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Episode One: Violent Chick Flicks

February 8, 2006
| Judy Rebick and Cathy Bond debate whether violent female action heroes in pop culture are appealing or appalling.

8:11 minutes (7.49 MB)
Rabble Rumble Archived

Episode Two: Violent Chick Flicks

February 13, 2006
| Judy Rebick gets back in the ring with her rebuttal on the topic of violent women in the movies in Round Two of the debate.

4:58 minutes (4.55 MB)
Rabble Rumble Archived

Episode Three: Violent Chick Flicks

February 20, 2006
| After Judy's rebuttal, Cathi Bond makes her comeback and tells us the pros of seeing aggressive women on the screen.

4:20 minutes (3.98 MB)
Rabble Rumble Archived

Episode Four: Violent Chick Flicks

February 27, 2006
| This time, Judy returns with her latest statement about how killer heroines merely imitate male action heroes.

4:19 minutes (3.96 MB)
Rabble Rumble Archived

Episode Five: Violent Chick Flicks

March 6, 2006
| Cathi Bond sounds off about 'masculine' and 'feminine' types of violence and power in her latest rebuttal.

4:35 minutes (4.2 MB)
Rabble Rumble Archived

Episode Six: Violent Chick Flicks

March 13, 2006
| In the final episode of the debate about killer female film leads, both Cathi Bond and Judy Rebick give their closing statements.

5:40 minutes (5.2 MB)
Rabble Rumble Archived

Episode Seven: Violent Chick Flicks

March 20, 2006
| Here’s the complete showdown between Cathi and Judy on the topic of violent chick flicks, from their opening statements to their closing remarks.

20:51 minutes (19.09 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#12: Hope in Shadows, the book.

April 24, 2008
| A preview of the new Hope in Shadows book; the weekly look at Pivot issues in the news and a poem by Mike Pratt.

19:36 minutes (22.44 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#13: David Eby talks about Homelessness.

May 1, 2008
| Darren Fleet talks to David Eby about issues that have occured in Vancouver regarding homelessness and the Downtown Eastside in the past week.

25:43 minutes (29.44 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#4: Broken Promises child welfare report and a housing protest

February 28, 2008
| Child Welfare: an update on the Broken Promises report launch and the Carnegie Action Group rally about housing.

16:37 minutes (19.02 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#5: Drug Policy: Public Health or Criminal Justice Issue?

March 6, 2008
| A special podcast covering Drug Policy: Public Health or Criminal Justice Issue? lecture at UBC.

57:47 minutes (66.13 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#6: Insite, North America's only supervised injection facility.

March 13, 2008
| An interview with Mark Townsend from the organization that runs North America's only supervised injection site on why it should remain open.

25:48 minutes (29.53 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#7: Dr Gabor Mate talks about In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.

March 20, 2008
| Dr Gabor Mate talks about his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.

36:10 minutes (41.39 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#8: Immigrant housing in Vancouver - a new report.

March 27, 2008
| David Eby discusses a new report about immigrant housing in Vancouver is released by Pivot: Cultural Divide.

15:40 minutes (17.93 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#9: Megaphone street mag and a new UN report about addictions.

April 3, 2008
| Vancouver's new street magazine Megaphone is launched and a new report from the UN about addictions.

26:13 minutes (30 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#10: Vancouver police and Vancouver's homeless count.

April 10, 2008
| Policing and Pivot in the Downtown Eastside, and results from Vancouver's homeless count.

24:10 minutes (27.67 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#11: Complaint to UN about Canada's treatment of homeless people.

April 17, 2008
| A complaint made to the UN about Canada's treatment of homeless people

22:41 minutes (25.96 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#18 - Mark Haden talks about a regulated drug market for Canada

June 5, 2008
| #18 - Mark Haden talks about a regulated drug maket for Canada and Bud Osbourne speaks live from the InSite celebration on May 31 in Vancouver

22:58 minutes (26.3 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#21 - By-law enforcement targets homeless people in Vancouver

July 3, 2008
| By-laws are being enforced to prosecute sidewalk sales and to confiscate belongings of homeless people in Vancouver.

11:31 minutes (13.19 MB)
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows

youth challenge international part 3

August 14, 2008
| an international volunteer from Canada and a HIV worker from Guyana tell their stories about raising HIV awareness and cross-cultural relationships

5:48 minutes (5.31 MB)
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows

youth challenge international part 2

July 12, 2008
| an international volunteer from Canada and a HIV worker from Guyana tell their stories about raising HIV awareness and cross-cultural relationships

8:38 minutes (7.91 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#24 - Safer crack-use kits: the trial ends, how did it go?

