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Potters for Peace founder dies

November 30, 2008

| Ron Rivera was best known for developing an inexpensive ceramic water filter that is used by impoverished communities around the world.

13:14 minutes (12.12 MB)

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Challenging US bases

November 30, 2008

| There are about 900 American military bases around the world. Peace activists in many countries are working to close them down.

15:38 minutes (14.31 MB)

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Colombian unionists oppose free trade agreement

December 1, 2008

| Canada signed a free trade agreement with Colombia on November 21 despite the deaths of thousands of union leaders there.

12:56 minutes (11.84 MB)

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Financial problems at Canwest

December 2, 2008

| Canada’s largest media conglomerate is in deep trouble. Author Marc Edge explains why.

12:20 minutes (11.3 MB)

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Shutting down the tar sands

December 2, 2008

| Environmental groups are calling for a moratorium on new project approvals. Petr Cizek says this isn’t enough.

14:13 minutes (13.02 MB)

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Crisis in Truth and Reconciliation Commission

December 6, 2008

| The Indian Residential School Truth and Reconciliation Commission has lost credibility following the resignation of Justice Harry LaForme.

18:53 minutes (17.29 MB)

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Closing down Guantanamo Bay

December 4, 2008

| The U.S. National Lawyers Guild is calling on Barack Obama to shut down the detention centre on the day he takes office.

16:44 minutes (15.33 MB)

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Understanding the assault on Mumbai

December 9, 2008

| Professor Emeritus Hari Sharma examines the background to the assaults and explores the choices that face the Indian government in response.

16:27 minutes (15.06 MB)

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Trafficking of girls in India

December 10, 2008

| Indrani Sinha is a founding member of Sanlaap, an organization in Kolkata, India that works against the trafficking of girls into prostitution and bonded labour.

14:53 minutes (13.63 MB)

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Cancer cluster in Fort Chipewyan

December 12, 2008

| A small community downstream from the Alberta tar sands development has lost almost 10 per cent of its townspeople to cancer since 1990.

12:18 minutes (11.26 MB)

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The siege of Gaza

December 15, 2008

| Reem Abdul Qadir is a clinical social worker with children. She talks about the health effects of the Gaza siege, especially for the young.

12:57 minutes (11.87 MB)

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Victory for laid-off workers in Chicago

December 14, 2008

| When 250 workers were given three days notice that their factory was closing and told they'd get no severance pay, they decided to occupy the factory.

18:25 minutes (16.86 MB)

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Analyzing the Quebec election results

December 17, 2008

| Jean Charest got a majority government. The Parti Quebecois replaces the Action Democratique du Quebec and Quebec Solidaire won its first seat.

14:11 minutes (12.99 MB)

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Private police in public places

December 19, 2008

| We talk with the author of a recent study looking at the impact of private security forces on homeless and under-housed Vancouver residents.

12:46 minutes (11.69 MB)

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The Unnatural History of Stanley Park

December 19, 2008

| Joan Seidl curated a fascinating multi-media exhibition examining the long and decidedly unnatural history of Vancouver’s premier natural attraction.

15:25 minutes (14.11 MB)

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Ontario Power's nuclear energy plans

December 20, 2008

| The Ontario Power Authority is planning to use old reactors to build up to 14,000 megawatts of capacity by 2025.

13:33 minutes (12.42 MB)

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Challenges facing small towns in BC

December 20, 2008

| British Columbia’s resource-based economy means that smaller centres are especially vulnerable to changes in the economy

14:55 minutes (13.65 MB)

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Militant teachers union in Puerto Rico heads off raid

December 22, 2008

| The Service Employees International Union lost their battle to represent 36,000 teachers in Puerto Rico.

11:51 minutes (10.86 MB)

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Protecting the ocean

December 21, 2008

| Greenpeace is asking for 40 per cent of the international high seas to be set aside in marine protected areas. They say it’s the only way to preserve healthy ecosystems and a living ocean.

17:08 minutes (15.69 MB)

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Bikes for everyone

December 24, 2008

| A non-profit bike shop in Vancouver recycles and refurbishes bikes and provides them at little or no cost to people who need them.

13:19 minutes (12.2 MB)

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Haliburton’s Army

December 24, 2008

| The U.S. military now routinely outsources translation and intelligence gathering. We speak with journalist Pratap Chatterjee, author of an upcoming book on contracting out in the military.

19:46 minutes (18.1 MB)

Redeye

Protecting the Flathead Valley

December 24, 2008

| A pristine wilderness valley straddling the Canada – U.S. border is threatened by coal strip mining and coalbed methane drilling. Momentum is growing to have it protected as a national park.

10:42 minutes (9.8 MB)

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Addicted to gambling revenues

December 30, 2008

| Governments across Canada are making billions of dollars from gambling. Zeus Yaghi says they've got their heads in the sand about the social costs.

16:00 minutes (14.65 MB)

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Informing Canadians about prescription drug risks

December 30, 2008

| Neither doctors nor patients are paying enough attention to Health Canada’s warnings about certain drugs. Alan Cassels says Health Canada needs to work on its communication techniques.

13:12 minutes (12.09 MB)

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Libel chill

January 6, 2009

| A recent decision of the B.C. Court of Appeal means that what you say in the privacy of your own home could get you sued for libel and defamation.

15:28 minutes (14.16 MB)

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Obama’s foreign policy team

January 11, 2009

| Hilary Clinton, Robert Gates, Rahm Emanuel - Barack Obama’s recent appointments suggest that there’s going to be little change in U.S. foreign policy, at least in the short term.

18:59 minutes (17.38 MB)

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Daniel Ortega's policies hurt women

January 13, 2009

| The Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, has banned abortion and attacked the feminist movement.

17:42 minutes (16.2 MB)

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The true cost of Medicare

January 13, 2009

| We are told that healthcare costs are spiralling out of control and that our healthcare system is not sustainable. Sean Burnett crunches the numbers and comes to a different conclusion.

14:30 minutes (13.28 MB)

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Tales for Little Rebels

January 16, 2009

| A new collection of children’s literature brings together stories, poems and illustrations from the radical movements of the first half of the 20th century.

20:41 minutes (18.95 MB)

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CUPW urges Stephen Harper to condemn attack on Gaza

January 18, 2009

| The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has written to the Prime Minister asking him to condemn the Israeli attack on Gaza.

9:44 minutes (8.92 MB)

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Israel’s attack on Gaza a turning point in world opinion

January 18, 2009

| The 1960 Sharpeville massacre in South Africa marked a turning point in how people saw the apartheid regime. Ali Abunimah believes the attack on Gaza may have the same effect.

11:37 minutes (10.64 MB)

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Whistler merchants fear Olympic shutout

January 22, 2009

| Whistler council were responding to the concerns of local businesses when they didn’t pass a bylaw that will give VANOC the right to sell food and souvenirs during the Games.

9:52 minutes (9.04 MB)

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How Israel is controlling the message on Gaza

January 23, 2009

| Deborah Campbell says that the media relations department of the Israeli government has been planning for the assault on Gaza for months.

16:02 minutes (14.68 MB)

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Understanding Michael Ignatieff

January 27, 2009

| rabble.ca editor Derrick O'Keefe says the Liberal leader's many inconsistencies can be understood through the lens of his total identification with military and political power.

16:04 minutes (14.72 MB)

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Five key tests for the federal budget

January 27, 2009

| David Macdonald is coordinator of the Alternative Federal Budget. He gives us some tools to assess today's budget.

10:26 minutes (9.56 MB)

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Rating alternative fuels

January 31, 2009

| A new study shows that the alternative fuels that are getting the most attention aren't the ones that are best for the environment.

22:03 minutes (20.19 MB)

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Prospects for Palestinians in Gaza

January 31, 2009

| Israel unilaterally declared a ceasefire in Gaza after it failed to achieve its objectives. Ali Abunimah discusses the prospects for justice in the region.

14:53 minutes (13.63 MB)

Healing the Earth

Since the Last Ice Age: Original People In and Around Guelph, and the Proposed Hanlon Creek Business Park

February 2, 2009

| Dana Poulton is an archaeologist who surveyed a proposed industrial center in Guelph, and found that humans used the land as long as 11,000 years ago.

34:45 minutes (47.73 MB)

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B.C. Liberals bail out bank in highway expansion plan

February 4, 2009

| The Gateway highway expansion project is being built as a private-public partnership. But the private investment bank that is partnering with the B.C. government can't raise the money it needs.

13:37 minutes (12.47 MB)

Redeye

Nanay: a testimonial play

February 2, 2009

| A play at Vancouver's 2009 PUSH Festival uses the words of Filipina nannies to discuss Canada's live-in care program.

15:21 minutes (14.06 MB)

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La Via Campesina and food sovereignity

February 5, 2009

| A global movement of peasant farmers believes the latest food crisis has exposed the disasters of the world's food system. The solution is food sovereignity.

16:44 minutes (15.33 MB)

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Lives Were Around Me

February 6, 2009

| A unique theatre production takes an audience of three on a tour of Vancouver's historic centre.

14:19 minutes (13.12 MB)

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Opposing the troop surge in Afghanistan

February 6, 2009

| David Markland is author of a blog on Afghanistan. He spoke at a recent forum held in Vancouver on the U.S. escalation of troops in Afghanistan.

17:49 minutes (16.32 MB)

Redeye

2009 Poverty Olympics

February 10, 2009

| Organizers of last Sunday's event are determined to embarrass governments into funding housing and raising welfare rates.

15:14 minutes (13.95 MB)

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That Night Follows Day

February 13, 2009

| A play at Vancouver PUSH festival catalogues how parents and other adults shape children's perceptions and understanding of the world. Laura Lamb joins us with a review.

13:29 minutes (12.35 MB)

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Roots of York University strike

February 13, 2009

| A high percentage of academics in today's universities are contract workers, with little or no job security, benefits or academic freedom.

15:37 minutes (14.3 MB)

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Citizen diplomacy in Iran

February 13, 2009

| Code Pink Women for Peace went to Iran in November to talk with meet with government, NGOs and ordinary people.

15:23 minutes (14.08 MB)

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What's in Bolivia's new constitution

February 19, 2009

| Over 60% of Bolivian voters approved the new constitution on Janurary 25. We speak with freelance journalist Ben Dangl from La Paz.

15:39 minutes (14.33 MB)

Redeye

Canada in last place on UNICEF report card for childcare

February 20, 2009

| The Innocenti Report Card on childcare ranks Canada in last place out of the 25 wealthiest countries for providing early childhood education and care.

12:33 minutes (11.49 MB)

Healing the Earth

Developing Community Responses to Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence, part 2

February 23, 2009

| Galya and Erin talk about community responses to sexual assault, crisis support, harm reduction strategies, and supporting survivors in ways that are empowering and appropriate.

29:28 minutes (40.46 MB)

Redeye

Nationalizing the banks

February 19, 2009

| Huge sums of government money has been pouring into failing American banks. Yet the banks remain in private hands. Joshua Holland says this needs to change.

13:02 minutes (11.94 MB)

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Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

February 20, 2009

| The movie Taking Root profiles Wangari Maathai, leader of Kenya's Green Belt Movement, an environmental and social justice movement that eventually brought down the government of Daniel Arap Moi.

10:40 minutes (9.77 MB)

Redeye

Prominent South African calls for sanctions against Israel

February 25, 2009

| The boycott campaign against South Africa played a part in the fall of the apartheid regime. They are growing numbers of people who are calling for a similar campaign against Israel.

35:25 minutes (32.43 MB)

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Five years after the coup in Haiti

March 4, 2009

| We speak with Brian Concannon in Oregon. He's a prominent human rights lawyer and director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.

16:51 minutes (15.43 MB)

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Premier Danny Williams seizes assets of paper mill

March 4, 2009

| They're calling him Danny Chavez after the Newfoundland premier expropriated the assets of a paper mill that laid off workers after it got generous government support.

11:01 minutes (10.09 MB)

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Fighting the banks over home foreclosures

March 11, 2009

| People across the United States are pressuring governments and banks to make it easier to people to keep their homes. We speak with Mary Rabon from Kansas City, Missouri.

13:10 minutes (12.06 MB)

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Rebuilding community in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill

March 11, 2009

| A new book by Riki Ott, a resident of Prince William Sound, documents how the disaster impacted the lives of local community members.

14:08 minutes (12.94 MB)

Healing the Earth

Swimming With Dolphins: Freedom, Captivity, and Our Many Interconnections

March 16, 2009

| Leah Lemieux is the author of Rekindling the Waters: The Truth About Swimming wtih Dolphins. She explains the dark side of dolphin captivity, and the amazing side of our connections with this species.

42:01 minutes (57.72 MB)

Redeye

Egypt's role in Gaza truce talks

March 13, 2009

| Professor Amal Ghazal says Egypt is not the neutral mediator it pretends to be in truce talks between Israel and Hamas.

15:07 minutes (13.85 MB)

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Prison suicide of Ashley Smith

March 20, 2009

| In 2007, a disturbed teenager strangled herself to death as prison officials watched. The report of the resulting investigation was released last week.

16:37 minutes (15.22 MB)

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Pressures on Pakistan

March 20, 2009

| Pakistan is dealing with a war to its north in Afghanistan, a hostile neighbour to the south and the interference of a foreign superpower, the USA. Now there are significant internal tensions as well.

20:33 minutes (18.82 MB)

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Israel Apartheid Week

March 20, 2009

| Five years ago, the first Israel Apartheid Week took place, organized by the Palestine solidarity movement at the University of Toronto. This year, the week was marked by activists across Canada.

18:00 minutes (16.48 MB)

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Judge recommends civilian body to investigate police-involved deaths

March 24, 2009

| The Davies Commission Inquiry into the Death of Frank Paul says that police are in a conflict of interest when they investigate themselves.

12:52 minutes (11.78 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

#37- 2010 Olympic Security & the Downtown Eastside

March 27, 2009

| 2010 Olympic Security explained to Downtown Eastside Residents by the Integrated Security Unit at a meeting hosted by Pivot Legal Society

10:54 minutes (10.03 MB)

Redeye

China in the Mao and post-Mao periods

March 27, 2009

| This Saturday, March 28, a symposium organized by Emeritus Professor Hari Sharma examines the efforts to build socialism in China in the last century.

15:14 minutes (13.94 MB)

Redeye

The Return of Mr. Keynes

March 27, 2009

| John Maynard Keynes has long been credited with saving capitalism with his radical economic ideas, but that's not how it happened, according to Cy Gonick.

15:23 minutes (14.09 MB)

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Housing and war

March 30, 2009

| Vancouver's largest anti-war coalition is taking place in a march for housing on April 4. Rabble editor Derrick O'Keefe explains why.

7:28 minutes (6.84 MB)

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Canadian Arab Federation loses funding for language classes

March 30, 2009

| Executive Director Mohamed Boudjenane talks about why his organization has lost government support for its settlement services for immigrants.

15:06 minutes (13.83 MB)

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Shutting down the spring grizzly bear hunt in B.C.

March 31, 2009

| The provincial bear hunt will open on April 1 allowing grizzly bears to be shot by trophy hunters in B.C. Activists aim to close it down.

16:08 minutes (14.78 MB)

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Workers and slum-dwellers organizing in the Philippines

April 2, 2009

| A delegation of Vancouver union activists went to the Philippines on a solidarity and human rights fact-finding tour three months ago. Bill Saunders brings this report.

20:33 minutes (18.82 MB)

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Reflections on the fight for women's equality

March 27, 2009

| Shelagh Day looks back on the accomplishments of the women's movement and examines the challenges now facing the struggle for equal rights.

15:54 minutes (14.56 MB)

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Canadian citizen denied entry to Canada

April 6, 2009

| Abousifian Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who was detained in Sudan and interrogated at the behest of the Canadian government. Now he's not being allowed to come home.

14:06 minutes (12.91 MB)

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UN committee highly critical of Canada's treatment of women

April 7, 2009

| The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women is concerned about cuts to social programs and shocked at treatment of aboriginal women.

12:48 minutes (11.72 MB)

Redeye

Car owners may pay $100 a year to fund buses

April 8, 2009

| More than a decade ago the B.C. NDP tried to bring in a vehicle levy to fund transit. Now Translink is floating the idea again.

9:45 minutes (8.93 MB)

Redeye

Economic stimulus projects designed for men

April 9, 2009

| When government talks about shovel-ready projects to help workers get through the economic crisis, the hands wielding the shovels belong overwhelmingly to men.

17:29 minutes (16.01 MB)

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Judge rules on B.C. election bill

April 14, 2009

| The provincial government introduced Bill 42 to limit spending by third parties. The B.C. Supreme Court said the legislation is unconstitutional.

14:00 minutes (12.83 MB)

Redeye

Tales of a Yellow Bike

April 16, 2009

| Director Tina Hahn talks about her exploration of bike culture around the world that began with BikeShare in Toronto

12:06 minutes (11.08 MB)

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Canadian Cancer Society calls for ban on pesticides

April 16, 2009

| The Canadian Cancer Society is calling for a ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides in gardens, parks and playing fields across B.C.

9:51 minutes (9.03 MB)

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Everyone is a media outlet

April 20, 2009

| We speak with Clay Shirky, author of the bestselling book Here Comes Everybody, about social networking and the revolution it's creating in the media.

16:18 minutes (14.93 MB)

Redeye

Why we need comedians in Canada

April 21, 2009

| Stand-up comic Charlie Demers tells us why he thinks Canadians need satire more than ever these days.

13:57 minutes (12.78 MB)

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Conservatives scapegoat migrant workers

April 22, 2009

| Adriana Paz says the Conservative government is using the recession as an excuse to crack down on undocumented workers.

12:13 minutes (11.19 MB)

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Corporate media in trouble in Canada

April 24, 2009

| Media corporations worldwide are suffering huge losses. Canadian companies are no exception.

12:58 minutes (11.88 MB)

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Billboard fee to fund public art

April 28, 2009

| An arts and community coalition in Toronto wants to see advertisers charged a levy with the funds to go to public art.

8:32 minutes (7.81 MB)

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Why clinics shouldn't screen healthy people

April 29, 2009

| Private clinics encourage healthy people to undergo medical screening. Alan Cassels says there's a cost to the patient and the healthcare system.

13:06 minutes (11.99 MB)

Redeye

How Twitter can help us organize

April 25, 2009

| Code Pink Women for Peace is all over social networking. Online organizer Paris Marron tells us how Facebook and Twitter can help us organize better.

14:18 minutes (13.1 MB)

Redeye

The fish really are getting smaller

April 29, 2009

| No-one believes fisherfolk when they say the fish aren't as big as they used to, but it turns out it's true.

10:10 minutes (9.31 MB)

Redeye

Agent Orange in Canada

April 30, 2009

| Author Chris Arsenault says Canada was used as a testing ground for Agent Orange and other more toxic compounds.

13:54 minutes (12.73 MB)

Redeye

Dirt: Erosion of Civilizations

May 2, 2009

| Civilizations are absolutely dependent on the fertility of their land. A new book by geomorphologist David Montgomery looks how cultures collapse if they don't take care of their soil.

16:13 minutes (14.85 MB)

Redeye

World at a Crossroads

May 2, 2009

| A recent conference gathered socialists from Asia-Pacific countries and Latin America to talk about how to fight for socialism in the 21st century.

12:04 minutes (11.04 MB)

Redeye

Five myths about global warming - and how to refute them

May 4, 2009

| Zoe Caron is co-author of Global Warming for Dummies. In this interview, she tackles the top five myths about climate change.

11:23 minutes (10.43 MB)

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A really inconvenient truth

May 6, 2009

| Author and activist Joel Kovel responding to Al Gore's video by making his own. In it, he argues that the really inconvenient truth is that capitalism is at the root of climate change.

18:09 minutes (16.62 MB)

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Why carbon trading doesn't work

May 7, 2009

| Ian Angus says carbon trading looks like action on climate change but it isn't. He likens carbon trading to the Catholic Church practice of selling indulgences. Companies can keep right on polluting.

11:45 minutes (10.77 MB)

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Paying our fair share for climate change

May 8, 2009

| The countries that benefited the least from industrial development are paying the highest price for climate change. Canada has an obligation to help out.

13:39 minutes (12.5 MB)

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Raising children who care for the earth

May 10, 2009

| Dan Chiras is the author of Ecokids, a book that aims to help parents with the job of raising children who care about the environment.

