| Writer and editor Kevin Hollett talks about the Megaphone, the Olympics and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

| Communal councils build houses and repair roads, organize sports and create a community history. Federico Fuentes explains how the councils work and why they succeed in bringing about real change.

| Semhal Getachew is a women's rights lawyer from Ethiopia. She was one of the speakers at an International Women's Day forum organized in Vancouver.

| Who counts? In Harper's budget world it isn't women, the environment or indigenous issues. But he counts deficits. And plenty is being counted for the U.S. health care bill but not what matters.

| The U.S. military, with the tacit approval of the highest levels of governments, is conducting an intensive bombing campaign in areas purported to be under Taliban control.

| Alert# Radio #145 - Interviews with Denis Pilon, Farid Easack, Anisa Mirza and Cheifs Fabian Alexis & Stuart Phillips. Headlines, Around the Left, and Music Is The Weapon.

| Labor news. Plus interview, Chidi King from Public Services International, about the imprisonment of Seger Tumer, secretary of the union of public employees in health and social services in Turkey.

| Last month the mayor of Halifax apologized to the former residents of a black community razed to the ground in the 1960s. Denise Allen says the apology was totally inadequate.

| A freedom of information request by Canadian Press revealed that the office of Immigration Minister Jason Kenney deleted references to the civil rights of queer Canadians from a guide for immigrants.

| Montreal correspondent Julia Vyse takes the mic again, to interview Ben Henriques. Also tracks from Deerfoot and Brad Sucks