July 24, 2008
| SCORE have produced a report on their trial handing out of safer crack kits to Vancouver addicts. We talk to nurse Jodie Loadfoot.

21:42 minutes (19.88 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#25 - Pivot to sue police until civilian oversight initiated

July 31, 2008
| #25 - How to Sue the Police. Nancy Macdonald talks to Doug King, Pivot policing campaigner about the boycott of the Police Complaints Authority by Pivot and B.C. Civil Liberties Association

19:41 minutes (18.02 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#26 The Blackbird - a Downtown Eastside photographer

September 2, 2008
| Jay Black is The Blackbird, a photographer who is documenting the rapid change taking place in Canada's poorest postal code

23:01 minutes (21.07 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#29 - RCMP secretly funded anti-Insite research

October 8, 2008
| Pivot Legal Society Police spokesperson Doug King is interviewed by Nancy Macdonald about the RCMP secretly funding anti-Insite research

6:34 minutes (6.02 MB)
The Dispatch
The Dispatch

35 years of Briarpatch

October 26, 2008
| Two talks from Briarpatch's 35 year birthday party

35:51 minutes (32.83 MB)
The Dispatch
The Dispatch

Naomi Klein

October 27, 2008
| Our interview with Naomi Klein

16:39 minutes (15.24 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Banana: the Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World

October 28, 2008
| A new book by Dan Koeppel traces the 7000-year history of the banana and brings us up-to-date with the crisis it faces right now.

21:29 minutes (19.67 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Costs of Afghanistan war

October 29, 2008
| Stephen Harper says they're $8 billion. Steve Staples says they're closer to $28 billion. Steve Staples is author of a recent Rideau Institute paper on the true cost of Canada's mission.

15:54 minutes (14.56 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Massive subsidies to oil companies continue

October 30, 2008
| Oil companies are some of the most profitable companies in the world. Despite this, they continue to get billions of dollars worth of subsidies from the U.S. government.

7:28 minutes (6.84 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Dangers of identity theft

November 1, 2008
| Identity theft is one of the most serious types of privacy breach and it's growing all the time, according to Richard Rosenberg of the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association.

11:31 minutes (10.55 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

UBC considers development of campus farm

November 6, 2008
| UBC farm has been organic for 40 years and provides a model of biodiversity for the 20,000 people who visit it each year. Andrea Morgan talks about the fight to preserve the farm.

12:29 minutes (11.43 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Organizing for a new life in the city

November 7, 2008
| Early First Nations migrants to Winnipeg encountered racism and poverty; they responded by building community organizations that could offer skills, support and a sense of identity.

12:11 minutes (11.16 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Reaction to Obama’s victory

November 19, 2008
| We hear two progressive voices talking about their response to the election of Barack Obama on November 4.

19:55 minutes (18.24 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Bailing out GM, Ford and Chrysler

November 23, 2008
| Sam Gindin says governments should be taking this opportunity to radically re-think the auto sector.

12:55 minutes (23.65 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canwest drops lawsuit against political activist

November 25, 2008
| A committee to defend free speech says it pushed media giant Canwest to drop its legal suit against Mordecai Briemberg over a parody of The Vancouver Sun.

15:14 minutes (27.89 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Bringing Omar Khadr home

November 26, 2008
| Omar Khadr was a teenager when he was taken prisoner and transported to Guantanamo. He is still there, six years later.

13:58 minutes (12.79 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Court challenge to new federal election law

November 28, 2008
| On October 14, Canadians across the country were turned away from polling places because they didn’t have the correct ID. Jim Quail is a B.C. lawyer set to challenge the new election laws in court.

16:01 minutes (29.33 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Bruce – the Musical

December 1, 2008
| Bruce Eriksen was a fierce advocate for the people of Vancouver’s downtown eastside, and an unlikely candidate for a musical biography.

15:41 minutes (14.36 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

War in Congo

November 27, 2008
| Asad Ismi describes how Western exploitation of the natural resources of Congo has fueled the deadliest conflict since World War II.

15:29 minutes (14.17 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Tariq Ali on US-Pakistan politics

December 3, 2008
| Tariq Ali speaks about his most recent book “The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power

54:09 minutes (49.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Real Utopia

December 9, 2008
| Chris Spannos talks about his new book Real Utopia, which explores the idea of revolutionizing everyday life within the framework of participatory economics.