13:58 minutes (12.8 MB)

Redeye

Birth defects linked to pesticide use

May 11, 2009

| Dr.Paul Winchester is a neonatologist in Indianopolis. He was so surprised by the number of birth defects showing up in his small community hospital that he decided to investigate further.

15:49 minutes (14.49 MB)

Redeye

Understanding STV

May 10, 2009

| B.C. voters will decide whether to move to a new voting system. Problem is, people don't get how it works. Michael Gobbi has created a website to explain the system.

12:08 minutes (11.11 MB)

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Covering the deserts in white plastic

May 11, 2009

| This is just one of the ideas being floated by geoengineers as a possible solution to the problem of catastrophic climate change. Diana Bronson has been tracking this issue for several years.

13:08 minutes (12.03 MB)

Redeye

Physics prof fired from University of Ottawa

May 13, 2009

| Denis Rancourt was fired in March, ostensibly for his practice of refusing to grade students in his classes. He explains what he believes is the politics behind his dismissal.

16:58 minutes (15.54 MB)

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Canada's shock doctrine

May 22, 2009

| Todd Gordon says that the Conservatives are using fears about the recession to sideline environmental regulations, especially for oil and gas projects on First Nations land.

17:47 minutes (16.28 MB)

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Censorship on Shaw TV

May 22, 2009

| Key parts of a January 2009 speech by Professor Norman Finkelstein were bleeped out before the talk could be broadcast.

12:23 minutes (11.35 MB)

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Report on Durban II

May 25, 2009

| The first World Conference Against Racism took place in Durban in 2001. The second, dubbed Durban II, was held in Geneva in April. Sid Shniad, a delegate from Independent Jewish Voices, reports back.

18:15 minutes (16.72 MB)

Redeye

The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony

May 28, 2009

| A visual art installation by Jerry Zaslove metaphorically recreates a machine of torture from a Franz Kafka short story.

14:42 minutes (13.45 MB)

Redeye

Mountain Equipment Coop won't boycott Israeli products

May 28, 2009

| A local activist group asked MEC members at the recent AGM to support a boycott of Israeli products but the motion went down to defeat.

12:33 minutes (11.5 MB)

Redeye

Class action suit against Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation

May 30, 2009

| Peter Dennis signed a self-exclusion contract with the OLG asking them to keep him out of their casinos. They failed to do that so he's suing them on behalf of problem gamblers across the province.

12:51 minutes (11.77 MB)

Redeye

What's wrong with the refugee determination system

June 2, 2009

| A new documentary says that Stephen Harper's government broke the refugee system so they that could say they had to fix it.

15:42 minutes (14.38 MB)

Redeye

White Lies about the Inuit

May 30, 2009

| A radical new anthropology textbook addresses several of the most widely-believed myths about the Inuit.

16:31 minutes (15.12 MB)

Redeye

Cycling to the tar sands

June 4, 2009

| 19 environmentalists cycled 1300km from Waterton Park to the tar sands. Jodi Martinson made a low-budget film about their trip from the back of her bicycle.

16:34 minutes (15.17 MB)

Redeye

Getting out of planes and on to high-speed trains

June 5, 2009

| Portland to Vancouver, Montreal to Boston -- these are just two of the trips that would make a lot more sense in a train.

9:22 minutes (8.57 MB)

Redeye

Opting out of funding the military

June 6, 2009

| NDP MP Bill Siksay has introduced a bill to allow Canadians to register as conscientious objectors and divert their tax money away from the military.

9:46 minutes (8.94 MB)

Redeye

Social workers say child protection system not working

June 10, 2009

| Social workers in B.C. have such heavy caseloads and so few resources that they can do little for the families who need help.

9:48 minutes (8.98 MB)

Redeye

Velo-City: Vancouver and the Bicycle Revolution

June 11, 2009

| There are 42 different bike sub-cultures in Vancouver according to Toby Barratt. He's one of the curators of a big new exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver.

14:47 minutes (13.54 MB)

Redeye

Seeking a progressive path to the prophetic voice

June 12, 2009

| Robert Jensen's new book All My Bones Shake tells the story of his return to the church after an entire adulthood of religious indifference.

22:39 minutes (20.74 MB)

Redeye

The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy

June 16, 2009

| In his new book author Yves Engler tackles the myth that Canadian governments act as a force for good in the world.

13:26 minutes (12.31 MB)

Redeye

Ottawa has until Friday to act on Abdelrazik case

June 16, 2009

| Lawyers for a Montreal man stranded in Sudan say the government must act soon on his case or face possible contempt of court charges.

17:32 minutes (16.06 MB)

Redeye

WTO is out, bilateral trade is in

June 15, 2009

| With the collapse of major multilateral free trade agreements like the WTO, country-to-country trade and investment agreements have proliferated.

13:41 minutes (12.53 MB)

Redeye

Vancouver may lose Pantages Theatre

June 19, 2009

| In 1907 Alexander Pantages built a theatre in Vancouver's bustling Downtown Eastside. A hundred years later, the theatre is in near ruins. We speak with Janet Leduc of Heritage Vancouver.

11:34 minutes (10.59 MB)

Redeye

Six ways to get a ticket on your bike

June 18, 2009

| Police in Vancouver chose Bike Month to hand out information tickets about cycling infractions. Cycling advocates say they're sending the wrong message.

16:52 minutes (15.45 MB)

Redeye

Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art

July 6, 2009

| The current show at the Vancouver Art Gallery showcases Dutch art at a time when the merchant class was becoming the ruling class.

14:18 minutes (13.09 MB)

Redeye

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid

July 6, 2009

| B'nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress amonst others tried to ban this activist group from participating in Toronto's Gay Pride parade in June.

11:07 minutes (10.18 MB)

Redeye

Struggles for land in Orissa

July 6, 2009

| The Indian state of Orissa is rich in resources, yet the vast majority of its people live in poverty.

16:53 minutes (15.46 MB)

Redeye

More B.C. children getting hurt on the job

July 8, 2009

| Six years ago the B.C. government dropped the work start age to 12. Now children in the youngest age group are showing a skyrocketing rate of job-related injuries.

13:49 minutes (12.65 MB)

Redeye

Canada's military spending on the rise

July 10, 2009

| Lockheed Martin is the world's biggest arms exporter and they just got a 2 billion dollar contract from the Canadian government.

15:23 minutes (14.09 MB)

Redeye

Urban youth learn the ancient art of beekeeping

July 12, 2009

| Eight young people in Vancouver are apprentice beekeepers in a program run by the Environmental Youth Alliance.

9:29 minutes (8.69 MB)

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Othello: a study in paradox

July 10, 2009

| Laura Lamb reflects on Shakespeare's tragedy of betrayal and jealousy playing this summer at Vancouver's Bard on the Beach festival.

17:12 minutes (15.75 MB)

Redeye

Indigenous Peruvians massacred in free trade protests

July 11, 2009

| On June 5, police killed a hundred or more indigenous people blockading roads in the Peruvian Amazon, two days after Canada passed an FTA with Peru.

18:43 minutes (17.14 MB)

Redeye

Squamish development drives cougars into town

July 11, 2009

| There have been a rash of cougar sightings and two attacks near this community north of Vancouver. Brian Vincent of Big Wildlife blames Olympic-fueled development

12:31 minutes (11.46 MB)

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Canada lukewarm in support of Honduran president

July 12, 2009

| Yves Engler says Canadian corporate interests in Honduras strongly influenced the Harper government's response to the overthrow of President Zelaya in a military coup last month.

15:47 minutes (14.45 MB)

Redeye

Mix of new and old at 2009 Vancouver Folk Music Festival

July 13, 2009

| Linda Tanaka is the new artistic director of the Vancouver Folk Fest. She brings with her 20 years of experience from the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival.

10:32 minutes (9.64 MB)

Redeye

Why cyclists need separate lanes

July 13, 2009

| Vancouver drivers who use the Burrard Street bridge are having to give up a lane to cyclists in a new 6-month experiment. John Pucher says it's the only way to get more people using bikes.

18:34 minutes (17 MB)

Redeye

Toronto civic strike a message to all workers

July 21, 2009

| Herman Rosenfeld argues that the struggle of civic workers in Toronto has a broader significance for workers across Canada.

13:05 minutes (11.99 MB)

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No place for fish in a sustainable diet

July 24, 2009

| Ocean Wise, Seafood Watch and similar programs offer consumers the opportunity to select more sustainable seafood. Jennifer Jacquet says the choice is essentially meaningless.

10:07 minutes (9.26 MB)

Redeye

Obama lacks new vision for Africa

July 28, 2009

| Obama's first official visit to Africa was the chance to propose a radically different vision for U.S.-Africa relations. Gerald Lemelle says he didn't take it.

16:56 minutes (15.5 MB)

Redeye

Talking music and politics with The Proclaimers

July 29, 2009

| Sean Mullen caught up with Craig and Charlie Reid at last weekend's Vancouver Folk Music Festival.

13:27 minutes (12.32 MB)

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Ski hill a Trojan horse

August 1, 2009

| Critics say a new ski resort being planned for Squamish is less about the slopes and more about the 6000 condos and two golf courses.

15:50 minutes (14.49 MB)

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Still losing hotel rooms

August 5, 2009

| Single room occupancy rooms are vanishing from Vancouver's downtown eastside taking with them a rich and vibrant community.

12:50 minutes (11.76 MB)

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Why Canadians should care about healthcare reform in the U.S.

August 8, 2009

| Health policy researcher Colleen Fuller says the debate about reform has huge significance for Canadians in our efforts to strenthen Medicare.

19:51 minutes (18.18 MB)

Redeye

Drawn: a celebration of artists and drawing

August 8, 2009

| Drawing is basic and universal, yet galleries don't often show this artform. Curator Lynn Ruscheinsky decided to change that.

9:28 minutes (8.67 MB)

Redeye

US military spying on peace group

August 8, 2009

| Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance in Olympia, Washington were infiltrated by a member of the Force Protection Service at the nearby Fort Lewis Army base.

14:32 minutes (13.32 MB)

Redeye

United Church debates Israel boycott resolution

August 18, 2009

| Despite strong opposition from the Canadian Jewish Congress, United Church delegates discussed and voted on a motion to support boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.

19:59 minutes (18.3 MB)

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Environmental footprint of Obama's Cash for Clunkers program

August 18, 2009

| Michael Niman says the Obama administration's program to encourage Americans to trade in their old cars for newer models is worse for the environment than leaving them on the road.

13:50 minutes (12.67 MB)

Redeye

BC ambulance paramedics on strike

August 19, 2009

| Essential services legislation has kept the strike out of the public eye since April 1. Now paramedics are donning in t-shirts instead of uniforms and it's bringing them much-needed support.

14:13 minutes (13.02 MB)

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Missing: Eight million fish

September 1, 2009

| Fisheries and Oceans Canada estimated that more than ten million sockeye salmon were going to return to the Fraser River this year. Now they say there'll only be two million.

12:55 minutes (11.84 MB)

Redeye

Pensions and the economic crisis

September 2, 2009

| The corporate elite is calling for an end to retirement as we know it saying we can't afford the pensions. Sam Gindin disagrees.

16:43 minutes (15.31 MB)

Redeye

Opposition to Israel's rebranding campaign

September 16, 2009

| b.h.Yael is one of the artists who drafted the Toronto Declaration, protesting the Toronto International Film Festival’s City to City Spotlight on Tel Aviv.

14:49 minutes (13.58 MB)

Redeye

Archeology of Memory

September 16, 2009

| A film by Claudio Duran who was imprisoned and tortured in the Villa Grimaldi following the 1973 coup in Chile.

21:16 minutes (19.48 MB)

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Moratorium on garbage dump in Ontario farm country

September 18, 2009

| Simcoe County officials have been trying to get a landfill site approved for the past 30 years. Last month, activists won an important victory.

10:26 minutes (9.56 MB)

Redeye

A conversation with Mairead Maguire

September 21, 2009

| Mairead Maguire was 32 when she and Betty Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976. We talk with her from Ireland about her work for peace in Palestine.

19:51 minutes (18.17 MB)

Needs No Introduction

A feature interview with Gloria Mills

September 22, 2009

| Meagan Perry talks to the union campaigner about her life, her work and what the future holds for the trade union movement.

42:54 minutes (39.3 MB)

Redeye

B.C. government slashes arts funding

September 23, 2009

| In August, the Liberal government announced a 20 per cent reduction in funding to the arts and cultural sector with much deeper cuts to come next year.

15:05 minutes (13.82 MB)

Redeye

Women and the pharmaceutical industry

September 24, 2009

| Women have good reason to be wary of prescription drugs after decades of poorly-tested drugs from thalidomide 50 years ago to HRT now. A new book tackles women and drug policy in Canada.

18:36 minutes (17.03 MB)

Redeye

Afghanistan: The new Vietnam

September 26, 2009

| There's a corrupt regime with no support outside the capital, a hostile population and an elusive enemy - even Washington is talking openly about the parallels, according to Conn Hallinan.

14:19 minutes (13.11 MB)

Redeye

Woodblock prints show images from Iraq war

September 28, 2009

| L.A. artist Sandow Birk uses a centuries-old technique to transform images from the Iraq war into prints reminiscent of Goya and Callot.

13:51 minutes (12.69 MB)

Redeye

Free film fest showcases labour

September 29, 2009

| The Canadian Labour International Film Festival is close to its goal of screening films in 100 communities across Canada. The movies will screen in cinemas, labour halls and living-rooms.

7:35 minutes (6.95 MB)

Redeye

You, me and the SPP

September 30, 2009

| Filmmaker Paul Manly examines the Security and Prosperity Partnership in his latest film. He discusses what he learned about this project for deeper integration between the U.S. and Canada.

15:58 minutes (14.62 MB)

Redeye

Talking with gang members about crime

October 2, 2009

| A group of researchers in Winnipeg spent two days meeting with six members of a North End street gang in August. The gang members had strong opinions about how best to combat crime.

16:52 minutes (15.45 MB)

Redeye

Salmon, grizzlies and the fall hunt

October 2, 2009

| Chris Genovali of Raincoast Conservation Society says that salmon are critical for the health of bears. Poor salmon runs, and trophy hunting, are threatening B.C.'s bear population.

12:40 minutes (11.61 MB)

Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside braces for the looming Olympic security regime

October 4, 2009

| Laura Track of the Pivot Legal Society talks about the impact of Olympic security plans on the residents of the 'Canada's poorest postal code', the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

17:55 minutes (16.41 MB)

Needs No Introduction

Drug policy reform: A feature interview with Libby Davies

October 19, 2009

| The MP for Vancouver East talks to Tariq Jeeroburkhan about the progress of the drug policy reform movement.

22:21 minutes (20.49 MB)

Redeye

Eye-witness account of resistance and repression in Honduras

October 24, 2009

| Steve Steward is with CoDevelopment Canada. He was in Honduras for several days in September and brings this report.

15:31 minutes (14.2 MB)

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Locking up the homeless for the Winter Olympics

October 24, 2009

| The B.C. Civil Liberties was leaked a government document detailing plans to detain homeless people against their will during severe weather.

13:44 minutes (12.58 MB)

Redeye

A history of Palestinian political organizing

October 1, 2009

| Toufic Haddad is an American-Palestinian based in Bethlehem. He speaks with Mordecai Briemberg about the history of organizing efforts in Palestine from the 1930s to the 1990s.

23:25 minutes (21.44 MB)

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A history of Palestinian political organizing: part 2

October 27, 2009

| Toufic Haddad is an American-Palestinian based in Bethlehem. He speaks with Mordecai Briemberg about the history of organizing efforts in Palestine from 2000 to the present day.

29:00 minutes (26.55 MB)

Redeye

Literary organizations in B.C. facing major funding cuts

October 31, 2009

| The organizations that support B.C. book and magazine publishers have lost a large percentage of their funding as has BC BookWorld newspaper.

10:58 minutes (10.04 MB)

Redeye

Tories trying to push through Canada-Colombia FTA

November 2, 2009

| A bill to implement Canada's free trade agreement with Colombia is on the order paper for this session of Parliament. Activists believe the bill can be defeated.

14:54 minutes (13.64 MB)

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Campaigning for a commercial-free childhood

November 2, 2009

| Dr. Susan Linn says that we need to protect our children from corporations that aim to limit their imaginations.

15:20 minutes (14.04 MB)

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What's wrong with the Red campaign

November 3, 2009

| Ben Davis says shopping and giving to charity aren't a good mix. Davis is the creator of the world's first open-source brand.

11:41 minutes (10.71 MB)

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Social enterprise: a business that gives back

November 4, 2009

| Many non-profit organizations run businesses that make money and create social value. David LePage explains how it works.

13:32 minutes (12.4 MB)

Redeye

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

November 5, 2009

| The average American spends 6 hours a week shopping but only 40 minutes a week playing with their children. John de Graaf says these are the symptoms of a malaise called affluenza.

14:01 minutes (12.83 MB)

Redeye

Afghan war spreading, resistance growing

November 17, 2009

| Derrick O'Keefe, former editor of rabble.ca, talks about Hamid Karzai and corruption, the spreading war in the region and resistance among soldiers.

17:12 minutes (15.75 MB)

Redeye

Ambulance paramedics say Olympics behind back-to-work bill

November 17, 2009

| On Nov 7, the B.C. government legislated ambulance paramedics back to work after a 7-month strike.

9:43 minutes (8.91 MB)

Redeye

Water concerns stall Garibaldi at Squamish ski resort plans

November 17, 2009

| Developers' plans to build five reservoirs to supply over five thousand housing units on Brohm Ridge have been called into question by the Environmental Assessment Office.

15:21 minutes (14.05 MB)

Redeye

Identifying toxins in cosmetics and household products

November 18, 2009

| In October 2008, baby bottles containing the chemical bisphenol A were banned in Canada. However many other products contain suspected toxins.

10:21 minutes (9.47 MB)

Redeye

How to get yourself barred from the Internet

November 18, 2009

| Canadian officials are in negotiating a copyright treaty behind closed doors that could result in familes being barred from going online for a year if someone is suspected of illegal downloads.

13:49 minutes (12.66 MB)

Redeye

CBC News becoming second-rate CNN

November 23, 2009

| Author and columnist Rick Salutin says the CBC News is now a poor imitation of the U.S. networks.

11:00 minutes (10.08 MB)

Redeye

Growing food on a Hastings Street parking lot

November 24, 2009

| It's hard to even buy vegetables in Vancouver's downtown eastside, let alone cultivate them. But a new project aims to do just that.

7:11 minutes (6.58 MB)

Redeye

Rich countries buying up farmland in poor countries

November 24, 2009

| Civil society groups are sounding the alarm about the purchase of vast tracts of farmland in the Global South, saying the sales threaten food security and land reform in the world's poorest nations.

15:06 minutes (13.83 MB)

Redeye

Finding out about the Canadian Parliamentary Commission to Combat Anti-Semitism

November 25, 2009

| The majority of Canadians aren't aware of the existence of this group of parliamentarians which formed in March 2009. Alan Sears fills in some of the gaps.

24:17 minutes (22.23 MB)

Needs No Introduction

On Palestine and Israel: A Feature Interview with Rev. Denise Yarbrough

November 22, 2009

| Reverend Yarbrough of the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, New York, talks with Tariq Jeeroburkhan about the historical role played by Protestant Christian denominations in the conflict.

16:07 minutes (14.78 MB)

Redeye

Urban homesteading in Pasadena

November 27, 2009

| Laura Lamb reviews Homegrown, a movie about a family of urban homesteaders in California who produce all their own food on a city lot.

11:35 minutes (10.61 MB)

Redeye

Transportation loans add stress for refugees

November 26, 2009

| The Canadian government makes refugees cover their own costs for coming to Canada. Refugee support groups say this puts enormous financial and emotional stress.

13:49 minutes (12.66 MB)

Redeye

Matching filmmakers with social issues

December 1, 2009

| Pull Focus offers film students and community groups the opportunity to work together to create short documentaries about social issues. We speak with Pull Focus founder Steve Rosenberg.

