Canadian Mining Injustice in Ecuador / Supreme Court Blocks Unions for Migrant Farm Workers / Dissecting the NDP

On a show jam-packed with interviews, Radio Basics host Steve da Silva interviews Louise Jones from the Boycott the Elections campaign on the NDP’s history of attacks on working-class people; we talk to Shane Martinez, a recent graduate of law school and activist with Justicia for Migrant Workers about the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a ban preventing migrant farm workers from forming unions; and finally we interview Carlos Perez, a Quecha indigenous activist from Ecuador, and Jennifer Moore from Mining Watch Canada on a new Canadian mining project that will destroy an important water supply for the Quecha people in the Quimsacocha region of Ecuador.

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Andy Lamey-Frontier Justice: The Global Refugee Crisis and What to Do About It

How does the world handle the ever-growing refugee crisis?

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Kyung-Sook Shin-Please Look After Mom

Korean author Kyung-Sook Shin has published seven books at home, but her first english translation has just been published in North America.

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gearshift

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Between the Lines' for the Week Ending May 13, 2011

The Death of Osama bin Laden and the Impact on the U.S. war in Afghanistan;GOP-led economic assault on the middle class, is really "a war on women.";Fukushima Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

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The Guantanamo Files, Can Science Embrace Religion and a Chinatown Pogrom -- the Largest Mass Lynching in US History

Andy Worthington, journalist and author of The Guantanamo Files, talks about the significance of the WikiLeaks Guantanamo documents and what they reveal about the American Torture Chamber. PZ Myers, Scientist, Atheist & Blogger (Pharyngula), argues that science and religion cannot be reconciled and nothing good can come from attempting to do so. Tim Wright, Artistic Director, Circle X Theater Company; Elizabeth Ho & West Liang, Actors, talk about The Chinese Massacre (Annotated), a play built around an 1871 pogrom against Chinese people in Los Angeles, the largest mass lynching in U.S. history.

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Bring It On Home, Witchdoctor

Brad S. is covering for me while I'm in sunny Mexico! Thanks Brad!

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Vinyl Vidi Vici

It's the Pledge Drive Show!

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TO THE MEMORY OF CHERNOBYL, Part FOUR

Today's last of four program presents important information on the plight of the children of Chernobyl who - to this day - need vacations in uncontaminated areas to detoxify their bodies from some of the embedded radioactive substances that they absorb in every day life, substances such as cesium, cobalt, thorium, plutonium etc. Also explained is the danger of contaminated food, and how to set up ongoing measures, under control of local communities, to deal with the persisting radiation and find methods to measure the burden of internal radiation.

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Lecture 1: Islam & its Discontents

Tariq Ali explores the contemporary landscape of Islam, focusing on the Middle East, analysing the challenges for Western governments that have supported the regimes now being overthrown by internal rebellions.

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Temoignage activiste syrien de Montreal

khaled al-saadi activiste d’origine Syrienne , qui a immigrée au canada lors des fin d’études collégiale en Syrie . présentement étudiant HEC Montreal nous partage sa vision de la situation actuelle.

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19 avril 2011 - Illusion Emploi de Sherbrooke

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5 avril 2011 - Illusion Emploi de Sherbrooke

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Espacio de Noticias de la Ké Huelga - 29 de abril de 2011

El Espacio de Noticias intenta comunicar la resistencia de los pueblos contra el monstruo capital y sus gobiernos sirvientes. Se elabora en Ciudad Monstruo, México y forma parte del proyecto radial de la Ké Huelga Radio. Esta es la edición del 29 de abril de 2011.

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22 mars 2011 - Illusion Emploi de Sherbrooke

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Harsha Walia: Canadas Immigration policy

Harsha Walis is a spokesperson for No One is Illegal, which is a grassroots anti-colonial immigrant and refugee rights collective. Harsha Walia talks with Michael Welch about Canada's immigration system. The policy of using migrant works, so called anti-human smuggling laws, and public perceptions of new immigrants. Are we creating a new class of cheap, and easily exploitable labor?