13:23 minutes (24.51 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

podcast #32 - Jean Swanson: What Downtown Eastsiders want

December 10, 2008
| James Ash talks with Jean Swanson about the project to map the people of the Downtown Eastside.

12:16 minutes (11.24 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Two perspectives on legalizing prostitution

December 20, 2008
| Sheila Jefferys is a feminist author and activist in Australia. Gunilla Ekberg is a feminist lawyer and activist in Sweden. They share their perspectives on prostitution laws in their two countries.

27:24 minutes (25.09 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Stephen Harper vs. the Canadian Wheat Board

January 20, 2009
| The Prime Minister has been ideologically opposed to the Wheat Board since his days as president of the National Citizens Coalition.

13:23 minutes (12.26 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Death of First Nations languages no accident

January 24, 2009
| Only three of more than 60 indigenous languages is expected to survive this century. Andrea Bear Nicholas says this is a direct result of federal government polices on First Nations education.

15:57 minutes (14.61 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

Security before Justice - a report on private policing in Vancouver

December 3, 2008
| Security Before Justice - a look at the new report looking at private security and its effect on homelessness and under-housed Vancouver residents

13:17 minutes (12.17 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Hunger strike relay for housing

February 6, 2009
| Am Johal went on hunger strike for a week and he's organized a relay of concerned citizens to do the same to pressure the federal government to re-establish a national housing program.

16:00 minutes (14.65 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

War resister speaks out on Afghanistan

February 6, 2009
| Jules Tindungan is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He speaks about his experiences during his deployment there.

9:17 minutes (8.51 MB)
Labour Show
Labour Show

Episode #13: CKLN - Community Radio in Crisis

February 17, 2009
| Locked out programmer Don Weitz from CKLN (Ryerson) speaks about the on going conflict at the station

17:30 minutes (16.02 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

Pivot Legal Society

February 26, 2009
| Paul Ryan interviews Pivot's policing campaigner Doug King about recent ticketing by Vancouver police of people in the Downtown Eastside

10:22 minutes (9.54 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Fragile rights: A talk by Maher Arar

February 26, 2009
| Maher Arar speaks to a CCPA fundraising dinner in Vancouver about the loss of civil and human rights in post 9/11 Canada.

39:59 minutes (36.61 MB)
Council Of Canadians Podcast
Council Of Canadians Podcast

CPR Episode 1: Canada's Mordor

February 27, 2009
| Maude Barlow takes on the tar sands at a press conference in Edmonton, labelling them Canada's Mordor.

10:30 minutes (9.61 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

Pivot files "BodyCuff" complaint

March 4, 2009
| Pivot files "BodyCuff" complaint about miss-use of the restraining device by Vancouver Police

7:20 minutes (6.76 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The true cost of public-private partnerships

March 11, 2009
| The Canadian Union of Public Employees commissioned a Vancouver accounting firm to do a forensic audit of P3s to determine the true cost of building public projects with private money.

13:17 minutes (12.17 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

2010 Olympics and civil liberties

April 2, 2009
| The games are months away but the clampdown on civil liberties has already started, according to David Eby of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

11:01 minutes (10.09 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Lawsuit challenges Canadian government on transfer of detainees in Afghanistan

April 4, 2009
| <p>Grace Pastine talks about the case brought by the BCCLA and Amnesty International over the treatment of detainees in Afghanistan.</p>

9:49 minutes (8.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Healthcare databases and the surveillance state

April 4, 2009
| <p>Micheal Vonn of the BCCLA talks about the threats to patient privacy in particular and democracy in general when the government starts putting all our healthcare files into unified databases.</p>

18:06 minutes (16.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

What's wrong with Canada-Colombia FTA

May 1, 2009
| Manuel Rozental is the elected member of the Directorate Democratic Pole politcal party in Colombia. He says free trade cannot be achieved without repression and violence.

13:30 minutes (12.36 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Climate change in the media

May 8, 2009
| Stephen Leahy is an independent environmental journalist who just returned from the Indigenous Peoples Global Summit in Alaska. He talks about that and the media's response to climate change.

11:21 minutes (10.4 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

B.C. park ranger positions cut

May 23, 2009
| B.C. Environment Minister Barry Penner says there are 200 rangers on-duty in the summer. In fact, the number is closer to 60.

14:33 minutes (13.32 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Reena Katz and the Koffler Centre

June 2, 2009
| The Koffler Centre of the Arts commissioned an installation from Toronto artist Reena Katz then withdrew support when they found out she supported Israel Apartheid Week.