9:06 minutes (8.33 MB)

Redeye

Bata Colony: A shoe magnate's utopian dream

December 1, 2009

| The video documentary Colony by Cinema Suitcase examines a crumbling outpost of the Bata Shoe Company in Batanagar, India. Laura Lamb shares her thoughts about the film.

16:07 minutes (14.76 MB)

Redeye

20 years after the Montreal Massacre

December 2, 2009

| Daisy Kler of Rape Relief and Women's Shelter talks about what has and what has not changed in violence against women since Marc Lepine murdered 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique.

14:09 minutes (12.96 MB)

Redeye

The Canadian war on Queers: National security as sexual regulation

December 2, 2009

| From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada.

14:53 minutes (13.63 MB)

Redeye

A day in the life of a homeless person

December 5, 2009

| Getting a coffee, eating a balanced diet, using the bathroom - these are all tremendous challenges when you don't have a place to live. Judy Graves paints a picture of day-to-day life on the streets.

21:12 minutes (19.41 MB)

Redeye

Malls R Us: a film by Helene Klodawsky

November 28, 2009

| The shopping mall has been with us for about 70 years. The mall’s founder was Victor Gruen, a socialist escaping from Nazi-occupied Austria.

13:53 minutes (12.71 MB)

Redeye

Blowing the whistle on torture in Afghan jails

November 30, 2009

| Grace Pastine of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association says her organization has long maintained the government should have known about the abuse of detainees. Now we have evidence that they did know.

18:31 minutes (16.95 MB)

Redeye

Oil tankers and the tar sands

December 4, 2009

| A new pipeline project from the Alberta tar sands to the Pacific Coast means that oil tankers may travel up and down the coast of British Columbia again

12:43 minutes (11.65 MB)

Redeye

The citizens Canada disowns

December 8, 2009

| Abousifian Abdelrazik in the Sudan, Suaad Hagi Mohamud in Kenya: these are just two of the Canadian citizens who found that their government didn't back them up when they were in trouble.

11:46 minutes (10.78 MB)

Redeye

After homelessness

December 9, 2009

| A forum theatre production by Headlines Theatre in Vancouver asks questions about what it takes to create housing that is safe, supported and affordable.

11:52 minutes (10.87 MB)

Redeye

Witnessing election fraud in Honduras

December 12, 2009

| On November 29, the leaders of the coup in Honduras held an election that most of the population boycotted. B.C. Teachers Federation president Irene Lanzinger was there.

14:36 minutes (13.38 MB)

Redeye

Union embraces the co-op movement

December 12, 2009

| The United Steelworkers Union has just entered into a partnership with a large worker-owned cooperative based in Spain.

12:52 minutes (11.78 MB)

Redeye

Obama's plans for Afghanistan

December 20, 2009

| 30,000 more troops, a bigger Afghan army, a partnership with Pakistan -- Obama spelled out his plans for Afghanistan to a West Point audience. Conn Hallinan says none of it makes any sense.

14:49 minutes (13.58 MB)

Redeye

Former head of RCMP Public Complaints Commission comments on the Dziekanski report

December 27, 2009

| Paul Kennedy has released his report into RCMP conduct in the death of Robert Dziekanski. Shirley Heafey was chair of the RCMP Complaints Commission for 8 years. She comments on Kennedy's report.

16:02 minutes (14.69 MB)

Redeye

Anti-Olympic activist refused entry to U.S.

December 29, 2009

| Marla Renn gives us a detailed account of what happened on December 10 when she tried to cross the U.S. border on her way to Portland, Oregon to speak about the negative impacts of the 2010 Games.

15:21 minutes (14.06 MB)

Redeye

Mexican activist killed for opposing Canadian mine

December 31, 2009

| Mariano Abarca Roblero was shot in December. The three men arrested in the case have ties to Blackfire, the Canadian mining company that Roblero was protesting against.

10:58 minutes (10.05 MB)

Redeye

Woman swims B.C.'s second longest river

January 6, 2010

| Ali Howard swam 600 kilometres of the Skeena River to raise awareness of two major industrial threats to the watershed.

13:24 minutes (12.27 MB)

Redeye

Flow: a permanent media art exhibit

January 9, 2010

| No matter how many times you pass by the ground-floor windows of Vancouver's newest community centre, you're very unlikely to see the same image twice.

12:10 minutes (11.14 MB)

Redeye

Proroguing Parliament the last straw for Canadian voters

January 12, 2010

| Stephen Harper's decision to prorogue Parliament is just the last in a string of abuses of power, according to Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch in Ottawa.

16:08 minutes (14.77 MB)

Redeye

More than just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics

January 15, 2010

| A new exhibit at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre takes a critical look at how the 1936 Olympic Games were used as a propaganda tool by the Nazis.

16:15 minutes (14.88 MB)

Redeye

Whistler residents brace for the Olympics

January 20, 2010

| There's a military camp to the south and a private security camp to the north; drivers are facing multiple checkpoints in and out of town; and police are setting up protest zones.

14:40 minutes (13.43 MB)

Redeye

Moving beyond safe injection sites

January 20, 2010

| Donald MacPherson is former Drug Policy Policy Coordinator for the City of Vancouver. He says we need to see places like Insite as just one step of a continuum of care for addicts.

11:58 minutes (10.95 MB)

Redeye

Talking about the tar sands in Copenhagen

January 18, 2010

| Clayton Thomas Muller is with the Indigeneous Environmental Network. He was one of 20 First Nations delegates to the climate summit. The tar sands were on the top of his agenda.

16:13 minutes (14.85 MB)

Redeye

Gaza Freedom March highlights lack of democracy in Egypt

January 23, 2010

| The Egyptian government refused to allow all but a few marchers to cross the border into Gaza. Joel Beinin says this is on par with the kind of repression Egyptian pro-democracy activists face daily.

13:34 minutes (12.43 MB)

Redeye

Eyewitness account of Gaza bombardment

January 26, 2010

| Norwegian Mads Gilbert was one of only two foreign doctors allowed in Gaza during the Israeli attack in the winter of 2009. He and Dr. Erik Fosse have written a book about their experiences there.

16:28 minutes (15.07 MB)

Redeye

Canadian company seeks to mine gold in war-torn Congo

January 26, 2010

| The Democratic Republic of the Congo has suffered from a resource-fueled conflict that has cost millions of lives.

14:52 minutes (13.62 MB)

Redeye

Convergence activism and the 2010 Olympics

January 26, 2010

| The global protests that came to be known as convergences were born in Seattle in 1999. Freelance journalist Jane Kirby reflects on the successes and challenges of this kind of organizing.

14:46 minutes (13.53 MB)

Redeye

Report from Haiti

January 18, 2010

| Activist Stuart Hammond returned from a fact-finding tour to Haiti just before the earthquake struck. He reports that people were in desperate straits even before the earthquake.

21:18 minutes (19.51 MB)

Redeye

What's wrong with business journalism in Canada

January 24, 2010

| Nick Fillmore says a recent article by the Globe and Mail on the sale of Ontario Crown corporations highlights some of the problems with business journalism in Canada.

10:17 minutes (9.42 MB)

Redeye

Alberta government gives go-ahead to nuclear power

January 29, 2010

| Premier Ed Stelmach says his government will consider proposals for nuclear power plants on a case-by-case basis.

16:41 minutes (15.29 MB)

Redeye

Police arrest then release leading sour gas opponent

January 30, 2010

| Earlier this month, Weibo Ludwig was questioned for several hours about the bombings of six gas pipelines in northern Alberta and B.C.

12:52 minutes (11.78 MB)

Redeye

Sweet Crude: A film about the Niger Delta

January 31, 2010

| Since oil was discovered in Nigeria, life expectancy has dropped by 20 years, mangroves have disappeared and fish have been poisoned. Meanwhile the wealth generated by the resource leaves the country.

16:21 minutes (14.97 MB)

Redeye

Canadian government releases last of Tamil refugees

February 3, 2010

| Seventy-six Tamil refugees were immediately taken into custody when they were discovered off the coast of British Columbia in October 2009 under suspicion of membership in the Tamil Tigers.

13:22 minutes (12.24 MB)

Redeye

Progressive bookstore in Vancouver celebrates 65th anniversary

February 4, 2010

| People's Coop Books has been selling a wide range of progressive books in Vancouver since 1945. We find out some of the history of the store from Ray Viaud.

12:36 minutes (11.54 MB)

Redeye

Challenging Israeli impunity

February 5, 2010

| George Bisharat details Israel’s campaign to transform international humanitarian law so they have immunity for their human rights violations.

13:02 minutes (11.94 MB)

Redeye

Presence of foreign troops in Haiti hampers aid efforts

February 2, 2010

| Roger Annis of Haiti Solidarity B.C. says Haitians have reacted to the earthquake with dignity and community spirit. Yet donor countries have insisted on sending in the military along with the aid.

14:31 minutes (13.3 MB)

Redeye

Global recession may save farmland in B.C.

February 6, 2010

| The highway expansion planned for the Lower Mainland was designed for increased truck traffic from a container port in Delta to Highway 1. Opponents say it's no longer needed.

13:03 minutes (11.95 MB)

Redeye

Vancouver Special

February 6, 2010

| Activist and comedian Charles Demers was born and raised in Vancouver. Vancouver Special is a hilarious look at the city's past and present, from its pot industry to its dog mania.

22:26 minutes (20.55 MB)

Redeye

Porfirio Lobo sworn in as new president in Honduras

February 8, 2010

| Despite substantial evidence of election fraud and repression of mass mobilization against the coup last June, Canada and the United States recognize the new president.

12:19 minutes (11.27 MB)

Redeye

First Nations oppose pipeline from tar sands to the B.C. coast

February 9, 2010

| The Wet'suwet'en is one of 50 First Nations whose territory will be crossed by the Northern Gateway pipeline.

10:02 minutes (9.19 MB)

Redeye

Canada's weapons industry thriving

February 9, 2010

| Canada has a reputation as a peaceful nation, yet the arms industry is alive and well here and providing weapons that fuel wars around the world.

14:44 minutes (13.5 MB)

Redeye

Red tents for the homeless

February 8, 2010

| Bright red tents will soon be springing up in the streets on Vancouver, each one housing one or two people for a night. The tents are part of a campaign to pressure the federal government.

9:23 minutes (8.59 MB)

Redeye

Harper government behind cuts to Christian organization Kairos

February 10, 2010

| The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has stopped funding Kairos, saying it no longers fits CIDA priorities.

13:36 minutes (12.45 MB)

Redeye

New environmental group in B.C. to focus on protecting old-growth

February 10, 2010

| The Ancient Forest Alliance aims to work at a grassroots level to pressure government to save the remaining temperate rainforests that still exist in the province.

13:37 minutes (12.47 MB)

Redeye

B.C. schools facing massive funding cuts

February 9, 2010

| The provincial government has to find almost 300 million dollars more for public education next year, just to maintain current service. Early signs are that they will not cover the new costs.

12:32 minutes (11.47 MB)

Redeye

Call Mr. Robeson

February 14, 2010

| Tayo Aluko wrote, performs and sings in this one-man show about Robeson, one of the most famous singers, actors and political activists of his time.

26:36 minutes (24.36 MB)

Redeye

W2 Culture and Media House

February 14, 2010

| W2 opened in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside two days before the 2010 Olympics started. The Media House aims to be a centre for indy journalists to report on the Games and the anti-Olympic convergence.

10:50 minutes (9.92 MB)

Redeye

Obama administration refuses to condemn torturers

February 16, 2010

| In Washington, the Justice Department is about to issue an ethics report, reviewing the use of torture by U.S. officials.

11:54 minutes (10.9 MB)

Redeye

New report critiques U.S. policy in Africa

February 16, 2010

| Africa Policy Outlook 2010 is produced by Africa Action, the oldest African social justice organization to operate in the U.S. We speak with executive director Gerald Lemelle.

15:05 minutes (13.82 MB)

Redeye

Women's Memorial March

February 14, 2010

| For the past 19 years, on February 14, people mourn and remember the women who have been disappeared and murdered in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

14:22 minutes (13.16 MB)

Redeye

Olympic Tent Village

February 22, 2010

| Dave Diewert of Streams of Justice explains why he and other activists decided to set up a tent village on Hastings Street during the Winter Olympics.

15:39 minutes (14.34 MB)

Redeye

Vancouver [de] Tour Guide 2010

February 22, 2010

| A new Internet-based resource using Google map technology to show visitors some of the hidden history of Vancouver.

11:53 minutes (10.89 MB)

Redeye

Legal observer reports on police actions during anti-Olympic protests

February 22, 2010

| Peggy Lee is a member of the Olympic Resistance Network's Legal Committe and she's been observing the police over the first week of the Olympics.

11:31 minutes (10.55 MB)

Redeye

Activists petition CRTC for more meaningful public access to community TV

February 22, 2010

| The Canadian Broadcasting Act requires TV and cable companies to support public access and gives them $100 million to do so. Critics say the money is tightly controlled by the companies.

14:52 minutes (13.62 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

The Red Tent Campaign for Housing

February 16, 2010

| Rebecca Cuttler interviews Am Johal , Chair of the Impact of the Olympics on Communities Committee about the Red Tent Housing campaign

9:05 minutes (8.32 MB)

Redeye

Ryerson University takes a long hard look at racism on campus

February 24, 2010

| After a year-long investigation, a team made up of students, staff and administration released their report and recommendations. Dr. Grace-Edward Galabuzi is co-chair of the Taskforce of Anti-Racism.

12:43 minutes (11.64 MB)

Redeye

U.S. military budget for 2010 climbs to $744 billion

February 24, 2010

| Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, military bases around the world, the nuclear weapons program -- all this adds up to a budget that leaves nothing for foreign aid or for tackling climate change.

12:01 minutes (11 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Olympic red tents wrap-up

March 3, 2010

| Olympic Canadian Pavilion wrapped up in red tent protest. We talked to John Richardson about how the campaign went and what is next for Pivot and the National Housing Strategy protest.

14:28 minutes (13.25 MB)

Redeye

The Erotic Anguish of Don Juan

March 3, 2010

| A new play by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop imagines a Don Juan released from hell to warn us not to do what he did. Laura Lamb went to see the production and shares her thoughts.

12:15 minutes (11.22 MB)

Redeye

United States steps up bombing campaign in Pakistan

March 9, 2010

| 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.

15:07 minutes (13.85 MB)

Redeye

Fighting violence against women in Ethiopia

March 10, 2010

| 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.

10:40 minutes (9.77 MB)

Redeye

Transforming society through popular power

March 10, 2010

| 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.

11:40 minutes (10.68 MB)

Redeye

Kenney nixes queer content from guide for new Canadians

March 9, 2010

| 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.

10:37 minutes (9.72 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Vancouver's Megaphone speaks out

March 9, 2010

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

10:57 minutes (10.03 MB)

Redeye

Whole Foods Market challenged to 'walk the talk'

March 16, 2010

| At a shareholders' meeting in Vancouver, one of the leading sellers of organic goods was accused of misleading consumers with its labelling of products.

14:44 minutes (13.5 MB)

Redeye

Mistrust of U.S. runs deep in Iran

March 16, 2010

| Despite a crackdown on the reform movement and widespread repression, Iranians want the United States to stay out of their domestic politics, according to historian Professor Ervand Abrahamian.

12:26 minutes (11.39 MB)

Redeye

Evangelical organization gets $7 million for youth centre in Winnipeg's inner city

March 16, 2010

| Michael Champagne works with the Community Education Development Association, an organization that questioned the recent allocation of a large sum of federal and municipal money to Youth for Christ.

11:27 minutes (10.48 MB)

Redeye

Talking podcasts

March 16, 2010

| The rpn's Meagan Perry explains what podcasts are, how you can use them and what she's looking to include in the rabble podcast network.

12:50 minutes (11.75 MB)

Redeye

Heroes: From a disability perspective

March 17, 2010

| A group art exhibit organized as part of the Kickstart Festival of Disability Arts and Culture opened on March 8. The artists in the show explore what heroism means to them. We speak with Cleo Pawson.

12:19 minutes (11.29 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Social enterprise lawyers

March 17, 2010

| This week we talked to Katrina Pacey, managing partner of Pivot Legal LLP, about an exciting event coming up where they will be judged.

9:36 minutes (8.79 MB)

Africafiles: The Pulse

Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all - International Women's Day in Africa

March 18, 2010

| African women have been celebrating the International Women's Day since 1911. But what does the day really mean to them? What have they benefited from it?

10:16 minutes (9.42 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Protests in Thailand

March 20, 2010

| Labor news from the Asia-Pacific Region. Interview about "red-shirt" protests in Thailand, with socialist commentator Giles Ungapakorn.

28:25 minutes (26.02 MB)

Redeye

Migrant workers demand unpaid wages

March 25, 2010

| Much of the construction that went on in Vancouver prior to the 2010 Olympics was done by foreign temporary workers. Some of the workers have now ended up being owed large sums of money.

8:58 minutes (8.22 MB)

Redeye

A tribute to Hari Sharma

March 25, 2010

| Hari Sharma died on March 16, 2010 after a long illness. He was an activist throughout his life, working to end racism and to support working people both in Canada, India and elsewhere.

6:48 minutes (6.23 MB)

Redeye

Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid

March 26, 2010

| In this book, Yves Engler challenges the belief that Canada was an evenhanded player in the Middle East until the Harper government changed course and adopted a radical pro-Israel stance.

20:33 minutes (18.82 MB)

Redeye

Vancouver Bus Riders Union opposes fare increase

March 26, 2010

| Translink is increasing the fare on monthly passes and strip tickets for transit users in Vancouver's Lower Mainland. The new prices will make the system inaccessible to many low-income residents.

12:49 minutes (11.74 MB)

Redeye

Racism motion contentious at Vancouver City Council

March 25, 2010

| When city councillor Ellen Woodsworth brought a motion to council to join the Canada’s Coalition of Municipalities Against Racism and Discrimination, she thought it was a no-brainer.

14:28 minutes (13.25 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Asia Pacific Currents: News from Turkey, Bangladesh, Iran, Korea and more

March 27, 2010

| Regional labour update + interview with Dr. Chong-ok Kong on Samsung OH&S international campaign

29:53 minutes (13.7 MB)

Redeye

Greenpeace criticized for hiring Tzeporah Berman

March 30, 2010

| Dru Oja Jay is one of the people behind a new website raising concerns about the appointment of someone he sees as representing corporate attempts to weaken environmental activism.

13:46 minutes (12.61 MB)

Redeye

Public left out of new US health care bill

March 28, 2010

| After months of political wrangling the US House of Representatives finally passed a new health care bill. The bill will keep insurance companies healthy, but will do little for the US public.

12:13 minutes (13.15 MB)

Redeye

Nigeria's new president from the oil-rich Niger Delta

March 30, 2010

| Nigeria is a country divided into north and south, Muslim and Christian. The north has always been the power base and the south has had the oil wealth. Now things are changing.

14:37 minutes (13.38 MB)

Redeye

Canadian Border Services agents raid women's shelters in Toronto

March 30, 2010

| Canadian government officials searching for undocumented people have entered and searched shelters for women escaping domestic violence. Farrah Miranda is with the Shelter-Sanctuary-Status Campaign.

11:24 minutes (10.44 MB)

Redeye

Setting a fair agenda for the G8

March 30, 2010

| When the world's richest nations meet in Canada in 2010, Dennis Howlett wants poverty to be on the agenda. He is national coordinator of the Canadian organization Make Poverty History.

9:43 minutes (8.9 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Asia Pacific Currents - labour news

April 3, 2010

| Update on regional Asian labour issues and interview with Mahendra from the Working Peoples Association (PRP) on labour organising in Indonesia.

29:31 minutes (13.53 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Vancouver Homeless shelter dwellers meet, closure deadline looms

April 8, 2010

| Wendy Pedersen talks about planned closures of the homeless shelters opened before the Olympics.

12:06 minutes (11.09 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Land rights in Melanesia

April 10, 2010

| Labor news from the Asia-Pacific. Interview about proposed reform to customary land tenure in Papua New Guinea (PNG), with Steven Sukot, from the Bismarck Ramu Group.

29:21 minutes (26.88 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Red Tents to replace homeless shelters?

April 14, 2010

| Am Johal, chair of the Impact on Communities Coalition, talks about a national housing proposal to be introduced in Parliament this month, and the Red Tents campaign.

