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Bumping Heads with the Police

May 30, 2006
| Tivon Thompson, a twelve-year-old high school student interviews educators and social workers in Little Burgundy, Montreal, on ways to improve relations between the Montreal police department and dise

24:20 minutes (22.28 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

Homeless Nation Podcast #2

June 20, 2006
| Another special presentation of the Homeless Nation podcast. This episode features poet, Bud Osbourn, who waxes philosophical about the values he's nurtured in his life. To learn more, visit: homeless

5:33 minutes (5.09 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

Josue Maya's Spoken Word Poetry

August 8, 2006
| Josue Maya is currently a violence prevention worker at FYI. As an active community youth leader, Josue uses spoken word poetry to engage and inspire his peers.
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3:41 minutes (1.71 MB)
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CitizenShift

Music and politics converge at the Hillside Community Festival in

August 22, 2006
| Rishi Hargovan, a Montreal journalist, travels to the Hillside Community Festival north of Guelph, Ontario, where he interviews musicians and festival-goers in an attempt to find out if there's space

15:05 minutes (13.82 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

Energy and Sustainability with The Watt podcast

September 12, 2006
| "The Watt" is an excellent Canadian podcast that focuses on issues "from the green to the dirty of energy and sustainability". In this show, listen as Ben Kenney and company discus

16:56 minutes (15.51 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

26 - Print Media in the Digital Age, by Rob Maguire

November 8, 2006
| Listen in as Rob Maguire visits the press rooms of two independent print publications to find out why they remain stalwartly committed to the printed word.

11:30 minutes (10.54 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

Making Media about Sex Trafficking in South East Asia

January 29, 2007
| Film-maker, Teprine Baldo, interviews audio producer, Stephanie Guyer-Stevens about the challenges in making media about sex trafficking in South East Asia.
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25:38 minutes (11.74 MB)
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CitizenShift

34: Music for Social Change with David Rovics

February 13, 2007
| Musician and activist, David Rovics, talks about using music as a tool for social change.
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16:25 minutes (7.52 MB)
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CitizenShift

40 - Hoping against Hope: The struggle against colonialism in Can

April 10, 2007
| his first episode examines the origins of European colonialism, its growth in Canada, and the importance of treaties winding up with a look at why the absence of the truth about this history can best

28:38 minutes (13.12 MB)
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CitizenShift

41 - Hoping Against Hope: Racism, Assimilation & Genocide

April 19, 2007
| The second installment looks at the issue of racism as a product of colonization, and within the context of the current era of neocolonialism in Canada.

28:39 minutes (13.12 MB)
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CitizenShift

42 - Hoping Against Hope: Education, Language & Resistance

April 25, 2007
| Part 3 of the Praxis Media audio documentary on the history of colonialism in Canada.

17:49 minutes (8.16 MB)
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CitizenShift

46 - Podcasting the Law

June 12, 2007
| This week, we talk to Jim Milles who is a podcaster and law librarian at the University of New York at Buffalo. Jim and the UB Law Faculty use podcasting as a means to discuss legal issues in ways tha
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13:29 minutes (6.18 MB)
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CitizenShift

47 - Filmmaker Interview - Jaime Gianopoulos

July 24, 2007
| A Promise is a Promise is a moving film about Sheremet and Musa, two boys from war-torn Kosovo who, with the help of one Canadian soldier, made their way to Canada.
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18:43 minutes (8.57 MB)
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CitizenShift

56 - Deconstructing the coup in Haiti, by Darren Ell

September 26, 2007
| Darren Ell interviews the director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, Brian Concannon, about the political situation and specifically the crimes of UN forces (MINUSTAH) in Haiti.

45:50 minutes (20.99 MB)
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CitizenShift

73 - Black Flags, Books, and a Burgeoning Movement

June 17, 2008
| A 22-minute audio documentary on the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, and topics featured at the event - from current struggles on Mohawk Territory to building movements in solidarity with prisoners.

22:14 minutes (20.36 MB)
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CitizenShift

Episode 75 - Grandmas Raising Grandchildren

October 30, 2008
| Maggie Hughes looks at the impact of funding cuts on grandparents raising their own grandchildren

20:43 minutes (28.44 MB)
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CitizenShift

77 - Howard Zinn: Taking the Risk for Change

December 2, 2008
| Howard Zinn, renowned teacher, author, historian and civil rights activist, on how real change only comes about when people are willing to take a risk

18:32 minutes (25.46 MB)
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CitizenShift

76 - Roots of Grass: An (Incomplete) History of Alternative Media in Quebec

November 26, 2008
| To mark Media Democracy Day 2008, Anna Leventhal reflects on how we view independent media of the past, and build upon it for the future.