14:12 minutes (13 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Prison activist Ed Mead on the U.S. prison system

June 9, 2009
| Ed Mead was imprisoned in the 1970s for his actions with the George Jackson Brigade, a radical group which blew up public buildings and robbed banks.

13:21 minutes (12.22 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Democracy for Egypt missing from Obama speech

June 17, 2009
| When President Obama spoke in Cairo on June 4, he was in support of freedom and democracy in the Middle East - but only in general terms.

14:06 minutes (12.92 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Congress of the Humanities: It's funny because it's true

June 17, 2009
| From the 2009 Congress of the Humanities: Dr. Devon Lougheed talks about just what's funny, and just what what's funny means to us all.

15:45 minutes (18.05 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Us Now: Technology and Community Engagement

June 22, 2009
| Discussing the theme of how the web enables people of all ages to participate in their communities: Mayor David MIller, Don Tapscott, and many of Toronto's social innovators.

98:55 minutes (45.29 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Ottawa's Open Internet Town Hall

June 19, 2009
| Ottawa's Open Internet Town Hall was designed to give local citizens the chance to shape Canada's broadband future. Guest speakers include Michael Geist, Rocky Gaudreault, and MP Charlie Angus.

105:47 minutes (48.44 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The English Stories

August 5, 2009
| Vancouver author Cynthia Flood discusses her latest collection of linked short stories set in postwar Britain.

24:45 minutes (22.66 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

August 13, 2009
| We are hooked on bargains. Yet cheap goods come with immense social, cultural and environmental costs. We talk with author Ellen Ruppel Shell.

22:34 minutes (20.67 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A Woman Among Warlords

August 14, 2009
| Malalai Joya's autobiography will be published in Canada in October. Rabble editor Derrick O'Keefe worked with Joya on the book, recently released in Britain under the title Raising My Voice.

16:16 minutes (14.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Mapping surveillance cameras in Vancouver

August 19, 2009
| On August 23, the Vancouver Public Space Network is going to do a count of all the video cameras in Vancouver's downtown eastside and central business district.

14:26 minutes (13.22 MB)
Council Of Canadians Podcast
Council Of Canadians Podcast

CPR Episode 2: No Water to Waste - the Fight to Stop Dump Site 41

August 21, 2009
| The battle against Site 41 is a story of seniors and students, farmers and first nations members, national organizations and cottagers, uniting to protect some of the purest water in the world.

42:07 minutes (38.57 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Report from the Egypt/Gaza border

August 20, 2009
| The people of Gaza are under siege by Israel with the complicity of the Egyptian government. Independent journalist Jon Elmer was blocked from entering Gaza from Egypt.

23:15 minutes (21.29 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

How the U.S. is helping the coup makers in Honduras

August 31, 2009
| Conn Hallinan details the organizations, companies and individuals lending their support to the military regime in Honduras.

15:38 minutes (14.31 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Adil Charkaoui: In his own words

September 3, 2009
| Adil Charkaoui was arrested under a Canadian security certificate in May 2003. In June 2009. he was finally allowed to leave Montreal and went on a speaking tour across Canada.

42:29 minutes (38.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Public power and green energy

September 21, 2009
| The B.C. government says it wants to make the province a clean energy powerhouse. Joe Foy of the Wilderness Committee says the only way to do that is to keep B.C. Hydro public.

14:23 minutes (13.18 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Creating a transit generation

September 30, 2009
| A new study shows that a pre-paid transit pass program at two universities in Vancouver has dramatically increased transit use among students.

13:55 minutes (12.74 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Jim Sinclair at the Yukon NDP Leadership Convention

September 29, 2009
| On September 26th, the President of the BC Federation of Labour gave a rousing speech at the convention in Whitehorse.

34:38 minutes (31.73 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Each hand as they are called

October 2, 2009
| This is the title of an exhibition reflecting on Toronto's Kensington Market and its origins as The Jewish Market. We speak with artist Reena Katz.

9:22 minutes (8.59 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

An evening with Flora Igoki Terah

October 4, 2009
| On September 23, the Kenyan human rights activist stood before an audience at Amnesty House in Ottawa to speak of her political experiences and encounters with electoral violence.

32:32 minutes (29.82 MB)
Labour Show
Labour Show

Episode #20 - Women in the Trades 2

October 14, 2009
| Myra Leyden, carpenter and grad student talks about life in the trades and the work life balance

23:41 minutes (21.69 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

No reward for greed: Ken Georgetti at the CUPE National Convention

October 29, 2009
| On October 8th in Montreal, the Canadian Labour Congress President called upon governments everywhere to support the people who build their economies.