15:03 minutes (13.79 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Protests in Thailand and regional labour news

April 17, 2010

| India Unilever, Asia asbestos, ATNC rallies, Japan railworkers compensation. Interview with Ji Ungpakorn, social activist and commentator, on analysis of the recent demonstrations in Thailand.

31:04 minutes (14.23 MB)

Redeye

Canada: World leader in asbestos export

April 27, 2010

| The federal government not only allows Canadians to be exposed to much higher levels of asbestos than other countries but also continues to export asbestos to places with lower health standards.

11:30 minutes (10.54 MB)

Redeye

Coastal First Nations announce opposition to tar sands pipeline

April 27, 2010

| Gerald Amos is director of an alliance of First Nations on British Columbia's North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii. The alliance announced its ban on the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill.

11:23 minutes (10.43 MB)

Redeye

Opposing Project Hero

April 26, 2010

| John Conway is one of a group of faculty at the University of Regina who signed a petition objecting to free tuition for children of soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

10:01 minutes (9.17 MB)

Redeye

What wrong's with legislating against the niqab

April 26, 2010

| Itrath Sayed comments on Quebec's Bill 94 that aims to limit women's access to government services if they are wearing the niqab.

10:37 minutes (9.73 MB)

Redeye

Shaming corporations more effective than guilting consumers

April 28, 2010

| Jennifer Jacquet of the Fisheries Centre at UBC argues that environmental activists should focus their energy on the changing the behaviour of corporations -- and that shame is a valuable tool.

11:56 minutes (10.92 MB)

Redeye

Relief efforts in Haiti not respecting national sovereignty

April 28, 2010

| With the central government of the country largely left out of rebuilding efforts, activists are concerned about what the results of so much international aid flooding into the country will be.

12:08 minutes (11.11 MB)

Redeye

Canada muzzles climate change scientists

April 27, 2010

| The federal government releases important reports late in the day on Friday, reduces funding for critical climate change science and prevents scientists from speaking out on climate change.

14:21 minutes (13.14 MB)

Redeye

Learning from the boycott campaign against South Africa

April 29, 2010

| Palestinians and their supporters have modeled their campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions on the successful campaign against apartheid.

15:07 minutes (13.85 MB)

Redeye

What to expect at the G8/G20 People's Summit

April 29, 2010

| The majority of the world's countries and peoples are not represented by the G8 and the G20. Organizers are is inviting people from across Canada and around the world to Toronto to participate.

13:25 minutes (12.29 MB)

Redeye

Honduran journalists murdered amidst calls for new constitution

April 29, 2010

| Despite a military coup, rigged elections, and severe repression, the population of Honduras remains resilient in its demand for a new constitution.

16:09 minutes (14.79 MB)

Redeye

A look at the Windsor Workers' Action Centre

April 30, 2010

| Created in 2007 by workers, students and community activists in Ontario, the centre promotes worker solidarity and is committed to improving working conditions in low-wage and unstable employment.

13:05 minutes (11.98 MB)

Healing the Earth

The Hanlon Creek 5: Land defence and SLAPP Suits in Guelph, Ontario

April 30, 2010

| After a community-led occupation shut down a contentious industrial park in Guelph, 5 people were named in a $5 million lawsuit by the City of Guelph and a private developer.

15:57 minutes (21.92 MB)

Redeye

Vancouver's activist band marches on

May 2, 2010

| Marching bands come from a military background, but bands like Vancouver's Carnival Band have stood that tradition on its head. Tim Sars explains what's behind the music we hear on rallies.

13:41 minutes (12.53 MB)

Redeye

Guerilla arting

May 2, 2010

| Artists Carla Bergman and Arlin French of the Purple Thistle Centre talk about what guerilla art is and why they practice it.

10:18 minutes (9.43 MB)

Redeye

Datadotgc.ca: a citizen-led beta for government data

May 2, 2010

| A group of democratic activists have launched a new website which is raising awareness about government transparency. They say its shocking how bad the Canadian government is at sharing information.

11:17 minutes (10.33 MB)

Redeye

New trail built to bear witness

May 2, 2010

| The South Fraser Perimeter road is a freeway project that will eliminate much potential parkland along the Fraser River. Activists have created the Witness Trail to show people what's at stake.

11:59 minutes (10.98 MB)

Redeye

One Big Union: smaller, but just as relevant

May 2, 2010

| Built on the rallying cry of One Big Union, the Industrial Workers of the World has long distinguished itself for its inclusiveness and willingness to side with the most marginalized workers.

14:30 minutes (13.28 MB)

Redeye

Roma refugees face prejudice from ministry officials

May 4, 2010

| Before Immigration Canada imposed a visa requirement on the Czech Republic, 85% of Roma refugee claims were accepted. Now that has gone down to almost zero. We speak with Bill Bila in Toronto.

9:29 minutes (8.69 MB)

Redeye

How British MP George Galloway was banned from Canada

May 5, 2010

| Cathryn Atkinson has looked closely at documents mistakenly sent to George Galloway's legal team showing bureaucrats in the office of Jason Kenney orchestrated the ban.

16:10 minutes (14.81 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Red Tent on sidewalk - ticket cancelled after Pivot action

May 4, 2010

| A homeless man's Red Tent on the sidewalk outside BC's courthouse resulted in a violation ticket being handed out and then cancelled

8:59 minutes (8.23 MB)

Redeye

Ontario proposes changes to provincial drug plan

May 5, 2010

| The Ontario government is trying to cut down its rapidly increasing costs for the Ontario Drug Benefit Program. Dr. Joel Lexchin thinks they're not going about it the right way.

14:02 minutes (12.84 MB)

Redeye

Israeli Apartheid Week a success in Winnipeg

May 11, 2010

| The University of Winnipeg hosted its first week of events to raise awareness about Israeli actions and policies towards Palestinians. Brian Latour is one of the student organizers.

9:48 minutes (8.97 MB)

Redeye

A grassroots agenda for climate change

May 12, 2010

| Activists attending the people's conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia came up with a declaration articulating a radical new approach to the issue of climate change. Ben Powless tells us how they did it.

17:36 minutes (16.12 MB)

Redeye

A new place to find anti-racism resources

May 11, 2010

| Anti-racism.ca is a website designed for a wide variety of users from employers and workers to students and educators. Michael Ma teaches in the department of criminology at Kwantlen College.

11:11 minutes (10.24 MB)

Redeye

New chair of Vancouver Coastal Health proponent of two-tier healthcare

May 12, 2010

| Kip Woodward is a former board member of the for-profit Cambie Surgery Centre. Yet the B.C. government has just appointed Woodward to oversee the second-largest health authority in the province.

11:07 minutes (10.18 MB)

Redeye

Palestinian activist reflects on visit to South Africa

May 15, 2010

| Ali Abunimah has just returned from meeting with solidarity activists and government officials in South Africa. Abunimah is co-founder of Electronic Intifada.

14:35 minutes (13.36 MB)

Redeye

B.C. government cuts benefits for homeless and seriously ill

May 17, 2010

| Following the provincial budget, the B.C. Liberals announced that they were cutting dental support, shelter allowance for the homeless and other services for the poorest people in the province.

15:24 minutes (14.1 MB)

Redeye

Understanding the Greek debt crisis

May 15, 2010

| Bankruptcy, massive protests and accusations of corruption have dominated the media's coverage of the Greek economic crisis. Belt-tightening is the proposed solution. Costas Panayotakis disagrees.

13:25 minutes (12.28 MB)

Redeye

Copper mine threatens pristine lake in B.C.'s interior

May 15, 2010

| Fish Lake, or Tetzan Biny, is a piece of the ancestral heritage of the Tsilhq ot'in people of the Nemiah Valley as well as a source of food today. Taseko Mines wants to turn it into a tailings pond.

18:52 minutes (17.27 MB)

Redeye

A new vision for community TV

May 16, 2010

| Catherine Edwards thinks it's time for cable companies to open up their airways to communities to create programming. Edwards is with CACTUS, an advocacy group for public access broadcasting.

14:16 minutes (13.07 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Update on Thailand protests

May 15, 2010

| Update on Thailand protests, Iranian unionist execution and interview on south Korean labour movement.

25:44 minutes (11.79 MB)

Redeye

Deepwater oil drilling never safe

May 12, 2010

| Chevron Canada has just begun work on the deepest oil well ever drilled in Canadian waters. Antonia Juhasz says the leak in the Gulf of Mexico will help us fight offshore driling.

16:33 minutes (15.15 MB)

Redeye

Residents of a small town in Ecuador sue the Toronto Stock Exchange

May 16, 2010

| Three people who live in Intag, Ecuador, launched a one and a half billion dollar lawsuit in court in Ontario, suing both the mining company Copper Mesa and the TSE.

18:28 minutes (16.91 MB)

Redeye

Bolivian social movements inspire climate alternatives

May 18, 2010

| The recent climate conference in Cochabamba did not arise out of the blue. It was, in many ways, a reflection of the political processes at work in Bolivia itself.

15:41 minutes (14.36 MB)

Redeye

Lose your kids and you can lose your house too

May 26, 2010

| When one B.C. ministry takes children into temporary care, another B.C. ministry reduces the shelter allowance and parents lose their housing. This makes it very hard for the children to return home.

12:37 minutes (11.56 MB)

Redeye

Mining company threatens Talonbooks

May 25, 2010

| Barrick Gold corporation threatened a small publisher in British Columbia with defamation if it published a book critical of Canada's role in the international mining industry.

16:01 minutes (14.67 MB)

Redeye

Holding Goldcorp accountable

May 25, 2010

| Goldcorp is a Vancouver-based mining company active in Central America where it faces widespread opposition. This week Central American activists attended Goldcorp's annual shareholder meeting.

15:57 minutes (14.61 MB)

radio book lounge

Episode 29 - George Fetherling reveals Walt Whitman's Secret

May 27, 2010

| An interview with George Fetherling about his latest novel Walt Whitman's Secret.

24:37 minutes (22.55 MB)

Redeye

Queer group barred from Toronto Pride parade

June 1, 2010

| Some of Toronto Pride's founding members belong to a group now banned from participating in the parade. Elle Flanders is with Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.

12:58 minutes (11.87 MB)

Redeye

Academics challenge SLAPP suits

June 1, 2010

| A SLAPP is a strategic lawsuit against public participation, brought by a corporation to silence criticism of their actions. Michel Seymour is concerned about the effects on academic freedom.

14:35 minutes (13.35 MB)

Redeye

Synthia: First artificial life form

June 1, 2010

| The creation of life made to order in a lab opens a Pandora's Box, according to Pat Mooney of the ETC group. He argues there's much more at stake than we might think.

11:17 minutes (10.33 MB)

Redeye

A First Nations take on the U.S. immigration debate

June 1, 2010

| The reservation that Alex Soto lives on straddles the border between the United States and Mexico. He shares his views on the current debate in Arizona about border and immigration controls.

14:28 minutes (13.24 MB)

Redeye

Alternatives to Growth

June 1, 2010

| The de-growth movement says that efficiency is not the panacea for our ecological woes -- in fact, it has led to a major increase in our ecological footprint. Conrad Schmidt explains how.

11:59 minutes (10.97 MB)

Redeye

Forest agreement will not save woodland caribou

June 1, 2010

| The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement has been hailed as a historic deal that could save a significant amount of caribou habitat. Stan Boutin is a biologist in Alberta.

11:10 minutes (10.23 MB)

rabble radio

#106: Interview with Canadian Kevin Neish as he boarded Gaza flotilla

May 31, 2010

| The Free Gaza flotilla has been attacked by the Israeli navy. Kevin Neish is a canadian peace activist who was on one of the boats. He spoke to rabble radio Friday as he was preparing to depart.

14:35 minutes (13.37 MB)

Redeye

North Vancouver alternative school to close

June 6, 2010

| Windsor House was set up in the 1970s to meet the needs of students -- and their parents -- who were dissatisfied by the regular school system.

10:15 minutes (9.39 MB)

Redeye

Six-month drilling moratorium a chance to clean up oil industry

June 6, 2010

| Daniel Rohlf says that the United States administration now has the opportunity to fix many of its problems in regulating the oil and gas industry.

16:02 minutes (14.69 MB)

Redeye

University of Toronto closes campus during G8/G20 meetings

June 6, 2010

| The U of T says it's taking measures to protect students from violence on campus. Patrick Vitale doesn't buy it.

13:40 minutes (12.51 MB)

Redeye

Increase in tanker traffic threatens Vancouver's waters

June 6, 2010

| Tankers holding three times as much oil as the Exxon Valdez are travelling through Vancouver's harbour twice a week, taking tarsands oil off for export.

10:31 minutes (9.63 MB)

Redeye

Cindy Corrie reflects on the journey of the Rachel Corrie

June 6, 2010

| Cindy Corrie is the mother of the young woman killed by a bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier in the Occupied Territories. Corrie talks about the boat, the Rachel Corrie, and its mission.

17:05 minutes (15.64 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Vancouver 'Hope in Shadows' photo contest underway

June 8, 2010

| Paul Ryan and John Richardson talk about Downtown Ambassadors, Red Tents in Ottawa and Hope in Shadows.

21:12 minutes (19.41 MB)

Redeye

75th anniversary of On to Ottawa Trek

June 7, 2010

| In June 1935, a thousand young men jumped on railroad boxcars in Vancouver, heading for Ottawa. Labour historian Joey Hartman tells the story of the trek and what it accomplished.

16:05 minutes (14.72 MB)

Redeye

Observing the elections in the Philippines

June 16, 2010

| With more than 1,000 political activists killed over the past nine years, local communities in the Philippines requested the presence of international observers during the recent election.

12:52 minutes (11.78 MB)

Redeye

Amendment to Indian Act still unfair to women

June 16, 2010

| First Nations women will still suffer discrimination under the government's Gender Equity in Indian Regristration Act, according to lawyer Sharon McIvor.

18:09 minutes (16.63 MB)

Redeye

High end hotels chronically understaffed

June 16, 2010

| Workers at many luxury hotels have seen their workloads increase dramatically at the same time as hotels are posting millions of dollar in profits.

12:51 minutes (11.77 MB)

Redeye

Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement a flawed deal

June 16, 2010

| Dawn Paley of the Vancouver Media Co-op has taken a close look at this new agreement. She believes that Canadian environmental organizations have signed away the right to protest for very little gain.

15:12 minutes (13.93 MB)

Redeye

Herr Beckmann's People

June 16, 2010

| A new play by Victoria playwright Sally Stubbs has won the third annual Canadian Peace Play competition. Laura Lamb went to see the production by Touchstone Theatre.

14:34 minutes (13.35 MB)

Redeye

Vancouver School Board on collision course with Ministry of Education

June 20, 2010

| A ministry press release accuses the VSB of financial mismanagement, the Board says it's simply trying to provided needed services for schoolchildren.

10:57 minutes (10.03 MB)

Redeye

Mineral discovery in Afghanistan an unmitigated disaster

June 20, 2010

| So says Michael Klare, professor of Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst and author of Resource Wars.

10:18 minutes (9.44 MB)

rabble radio

#108 - Mavi Marmara attack: Exclusive first interview with Gaza Flotilla activist Kevin Neish

June 3, 2010

| Kevin Neish was aboard the Mavi Marmara when the Israeli army attacked the ship. He tells his story in this episode of rabble radio.

22:59 minutes (21.06 MB)

rabble radio

#109 - Pt 2. of rabble.ca's exclusive interview with Gaza flotilla activist Kevin Neish: detention and release

June 3, 2010

| Kevin Neish was detained in Israel for two days after the Free Gaza Flotilla was attacked and activists arrested. In this podcast he talks about his release and what activism means.

14:37 minutes (13.41 MB)

Needs No Introduction

Maternal health and women's rights at the G8/G20

June 25, 2010

| An interview with Kasari Govender, Legal Director of the West Coast Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF).

16:05 minutes (14.76 MB)

Redeye

Bhopal convictions: Too little, too late

June 28, 2010

| This month, twenty five years after a chemical disaster which killed tens of thousands, an Indian court sentenced seven former Union Carbide employees with two years in prison and small fines.

13:47 minutes (12.62 MB)

Redeye

Taking a look at the new Alberta Health Act

June 29, 2010

| The Alberta government has announced that it's bringing in new legislation to "reorganize and revamp" the province's healthcare system. Colleen Fuller explores some of the key aspects of this reform.

12:21 minutes (11.31 MB)

Redeye

Cities desperate for infrastructure funding

June 29, 2010

| Of each dollar that is paid in taxes, only eight cents reaches municipalities. This means city councils are scrambling for money to complete essential infrastructure projects.

12:28 minutes (11.41 MB)

Redeye

Binners set up weekly Sunday market

June 30, 2010

| Downtown Eastsiders trying to sell the goods they salvage from dumpsters are tired of getting tickets from Vancouver police. They have organized a street market to challenge the by-laws.

10:28 minutes (9.58 MB)

Redeye

Libby Davies under attack

June 30, 2010

| The Vancouver East MP's response to a question in a video interview unleashed a storm of criticism from the mainstream media and other members of Parliament including from within her own party.

14:00 minutes (12.82 MB)

Redeye

Defenders of the Land go to the G8

June 30, 2010

| The day before the G8 and G20 summits began, over 2,000 people rallied in the streets of Toronto as part of an indigenous day of action. Clayton-Thomas Muller was one of the organizers.

16:59 minutes (15.55 MB)

rabble radio

#111 - In his own words: Guardian journalist arrested by G20 security forces

June 28, 2010

| He was writing for The Guardian when G20 security beat him up and arrested him. Jesse Rosenfeld tells his story. Then, we've got Amy Goodman on why an independent media is so important.

33:09 minutes (30.4 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Indigenous conference in central Australia

July 3, 2010

| Labour updates from the Asia Pacific region and interview on the major indigenous conference happening in central Australia.

30:53 minutes (14.18 MB)

Redeye

Pedestrian injury a major health issue

June 30, 2010

| Over 4,000 pedestrians are hurt each year in Canada. In Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as many as a third of residents have been injured by cars. Don Buchanan is a transportation planner.

13:27 minutes (12.31 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Excessive force by Vancouver Police caught on video

July 13, 2010

| Sean Condon of Megaphone Magazine talks about how he came about an exclusive story about the Vancouver Police exercising excessive force on a homeless man.

10:30 minutes (9.61 MB)

Redeye

Indigenous community under siege in Oaxaca

July 12, 2010

| Ever since the Triqui municipality of San Jaun Copala, Mexico declared itself autonomous, its citizens have faced extreme violence at the hands of a government funded paramilitary organization.

17:23 minutes (15.92 MB)

Redeye

Language justice in action

July 21, 2010

| Organizers at the recent U.S. Social Forum used low-power radio technology to ensure that everyone could engage in discussion together, regardless of their mother tongue.

13:24 minutes (12.26 MB)

Redeye

What's wrong with burning garbage

July 21, 2010

| Metro Vancouver is considering a waste-to-energy garbage incinerator. Helen Speigelman says that this technology is a hangover from Victorian times that has no place in modern cities.

12:59 minutes (11.88 MB)

Redeye

Rebuilding co-op housing for the 21st century

July 21, 2010

| Since government support for housing co-ops dried up in the 1990s, fewer than 300 new co-op units have been created outside of Quebec.

15:55 minutes (14.57 MB)

Redeye

BP should be shut down

July 26, 2010

| BP's operation of the Deepwater Horizon was both negligent and reckless according to Russell Mokhiber of Corporate Crime Reporter.

15:39 minutes (14.32 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Red Tents to protest MPs who are against a national housing strategy

July 27, 2010

| Paul Ryan talks to Doug King about an upcoming Red Tents action and seeking dialogue with Conservative MPs who voted against an amendment to C-304, the bill for a proposed national housing strategy.

9:05 minutes (8.32 MB)

Redeye

Besa: Muslims who saved Jews in World War II

July 21, 2010

| A new art exhibit in Vancouver explores the little-known history of Albanian Muslims who saved Jews during the Second World War.

16:23 minutes (15 MB)

Redeye

UK jury: Activists' destruction of weapons factory justified

July 24, 2010

| After Israel launched its deadly attack on Gaza in December 2009, anti-war activists broke into a British arms factory, smashed up equipment worth $300,000, and waited for the police to arrest them.