28:12 minutes (38.72 MB)
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CitizenShift

78 - Learning Outside the System: Life as an Unschooler

December 16, 2008
| CitizenShift’s Denise Hastings and Michelle Drew sat down with filmmaker Astra Taylor to explore growing up unschooled, and debunking some of the myths of homeschooling along the way.

21:20 minutes (29.31 MB)
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CitizenShift

79 - Virtual Bullying, Real Consequences

January 8, 2009
| Dana Salter explores the hows and whys of cyberbullying, and what people are doing about it.

18:40 minutes (25.63 MB)
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CitizenShift

80 - Taking the Road Back: From Wampum Belt Promises to Highway Blockades

January 9, 2009
| How colonial history and modern interference pushes an Algonquin community to blockade a major highway in order to defend its rights.

25:16 minutes (34.7 MB)
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CitizenShift

81 - From Tar Sands to Great Lakes

January 22, 2009
| Maggie Hughes investigates growing concerns over the impact of the tar sands beyond Alberta's borders.

23:55 minutes (32.86 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

No Construction without Consultation

February 5, 2009
| Amidst Canada's whirlwind of infrastructure development, Adam Bemma brings us a cautionary tale from Montreal of construction without consultation, and growing frustration among city residents

14:30 minutes (26.54 MB)
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CitizenShift

83 - Walking the Word of the People

February 25, 2009
| How indigenous Colombian activists harness communication technology to protect and strengthen their communities.

11:17 minutes (20.66 MB)
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CitizenShift

Ep. 84 - Beyond the Numbers

March 16, 2009
| A look beyond the numbers of the financial crisis at the human impact in an industrial Canadian town.

15:55 minutes (21.86 MB)
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CitizenShift

Ep. 85 - Pathways to your Plate, pt 1: Dignified Rage

March 17, 2009
| This is the first in a two-part series. Lili Eskinazi and Roberto Nieto spent a month in Mexico recently, exploring the links between agricultural workers there and the food we eat every day here in C

18:44 minutes (25.74 MB)
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CitizenShift

87 - Pathways to Your Plate: Part 2

March 27, 2009
| This is the final episode in a two part series. Lili Eskinazi and Roberto Nieto spent a month in Mexico recently, exploring the links between agricultural workers there and the food we eat every day h

14:51 minutes (20.39 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

88 - Women Behind Bars

April 21, 2009
| Britt Wray examines the situation for women living in jail in Canada.

19:55 minutes (27.35 MB)
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CitizenShift

89 - Tie Your Shoe With a White Ribbon: walking the line between love and hate

April 22, 2009
| Canadian youth join the White Ribbon campaign and take on violence towards women

27:57 minutes (38.38 MB)
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CitizenShift

90 - Learning Late: Adult Asperger's Syndrome

May 7, 2009
| Fiona O'Connor explores what it means to live with adult Asperger's syndrome

17:54 minutes (24.59 MB)
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CitizenShift

Ep. 93 - Colombia beyond the Wall, pt 1

June 19, 2009
| Blandine Juchs explores the plight of political prisoners in Colombia

15:56 minutes (21.89 MB)
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CitizenShift

Ep. 94 - Compassion, Complicity and Conciliation

June 25, 2009
| Dana Salter interivews academics and community organisers about how they can bridge the divides between their fields.

27:57 minutes (38.39 MB)
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CitizenShift

Ep. 95 - Autonomy in the Point

July 3, 2009
| A look at the Autonomous Social Centre project, a recent initiative to squat an abandoned building and to turn it into a community centre in Montreal’s Pointe St-Charles neighbourhood.

14:35 minutes (20.03 MB)
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CitizenShift

Ep. 97 - Canada's Natiional (In)security 2009

August 3, 2009
| Amy Miller recounts some of the abuses that Canada is currently committing in the name of ‘national security’.

16:09 minutes (22.18 MB)
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CitizenShift

Ep. 98 - Taking Toronto's Streets

August 3, 2009
| Dan Kellar interviewers organisers and participants on the impact of the Tamil demonstrations in Canada.

18:48 minutes (25.82 MB)
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CitizenShift

Ep. 96 - Yves Engler on Canadian Foreign Policy

August 3, 2009
| An interview with author/activist Yves Engler speaking on the recently published Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy.

14:15 minutes (19.57 MB)