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Marjaleena Repo

Marjaleena Repo was a campaign manager for David Orchard in two federal elections, in Prince Albert 2000 and Desnethé-Missinippi-Churchill River in 2008. She was the manager of David Orchard's two Progressive Conservative party leadership campaigns, in 1998 and 2003. Marjaleena Repo talks with Michael Welch about the reasons for low voter turnout and so called voter apathy.

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7 enfants Juifs : une pièce pour Gaza

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8 mars 2011 - Illusion Emploi de Sherbrooke

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22 fevrier 2011 - Illusion Emploi de Sherbrooke

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21 decembre 2010 - Illusion Emploi de Sherbrooke

Illusion Emploi

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Puberty Rights of the Winnemem Wintu

In this edition of Radio Curious, our associate producer Christina Aanestad is the guest host in a conversation about puberty rights for young women within the Winnemem-Wintu tribe in Northern California. This visit with Caleen Sisk-Franco, the Spiritual Leader and Chief of the Winnemem-Wintu was recorded near Mt. Shasta, California in August 2010. In the last few years, the tribe has revived an ancient ritual, the Puberty Ceremony-which honors and celebrates a girls transition into womanhood. The "Middle Water People" are a small tribe near Mount Shasta, in Northern California. During World War 2, they were relocated and their homeland was flooded to make the shasta dam. Nearly 80 years later, the tribe has reinvigorated one of its ceremonies, there, called the Puberty Ceremony, which honors a girls transition into womanhood. For 3 days and nights, men sing and dance on one side of a river, while the women, pass on traditions to girls on the other side. The summer of 2011, the tribe will be holding the puberty ceremony for it’s future chief. But holding a ceremony on stolen land can be a challenge. The forest service refuses to grant the tribe private access to their ancestral land along the McCloud river, because they are an “unrecognized” tribe. Their ceremony is held with recreational boaters driving by, and camping as the tribe holds it's right of passage. Under the guidance of their Chief and Spiritual Leader, Caleen Sisk Franco, the Winnemem-Wintu have sued the federal government to protect their rights and their ancestral land. She describes the puberty ceremony and it’s importance to their way of life.

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Indy Media Live

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potluck Breakfast 4.27.2011

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward." -Ellen Glasgow Potluck Breakfast got all indie pop this week. Enjoy. PLB comes to you live every Wed from 8am-11amPST on www.killradio.org

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Professor Douglas D. Osheroff, Nobel Laureate in Physics(1996), J.G. Jackson, C.J. Wood Professorship in Physics

Professor Douglas D. Osheroff is the J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professorship in Physics at Stanford University. He also teaches an interesting and engaging seminar on photography through the Physics Department. In 1996, Professor Osheroff was Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1996 for the discovery of superfluidity in helium-3. He also won many other awards, including the Simon Memorial Prize in 1976, the Oliver E. Buckley Prize in 1981, and the MacArthur Prize Fellow in 1981. Professor Osheroff is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Although Professor Osheroff is extremely busy, he was very kind and generous to have taken time from his schedule to be a guest on our show to play some of his favorite musical selections and to relay some thoughtful and inspirational words. Professor Osheroff's website is http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/osheroff_douglas.html

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New York State 2011 Cancer Plan News Conference: Public Health Education on POPs Exposure Reduction