16:21 minutes (14.98 MB)

Redeye

If I can't sing, it's not my revolution

August 1, 2010

| Inspired by Emma Goldman, the musical duo Emma's Revolution is devoted to mixing music with politics.

16:35 minutes (15.19 MB)

Redeye

Gulf oil spill must be catalyst for change

July 22, 2010

| Richard Steiner was deeply involved in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. He just returned from working at the site of BP's Deepwater Horizon gusher and on the Gulf Coast.

18:49 minutes (17.23 MB)

Redeye

Mixing spoken word and music

August 1, 2010

| His childhood experiences of being bullied motivated Shane Koyczan's journey into spoken word and performance poetry. He was determined to prove wrong those who claimed his words didn't have value.

17:32 minutes (16.05 MB)

Redeye

Conservatives shutting down prison farms

August 3, 2010

| Farms have operated in Canadian prisons for more than 100 years. The farms provide meaningful work experience for inmates and contribute to local food sustainability. But they are all slated to close.

12:42 minutes (11.63 MB)

Redeye

Rethink Alberta

August 3, 2010

| A U.S. group has unveiled a billboard campaign urging Americans to reconsider their travel plans to Alberta because of the province's tar sands development.

10:59 minutes (10.06 MB)

Redeye

Assessing global responses to the food crisis

August 6, 2010

| In 2007 and 2008, high food prices threatened the livelihoods of billions of people worldwide. A new report looks at how effective the response of governments and organizations was to this crisis.

14:44 minutes (13.5 MB)

Redeye

Making money from the earthquake in Haiti

August 7, 2010

| Monsanto and American Rice are just two of the transnational corporations who are taking advantage of the humanitarian disaster in Haiti to improve their bottom lines.

16:41 minutes (15.27 MB)

Redeye

The Sky Below: A film about the partition of India

August 10, 2010

| U.S. painter and director Sarah Singh travelled throughout India and Pakistan interviewing people and collecting music and images for this award-winning documentary.

19:48 minutes (18.13 MB)

Redeye

Festival of politics, arts and music wraps up after 20 years

August 11, 2010

| Under the Volcano has been engaging and informing activists in the Lower Mainland since 1990. This year is its last year. We speak with founder and organizer Irwin Oostindie.

11:34 minutes (10.6 MB)

Redeye

Who sank the Cheonan

August 3, 2010

| When a South Korean military vessel off the coast of North Korea in March, fingers were pointed at North Korea. Erich Weingartner says the evidence isn't there to support these claims.

18:30 minutes (16.94 MB)

Redeye

Unsung heroes in the struggle for Medicare

August 10, 2010

| The name of Tommy Douglas is synonymous with the birth of universal healthcare in Canada. But grassroots activists in the community clinic movement also played a major role.

16:17 minutes (14.91 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Labour news from the Asia Pacific region

August 14, 2010

| Labour news from Turkey, Pakistan, China, Sth Korea, Indonesia and Australia. Interview with Lek, Action for People's Democracy in Thailand, on the ongoing repression in Thailand.

29:20 minutes (13.47 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Labour news from the Asia Pacific region

August 21, 2010

| News on workers from Iran, Bangladesh, China, South Korea and anti-asbestos meetings.

28:05 minutes (11.25 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Women workers organise in Asia

August 28, 2010

| Labour news from Turkey, India, Cambodia, Indonesia. Interview with Gwynnyth Evans from Meatworkers Union on women workers meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia. APC is produced by Australia Asia Worker Links

29:18 minutes (13.42 MB)

Redeye

The G20 and what the media ignored

September 1, 2010

| During the Toronto G20, TV screens portrayed mayhem in the streets while political leaders looked busy and smiled for the cameras. Reasons behind the protests, though, were largely ignored.

16:26 minutes (15.06 MB)

Redeye

The partition of India, 63 years on

September 1, 2010

| Before conceding independence to India in 1947, Britain divided the country in two. The splitting of Pakistan and India resulted in 2 million deaths and a conflict that remains tense to this day.

29:26 minutes (26.94 MB)

Needs No Introduction

On to Ottawa: 75 Years Later

August 25, 2010

| An interview with Al Dugas on his memory of the historic trek to protest conditions in federal relief camps.

8:26 minutes (7.75 MB)

Labour Show

Episode #16: Standing up for one of Guelph's last Old Growth Forests

August 10, 2009

| An occupation (late July-Aug) halts development at one of the last Old Growth Forests in Southern Ontario.

50:53 minutes (46.59 MB)

Labour Show

Episode #19- Conservatives to require visas while denying human rights abuses: Part 3

September 25, 2009

| Connecting the racist re-imposition of visas w/ the current state of the Canadian immigration system.

9:32 minutes (8.72 MB)

Redeye

Nothing new in Canada's treatment of Tamil refugees

September 3, 2010

| Sri Lankan Tamils face discrimination and poverty as they struggle for rights in their homeland. Now in Canada, they face many similar issues.

13:49 minutes (12.65 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

September 4, 2010

| Labour news from India, Indonesia, China, Solomon Islands, Turkey, Bangladesh and Australia. Interview with Mahendra (translator) & Rita from Lemonde factory in Jakarta, Indonesia. APC is produced by

30:05 minutes (13.77 MB)

Redeye

Racism and geopolitics keep aid from Pakistan

September 3, 2010

| The floods in Pakistan have triggered a massive social crisis that will not be alleviated by policies being pursued by domestic and international elites says Snehal Shingavi.

15:06 minutes (13.82 MB)

Redeye

Antisemitism: Real and imagined

September 14, 2010

| In his book "Antisemitism: Real and imagined," Michael Keefer details Canada's history of anti-semitism, and challenges attempts to equate political criticism of Israel with a "new" anti-semitism.

20:59 minutes (19.21 MB)

Redeye

Auditor General says BC parks are at risk

September 18, 2010

| In late August, a report by the BC Auditor General confirmed what environmentalists have been saying for years. It found the government is not protectecting the ecological integrity of BC's parks.

12:46 minutes (11.69 MB)

Redeye

Leaked UN report reveals Rwandan president guilty of genocide

September 22, 2010

| Peter Erlinder was lead defence council for four top military officers accused of genocide in Rwanda. He has been questioning the official story on the Rwandan war for years.

19:39 minutes (18 MB)

Redeye

Koran-burning pastor in Florida and Osama Bin Laden two sides of the same coin

September 22, 2010

| Journalist Haroon Siddiqui says that Terry Jones is no more representative of Christians than Osama Bin Laden is of Muslims. He blames nine years of Islamophobia for these kinds of distortions.

17:15 minutes (15.8 MB)

Redeye

Peace activists applaud judge's decision

September 22, 2010

| Fourteen protesters accused of trespass for actions against Creech Air Force base in Nevada were delighted that the judge in their case said she needed several months to consider expert testimony.

15:06 minutes (13.82 MB)

Redeye

Rape rampant in Haitian relief camps

September 29, 2010

| A new report says that women living in the makeshift camps that have housed thousands of Hatians since the earthquake in January, are at extreme risk of facing sexual violence.

11:25 minutes (10.45 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Prostitution laws knocked down

September 29, 2010

| Katrina Pacey from Pivot Legal Society talks about the Ontario Superior Court decision to legalize prostitution.

8:14 minutes (7.54 MB)

Redeye

BC Hydro rebrands Peace River dam project as 'clean and green'

October 1, 2010

| Chief Liz Logan says the Site C dam proposed for the Peace River will destroy thousands of hectares of old growth forest, valuable farmland and First Nations traditional territory.

14:17 minutes (13.09 MB)

Redeye

Migrant workers at greater risk of injury and death

October 1, 2010

| Agricultural work is one of the most dangerous occupations in Canada and migrant workers are particularly vulnerable. We talk with Tzazna Miranda Leal in the wake of two deaths on an Ontario farm.

11:56 minutes (10.92 MB)

Redeye

U.S. plans to expand drug war in Mexico

October 1, 2010

| Hillary Clinton is calling for an escalation of U.S. military activity in Mexico. Laura Carlsen says her remarks are opening the door to a much broader type of intervention in the country.

16:05 minutes (14.73 MB)

Redeye

Obama and the end of the combat mission in Iraq

October 2, 2010

| Award-winning independent journalist Dahr Jamail says the announcement of the withdrawal of combat troops is simply a re-branding of the thousands of U.S. soldiers who will remain in the country.

11:14 minutes (10.29 MB)

Redeye

Deportations of Roma challenged in Danish court

October 2, 2010

| The European Roma Rights Cente in Budapest, Hungary says the deportation of 23 Roma from Copenhagen in July violates European law.

12:18 minutes (11.26 MB)

Redeye

Prostitution laws struck down in Ontario

October 4, 2010

| On September 29, the Superior Court of Ontario ruled three key provisions of the law against prostitution unconstitutional. We speak with lawyer Katrina Pacey.

10:42 minutes (9.81 MB)

Redeye

Victoria bans camping on Pandora Green

October 5, 2010

| A by-law banning camping in public parks was struck down by the Supreme Court of B.C. Now Victoria council has rezoned a public park as a "street median" to prevent homeless people erecting shelters.

12:59 minutes (11.9 MB)

Redeye

Vancouver city council not protecting low-income housing

October 6, 2010

| Single room occupancy hotels in the Downtown Eastside are raising their prices above what the people willing to live in them can afford.

13:24 minutes (12.28 MB)

Redeye

Afghan war enters ninth year

October 6, 2010

| Derrick O'Keefe talks with us about the recent fraudulent elections, war crimes charges against U.S. soldiers and Blackwater training Canadian soldiers.

17:07 minutes (15.68 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

B.C. sex law challenge to proceed

October 13, 2010

| Katrina Pacey from Pivot Legal Society explains what happens now to the sex work challenge that was delayed by the federal government in 2008.

9:34 minutes (8.76 MB)

Redeye

Police used little-known law to harass G20 protesters

August 11, 2010

| An old piece of legislation, the Public Works Protection Act, was dusted off and used by police to violate the civil rights of protesters, according to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

16:34 minutes (15.18 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Red Tent National Day of Action

October 19, 2010

| Red Tents were erected all over the country today as part of the National Day of Action to urge politicians to address the homelessness crisis.

5:49 minutes (5.33 MB)

Redeye

Louisiana coastal communities under threat

October 21, 2010

| The BP spill in the Gulf is just one in a series of oil-related disasters that have affected small African-American, Native and Vietnamese communities.

13:21 minutes (12.22 MB)

Redeye

The environmental costs of militarism

October 21, 2010

| The Pentagon is the largest single consumer of oil in the world, using one-quarter of the world's jet fuel. Yet the military's use of energy and contribution to global warming is rarely discussed.

14:17 minutes (13.08 MB)

Redeye

Dirty Oil

October 21, 2010

| Leslie Iwerks' film about the tar sands played to sold-out audiences at the Calgary Film Festival last month. The film details the social, environmental and political impacts of the development.

12:40 minutes (11.6 MB)

Redeye

Cochabamba proposals on agenda for climate summit in Cancun

October 24, 2010

| Parts of the agreement that came out of the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Bolivia in April are in the negotiating text for Mexico in November.

13:58 minutes (12.8 MB)

Redeye

Mapping dirty energy facilities

October 24, 2010

| The Energy Justice Network works with local communities organizing to stop polluting technologies. One of their projects is to track and record all the dirty energy and waste facilities in the U.S.

10:56 minutes (10.02 MB)

Redeye

Bioethanol and biodiesel not a green alternative

October 23, 2010

| Agrofuels don't benefit the environment and they don't benefit the people or countries who produce them, according to Lucy Sharratt of the Canadian Biotechnology Network.

11:37 minutes (10.64 MB)

Redeye

Improving maternal health worldwide

October 27, 2010

| A woman dies every 90 seconds during pregnancy or while giving birth. Many of these deaths are preventable. Farah Shroff was a panelist at a recent forum titled Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies.

14:01 minutes (12.83 MB)

Redeye

Lawsuit by private clinic argues Medicare unconstitutional

October 29, 2010

| The public health care system in Canada is under threat from private providers in a crucial lawsuit. Colleen Fuller says we need to be watching this case closely.

14:46 minutes (13.53 MB)

Redeye

Celebrating community health centres

October 30, 2010

| The first community health centres were set up in the 1920s. Today there are over 300 across the country, mainly in Ontario and Quebec. Madeline Boscoe is executive director of REACH in Vancouver.

11:20 minutes (10.39 MB)

Redeye

Drug companies involved in definition of new sexual disorder

October 27, 2010

| Barbara Mintzes is co-author of the recent book Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals, examining how the industry is implicated in the discovery of a new women's illness: female sexual dysfunction.

13:23 minutes (12.26 MB)

Redeye

Canadian penitentiaries becoming largest psychiatric facilities in the country

October 30, 2010

| The Correctional Investigator of Canada said the neglect of mental health needs has escalated to the point that inmates with pyschiatric needs are simply being warehoused in prisons.

15:13 minutes (13.93 MB)

Redeye

Inequality hurts us all

November 5, 2010

| A book by two British epidemiologists finds that whole societies, from top to bottom, are worse off if there's a wider gap between rich and poor.

15:31 minutes (14.21 MB)

Redeye

What's in the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history

November 6, 2010

| 390,000 classified U.S. military documents were released in October through the online whistleblower site Wikileaks. Pratap Chatterjee explains what kind of information the documents contain.

16:31 minutes (15.12 MB)

Redeye

Why Naheed Nenshi won in Calgary

November 6, 2010

| Calgary's new mayor used social media to communicate with voters and vowed to end divisive politics at City Hall. In return, he was voted in with the highest voter turnout in recent memory.

12:09 minutes (11.13 MB)

Redeye

Solidarity Notes Labour Choir

November 7, 2010

| This Vancouver-based community choir is celebrating their 10th anniversary this month. We speak with conductor Earle Peach and long-time choir member Bob Rosen.

15:20 minutes (14.05 MB)

Redeye

Fighting for green space in East Vancouver

November 8, 2010

| In the north-east corner of the city, there's a highly contested 182-acre piece of land that local residents are determined to convert to a community-oriented park.

18:03 minutes (16.53 MB)

Redeye

The elections Haitians don't want or need

November 9, 2010

| In the midst of another natural disaster, with the country in ruins from the last one, Haitians are going to the polls. Yet the most popular party continues to be banned from participating.

17:02 minutes (15.6 MB)

Redeye

Preventing violence against mental health workers

October 28, 2010

| Mental health care workers face the constant threat of patient violence. Last year, the number of injury claims among health care workers was 10% higher than in the entire law enforcement sector.

14:13 minutes (13.02 MB)

Redeye

Wear a white poppy for peace

November 8, 2010

| In 1933 the Women's Cooperative Guild in the U.K. used a white poppy to remember all the casualities of war, not only the soldiers. Teresa Gagne is distributing white poppies in B.C.

12:04 minutes (11.05 MB)

Redeye

Rob Ford and the rise of the municipal right

November 10, 2010

| On Oct. 25, Toronto residents elected Rob Ford as mayor in an election that saw a higher than usual voter turnout. He ran on a platform of cutting social spending and taxes.

13:34 minutes (12.43 MB)

Redeye

Protests against Canadian involvement in Tibetan mine

November 11, 2010

| The Canada Tibet Committee was outside the shareholder's meeting for China Gold International Resources in Vancouver in October, bringing attention to the Canadian mining industry's role in Tibet.

13:36 minutes (12.46 MB)

Redeye

Residents of Canada's Chemical Valley bring lawsuit against Ontario government

November 16, 2010

| The environmental group Ecojustice is representing two members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation who say that the cumulative effect of pollution in the area is threatening their health.

10:04 minutes (9.22 MB)

Redeye

Right-wing nationalist party wins 20 seats in Swedish parliament

November 16, 2010

| The Sweden Democrats are a populist, anti-immigration party which traces its roots to neo-Nazi groupings from the 1980s. Daniel Poohl is author of a book about the Sweden Democrats.

16:04 minutes (14.71 MB)

Redeye

Reflecting on more than 20 years of Alternative Radio

November 16, 2010

| A feature interview with David Barsamian, founder of Alternative Radio, a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations around the world.

15:34 minutes (14.26 MB)

Redeye

Federal cabinet turns down mining proposal for Fish Lake

November 18, 2010

| The federal government followed the recommendations of an independent review panel that said the Prosperity Copper Mine would have significant impacts of the environment.

10:47 minutes (9.87 MB)

Redeye

Proposed Alberta Parks Act pits environment against recreation

November 18, 2010

| The new law will dilute protection of wilderness parks and give the Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation significantly more discretion than previous legislation.

11:19 minutes (10.36 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Organizing workers in the Philippines by the KMU and regional organizing -- asbestos and Foxconn

November 21, 2010

| Asia Pacific news, current affairs and labour rights stories from Turkey, Pakistan, India, China, South Korea, Philippines and Australia.

30:16 minutes (13.86 MB)

Redeye

Tuition fees to triple in the UK

November 23, 2010

| Fifty thousand students demostrated in the streets of London following the announcement of major cuts to education funding. We speak with Siobhan Brown from Manchester, England.

12:20 minutes (11.29 MB)

Redeye

Nggrfg: A play about being black and gay

November 23, 2010

| Nggrfg is a one-man play written and performed by Berend McKenzie. It premiered at the Edmonton Fringe in 2008. For the past year and a half, McKenzie has been performing the play in schools.

18:43 minutes (17.15 MB)

Redeye

Conservative government's new bill a disaster for refugees

November 17, 2010

| In October, the Harper government introduced a refugee reform bill designed to penalize refugees coming to Canada with the aid of human smugglers. Rick Goldman says it will affect all asylum seekers.

14:01 minutes (12.84 MB)

Redeye

You Don't Like The Truth: 4 days inside Guantánamo

December 1, 2010

| This award-winning documentary is based on seven hours of video footage from the interrogation of Omar Khadr in Guantánamo Bay, recently declassified by the Canadian courts.

13:34 minutes (12.43 MB)

Redeye

George Galloway on Afghanistan, Palestine and free speech

November 30, 2010

| George Galloway was banned from entering Canada in March 2009. Following a ruling in the Federal Court, Galloway was allowed into Canada. We catch up with him in the middle of his speaking tour.

16:36 minutes (15.2 MB)

Redeye

Ski resort threatens spiritual home of grizzly bear

December 5, 2010

| Plans for a year-round ski resort on the Jumbo Glacier in the Purcell Mountains of B.C. have stalled following a declaration of sovereignity by the Ktunaxa First Nation.

17:33 minutes (16.07 MB)

Redeye

'Vulnerably housed' face same severe health problems as homeless

December 7, 2010

| For every one person in Canada who is homeless, another 23 live in unsafe, crowded or unaffordable housing.

12:52 minutes (11.78 MB)

Redeye

Group claims Canada's ecological footprint good reason to restrict immigration

December 8, 2010

| The Centre for Immigration Policy Reform is using environmental arguments to push for more restrictive immigration policies in Canada.

14:09 minutes (12.96 MB)

Redeye

Israel Awareness Club challenges donation to Gaza Aid Flotilla

December 11, 2010

| In November, members of the Israel Awareness Club at UBC attended the AGM of the Social Justice Centre and demanded they revoke funding to the Gaza Aid Flotilla and a talk by George Galloway.

14:11 minutes (12.99 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

December 11, 2010

| Labour news from Asia with extended interview on the red shirt movement in thailand

29:57 minutes (13.71 MB)

Redeye

Get That Freak

December 18, 2010

| Despite the fact that same-sex marriage is legal in Canada, kids in high school who identify or are identified as queer experience constant harassment and bullying.

14:53 minutes (13.64 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

asia pacific currents

December 18, 2010

| Pike River mine disaster New Zealand, labour news from Iran, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Philippines and Indonesia

28:12 minutes (12.91 MB)

Migrant Matters

More accounts of martial law at Toronto G20 protests (1 of 5)

August 17, 2010

| Protester speaks out about the police brutality and indiscriminate arrests at the G20 protests.

15:40 minutes (25.11 MB)

Migrant Matters

Observing elections in the Philippines

August 18, 2010

| International election observer, Stefan Christoff, speaks about Philippine state repression on election day.

