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Working conditions for migrant workers in Canada and the U.S.
Dec. 20, 2011, 6:22 p.m.
December 18 is a day of action on the rights of migrant workers, refugees and displaced people. Adriana Paz was one of organizers of an event in Vancouver to commemorate this day. She is an activist with Justicia for Migrant Workers BC. Paz recently returned from the Arizona-Mexico border where she was researching the conditions for migrant workers there.
G20 organizers plead guilty to lesser charges
Dec. 20, 2011, 5:51 p.m.
In mid November, 17 members of the G20 Main Conspiracy Group reached a collective plea deal. No-one was convicted of conspiracy but six of the defendants pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Alex Hundert and Amanda Hiscocks also pleaded guilty to counseling to obstructing the police. Alex Hundert explains how that plea deal came about.
GroundWire Community Radio News | Dec 18, 2012
Dec. 20, 2011, 5:29 p.m.
This episode of GroundWire was produced by Leanne Arnison on traditional Mohawk territory at CKUT in Montreal, QC
Headlines:
Occupy Vancouver Port | Joel Barde
Abousfian Abdelrazik | Ray Corkum, ckut
Community Radio Report:
Homelessness Marathon | Aaron Lakoff, ckut
Music:
Cris Derkson | "Smile at me"
Features:
Climate change conference in Durban | Verena Uttner, ckut
Drugs, raid on Guelph compassion club, and police misconduct -- Scott Gilbert, Director of the Hamilton Medical Marijuana Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, updates us on what has happened since the raid within Guelph, Ontario last year | MaryCarl Guiao, cfru
Canada's failure to regulate environmental standards on Metro's Iona Sewage Facility | Leanne Arnison, ckut
Dec. 20, 2011, 2:31 p.m.
The 12 Fl. Oz. Show on air Christmas party lineup consisted of Charles Arthur from Johnny Hott and Piedmont Souprize (among many others), Jon Brown from Horsehead, country crooner Wes Edwards, Lee Harris from the Country Sunshine Band, rockabilly wildman Wrenn Mangum, and Andy Vaughan from the Driveline and Hamburger James with Chip Farnsworth on drums and Erik Kutzler on bass. This was a very fun, loose night of live celebration.
Dec. 20, 2011, 2:11 p.m.
The Iraq War finally ends ... though 80 more civilians are blown up and the final American death is announced ... Vaclav Havel, Kim Jong-Il and Christopher Hitchens say goodbye ... a hint of God Particle ... and we watch the sinking of Newt Gingrich. Oh, and Merry Christmas.
Aboriginal Sovereignty and Attawapiskat
Dec. 20, 2011, 11:14 a.m.
With the federal intervention into Attawapiskat the issue of federal oversight in Aboriginal reserves and Aboriginal sovereignty has reignited. To clear some of the muddy waters of the issue Cameron Maclean talks with James Wilson the commissioner of the treaty relations commission of Manitoba.
Check out http://ckuwnews.ca/ for more.
Do They Know it's Christmas
Dec. 20, 2011, 11:13 a.m.
A variety of Social action groups spoke to Hamilton City Hall in regard to the use of the money that is downloaded by the Province, from the Federal Government, to be used by and large for Social programs
Dec. 20, 2011, 11:04 a.m.
The final book in Sawyer's trilogy about The Singularity.
Dec. 20, 2011, 10:45 a.m.
On Nov 17 at the Lo Pud, the Downtown Biz hosted a forum on Downtown safety. The forum was very tense, with people shouting and interrupting some of the panelists. Some have written off the forum for it's lack of civility and poisoning the "well of civil discourse" http://uniter.ca/blog/entry/6934/
Yet the forum brought up critical important issues in regards to downtown safety,the role of both the downtown Biz and the police.
Dec. 20, 2011, 10:36 a.m.
Jim Morrison is still one of the most compelling figures who has ever been part of popular music. He never got old and therefore never seriously let us down, so the mysteries that remain still matter to many. I have gathered together most every existing recorded tape of The Doors and Jim Morrison from late August 1970 to Jim's death in Paris in July 1971 and combined them with a chronology of the events of Jim's Miami trial, his final shows with The Doors, the move to Paris, and the stories about his death.
Dec. 20, 2011, 10:26 a.m.
The mantra of the Occupy movement is the 99% VS the 1%. Although on the surface this statement seems to encapsulate the issue of income inequity to some the statement is shallow. Globally most of the occupiers are in fact part of the global 1%. There has been a movement to decolonize and re-occupy the occupy movement to encapsulate the global 99%. How can the occupy movement address this and build solidarity with the global 99%?
Dec. 20, 2011, 9:46 a.m.
Dec. 20, 2011, 9:33 a.m.
Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein was one of the 10 thousand people who surrounded the White House on November 6 to say no to pipelines and no to the tar sands. She explains why she thinks the united opposition of BC chiefs is so critical to the fight against Enbridgeâs Northern Gateway pipelines and against the tar sands development as a whole.
Dec. 20, 2011, 8:40 a.m.
Proceedings of a KPFA/Pacifica-sponsored debate on religion held 6 Jun 2007 between:
The late Christopher Hitchens, author of "God Is Not Great," and
Chris Hedges, author of "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America"; with
Musical Coda:
John Lennon: "God" [rare acoustic version];
The Young Rascals: "I Believe"; and
Lovin' Spoonful: "Do You Believe in Magic?"; and
Anchor's Outro:
"... We also wish you happy holidays, if indeed atheist secularism allows the very word 'holiday' -- eliding as it does the phrase 'holy day,' from the Old High German 'heilig,' referring to things 'holy, sacred and divine.' Or, in the original Proto-Germanic etymology -- 'healthy.'