23:21 minutes (21.4 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Pipeline sabotage in B.C.

October 31, 2009
| Since October 2008, six explosions have damaged sour gas pipelines in the Tomslake area in the province of British Columbia.

15:56 minutes (14.6 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Olympic Industry resistance

October 28, 2009
| In her latest book, Professor Helen Lenskyj examines the threat posed by the Olympics to the basic civil rights of residents of host cities.

44:36 minutes (40.83 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

A Strong Public Service for Tough Economic Times: Jack Layton at the CUPE National Convention

November 4, 2009
| In his speech on October 9th, the NDP Leader praised the work of public sector employees and stressed the importance of public services to our economic security.

37:56 minutes (34.76 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Remembering Peter Royce

November 21, 2009
| Long-time host and collective member Peter Royce died on November 4. Mordecai Briemberg reads this appreciation of Peter on behalf of the Redeye collective.

5:00 minutes (4.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's housing bubble

November 27, 2009
| Risky loans offered by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation are leading Canada down the road to a U.S.-style economic crash.

15:25 minutes (14.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Malalai Joya: A Woman Among Warlords

November 28, 2009
| Afghan MP Malalai Joya and past rabble.ca editor Derrick O'Keefe recorded in Vancouver during their cross-Canada book tour in November 2009.

36:03 minutes (33 MB)
Labour Show
Labour Show

Episode #23: Gladson Makowa - The Story Workshop and Farm Radio International

December 8, 2009
| Award winning Malawian journalist speaks of his work with rural radio projects in Africa.

20:33 minutes (18.83 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Nine years in jail without a trial

December 16, 2009
| Mohamed Mahjoub was arrested on a security certificate in 2003. He has been held in prison ever since, except for a brief period of punitive house arrest, and has spent many months on hunger strike.

10:38 minutes (9.73 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Armine Yalnizyan: The Regina Manifesto in the 21st Century

December 17, 2009
| The CCPA's chief economist took the stage in Saskatoon to discuss the continuing importance of the historic document to social democracy in Canada.

35:36 minutes (32.63 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Reforming the oil and gas industry

December 18, 2009
| What if Canada's resources were owned by the government and served a public interest mandate? A new report says the oil and gas industry should work for public good rather than private gain.

12:10 minutes (11.15 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Regina Manifesto, Part 2: Murray Dobbin on the Future of Canadian Democracy

December 23, 2009
| The author, broadcaster and journalist gave his opinion on the document's relevance at an event presented by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in October.

28:27 minutes (26.08 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's climate policy spoofed

December 23, 2009
| Canadian activists, the Yes Men and Action Aid were behind a series of fake press releases sent out during the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen. We speak with Frans Mikael Jansen of Action Aid.

12:17 minutes (11.25 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Wide variations in refugee acceptance rates

January 2, 2010
| Some Immigration and Refugee Board members approve as few as 7 per cent of all claims they hear. Others approve upwards of 80 per cent.

18:09 minutes (16.62 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Who's Your Daddy?

January 15, 2010
| Recorded at the Vancouver book launch for this new collection of writings about queer parenting edited by Rachel Epstein.

21:07 minutes (19.33 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Why resist the 2010 Olympics: two activists speak

January 27, 2010
| Anna Hunter is with the Anti-Poverty Committee and the Olympic Resistance Network; Carol Martin is a member of the Nisga'a nation and sits on the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre Elders Council.

13:59 minutes (12.8 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Blue Summit: Seven reasons water will stay public

January 27, 2010
| As we enter a new decade, Steven Shrybman explains why water activists should be hopeful about the future.

15:50 minutes (14.52 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The hidden history of activism in sport

January 27, 2010
| Dave Zirin is the first sports writer in the 150-year history of The Nation magazine. Zirin writes about the politics of sport and tells the stories of activist athletes and their struggles.

27:36 minutes (25.27 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver City Council to allow 15-storey buildings in Downtown Eastside

January 30, 2010
| Vancouver City Council allows 15-storey buildings in Downtown Eastside. Housing activists say the zoning change will push low-income residents out of the area in favour of more condos.

12:56 minutes (11.85 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut

February 2, 2010
| In 2005, James Long found a suitcase full of photographs in an alley in East Vancouver. That chance find led to this play currently showing at the PUSH International Performing Arts Festival.