32:52 minutes (30.09 MB)

Migrant Matters

Health as a right? Prioritizing health for migrants doing agricultural work in Ontario (1 of 3)

August 19, 2010

| Over 250 people working as migrant agricultural labourers attended "Health Day," which centered around health barriers imposed by the work they are allowed to do here in Canada.

13:31 minutes (12.39 MB)

Migrant Matters

Philippine elections 2010: Voting amid violence and corruption

August 28, 2010

| An overview of the widespread politcal repression going on throughout the Philippines during the time leading up to the May 2010 general elections.

38:02 minutes (34.82 MB)

Migrant Matters

More accounts of martial law at Toronto G20 protests (2 of 5)

August 28, 2010

| Kristin Guité shares her experience of the police campaign of intimidation and scare tactics at the recent G20 protests in Toronto.

36:38 minutes (67.08 MB)

Migrant Matters

Health as a right? Prioritizing health for migrants doing agricultural work in Ontario (2 of 3)

September 1, 2010

| The Conservative government continues to force a great number of people into a position where access to healthcare and a workplace free of health risks becomes attainable only in their dreams.

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9:13 minutes (2.11 MB)

Migrant Matters

Health as a right? Prioritizing health for migrants doing agricultural work in Ontario (3 of 3)

September 3, 2010

| The Conservative government continues to force a great number of people into a position where access to health care and a workplace free of health risks becomes attainable only in their dreams.

13:41 minutes (12.52 MB)

Migrant Matters

Mourning recent deaths of T.O. migrant workers (2 of 2)

September 4, 2010

| Workplace horror: This past Christmas Eve in Toronto four migrant workers had plummeted to their deaths, and a fifth worker left in permanent critical condition.

36:09 minutes (24.83 MB)

Migrant Matters

More accounts of martial law at Toronto G20 protests: Brandon's arrest story (3 of 5)

September 13, 2010

| Brandon shares his experience of being incarcerated without charges during the recent G20 protests in Toronto.

21:09 minutes (14.53 MB)

Migrant Matters

Mourning recent deaths of T.O. migrant workers (1 of 2)

September 1, 2010

| Workplace horror: This past Christmas Eve in Toronto four migrant workers had plummeted to their deaths, and a fifth worker left in permanent critical condition.

21:06 minutes (14.49 MB)

Redeye

Stopping animal research at UBC

January 6, 2011

| UBC conducts extensive research on a variety of animals, including pigs, primates, cats and rabbits. Much of that research is funded by the public, through taxpayer dollars and student fees.

16:52 minutes (15.44 MB)

Redeye

Report from Cancun

January 16, 2011

| Ben Powless is with the Indigenous Environmental Network. He was in Cancun for the climate summit in December and participated in the official talks as a member of the Indigenous People's Caucus.

15:13 minutes (13.93 MB)

Redeye

Victory for women's rights in Haiti

January 16, 2011

| The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ruled that the Haitian government has failed to provide adequate protection for women and girls in the camps.

17:09 minutes (15.7 MB)

Redeye

Understanding the assassination of Salman Taseer

January 16, 2011

| The killing of Punjab's governor by one of his own security guards in Islamabad is being called a symptom of a growing fanaticism. Conn Hallinan sees other causes of instability in the country.

17:07 minutes (15.67 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Pivot ready for sex work challenges

January 12, 2011

| Katrina Pacey from Pivot Legal Society talks about the Ontario Superior Court decision to legalize prostitution and what's new with the B.C. challenge in 2011.

10:10 minutes (9.31 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

B.C. call to reinstate child payments

January 19, 2011

| Darcie Bennett, Campaigns Director for Pivot, talks about a call to action to reinstate earnings exemptions in B.C., the Canadian province with the highest child poverty.

8:43 minutes (7.99 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Transit police violence

January 26, 2011

| Doug King discusses recent horrific injuries sustained by Vancouver transit passengers from the transit police.

11:27 minutes (10.49 MB)

Redeye

How a millionaire got the working-class vote in Toronto

December 23, 2010

| Millionaires Rob Ford and Don Cherry painted themselves as blue-collar guys at Ford's inauguration in early December. Brian Topp says they are a lot smarter than progressives give them credit for.

15:35 minutes (14.27 MB)

Redeye

A Journey: My Political Life

December 23, 2010

| Activist and author Derrick O'Keefe made his way through this 700-page political reflection by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and shares his thoughts on what he found there.

15:01 minutes (13.75 MB)

Redeye

Bill to ban tanker traffic on B.C. coast

January 16, 2011

| Vancouver Liberal MP Joyce Murray has tabled a private member's bill to ban tanker traffic on the northern B.C. coast. This would also block pipelines from Alberta through B.C. to the Pacific.

14:31 minutes (13.29 MB)

Redeye

FBI targets U.S. Palestine activists

January 17, 2011

| Several Palestine solidarity activists and Palestinian-American community organizers have been summoned to appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago in January.

18:00 minutes (16.48 MB)

Redeye

CEO earnings recession-proof

January 18, 2011

| Despite a serious economic downturn, the business elite earned far more than the average Canadian in 2009. It takes a CEO just a few hours to make what it takes the rest of us a year to earn.

15:26 minutes (14.14 MB)

Redeye

Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919

January 19, 2011

| A new book by Daniel Francis chronicles a far-reaching conspiracy by the Robert Borden government against trade unionists and immigrants during and shortly after the First World War.

24:13 minutes (22.18 MB)

Redeye

Goldcorp donates millions to SFU

February 1, 2011

| Student and union activist Jennifer Scott talks with Redeye about opposition on campus and in the Downtown Eastside to a $10 million donation from Goldcorp.

14:39 minutes (13.42 MB)

Redeye

The myth of Iran's nuclear program

February 1, 2011

| Journalist Gareth Porter speaks to Redeye about his research into the validity of the evidence that Iran has nuclear capability.

13:24 minutes (12.27 MB)

Redeye

Uprising in Tunisia

February 1, 2011

| Of all the North African states ruled by dictators, Tunisia collapsed first. Redeye explores what led to the rebellion and what could happen next with Samer Shehata.

16:41 minutes (15.27 MB)

Redeye

Looking back on 30 years of development fever in Vancouver

February 3, 2011

| Longtime housing activist John Shayler tells Redeye it's time for city councils of all political stripes to stop pursuing greater density at the expense of city residents.

12:02 minutes (11.02 MB)

Redeye

What led to the uprising in Egypt

February 3, 2011

| Stephen Zunes joins us on Redeye to talk about the Mubarak regime, the Egyptian economy and the Obama administration's response to the pro-democracy movement in the streets.

13:35 minutes (12.45 MB)

Redeye

How the term 'ethical oil' entered public discourse

February 3, 2011

| Donald Gutstein tells Redeye how Canada's right-wing echo chamber latched onto the term "ethical oil" which then entered the political arena in less than two months.

11:50 minutes (10.84 MB)

Redeye

Mohamed Harkat faces new deportation order

February 3, 2011

| Harkat has spent the last nine years held on a security certificate. Redeye speaks with Sophie Harkat about the most recent ruling against her husband by the Federal Court.

15:20 minutes (14.04 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Asia Pacific Currents labour news

February 7, 2011

| Asia Pacific news, current affairs and labour rights stories from Iran, India, Bangladesh and Australia, and Occupational Health and Safety news from South Korea.

30:38 minutes (14.03 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Call for an independent police panel in B.C.

February 9, 2011

| Paul Ryan talks to Doug King about the need for an independent panel to investigate police misconduct in British Columbia.

9:02 minutes (8.28 MB)

Migrant Matters

Health & safety of migrant workers ignored

September 17, 2010

| Liz speaks to her experiences working under the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program and the hardships endured under it.

19:40 minutes (18 MB)

Redeye

Budrus: A village stands against an army

February 9, 2011

| Redeye speaks with Erica Lamacraft about a documentary on a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction.

11:38 minutes (10.65 MB)

Redeye

Investigation into 2005 assassination of Lebanese president

February 9, 2011

| Redeye speaks with U.S. journalist Franklin Lamb, based in Beirut, about the Bellemare investigation into the killing of Rafiq Hariri six years ago.

15:14 minutes (13.95 MB)

Redeye

Changing dynamics in the Middle East

February 10, 2011

| Redeye's Mordecai Briemberg discusses the impact of the Palestine Papers released to Al Jazeera by Wikileaks, particularly in the context of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

15:15 minutes (13.96 MB)

Redeye

Toronto loses community radio station

February 10, 2011

| On February 12, CKLN loses its licence and closes its doors after 28 years on the air. Redeye speaks with Freya Zaltz about a CRTC decision that came as a shock to the entire sector.

15:03 minutes (13.79 MB)

Redeye

The myth of economic recovery

February 10, 2011

| Author Richard Wolff speaks with Redeye about the reality of the global economic meltdown. Wolff argues that the only way to avoid the instability of capitalism is to fundamentally change the system.

14:26 minutes (13.22 MB)

Redeye

Two revolutions: Egypt and Iran

February 14, 2011

| On Feb. 11, Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak fell, 32 years to the day after the Shah of Iran was overthrown. Redeye explores similarities and differences between the two revolutions with Saeed Rahnema.

17:57 minutes (16.44 MB)

Redeye

The Victimhood of the Powerful

February 14, 2011

| Jenny Peto's master's thesis explores what she describes as a disconnect between her experience as a privileged Jewish Canadian and her sense of herself as a member of a community of victims.

14:13 minutes (13.02 MB)

Redeye

Taking care of Canadian seniors

February 15, 2011

| Dr. Margaret McGregor tells Redeye that the quality of care in for-profit facilities is not as good. And that's a concern because the number of seniors in for-profit homes is increasing all the time.

8:20 minutes (7.63 MB)

Redeye

Water extraction proposal threatens dozens of B.C. streams

February 15, 2011

| Redeye speaks with Lanni Keller about 40 separate applications that add up to a new water collection scheme on the B.C. coast. She's concerned that it's the thin edge of the wedge.

11:44 minutes (10.75 MB)

Redeye

Students at U of T challenge administration

February 16, 2011

| 150 members of the University of Toronto met in late January to form a new decision-making body. The general assembly is made up of students, faculty, campus workers and teaching support staff.

14:01 minutes (12.84 MB)

Redeye

Stephen Harper's policies in the Middle East

February 14, 2011

| The Canadian government is saying very little about mass popular rebellions in Egypt and Tunisia. Redeye finds out more from Yves Engler, author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy.

12:03 minutes (11.04 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Pivot's social change through Vancouver public space

February 16, 2011

| John Richardson, founder of the Pivot Legal Society, delivers a short talk at Change Through on Pivot's role in using Vancouver public space for social change.

9:37 minutes (8.81 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Precedent set in standards of maintenance case in Surrey

February 24, 2011

| Lawyer Scott Bernstein speaks to Paul Ryan about a tenant who won her case against a negligent landlord in Surrey.

11:32 minutes (10.56 MB)

Migrant Matters

Immigration minister's visit to Guelph, ON met by picnic denouncing federal immigration policies

September 26, 2010

| Picnic denounces federal Minister Jason Kenney's visit to Guelph, Canada's anti-migrant policies and the direction of conservative politics.

25:06 minutes (22.98 MB)

Migrant Matters

Migrant workers in Ontario embark on historic "Pilgrimage to Freedom" this Thanksgiving

October 8, 2010

| How were the recent workplace deaths of migrant agricultural workers, Ralston White and Paul Roach, preventable? What fuels this 50km march?

18:21 minutes (16.8 MB)

Migrant Matters

More accounts of martial law at Toronto G20 protests (4 of 5)

October 18, 2010

| Another protester speaks out about the police brutality and indiscriminate arrests at the Toronto G8/20 protests.

17:27 minutes (11.99 MB)

Migrant Matters

More accounts of martial law at Toronto G20 protests: Sema's arrest story (5 of 5)

October 25, 2010

| Sema talks about police repression, including her own arrest and detention, at the protests.

17:53 minutes (16.38 MB)

Migrant Matters

Spotlight on life in a Kenyan refugee camp

November 1, 2010

| Former refugees tell their story of people living in a refugee camp in Kenya.

33:51 minutes (30.99 MB)

Migrant Matters

Burma's prescripted Nov 7 polls to prolong military rule

November 6, 2010

| Dr. Naing Aung talks about how the military has control of the upcoming elections in Burma, prolonging legitimacy of the military domination over the Burmese people.

31:56 minutes (29.23 MB)

Migrant Matters

Thousands support Palestinians' right to education at World Education Forum, Montreal activist denied entry to Palestine

November 19, 2010

| Stefan talks about being refused into Palestine, education as a tool for emancipation from Israeli apartheid, and how international solidarity helps fight the occupation and apartheid.

17:11 minutes (15.73 MB)

Migrant Matters

Behind local produce: Temporary work permits leave working-poor migrants open to exploitation

November 29, 2010

| Everyday throughout the growing and harvest seasons, non-citizen people put in day-long exhausting labour so that Canadians can eat at convenience and inexpensively.

34:58 minutes (32.02 MB)

Redeye

Firsthand account of protests in Tahrir Square

February 26, 2011

| Redeye speaks with Jase Tanner, a Canadian filmmaker who found himself in the midst of the Egyptian rebellion while on his way to Gaza with Code Pink.

19:30 minutes (17.85 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Life and work in China

February 19, 2011

| We speak to returning Asia Pacific Currents presenter Diana Beaumont about life and work in southern China.

30:28 minutes (13.95 MB)

Redeye

What sets Quebec solidaire apart from other political parties

March 2, 2011

| Redeye talks with Roger Rashi, founding member of Quebec Solidaire and a social and political activist living in Montreal.

15:17 minutes (13.99 MB)

Redeye

Youth and the Olympics

March 2, 2011

| Organizers of the Olympics say the Games are all about youth. Redeye spoke with Jacqueline Kennelly who has been talking with homeless and street-involved youth about how the Games impacted them.

14:15 minutes (13.05 MB)

Redeye

Tories slash funding to immigrant services

February 28, 2011

| Kripa Shekar tells Redeye what the Conservative government's massive cuts to immigrant-serving organizations will mean for newcomers to Canada.

12:01 minutes (11.01 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Asia Pacific Currents - Labour News and stories

February 26, 2011

| Labour updates from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, sth Korea, and Indonesia

31:34 minutes (14.45 MB)

Redeye

Free trade deal with Europe threatens Canadian autonomy

February 28, 2011

| Stuart Trew of the Council of Canadians tells Redeye that Canadians have a lot to lose if the government signs a free trade agreement with Europe.

14:02 minutes (12.85 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Christy Clark: B.C. premier elect's impact on families

March 3, 2011

| What will Christy Clark's appointment as B.C. premier really mean for families? Paul Ryan asks Pivot's Campaign Director Darcie Bennett.

8:36 minutes (7.88 MB)

Redeye

Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

March 3, 2011

| Redeye caught up with director Bob Christie and producer Morris Chapdelaine and talked with them about their film, which follows the director of Vancouver's Pride Parade around the world.

13:49 minutes (12.66 MB)

Redeye

Incendie

March 3, 2011

| Redeye speaks with film buffs Marty and Martha Roth about their reactions to Canada's entry for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards.

14:57 minutes (13.69 MB)

Redeye

Hydro rates skyrocket in B.C.

March 9, 2011

| Redeye asked John Calvert what's behind the huge increases in the cost of electricity in British Columbia. Calvert is the author of Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in B.C.

15:55 minutes (14.57 MB)

Redeye

Women and digital culture

March 8, 2011

| Redeye talks with DJ Betti Forde, one of the curators of the Utopia Festival in Vancouver. The festival aims to encourage women to get involved in the male-dominated field of technology.

15:18 minutes (14.02 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Solidarity visit from South Korean Vehicles Union

March 12, 2011

| Piergiorgio Moro interviews Glenn Thompson from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union about a recent visit from the Vehicles Union in South Korea.

29:47 minutes (13.64 MB)

Redeye

Vancouver may get biggest casino in western Canada

March 4, 2011

| Vancouver City Council is holding public hearings on plans to build a destination casino near B.C. Place in the downtown core. Redeye speaks with Sean Bickerton of Vancouver, not Vegas.

10:42 minutes (9.79 MB)

Redeye

Time for Palestinian Authority to go

March 4, 2011

| The Palestinian Authority is reeling from the recent Wikileaks revelations and the resignation of Mubarak in Egypt. Redeye speaks with Ali Abunimah; he believes the PA should dissolve itself.

13:16 minutes (12.15 MB)

Redeye

Fighting Wisconsin's anti-union legislation

March 4, 2011

| Redeye speaks with Matthew Rothschild, editor of Progressive Magazine in Madison, Wisconsin on a day of massive protests in the city. He explains the details of Governor Scott Walker's budget bill.

10:53 minutes (9.97 MB)

Redeye

Fighting for human rights in Iran

March 9, 2011

| Parvin Ashrafi speaks with Redeye about the struggle for political rights in Iran. She also talks about the struggle for an end to laws that discriminate against women.

15:22 minutes (14.08 MB)

Redeye

Assessing Canada's response to the Haiti earthquake

March 18, 2011

| Roger Annis tells Redeye that much of what Canada promised in aid was not delivered and that even pledges to speed up family reunification weren't honoured.

13:40 minutes (12.52 MB)

Redeye

Activist and journalist runs for MEC board

March 18, 2011

| Redeye speaks with Dru Oja Jay about why he's running for a position on the board of Mountain Equipment Coop. Dru Oja Jay is co-founder of The Dominion, a grassroots online newspaper.

15:00 minutes (13.74 MB)

Redeye

Vancouver's Chinatown threatened with development

March 15, 2011

| Vancouver City Council will vote March 17 on whether to allow increases in height and density. Locals fear that highrise towers in Chinatown will destroy the historic character of the neighbourhood.

17:06 minutes (15.65 MB)

Redeye

Quebec mining activist sued by Petrolia

March 21, 2011

| Ramsey Hart of MiningWatch Canada tells Redeye about a lawsuit filed against an environmental activist in Quebec following an article in the Montreal daily Le Soleil. Hart believes it's a SLAPP suit.

10:37 minutes (9.72 MB)

Redeye

Ken Lum at the Vancouver Art Gallery

March 21, 2011

| Redeye speaks with Grant Arnold, curator of the first large-scale solo survey of the work of internationally renowned East Vancouver artist Ken Lum. The show features more than 50 works.

13:47 minutes (12.63 MB)

Redeye

Tent city challenges Olympic Village housing

March 21, 2011

| Redeye speaks with one of the activists involved in setting up a tent city in the former Athletes Village on the anniversary of the tent city set up during the 2010 Olympics.

10:54 minutes (9.98 MB)

Redeye

G20 a pivotal moment in Canadian history

March 23, 2011

| The Canadian Civil Liberties Association tells Redeye that they believe police abuses during the G20 summit were sufficiently serious that there should be a full public inquiry.

12:45 minutes (11.67 MB)

Redeye

Speculation behind looming food crisis

March 23, 2011

| There is widespread consensus that the world is facing another food emergency. Redeye speaks with economist Robert Pollin. He believes that speculation is behind the current rise in food prices.

15:05 minutes (13.82 MB)

Redeye

'No Fracking Way'

March 25, 2011

| This was the title of a recent educational forum in Vancouver. Redeye contacted researcher Ben Parfitt to find out what fracking is and why we should oppose this kind of natural gas extraction.

17:40 minutes (16.17 MB)

Redeye

Anti-union bill passes in Wisconsin

March 25, 2011

| Robert Kraig tells Redeye how Scott Walker got his union-busting bill passed through the state legislature and the legal challenges it now faces. Robert Kraig is with Citizen Action of Wisconsin.

10:47 minutes (9.87 MB)

Migrant Matters

The Cuban 5 are still behind bars 12 years later

December 13, 2010

| Their heroism and innocence denied, the Cuban 5 have remained in jail since their arrest 12 years ago. Lawyer Lorne Gershuny shares the latest on the case and speaks about its political significance.

34:57 minutes (32.01 MB)

Migrant Matters

Torturing Omar Khadr since he was a child at Guantánamo

February 25, 2011

| The latest on Khadr's case. The horrors of his ongoing detainment. Why and how the Canadian goverment has supported his torture.