Unedited Recording of a Cancer Action NY Tele News Conference: Creating a 2011 New York State Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan for Action on Major Groups of Pollutant Carcinogens Starting with Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Exposure Reduction Education Monday, April 18, 2011, 4:00 PM Interested members of the news media are invited to participate in the news conference via conference call. Information for accessing the conference call follows. dial-in number: (712) 432-0080 participant access code: 625163# The New York State Department of Health (DOH) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) are in the process of creating the 2011 New York State Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan (CCCP). The 2003 NYS CCCP (currently in effect) included a goal for reducing exposure to pollution. However, no pollutant carcinogens were named in the 2003 Plan. Considering the large number of chemical carcinogens that exist in every New York State resident's body and the high cancer rates experienced in our state, it is critical that New York State government take action on reducing exposure to the most significant of these body burden substances. Three groups of pollutant carcinogens are major contributors to cancer causation for the general public: (1) persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including, dioxins, PCBs, PBDEs, and many less studied chemicals (2) exhaust constituents, including, benzene, formaldehyde and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and (3) carcinogenic metals, including, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, nickel and lead. “Cancer is almost always caused by exposure to environmental chemicals. If we want to reduce rates of cancer we must target reducing exposure to those chemicals best known to cause human cancer. In my judgment POPs are the most dangerous contaminants and there are clear steps than can be taken to reduce exposure.”-David O. Carpenter, MD (Dr. Carpenter endorses this event but will not be on the conference call due to another obligation.) "The DOH does not target specific carcinogenic pollutants for exposure reduction efforts because the choice of substances would spark a considerable amount of controversy. Designating POPs exposure reduction for immediate action will bring family farms and the food production corporations to Albany in protest of potential damage to their sales of animal fat containing products. Commerce has traditionally been given top priority over all other matters. We are facing a situation where this paradigm must be changed. The public health is more important than commerce. State government must use scientific knowledge to reduce cancer risk now."-Donald L. Hassig

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Bloc des auteurEs anarchistes

Fondé lors du 11e Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal en 2010, le Bloc des auteurEs anarchistes a comme objectif de promouvoir la théorie et la pratique de l'anarchisme à travers la littérature, la poésie, le théàtre, le scriptage, etc. Nous collaborons ensembles à des projets divers, comme des anthologies, des soirés de Cabaret anarchiste. http://awb.daemonflower.com/ Lancement de l'anthologie de fiction anarchiste Subversion le 5 mai à Montreal et le 7 mai a Quebec. L'entrevue est suivie de la chanson "Nous aurons nous" du groupe de musique Des Ébauches qui sera présent lors du lancement à Montréal.

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Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal

Le Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal (ainsi que le Festival de l’Anarchie) rassemble les idées et pratiques anarchistes, par les mots, les images, la musique, le théâtre et les luttes quotidiennes pour la justice, la dignité et la libération collective. Le Salon du livre anarchiste s’adresse aux anarchistes, mais également à celles et ceux qui ne se considèrent pas nécessairement comme anarchistes mais qui ont développé une certaine curiosité vis-à-vis de l’anarchisme. Le Salon est un espace où les anarchistes peuvent se rencontrer et échanger dans un esprit de respect mutuel et de solidarité. Tous et toutes y sont bienvenu-e-s. Le Salon du livre anarchiste est organisé dans un esprit d’ouverture vis-à-vis des différentes traditions, visions et pratiques de l’anarchisme. Nous cherchons à promouvoir l’anarchisme en mettant en pratique des valeurs comme l’entraide, la démocratie par la base, l’action directe, l’autonomie et la solidarité, et en nous opposant à toutes les formes d’oppression. Les 21 et 22 MAI, 10h-17h Au CEDA, 2515 Delisle (tout près du métro Lionel-Groulx) GRATUIT. Bienvenue à toutes et tous! Ni dieu, ni maître; ni frontière, ni patron! http://www.salonanarchiste.ca/

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Lancement de la Media Coop de Montréal

Avec des associations locales à Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver et maintenant Montréal, le réseau Coop média est un projet d'actualités ouvert, participatif et de base. En accédant à http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/ vous pourez lire, visionner et commenter les actualités et les opinions en provenance de Montréal, du Québec et du Canada. Vous pouvez même publier vos articles, photos, événements, communiqués et vidéos. Le toute première association bilingue du réseau Coop média - la CMM - travaillera de concert avec les organisations sociales, les résidents d'ici et d'autres médias indépendants afin de diffuser les histoires que les médias commerciaux se plaisent à ignorer.

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Émission du 3 mai 2011

Spécial mois de mai, moi de l'Anarchie: Salon du livre anarchiste et festival. Lancement de la Média coop de Montréal. Bloc des auteurs anarchistes et lancement du receuil de nouvelles 'Subversions",

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