"For Five O'Clock Shadow, I'm Robert Knight in New York."
Dec. 20, 2011, 1:47 a.m.
There are drinking songs in store for you tonight, as is ever my wont. Tune in and drink up, if you would, please!
Dec. 19, 2011, 10:21 p.m.
The annual Radio Ecoshock Green Music Festival. Best of eco-music, many you won't find on Itunes. Some sent in by listeners, or the artists, not on albums, etc. Playlist at ecoshock.info. Plus 2 new Occupy songs ( Makana and David Rovics). A little inspiration for the heart.
First Nations united against tar sands oil and pipelines
Dec. 19, 2011, 7:48 p.m.
At the beginning of December 2010, 61 First Nations signed the Save the Fraser Declaration. The declaration states that the Nations of the Fraser River Watershed in BC will not allow the pipelines or similar tar sands projects to cross their lands. One year later, the signatories to the declaration number more than 130. Jackie Thomas of the Saikâuz First Nation was one of the chiefs involved in drafting the Save the Fraser declaration. She was present at a signing ceremony in Vancouver December 1st, 2011 and she spoke later that day at a public forum organized in part by the Wilderness Committee.
Christopher Hitchens: The Trial of Henry Kissinger (ONE of TWO)
Dec. 19, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Hitchens died on December 15, 2011. His work on the war crimes of Henry Kissinger may be his most enduring. In this recording he describes Kissinger as a "a one man rolling global crime wave."
Acerbic, witty, fact and passion filled. Recorded in the Fall of 2001 in San Francisco at a book release party for: The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Updated in December 2011.
Fish farm virus discovered in wild salmon in BC
Dec. 19, 2011, 7:13 p.m.
A virus that has proved highly contagious among farmed Atlantic salmon has been found in wild fish on BC's Central Coast. Craig Orr is executive director of Watershed Watch Salmon Society. He says that the government is simply not taking action to protect wild fish.
Understanding land investment deals in Africa
Dec. 19, 2011, 6:13 p.m.
Africa is one of the key targets of a rush by investors to acquire more land. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have been actively involved in the internal politics of African countries for a number of years, but now they have been joined by corporations and the US government. The land is easy to take control of because of the traditional system of ownership that exists in many African countries. Frederic Mousseau is policy director at the Oakland Institute in California.
The Motherland Influence: December 18, 2011
Dec. 19, 2011, 6:01 p.m.
Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.
Roma civil rights activist Aladàr Horvàth's call to Canada: Have empathy for the Roma
Dec. 19, 2011, 5:56 p.m.
Aladà r Horvà th, chair of the Roma Civil Rights Foundation in Hungary and a former member of the Hungarian Parliament, provides an overview of the history of the Roma people in Hungary and the social and political landscape in the country that has brought so many of them to Canada seeking refugee status in recent months.*
He identifies the hate speech prevalent in Hungarian media as central to the overall societal disdain for the Roma, and describes the hardships faced by locals resulting from routine police brutality, structural violence, and aggression from local governments. Context is provided around the practice of forced labour camps that separate families and destroy Roma communities.
Horvà th ends by urging the Canadian government not to recognize or support the Hungarian state until the right of the Roma people to be free from discrimination and persecution has been addressed.
AMBIANCE CONGO: December 18, 2011
Dec. 19, 2011, 5:52 p.m.
Two hours of Congolese popular music.
Holiday Ho-Ho-Ho's + global LGBT news
Dec. 19, 2011, 5:37 p.m.
"Becoming Santa" makes the yuletide gay, and the truth about "Mrs. Claus & Miss Bates" is revealed in a "Rainbow Minute"; some of the outstanding "outings" in 2011 are reviewed; the U.N. documents LGBT human wrongs, Malawi reviews its sodomy statutes, lesbian Australian Finance Minister Penny Wong is a new mom, Philippines activists carol their Catholic Bishops, some kids in Michigan can again "don" their "gay apparel", and more LGBT news from around the world.
Frank Close-The Infinity Puzzle
Dec. 19, 2011, 4:26 p.m.
The hunt for the Higgs Boson and more importantly the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Dec. 19, 2011, 4:18 p.m.
On todayâs show we'll hear from local protesters about the Occupy Peoria Movement and the week long sustained occupation at Fulton Plaza that they pulled off, along with OccupyBlono's ongoing occupation. Also we'll have audio from Occupy Springfield where Dr. Richard Gilman talks about Revolution and Insurrection.
The Music Played in His Head and He Began to Dance
Dec. 19, 2011, 3:32 p.m.
Storytelling, like radio, brings pictures to the mind of the listener and allows each one of us to imagine what we hear. This week on Radio Curious we visit with story teller Mark Binder, author of âA Hanukkah Present: Twelve Tales to Give and Share,â who describes what happens when the storyteller vanishes.
If Music Could Talk - Dec 18, 2011
Dec. 19, 2011, 3:04 p.m.
Dec. 19, 2011, 2:08 p.m.
We speak with Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception and founder of Institute for Responsible Technology to talk about genetically modified food and rise in pesticides and side effects related to GM foods.
Maria Speck-Ancient Grains for Modern Meals
Dec. 19, 2011, 1:47 p.m.
These are definitely NOT GMOs! What you can do to reintroduce ancient grains to your diet.