edit and publish the papers of her late husband.
Scott Price interviews Dr Carson on the state of King's dream and the relation to Obama. The development of the Arab spring and the Occupy movement in America and racism in America.
Ainsi Squattent-elles 2012.05.28
June 4, 2012, 2:03 p.m.
Break The Stereo- You Got What I Need!
June 4, 2012, 1:52 p.m.
This weeks show was a lot of fun this week. Show started of with O.V Wright "Nickel and a Nail", some Beastie's Funk, Betty Davis, Jean Knight, and many more. A little "yes we can" medley, some meters, and a "Feeling Alright" double shot. Ended the show with a bomb tune of Freddie Scott with "You got what I need". Thanks for tuning in a supporting CJLY. Peace in..
June 4, 2012, 12:09 p.m.
Audio collage, montage and music tribute to the greatest stand-up comedian of all time. William Melvin "Bill" Hicks born on December 16, 1961 a comedian, philosopher, musician, critic and truth teller Bill was one of the rare people who truly exercised his freedom of speech to speak truth to power while making us laugh and think. .
Featuring selected material from his from his albums, bootlegs, film and music as well as clips from the incredible documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story 2009 with Members of his family and close friends talk about Bill's life and his death. Also music dedicated to Bill from Tool and Hamell on Trial ending the program with my "It's Just A Ride Mix" with music by Unkle.
Revolution Radi0 #12a BONUS SEGMENT occupy bilderberg
June 4, 2012, noon
Sam I Be gives on location report from Occupy Bilderberg 2012 in Chantilly Virginia
June 4, 2012, 11:40 a.m.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0146
June 4, 2012, 10:21 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
The Motherland Influence: June 3, 2012
June 4, 2012, 10 a.m.
Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.
June 4, 2012, 9:54 a.m.
Emission de radio portant sur la Manif d'art 6 diffusee sur les ondes de CKRL 89,1 FM a Quebec
June 4, 2012, 9:50 a.m.
Two hours of Congolese music.
This edition dedicated to the life and music of the late Ndombe Opetum.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0145
June 4, 2012, 9:42 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
June 4, 2012, 9:40 a.m.
Emission de radio portant sur la bande dessinee, l'illustration et l'animation diffusee les vendredis, 17h30, sur les ondes de CKRL 89,1 FM.