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Equity Panel 1 of 4: A More Equitable and Inclusive Academy? Rhetoric and Reality

July 6, 2009
| Five speakers from across Canada made up the first of a four-part panel series held at the Congress of the Humanities to explore the status of equity-seeking groups in today's Canadian Academy.

87:53 minutes (80.49 MB)
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Equity Panel 2 of 4: A Colour-blind Academy? The Status and Experiences of Visible/Non-White Minority Scholars

July 12, 2009
| Anthony Stewart, Aruna Srivastava and Darren Lund headed the second installment of a four-part panel series conducted by the Federation Equity Issues Portfolio at the 2009 Congress of the Humanities.

85:57 minutes (78.72 MB)
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Equity Panel 3 of 4: Decolonizing the Academy? The Status of Indigenous Peoples and Scholarship

July 19, 2009
| The Federation Equity Issues Portfolio's third panel discussion featured Joyce Green, Makere Stewart-Harawira and Rauna Kuokkanen, who examined the status of indigenous peoples in Canadian academies.

96:50 minutes (88.67 MB)
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Equity Panel 4 of 4 -- 25 Years After: A Retrospective on the Abella Commission and Employment Equity

August 17, 2009
| The final installment of the equity issues panels held at the Congress of the Humanities presented a retrospective look at what progress has been achieved for the equity agenda over the past 25 years.

113:19 minutes (103.77 MB)
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We All Have a Right to the Truth: Surveillance. Detention. Interrogation. Torture. Justice?

August 31, 2009
| On August 26th, Abdullah Almalki, Yavar Hameed and Maureen Webb headed a panel discussion on the abuses of Canadian citizens' civil rights at the hands of our government.

112:31 minutes (103.05 MB)
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Everything you need to know about human rights and the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement

September 15, 2009
| At a panel discussion in Ottawa, Colombian human rights lawyer Dora Lucy Arias and trade analyst Gauri Sreenivasan voice insights and concerns regarding the proposed Bill C-23.

81:58 minutes (75.07 MB)
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Blue Summit: Water is a human right

January 5, 2010
| Maude Barlow discusses how governments are responding to the call for water to be recognized as a universal human right, followed by a discussion with other delegates of the Blue Summit.

32:01 minutes (29.34 MB)
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A Diversity of Tactics: A Diversity of Opinions

February 27, 2010
| On Feb. 20 in Vancouver, Derrick O'Keefe and Harsha Walia presented opposing perspectives as part of a discussion on the diversity of protest tactics.

38:30 minutes (35.26 MB)
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A Diversity of Tactics: Part Two

February 28, 2010
| The second half of a discussion held Feb. 20 in Vancouver to examine the criticisms and benefits of a diversity of protest tactics.

32:43 minutes (29.97 MB)
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Resistance across borders

April 21, 2010
| rabble.ca was the media sponsor for a panel held in Toronto to discuss Canada's role in international conflict, and the effects of war on security and border policies.

120:33 minutes (110.39 MB)
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Water: Commons or commodity?

September 1, 2010
| Maude Barlow discusses the impacts of industry and trade on local access to water at a Council of Canadians-PSAC North panel discussion.

30:36 minutes (28.04 MB)
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'Walking the Talk,' Part Three: Canadian legal responses to human rights abuses abroad

October 14, 2010
| A panel discussion featuring the perspectives and experiences of Mark Arnold, Dermod Travis and Cory Wanless.

54:14 minutes (49.68 MB)
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‘Walking the Talk: Human Rights Abroad’ (Part One)

October 13, 2010
| The first panel of MP Peter Julian's recent conference on Canada's corporate accountability discussed the community impacts of extractive operations abroad.

84:11 minutes (77.1 MB)
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‘Walking the Talk’, Part Two: Public sector responses to abuses by Canadian extractive industries

October 13, 2010
| The conference's second panel featured human rights activists Grahame Russell, Sakura Saunders and Jamie Moffett.

52:04 minutes (47.7 MB)
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'Walking the Talk,' Part Four: The case for new legislation

October 15, 2010
| Nick Milanovic, Mark Rowlinson and Terry Collingsworth discuss the benefits of Bill C-354 in taking action against human rights abuses by corporations abroad.

70:47 minutes (64.83 MB)
Migrant Matters

Thinking critically about the Canadian immigration system (2 of 3)

September 30, 2010
| Who's let in? Who's left out? And why? Does the Canadian government care about how migrants live or just how much they can work?

32:54 minutes (45.19 MB)
Migrant Matters

Thinking critically about the Canadian immigration system (3 of 3)

October 15, 2010
| Who's let in? Who's left out? And why? Does the Canadian government care about how migrants live or just how much they can work?

52:03 minutes (47.66 MB)
Migrant Matters

Mayday panel: Speaking from the forefront of the struggle for (im)migrant justice and workers' rights (1 of 2)

April 30, 2011
| The experiences of racialized working-class (im)migrants here. The abuses inherent in (forced) migration to Canada. The importance of these communities defending themselves.

60:37 minutes (65.02 MB)
Redeye

Lesbians and queer women in politics

January 5, 2012
| Five queer women involved in political life in B.C. got together at Rhizome Cafe in Vancouver to talk about their experiences.

29:34 minutes (27.07 MB)