15:03 minutes (13.78 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Olympics to leave behind a lasting security legacy

February 3, 2010
| Micheal Vonn says it's a well-accepted fact that the security put in place for the Olympics doesn't leave town when the athletes go back home.

15:23 minutes (14.09 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Strengthening pensions: The cross-Canada campaign

February 8, 2010
| The Canadian Labour Congress' Joel Harden describes the agenda for action on its "Retirement Security for All" campaign.

17:29 minutes (16.03 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Hidden costs of the 2010 Winter Olympics

February 9, 2010
| Chris Shaw takes us back to early estimates of the costs, and potential profits, of the Olympics and compares these figures with what we know now will be the total cost of the Games.

15:20 minutes (14.04 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

2010 Olympics have greatest impact on least fortunate

February 10, 2010
| Cecily Nicholson of the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre talks about how the people she works with have been affected disproportionately by the Olympic Games.

15:37 minutes (14.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Every goodbye ain't gone

February 16, 2010
| Salt Spring Island on the B.C, coast is home to over 50 Black people. The history of Black people on the island is the subject of a photographic narrative by Evelyn C. White and Joanne Bealy.

11:09 minutes (10.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Grassroots media report on the 2010 Olympics

February 24, 2010
| The Vancouver Media Coop has been the centre of much of the reporting of protests against the Games. During the day of autonomous actions on Feb. 13, their coverage was picked up across North America.

17:10 minutes (15.73 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada violates Olympic truce

March 5, 2010
| As the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics were taking place on Feb. 12, NATO launched the largest offensive in the nine years of the war in Afghanistan.

13:31 minutes (12.38 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Africville apology angers community activist

March 8, 2010
| Last month the mayor of Halifax apologized to the former residents of a black community razed to the ground in the 1960s. Denise Allen says the apology was totally inadequate.

17:21 minutes (15.89 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Pablo Solon: Change the system, not the climate

March 18, 2010
| Pablo Solon was lead negotiator for Bolivia at December's climate conference in Copenhagen. In this talk, recorded in Vancouver, he talks about what went wrong in Denmark.

29:02 minutes (26.59 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Arms and The Man

March 25, 2010
| Theatre at UBC is staging a new production of George Bernard Shaw's famous anti-war play. Laura Lamb went to see the play and shares her thoughts.

11:57 minutes (10.95 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Café Justicia organizer forced to flee Guatemala

March 25, 2010
| Leocadio Juaracán is the national coordinator of the CCDA, a campesino organization that work for human rights in Guatemala. In February he began receiving death threats.

27:00 minutes (24.73 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Oxfam America under fire over GMOs

May 12, 2010
| Food activists question Oxfam America's stance that "transgenic crops offer enormous possibilities." Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute was one of the signatories of an open letter to Oxfam.

14:38 minutes (13.4 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Sanctions-busting telethon for Abousfian Abdelrazik

May 16, 2010
| Nearly a year has passed since a federal court judge ordered the Canadian government to allow Abdelrazik to return home to Canada. But he still can't work, have a bank account, or travel.

12:50 minutes (11.76 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2010: Space, Culture and the Ecocritical Imagination

May 30, 2010
| Alessandra Capperdoni discusses space and post-colonial literature in the first installment of rabble's podcast series from this year's Congress at Concordia University.

25:41 minutes (23.54 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

B.C. welfare policy hurting family reunification

May 18, 2010
| Pivot Lawyer Lobat Sadrehashemi talks about a complaint filed to the B.C. Ombudsperson regarding a policy that makes it difficult for foster children to return to their parents.

9:26 minutes (8.64 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

Dumpster diver market in Vancouver

June 15, 2010
| Tami Starlight from the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council talks about a new, organized street vendor market for binners and local people.

13:11 minutes (12.07 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Kevin Neish speaks in Vancouver

June 30, 2010
| Victoria-based activist Kevin Neish was on the Turkish vessel, the Mavi Marmara, when it was boarded by Israeli soldiers in May. He speaks about his experiences on the ship and in Be'er Sheva prison.

34:27 minutes (31.55 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Proud, Palestinian and queer

July 7, 2010
| Haneen Maikey speaks at the Pride in Our Politics Cabaret put on by Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.

13:00 minutes (11.93 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Amy Goodman at Massey Hall

July 8, 2010
| The host and executive producer of Democracy Now! speaking in Toronto on the first day of the G20 Summit.

17:57 minutes (16.44 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Leo Gerard at Massey Hall

July 8, 2010
| International President of the United Steelworkers and Vice-President of the AFL-CIO speaking in Toronto on the first day of the G20 Summit.