31:29 minutes (28.83 MB)

Migrant Matters

Canada's support for an undeniably apartheid state

March 22, 2011

| Alan Sears, professor of sociology and founder of Faculty for Palestine, talks about the Palestinians' long struggle of being uprooted from their homeland, and denied freedoms and status.

18:43 minutes (17.15 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Vancouver DTES women's groups shut out of B.C. Housing office

March 24, 2011

| Harsha Walia, Vancouver DTES women's rights organizer, speaks about demands for women's safety in shelters in light of recent sexual assaults.

8:17 minutes (7.58 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

National housing bill killed by federal election -- what now?

March 30, 2011

| Doug King speaks about Bill C-304, a bill ensuring adequate, accessible and affordable housing, has been killed due to the upcoming federal election and now must be re-introduced after the election.

12:39 minutes (11.59 MB)

Redeye

Increasing violence in Mexico

March 31, 2011

| Redeye speaks with Agustin Goenaga about the effect of military deployments on the stable, albeit corrupt, system of police control of the informal economy.

12:51 minutes (11.77 MB)

Redeye

Understanding the nuclear crisis in Japan

March 31, 2011

| Gordon Edwards talks to Redeye about what's happening with the earthquake-stricken power station in Fukushima. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.

19:22 minutes (17.73 MB)

Redeye

Legal aid an essential public service

March 25, 2011

| Redeye finds out about a recent report making the case that access to our legal system is one of the basic pillars of society along with education, health care and social welfare.

17:54 minutes (16.4 MB)

Redeye

Tories micro-managing immigration system

March 31, 2011

| The Tories have been tinkering with the immigration system since they got into power. Lawyer Zool Suleman says they are mainly concerned with getting the economic outcomes they want.

14:31 minutes (13.3 MB)

Redeye

The Global Room for Women

April 6, 2011

| A unique project links women in real-time telephone conversations with women activists from all over the world talking about their work and their lives.

12:34 minutes (11.5 MB)

Redeye

Air strikes on Libya not protecting civilians

April 7, 2011

| Asli Bali tells Redeye that the decision to bomb Libya was a mistake that has failed in its purported goal of preventing deaths of anti-Gaddafi forces on the ground.

16:18 minutes (14.93 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Supreme Court to hear feds' sex work appeal

April 6, 2011

| Canada's Supreme Court has allowed the federal government the right to appeal an attempt by Vancouver sex workers to challenge Canada's criminal laws relating to adult prostitution.

11:13 minutes (10.27 MB)

Redeye

Feminism for Real

April 7, 2011

| Redeye speaks with Jessica Yee, editor of a new book that aims to reclaim feminism from the academy and bring it back to the reality of the lives of young women fighting for equal rights today.

13:32 minutes (12.4 MB)

Redeye

Defending Bradley Manning

April 11, 2011

| Medea Benjamin of Code Pink speaks with Redeye about the young soldier charged with leaking thousands of documents to Wikileaks.

10:56 minutes (10.01 MB)

Redeye

Cargo trike co-op takes to the streets in Vancouver

April 11, 2011

| Redeye speaks with one of the founding members of a new bike co-operative that aims to deliver goods to businesses in downtown Vancouver. Graham Anderson explains how the co-op will work.

9:26 minutes (8.64 MB)

Redeye

Canada's Colour Coded Labour Market

April 12, 2011

| Grace-Edward Galabuzi tells Redeye that racialized Canadians face systemic discrimination in the workforce. Galabuzi is co-author with Sheila Block of a new report based on data from the 2006 census.

14:07 minutes (12.93 MB)

Redeye

Class action suit against Denny's

April 12, 2011

| Redeye speaks to the lawyer for fifty workers who have launched a class action lawsuit against the owners of the B.C. locations of the Denny's restaurant chain.

11:05 minutes (10.15 MB)

Redeye

Egypt's revolutionary past

April 13, 2011

| Joel Beinin tells Redeye about the 1952 revolution that ousted King Farouk and put Gamal Nasser in power.

15:45 minutes (14.43 MB)

Redeye

Role of social media in Egyptian uprising

April 13, 2011

| Redeye speaks with media scholar Adel Iskandar about the part that Facebook and other social media did -- and did not -- play in the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.

16:28 minutes (15.09 MB)

Redeye

CRTC calls Vancouver Cooperative Radio to 'show cause' hearing

March 30, 2011

| Vancouver Cooperative Radio is being asked to appear before the CRTC in May to make the case why its licence should be renewed for another term.

17:59 minutes (16.47 MB)

Redeye

Suppression of dissent in the Gulf States

April 15, 2011

| Saeed Rahnema speaks with Redeye about the reaction of rulers of the Gulf States to protests that have erupted in some of these states, particularly Bahrain.

16:42 minutes (15.29 MB)

Redeye

Egypt after Mubarak

April 15, 2011

| Redeye catches up with Lebanese author and activist Gilbert Achbar in London to find out what changes have taken place in Egypt following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.

19:20 minutes (17.71 MB)

Migrant Matters

Jose Figueroa and the human cost of Canada's refugee laws

April 13, 2011

| Why has the Canadian government recently chosen to change their mind and label the FMLN as a terrorist group? What does Jose's deportation order mean for the Figueroa family? For Canadians?

56:08 minutes (51.39 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

City of Vancouver fails to include homeless rights

April 21, 2011

| Pivot lawyer Scott Bernstein explains to Carolyn Wong how a new City of Vancouver by-law will limit the type, length and area of many protests.

20:36 minutes (18.86 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Engage media in the region and labour updates

April 16, 2011

| Labour news from the Asia Pacific region. Interview with Andrew Lowenthal and Yerry Nikholas from Engage Media on their work. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

28:50 minutes (13.2 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Labour updates and the war in Afghanistan

April 23, 2011

| West Asia uprising, labour news and the war in Afghanistan

30:04 minutes (13.77 MB)

Redeye

Changing image of Arabs

April 28, 2011

| The uprisings in the Middle East have shaken some of the prejudices against Arabs and led Westerners to see people in the Muslim countries of the Middle East as simply people struggling for justice.

14:40 minutes (13.43 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Five HEAT shelters shut down in Vancouver, Pivot calls for shelters to open year-round

April 28, 2011

| Pivot lawyer Doug King talks about the social impact of the HEAT shelter closing, the need for shelters to be open year-round, and the Red Tent campaign.

8:05 minutes (7.4 MB)

Migrant Matters

Communist Party of Canada on why 2011 election spells great danger to working and poor people

April 28, 2011

| On the party's platform and what's at stake in the May 2, 2011 election for working and poor people, (im)migrants, and Aboriginal people if Big Business succeeds in driving the country to the right.

53:44 minutes (49.2 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

West Asia uprisings, regional labour updates and International Memorial Day for workers

April 30, 2011

| West Asia uprisings, regional labour updates and an interview with Renata Musolino, Victorian Trades Hall OH&S officer on International Memorial Day for workers.

30:37 minutes (14.02 MB)

Migrant Matters

Mayday panel: Speaking from the forefront of the struggle for (im)migrant justice and workers' rights (2 of 2)

May 1, 2011

| The abuses inherent in (forced) migration with a spotlight on Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program. The importance of working in solidarity with racialized working-class (im)migrant communities here.

49:36 minutes (68.12 MB)

Redeye

Understanding the NDP sweep in Quebec

May 10, 2011

| Before the May 2 election, the NDP had only ever won 2 seats in Quebec. Now they hold 58 out of 75 seats in the province. Roger Rashi is a founding member of the progressive party, Quebec Solidaire.

15:24 minutes (14.1 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Vancouver homeless shelters close

May 11, 2011

| Sean Spear from Raincity Housing talks about the need for permanent year-round shelters as a first point of contact for hard to house people.

13:20 minutes (12.2 MB)

Redeye

What the Conservative majority means for progressive organizing

May 17, 2011

| Anti-war activist Derrick O'Keefe talks about what the federal election results mean for the future of organizing in Canada.

18:37 minutes (17.05 MB)

Migrant Matters

Shameless U.S. news personality Lou Dobbs still given a mainstream platform

May 18, 2011

| Dobbs' ultra right-wing views were regularly showcased on CNN, fueling the movement to scapegoat immigrants. He criticizes "illegal" employers, but, wait! Macdonald has uncovered he is one.

41:10 minutes (37.69 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Community groups shut out of Missing Women's Inquiry

May 26, 2011

| Public interest groups and organizations working with women in the Downtown Eastside were shocked by an unexpected decision to deny them funding to participate in the Missing Women's Inquiry.

8:01 minutes (7.34 MB)

Redeye

Protests in Syria met with violent crackdown

May 31, 2011

| The civilian death toll exceeds one thousand since mass protests started in March against the Assad government.

13:00 minutes (11.91 MB)

Redeye

Postal workers fight management demands for concessions

June 1, 2011

| Canada Post Corporation is pushing hard for rollbacks in health and safety standards. The postal workers union says their overall objective is to cut service to communities.

13:16 minutes (12.15 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Hope in Shadows 2011: The camera return site

June 11, 2011

| This week, Paul Ryan interviews people on location at the Hope in Shadows camera return site in Vancouver, about photographs they have taken for the Hope in Shadows calendar.

9:28 minutes (8.68 MB)

Redeye

Wave of Pink against homophobia

June 13, 2011

| On June 14, the Burnaby Board of Education votes on a policy against homophobia and heterosexism. A local Christian church has been very vocal in their opposition to the policy.

16:50 minutes (15.42 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

HIV, Law and Human Rights

June 22, 2011

| Vancouver lawyer Elin Sigurdson talks to Pivot's Laura Drake about attending the third annual Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights.

11:30 minutes (10.53 MB)

Progressive Voices

Solidarity with the postal workers: Interview with Mark Platt, President of Local 548 CUPW

June 23, 2011

| On this week's episode of Progressive Voices, we speak with President Mark Platt of Local 548 CUPW on the labour dispute with Canada Post.

15:48 minutes (14.48 MB)

Progressive Voices

Canadian mining companies: Development or Exploitation?

June 29, 2011

| We speak with Grahame Russell of Rights Action on the environmental destruction, indigenous dispossession and human rights violations by Canadian mining companies operating in South America.

25:51 minutes (23.68 MB)

Redeye

Yippies in Love

June 30, 2011

| Yippes in Love is a new musical play by Bob Sarti exploring the history of the Yippie movement in Vancouver. It opened this week at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

15:13 minutes (13.93 MB)

Progressive Voices

Free trade and human rights violations: Examining the Canada-Colombia FTA

June 30, 2011

| We speak with Dr. George Sorger, professor emeritus at McMaster University, on the recently implemented Free Trade Agreement with Colombia.

30:02 minutes (27.5 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Insight into the Korean labour movement

July 2, 2011

| Asia Pacific Currents labour news from Syria, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, a regional asbestos campaign and insight into the Korean labour movement.

29:42 minutes (13.6 MB)

Progressive Voices

Canada, still colonial

July 21, 2011

| We speak with Dr. Hayden King on Stephen Harper being named honourary chief of the Blood Tribe, Canada's residential school system, the annexation of Six Nations land in Caledonia, and more.

28:56 minutes (26.51 MB)

Progressive Voices

Haiti and Canadian imperialism

July 26, 2011

| We speak with Kevin Edmonds of the Canada Haiti Action Network and Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti on rebuilding after the 2010 earthquake, the Canadian coup d'etat of 2004, and more.

27:27 minutes (25.14 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

labour struggles updates from Pakistan and Thailand

July 23, 2011

| Asia Pacific labour updates with additional focus on Pakistan and Thailand

57:43 minutes (26.43 MB)

Redeye

Stop spying on Canadians

July 29, 2011

| The Canadian government claims that a new bill before Parliament will protect our privacy. Steve Anderson of OpenMedia.ca disagrees.

12:58 minutes (17.81 MB)

Migrant Matters

It's the ReadNex Poetry Squad

July 30, 2011

| Poets to read about. Three-fifths of the squad speak their mind about all things at the heart of hip-hop including women and youth poets, and solidarity work with the most socially disempowered.

34:15 minutes (31.37 MB)

Redeye

Gentrification bomb in the heart of the Downtown Eastside

August 6, 2011

| A coalition of community activists are asking Vancouver city council to buy a former vaudeville theatre and dedicate it exclusively to social housing.

14:34 minutes (13.33 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Trade union repression in Fiji

August 13, 2011

| Labour news from the Asia Pacific region, and an interview with Nick McLellan, Pacific region activist and independent journalist, on ongoing trade union repression in Fiji.

28:55 minutes (13.24 MB)

Redeye

Controversy over Nycole Turmel as NDP interim leader

August 20, 2011

| When Jack Layton had to step back as NDP party leader due to cancer, he designated Nycole Turmel as interim replacement leader. She immediately faced attacks from English-language media in Canada.

16:59 minutes (15.55 MB)

Redeye

Japanese citizens angry over government negligence and deception

August 22, 2011

| An elementary school in the path of the cloud of radioactivity from the crippled Fukushima plant was used as a temporary evacuation centre.

21:26 minutes (19.63 MB)

Redeye

Examining the factors behind the riots in England

August 22, 2011

| British Prime Minister David Cameron attributes the recent riots in England to irresponsibility and selfishness. Faiza Shaheen thinks a lot of other factors came into play.

14:53 minutes (13.63 MB)

Redeye

BC Hydro under threat of creeping privatization

August 22, 2011

| A new report on BC Hydro by a panel of government appointees recommends that the utility reduce a planned rate increase and cut 1,000 jobs.

10:44 minutes (9.83 MB)

Progressive Voices

Libya: NATO-enforced regime change, not revolution

August 29, 2011

| We speak with Maximillian Forte, professor of anthropology at Concordia University, on NATO's war in Libya and whether this was a popular uprising against Gaddafi.

18:39 minutes (17.08 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Housing rights and slumlords in Vancouver

September 5, 2011

| Pivot lawyer Doug King talks about the latest housing rights litigation against a Vancouver slumlord.

12:45 minutes (11.68 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Repression in Thailand continues after elections

September 5, 2011

| Updates on labour struggles in the Asia Pacific region and an interview with Ji Ungpakorn, exiled labour activist, on the situation in Thailand after the July elections.

30:09 minutes (13.81 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Homelessness in Vancouver

September 10, 2011

| David Eby is Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. A former lawyer with Pivot Legal Society, he co-published Cracks in the Foundation in 2006.

13:28 minutes (12.33 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

New Vancouver sex work report

September 17, 2011

| Katrina Pacey talks about what is -- and more importantly, what isn't -- in the new report put out by the City of Vancouver on sex work in the city.

8:17 minutes (7.59 MB)

Migrant Matters

Sophisticated vigilantes C.R.I.M.E. take on France over Haiti restitution

September 19, 2011

| C.R.I.M.E., an international group of activists who impersonated French government officials, won't let France forget who owes the bill for much of the ensuing undemocratic havoc and horrors in Haiti.

41:28 minutes (94.92 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Housing and gentrification in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

September 26, 2011

| Wendy Pedersen, community organizer for the Carnegie Community Action Project, talks about housing and the fight against gentrification in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

12:16 minutes (11.23 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Update on uprising in Yemen

September 26, 2011

| Labour issues from the Asia Pacific region, and an interview with Baraa Shiban, spokesperson for the News of the Yemeni Revolution, analyzing the uprising in Yemen.

31:14 minutes (14.31 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

YIMBY kit launched to fight NIMBYism

September 26, 2011

| The YIMBY kit was launched in Vancouver over the weekend. We talk with Pivot's Darcie Bennett and Johanna Suttor-Doerksen from the Salsbury Community Society.

7:55 minutes (7.26 MB)

Redeye

Case of unpaid treeplanters shows critical weakness in government monitoring

September 29, 2011

| Some long overdue wages have finally been paid to 57 tree planters, more than a year after they were found living in squalid conditions in B.C.

14:14 minutes (13.03 MB)

Redeye

Update on Wall Street Occupation

October 4, 2011

| In New York City, Liberty Plaza has been peacefully occupied 24 hours a day for the last two weeks. Every day hundreds of people from all walks of life come to visit and participate.

14:54 minutes (13.65 MB)

Redeye

Film: Granito

October 5, 2011

| Pamela Yates' film When the Mountains Tremble was about the war against the Mayan population of Guatemala. Her most recent film 'Granito' returns to the same subject matter -- with a twist.

11:07 minutes (10.18 MB)

Redeye

Canada-EU trade agreement a threat to family farms

October 5, 2011

| Terry Boehm is president of the National Farmers Union. He says CETA is not about trade, it's about a fundamental restructuring of the role of government.

16:47 minutes (15.38 MB)

Redeye

Palestinian bid for UN recognition

October 5, 2011

| The Security Council committee that reviews UN membership applications met for the first time on September 30 to consider the Palestinian appeal for recognition.

12:52 minutes (11.78 MB)

Redeye

Missing Women Commission of Inquiry deeply problematic

October 10, 2011

| Legal scholar and lawyer Mary Eberts says a public inquiry such as the Missing Women Inquiry can play a vital role in uncovering deeper issues in society.

14:37 minutes (13.39 MB)

Migrant Matters

Queer discussions on im/migration and criminalization

October 10, 2011

| The intersections of local queer organizing, anti-colonial and no-borders analyses. The recent victories and struggles of organizing in these realms.

54:39 minutes (46.43 MB)

Redeye

Supreme Court of Canada rules in support of Insite

October 13, 2011

| On September 30, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously that the federal health minister had to sign an exemption allowing Vancouver's safe injection site to stay open.

16:36 minutes (15.21 MB)

Redeye

Yes in my backyard!

October 13, 2011

| Vancouver's Pivot Legal Society has created a how-to manual for people who want to welcome controversial projects, including homeless shelters, to their neighbourhoods.

18:21 minutes (16.8 MB)

Redeye

U.S. Special Operations Forces expanding rapidly

October 14, 2011

| U.S. Special Forces have assumed mythic proportions in the media and popular culture. Yet they are viewed less positively within the military because they operate outside of the chain of command.

16:18 minutes (14.93 MB)

Redeye

Drumming up support for the invasion of Libya

October 14, 2011

| Any government contemplating a new war works hard to ensure the support of its population. The invasion of Libya was no exception.

20:50 minutes (19.08 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Downtown Eastside Magic

October 15, 2011

| Hope in Shadows project director Paul Ryan talks to this year's Hope in Shadows Photography Contest winner Kim Washburn after the recent opening of the annual exhibition at the Pendulum Gallery.

10:59 minutes (10.07 MB)

Redeye

Making decisions in a general assembly

October 18, 2011

| Occupy Wall Street has used a general assembly to make decisions since the occupation began. Manuel Schulte was at the first general assembly to plan Occupy Vancouver.

12:09 minutes (11.12 MB)

Redeye

Mayor Bloomberg fails to shut down Occupy Wall Street

October 19, 2011

| Last week the mayor of New York tried to shut down Occupy Wall Street on the pretext that the park needed to be cleaned. Thousands of people showed up to prevent the eviction.

13:28 minutes (12.33 MB)

Redeye

Auditor General says B.C. Liberals fudged the figures over the new Port Mann bridge

October 19, 2011

| B.C. Auditor General John Doyle called the state of the B.C. government's books unacceptable. The principal reason was that the province kept a $3.1 billion debt off its books.

10:54 minutes (9.99 MB)

Redeye

Homelessness in rural British Columbia

October 19, 2011

| The housing crisis affects people in communities small and large across the province. But the face of homelessness in rural areas is different.

9:47 minutes (8.96 MB)

Migrant Matters

Michael Parenti's 'The Face of Imperialism'

October 23, 2011

| Speaking with progressive scholar Michael Parenti, mainly talking about two of his recent books: 'The Face of Imperialism' and 'The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome'.

24:54 minutes (57 MB)

Redeye

Selling the City: Rob Ford's Toronto

October 24, 2011

| Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has embarked on a program of widespread cuts to public services. Carlo Fanelli is the author of a recent article titled "Selling the City: Rob Ford's Toronto."

12:31 minutes (11.46 MB)

Redeye

Women in the labour movement

October 24, 2011

| Joey Hartman is the first woman to be elected president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council in its 122-year history.

9:52 minutes (9.04 MB)

Redeye

Gaddafi's death marks end of era

October 25, 2011

| Moammar Gaddafi came to power in a coup in 1969 at a time of widespread Arab nationalism. Initially his revolution saw the population benefit as oil revenues were used for national development.