15:42 minutes (14.38 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Pablo Solon at Massey Hall

July 8, 2010
| Bolivian ambassador to the United Nations and lead negotiator for Bolivia at the December 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen. speaking in Toronto on the first day of the G20 Summit.

16:36 minutes (15.19 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Naomi Klein at Massey Hall

July 8, 2010
| Award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism speaking in Toronto on the first day of the G20 Summit.

20:03 minutes (18.36 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Clayton Thomas-Muller at Massey Hall

July 8, 2010
| Aboriginal activist and tar sands campaigner with the Indigenous Environmental Network speaking in Toronto on the first day of the G20 Summit.

12:59 minutes (11.89 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Maude Barlow at Massey Hall

July 8, 2010
| National chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chair of the board of the Washington-based group Food and Water Watch, speaking in Toronto on the first day of the G20 Summit.

17:07 minutes (15.68 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vandana Shiva at Massey Hall

July 8, 2010
| Founder of Navdanya, an environmental justice organization that counts five million farmer families in 16 states of India among its members, speaking in Toronto on the first day of the G20 Summit.

14:08 minutes (12.94 MB)
Labour Show
Labour Show

Recent migrant worker fatalities under investigation

September 21, 2010
| Recent seasonal agricultural worker deaths appear to be job related and are under investigation.

12:11 minutes (11.16 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Benefits and pitfalls of domestic violence courts: part 3

October 25, 2010
| Many jurisdictions across Canada have domestic violence courts. On October 6th, a public forum explored the pros and cons of this kind of court. We bring you three speakers from that forum.

11:16 minutes (10.32 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Benefits and pitfalls of domestic violence courts: part 2

October 25, 2010
| Many jurisdictions across Canada have domestic violence courts. On October 6th, a public forum explored the pros and cons of this kind of court. We bring you three speakers from that forum.

15:37 minutes (14.31 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Benefits and pitfalls of domestic violence courts: Part 1

October 25, 2010
| Many jurisdictions across Canada have domestic violence courts. On October 6th, a public forum explored the pros and cons of this kind of court. We bring you three speakers from that forum.

18:59 minutes (17.38 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Successful campaign to free six black youth in Louisiana

November 6, 2010
| In 2006, six high-school students found themselves facing charges of attempting murder following racist incidents in the schoolyard. Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty tells the story.

8:05 minutes (7.41 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Confronting intimate violence within activist communities

November 6, 2010
| The Revolution Starts At Home examines how women and men of colour can protect themselves against violent partners without calling in the same police who are oppress their communities.

9:55 minutes (9.08 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Trouble With Billionaires: Part 2

November 23, 2010
| If you earned one dollar every second you would be a millionaire in twelve days. It would take another 32 years for you to become a billionaire.

29:07 minutes (26.66 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Trouble With Billionaires: Part 1

November 23, 2010
| If you earned one dollar every second you would be a millionaire in 12 days. It would take another 32 years for you to become a billionaire.

25:42 minutes (23.54 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Abousfian Abdelrazik: In his own words

December 6, 2010
| Most Canadians first heard about the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik last year when a federal court judge ordered the Canadian government to allow him to return home from six years of exile in the Sudan.

57:55 minutes (53.03 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition

December 17, 2010
| Six weeks after the Armistice was signed in 1918, a contingent of more than 4,000 Canadian soldiers mobilized for battle in a new theatre of war -- Siberia.

37:12 minutes (34.06 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better

December 22, 2010
| Richard Wilkinson's work has shaped research on the social determinants of health for over thirty years. He co-authored the international best-seller The Spirit Level with Kate Pickett.

48:37 minutes (44.52 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

On a Taglit-Birthright tour through Israel

December 22, 2010
| In July, activist Rachel Marcuse spent 10 days in Israel as part of the Taglit-Birthright program -- a fully sponsored trip for young North American Jews to learn more about the country.

27:17 minutes (24.98 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Oil spill: Hartley Bay, B.C.

February 1, 2011
| Redeye was at "When Oil Meets Water" to record 4 people talking about what it's like when an oil spill happens in your backyard. The final speaker was Kyle Clifton of the Gitga'at Nation.

12:33 minutes (11.5 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Oil spill: Michigan

February 1, 2011
| Redeye was at "When Oil Meets Water" to record 4 people talking about what it's like when an oil spill happens in your backyard. The third speaker was Beth Wallace of the National Wildlife Federation.