12:32 minutes (11.48 MB)

Redeye

Keeping your money in the community

October 25, 2011

| Calgary Dollars were first introduced in 1996. They are currently used by over 700 local businesses, community groups and individuals.

10:44 minutes (9.83 MB)

Redeye

Karl Marx and the exchange of commodities

October 25, 2011

| Marx started his most famous book Capital with a discussion of commodities, their exchange, their value and the mysteries of money.

15:00 minutes (13.74 MB)

Redeye

The growth of consumer debt

October 25, 2011

| Credit card debt began to rise sharply in the 1990s with major marketing campaigns. The middle class started to make up for a decline in real wages by using credit to make ends meet.

13:02 minutes (11.94 MB)

Redeye

Fair trade not empowering producers

October 26, 2011

| Longtime activist Ian Hussey says that the fair-trade bureaucracy has centralized power in the Global North and that producers have little say in their working and living conditions.

14:45 minutes (13.51 MB)

Redeye

Understanding the B.C. tax system

October 27, 2011

| Income taxes were first introduced in 1917 as a temporary measure to raise money to finance the First World War. Income tax is still with us almost 100 years later.

13:23 minutes (12.26 MB)

Progressive Voices

Occupy comes to Hamilton

October 27, 2011

| On this week's episode of Progressive Voices, we speak with the Media Committee of Occupy Hamilton on the origins and importance of the Occupy movement, and what Occupy Hamilton hopes to achieve.

21:04 minutes (19.32 MB)

Redeye

Strathcona Park faces threat of private development

October 28, 2011

| Clayoquot Wilderness Resort was granted permission to build infrastructure for their own private use in one of Vancouver Island's oldest and most extensive provincial parks.

13:43 minutes (12.56 MB)

Redeye

Transforming the daily commute

October 28, 2011

| The average commuter in Canada spends about an hour on their way to work. Travel times like this are hard on both the commuter and on the environment.

14:51 minutes (13.6 MB)

Redeye

Investigating the U.S. militia movement

October 28, 2011

| Two Swedish journalists recently travelled to the United States to find out more about the rapidly expanding militia movement there.

14:32 minutes (13.3 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

West Papua Freeport dispute

October 29, 2011

| Interview with Mahendra, spokesperson of the KASBI trade union, Indonesia, on the Freeport mine strike and solidarity within Indonesia, and updates on labour struggles in Asia Pacific region.

29:43 minutes (13.6 MB)

Redeye

Orgasm Inc: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure

October 29, 2011

| Since the approval of Viagra in the late 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry has been working feverishly to create an equivalent drug for women.

15:42 minutes (14.39 MB)

Redeye

Private money funding public universities

October 31, 2011

| The chairman of the world's largest pure gold mining company donated $20 million to the University of Toronto to fund the construction of the Munk Centre of Global Affairs.

17:13 minutes (15.76 MB)

Redeye

Inside Stories

October 31, 2011

| An innovative new web project takes us behind the front doors of neighbours in the South Hill community in Vancouver and tells the stories of some of the people who live there.

22:14 minutes (20.37 MB)

Redeye

Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil?

October 31, 2011

| Some people see Ignatieff as "yesterday's man," someone whose political outlook is no longer relevant. Author and activist Derrick O'Keefe disagrees.

19:40 minutes (18.01 MB)

Redeye

Smile with Dignity

October 31, 2011

| When a grassroots health group asked people in their community what issues concerned them, the lack of good dental care was a major issue.

10:17 minutes (9.42 MB)

Redeye

Court decision opens floodgates to corporate spending on electoral campaigns

October 31, 2011

| Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people, giving them the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns.

13:36 minutes (12.45 MB)

Redeye

Abbotsford residents to vote on privatizing city's water

November 1, 2011

| The current city council in Abbotsford is asking residents to agree to a public-private partnership with a foreign consortium to make much-needed improvements to the water system.

15:45 minutes (14.42 MB)

Redeye

Korean and Japanese citizens protest U.S. bases

November 1, 2011

| Just last month, a U.S. soldier broke into the dorm of a high school student and sexually assaulted her. U.S. troops in Asia Pacific have a long history of crime against local populations.

16:53 minutes (15.46 MB)

Redeye

Exploring the reality of Palestinian Christians

November 1, 2011

| Chris Ferguson is a United Church minister who has worked with the World Council of Churches in Jerusalem and as their representative on Palestine at the United Nations.

14:20 minutes (13.12 MB)

Redeye

Doctors seek to deny fertility treatments to fat women

November 2, 2011

| The Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society proposed a treatment ban for obese women, saying that they faced a higher risk of medical complications.

13:15 minutes (12.13 MB)

Redeye

Memoir: Something Fierce

November 2, 2011

| Carmen Aguirre discusses her newly published memoir about her coming of age during the years following the Pinochet coup in Chile.

17:26 minutes (15.96 MB)

Redeye

Expedition Blue Planet

November 2, 2011

| In 2010, Alexandra Cousteau led a four-month tour of North America examining critical water issues. Anne Casselman is a science journalist who travelled on the tour.

12:27 minutes (11.4 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Carlotta Gurl and Pivot

November 3, 2011

| Drag Queen Carlotta Gurl talks about why she supports Pivot's advocacy for marginalized people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on the eve of Passion for Justice in Vancouver.

8:43 minutes (7.98 MB)

Redeye

Sweatshop conditions lead to suicides among workers making Apple products

November 3, 2011

| Researchers visited the Chinese factories where iPhone, iPad and iTouch products are made. They interviewed workers about the working conditions there.

12:10 minutes (11.15 MB)

Redeye

Independent U.S. broadcaster deported from India

November 3, 2011

| Alternative Radio founder David Barsamian has been visiting India for more than 40 years but when he got off a plane in New Delhi in September, he never made it past the airport.

11:47 minutes (10.79 MB)

Redeye

Stop signs: Cars and capitalism

November 4, 2011

| It's a road trip story about cars but the authors aren't in a car -- they're on a bus. Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyeni reflect on how cars have shaped our culture, health, economy and environment.

17:49 minutes (16.31 MB)

Redeye

Raed Jarrar on Baghdad

November 6, 2011

| Raed Jarrar grew up in Baghdad and did his undergraduate degree there. When he returned last summer, he found no one he knew there and didn't recognize the city.

19:25 minutes (17.78 MB)

Redeye

Zero tolerance policing

November 6, 2011

| Following the uprisings in London and other English cities, the U.K. government introduced plans to broaden the use of U.S. suppression models of policing including civil gang injunctions.

14:57 minutes (13.7 MB)

Redeye

B.C.'s regressive tax shift

November 6, 2011

| A recent report shows that the wealthy pay a lower overall provincial tax rate than the average citizen in B.C.

16:21 minutes (14.97 MB)

Redeye

Militarization of Canada expanding exponentially

November 6, 2011

| Canada will spend $22 billion on its military forces in the current fiscal year. That represents a very rapid growth in expenditures over the past 20 years.

12:21 minutes (11.31 MB)

Redeye

All Genders Wellness Centre opens in Vancouver

November 7, 2011

| A new clinic is opening in Vancouver to serve the trans community. Fin is a trans guy recently graduated from nursing school who is involved with the new centre.

13:05 minutes (11.98 MB)

Redeye

Speculation transforms world food economy

November 7, 2011

| Human survival has always depended on our ability to find or grow food for ourselves or exchange something to acquire it. That simple equation is now severely out of whack.

13:55 minutes (12.75 MB)

Redeye

Fixing Alberta's tax system

November 8, 2011

| Alberta is the only jurisdiction in North America with a flat tax system. It also has an economy dependent on the volatile oil and gas industry.

15:49 minutes (14.49 MB)

Redeye

July 14 movement in Israel

November 8, 2011

| Over the past several months, there has been a wave of ongoing protests in Israel. They have focused on social reforms, namely the cost of living and the lack of affordable housing.

25:38 minutes (23.48 MB)

Redeye

Canadian mining companies in Africa

November 9, 2011

| The African continent contains a tremendous wealth of minerals, yet the profits from those resources are not flowing to the countries where they are found.

14:26 minutes (13.23 MB)

Redeye

Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America

November 9, 2011

| One of the authors of this investigative report reveals that a small, tightly networked group of misinformation experts is behind an effort to spread Islamophobia to millions of Americans.

13:33 minutes (12.41 MB)

Redeye

Canada Food Guide in need of an overhaul

November 9, 2011

| The United States recently brought out a new guide for its citizens called the Food Plate. Bill Jeffery says it's more intuitive and healthier than what we have in Canada.

15:03 minutes (13.79 MB)

Redeye

Public sector unions and the assault on public services

November 9, 2011

| Business elites are attacking the last remaining stronghold of unionism -- public sector workers. Michael Hurley says unions need creative new strategies in response.

15:25 minutes (14.11 MB)

Progressive Voices

Michael Parenti: The Face of Imperialism

November 10, 2011

| On this week's episode of Progressive Voices, we speak with world-renowned author, political scientist and activist Dr. Michael Parenti.

26:01 minutes (23.83 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Solutions to Vancouver's homelessness crisis

November 11, 2011

| In the run-up to municipal elections on November 19, Ivan Drury explains 3 easy steps that would be easy for city hall to implement to solve the homelessness crisis, at almost no cost to taxpayers.

26:10 minutes (23.96 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Why criminalizing clients won't work

November 14, 2011

| Lawyer Katrina Pacey talks to Paul Ryan about why street-level sex workers would be just as unsafe if laws were introduced to criminalize sex work clients.

12:35 minutes (11.53 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Know your rights cards, 10 years on

November 17, 2011

| Katrina Pacey talks with Paul Ryan about the original Pivot publication, the statement for police rights card which has been produced since July 2002.

6:22 minutes (5.83 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Vancouver slumlord sued by 11 more ex-tenants

November 23, 2011

| Pivot lawyer Doug King talks about 11 more ex-tenants who are launching legal action against slumlord George Wolsey. We also talk to two tenants about their experiences.

24:31 minutes (22.45 MB)

Redeye

Roots to Grow: The need for radical spaces in movement-building

November 23, 2011

| The Occupy movement is based on the premise that radical things happen once people have a physical space. Lisa Moore explores the theme of radical spaces and their role in movement-building.

14:46 minutes (13.53 MB)

Redeye

Book: Our Way to Fight

November 23, 2011

| Our Way to Fight is based on four years of intensive research and encounters with more than 60 grassroots peace and human rights activists in Palestine and Israel.

15:52 minutes (14.53 MB)

Redeye

World population explosion not to blame for environmental crisis

November 23, 2011

| Ian Angus is one of the authors of a recent article arguing that the seven billion people on the planet are less of a problem than the 1 per cent identified by the Occupy movement.

10:28 minutes (9.58 MB)

Redeye

Quebec's Plan Nord a development on par with Alberta tar sands

November 24, 2011

| Large mining corporations from Canada, Europe and China are eager to become involved in a plan to extract resources from an area of Quebec that encompasses three-quarters of the province's landmass.

13:10 minutes (12.06 MB)

Redeye

Book: No Debate

November 24, 2011

| This new book by professor emeritus Jon Thompson focuses on the efforts of Israel lobby organizations to block a planned conference on statehood for Israel and Palestine at Toronto's York University.

13:45 minutes (12.6 MB)

Redeye

Keystone XL pipeline on hold

November 30, 2011

| On November 10, the Obama administration announced that it would wait until after the 2012 presidential election to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline.

11:36 minutes (10.63 MB)

Redeye

New Family Law Act introduced in B.C.

November 30, 2011

| On November 14, the provincial government introduced the new Family Law Act. The new law places an emphasis on out-of-court settlements. It also includes an expanded definition of family violence.

10:10 minutes (9.32 MB)

Pivot Legal Society

Olympic social housing hit with huge hidden bills

December 9, 2011

| Scott Bernstein explains why Pivot is representing low-income tenants from Vancouver's Olympic Village housing complex.

12:06 minutes (11.09 MB)

Migrant Matters

Mapuche communities deserve liberation of their land and people

December 12, 2011

| I sat down with Jaroslava, who is with the Women's Coordinating Committee For a Free Wallmapu, to talk about the struggles against the termination of the Mapuche culture and people at home and abroad.

34:42 minutes (47.66 MB)

Redeye

Defending the Canadian Wheat Board

December 13, 2011

| Terry Boehm is president of the National Farmers Union. He explains why the Wheat Board is so important to Canadian farmers.

15:14 minutes (13.95 MB)

Redeye

Book: Retribution by Carmen Rodriguez

December 13, 2011

| Carmen Rodriguez is an acclaimed poet and author who arrived in Canada as a refugee from Chile after the 1973 coup that ousted President Salvador Allende.

20:46 minutes (19.02 MB)

Asia Pacific Currents

Solidarity impact of Filipino unionist tour

December 17, 2011

| Labour updates from the Asia Pacific region and an interview with Jerome Small, AAWL co-ordinator of Alnem's solidarity tour in Melbourne on the impact of international solidarity.

30:46 minutes (14.09 MB)

Redeye

Understanding land investment deals in Africa

December 20, 2011

| Africa is one of the key targets of a rush by investors to acquire more land. The land is easy to take control of because of the traditional system of ownership that exists in many African countries.

15:48 minutes (14.46 MB)

Migrant Matters

Roma civil rights activist Aladàr Horvàth's call to Canada: Have empathy for the Roma

December 20, 2011

| Aladàr Horvàth, chair of the Roma Civil Rights Foundation in Hungary, provides an overview of the socio-political landscape in Hungary that has brought so many Roma to Canada seeking refugee status.

18:35 minutes (17.02 MB)

Redeye

Fish farm virus discovered in wild salmon in B.C.

December 20, 2011

| A virus that has proved highly contagious among farmed Atlantic salmon has been found in wild fish on B.C.'s Central Coast.

12:00 minutes (10.99 MB)

Redeye

G20 organizers agree to plea deal

December 21, 2011

| 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.

16:25 minutes (15.03 MB)

Redeye

Working conditions for migrant workers in Canada and the U.S.

December 21, 2011

| Adriana Paz 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.

16:00 minutes (14.65 MB)

Redeye

Five Canadian men still fighting security certificates

December 21, 2011

| Since September 2011, five men have been detained under security certificates in Canada. The men have been held for up to 11 years, yet no charges have been laid.

16:43 minutes (15.31 MB)

Redeye

Canada and the Kyoto Protocol

January 4, 2012

| The Harper government has been strongly opposed to the Kyoto Protocol since coming to power in 2006. In mid-December, the Canadian government officially pulled out of the accord.

12:51 minutes (11.77 MB)

Redeye

U.S.-Pakistan relations strained to breaking point

January 4, 2012

| It's been a troubled year for the alliance between the United States and Pakistan. In the most recent incident, NATO helicopter gunships killed 24 Pakistani border guards near the Afghan border.

14:16 minutes (13.07 MB)

Redeye

The problem with charity

January 5, 2012

| Every year in December the CBC holds an all-day fundraising event for the Food Bank. This year, poor people showed up in force at the event to share their thoughts on charity.

17:34 minutes (16.09 MB)

Redeye

B.C. trial lawyers start job action

January 11, 2012

| Last week, more than half of the province's 70 courtrooms had no duty counsel, the lawyers who usually represent people for first-time appearances.

17:12 minutes (15.75 MB)

Redeye

Bruce Power abandons plan for Alberta nuclear plant

January 11, 2012

| The Ontario energy company had been trying for four years to get approval for what would have been Alberta's first nuclear power plant.

10:15 minutes (9.38 MB)

Redeye

Opposition forces in Egypt

January 12, 2012

| Despite the departure of Hosni Mubarak 11 months ago, the regime he ruled is still for the most part in place. Yet labour and social forces are still active in opposing the government.

17:30 minutes (16.02 MB)

Redeye

MLA on welfare in British Columbia

January 12, 2012

| An anti-poverty group in Vancouver issued a challenge for an MLA in the province to live on the equivalent of welfare for a month. Jagrup Brar of the NDP accepted the challenge.

19:56 minutes (18.26 MB)

Redeye

New private development proposed for Jasper National Park

January 17, 2012

| Brewster Travel Canada has applied to build a huge steel and glass structure on the Icefields Parkway. The company will charge tourists upwards of $15 to use the Glacier Discovery Walk.

7:51 minutes (7.2 MB)

Redeye

Fighting for access to abortion on Prince Edward Island

January 17, 2012

| If a woman in PEI needs an abortion, she either has to pay her own travel costs to go to a hospital in Halifax or come up with almost $1,000 to get the procedure done privately in Fredricton.

13:19 minutes (12.19 MB)

Redeye

Palestinian citizens of Israel face systematic discrimination

January 18, 2012

| The 1.4 million Palestinians who are citizens of Israel face discrimination on par with African-Americans prior to the civil rights movement.

14:24 minutes (13.2 MB)

Redeye

Book: A Hard Man to Beat

January 18, 2012

| Bill White was the head of the Vancouver Labour Council and president of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union during the war.

21:23 minutes (19.59 MB)

Redeye

Use of drones growing dramatically

January 18, 2012

| Drones are robotic aircraft that can carry arms but are also for surveillance. Currently one in every three aircraft in the U.S. is a drone and over 50 countries have some form of unmanned aircraft.

14:42 minutes (13.47 MB)

Redeye

Attack on Naheed Nenshi typical of Sun Media

January 24, 2012

| A recent column by right-wing columnist Ezra Levant accused Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi of being an anti-Christian bigot. David Climenhaga says this kind of journalism is typical of Sun Media Corp.

16:42 minutes (15.29 MB)

Redeye

Dangers of cyber attack greatly exaggerated

January 24, 2012

| Some commentators in the United States would have us believe that the possibility of cyber attack is imminent. Conn Hallinan believes that there is another agenda behind this fear mongering.

19:24 minutes (17.76 MB)

Redeye

Musical adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Idiot

January 24, 2012

| A musical adaptation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece The Idiot premiered at the PuSh Festival in Vancouver last week.

19:23 minutes (17.75 MB)

Redeye

Caterpillar lockout critical fight for Canadian labour

February 1, 2012

| The U.S. heavy equipment giant Caterpillar Inc. locked out its 400 workers in London, Ontario in January. Despite record profits, the company's final offer was a 50 per cent pay cut.

11:34 minutes (10.59 MB)

Redeye

International Day of Solidarity with American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier

February 1, 2012

| Leonard Peltier has been in jail since 1976, convicted of killing two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

12:50 minutes (11.75 MB)

Redeye

Organic outperforms conventional farming on all counts

February 1, 2012

| A longitudinal study by the Rodale Institute shows that organic farming can produce yields as high as conventional and in fact does better in some conditions.

12:36 minutes (11.53 MB)

Redeye

Wikileaks papers confirm U.S. interference in Haiti

February 6, 2012

| In 2011, Wikileaks released secret U.S. government cables to the independent newspaper Haiti Liberte. The cables reveal a long history of interference in the internal politics of Haiti.

16:36 minutes (15.19 MB)

Redeye

Harsh austerity measures take hold in Greece

February 6, 2012

| Demonstrators in Greece are in the streets protesting wage and pension cuts, higher taxes and a reduction in labour rights.

13:57 minutes (12.77 MB)

Redeye

Inside the world of direct-action climate activists

February 7, 2012

| Emily James spent a year filming Climate Camp and Plane Stupid, two direct-action groups in the U.K. Her film Just Do It is a window into the world of climate change activists.

16:02 minutes (14.69 MB)

Redeye

New organization of Latin American states leaves out Canada and the U.S.

February 8, 2012

| Last December, Caracas hosted the inaugural meeting of CELAC, a new organization that includes 33 countries in the Americas but notably excludes Canada and the United States.

15:08 minutes (13.86 MB)

Redeye

Quebec students protest tuition hikes

February 8, 2012

| For decades the provincial government in Quebec kept tuition fees low to encourage people to take advantage of post-secondary education. The Charest government plans to reverse this policy.

13:15 minutes (12.14 MB)

Redeye

Book: Crack Capitalism

February 8, 2012

| John Holloway is a sociologist, philosopher and author. His work has stirred much debate among anti-capitalist activists. His most recent book is Crack Capitalism.

17:02 minutes (15.6 MB)