19:37 minutes (17.97 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Open pit imperialism: Guatemala

February 11, 2011
| Redeye recorded a panel discussion addressing the role of Canadian mining companies in Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond. The event was organized in response to a donation by Goldcorp to SFU.

22:09 minutes (20.28 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Imperialist Canada

February 13, 2011
| Redeye recorded Todd Gordon at the launch of his new book, Imperialist Canada. Gordon interweaves histories of indigenous dispossession in Canada with the actions of Canadian capital overseas.

27:57 minutes (25.59 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Oil spill: Louisiana

February 1, 2011
| Redeye was at "When Oil Meets Water" to record 4 people talking about what it's like when an oil spill happens in your backyard. The first speakers were Tracy Kuhns and Mike Roberts.

22:58 minutes (21.04 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Open pit imperialism: British Columbia

February 17, 2011
| Redeye recorded a panel discussion addressing the role of Canadian mining companies around the world. The event was organized in response to a donation by Goldcorp to SFU.

15:29 minutes (14.19 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A slam on feminism in academia

April 28, 2011
| The new anthology Feminism for Real had its Vancouver launch at Rhizome Cafe on April 14. Proma Tagore was there to read the piece her sister Shaunga wrote for the book.

6:25 minutes (5.88 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Grandmother's Spirit

April 28, 2011
| Jessica Yee is the editor of a new anthology called Feminism for Real. At the Vancouver book launch, Jessica Yee showed a video of a performance piece that she says was the catalyst for the book.

8:47 minutes (8.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Male Feminist

April 28, 2011
| A poem by Robert Animikii Horton recorded at Rhizome Cafe on April 14. The occasion was the Vancouver book launch of Feminism for Real, an anthology edited by Jessica Yee.

15:02 minutes (13.77 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

On a Taglit-Birthright tour through Israel

December 22, 2010
| In July, activist Rachel Marcuse spent 10 days in Israel as part of the Taglit-Birthright program -- a fully sponsored trip for young North American Jews to learn more about the country.

27:17 minutes (24.98 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Gaza flotilla stuck in Greece

July 29, 2011
| A few weeks ago, the Greek government prevented a flotilla of ten international boats bound for Gaza from leaving Greek ports.

13:40 minutes (18.78 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

#182 ~ Living up to purpose

August 18, 2011
| A two-month road trip across Canada offers insights and reflection.

9:57 minutes (9.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Maude Barlow on trade agreement between Canada and EU

October 24, 2011
| Maude Barlow says corporations are hoping that CETA will give them everything they didn't get in previous trade agreements.

15:18 minutes (14.01 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Paul Moist on trade agreement between Canada and EU

November 5, 2011
| Paul Moist is national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Canada's largest union. He was on a nationwide tour to build awareness about CETA.

17:52 minutes (16.35 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Colleen Fuller on trade agreement between Canada and EU

November 5, 2011
| Colleen Fuller is a long-time public health advocate and health care analyst based in Vancouver. She was on a nationwide tour talking about CETA.

15:49 minutes (14.48 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box

November 6, 2011
| On June 3, Brigette DePape disrupted the Speech from the Throne by taking out a sign that read "Stop Harper". Brigette DePape was in Vancouver at the end of October.

21:51 minutes (20.01 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill

November 9, 2011
| Juhasz is the lead author and editor of "The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report." Her research into the oil industry led her to the Gulf Coast of the U.S. following the BP oil spill.

30:07 minutes (27.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

First Nations united against tar sands oil and pipelines

December 20, 2011
| Jackie Thomas of the Saik'uz First Nation was one of the chiefs involved in drafting the Save the Fraser declaration, which bans oil pipelines from crossing First Nations land.

21:17 minutes (19.49 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Blockading tar sands oil

December 20, 2011
| Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein was one of the 10,000 people who surrounded the White House on November 6 to say no to pipelines and no to the tar sands.

28:02 minutes (25.66 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Coastal First Nations oppose pipeline and tankers

February 1, 2012
| Art Sterritt is executive director of Coastal First Nations, an alliance of eight First Nations with traditional territories extending from Rivers Inlet up to Prince Rupert and Haida Gwai.

8:14 minutes (7.55 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley opposes pipeline and tankers

February 1, 2012
| Nathan Cullen is MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley. His constituency encompasses much of the proposed Enbridge pipeline route.

9:31 minutes (8.72 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Book: Feeling Canadian

March 7, 2012
| A new book by author, filmmaker and media theorist Marusya Bociurkiw takes a close look at Canadian television.

33:08 minutes (30.34 MB)