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Migrant Matters

Migrant Matters navigates through the interconnected issues that limit the freedom of people to move across borders (of all kinds) and stay wherever they choose. We bring into focus the individual faces and unique stories of migrant workers, "non-status" people, and racialized working-class immigrants, who are often left out of mainstream media. Airs monthly.
Migrant Matters
Migrant Matters

Escalating migrant and refugee repression in Canada - Panel

May 24, 2012
| The wide impact that migration and Canada has on low-income racialized people from the Global South who are going to work and/or seeking refuge here.

63:26 minutes (145.19 MB)
Migrant Matters
Migrant Matters

Guelph hosts vigil to honour 11 victims of migrant worker van tragedy

February 21, 2012
| Year after year, migrants without full status die in Ontario. Speakers at a Guelph vigil talk about the latest news on this -- the 10 people who were killed in a Hampstead, Ont. crash this month.

10:59 minutes (10.06 MB)
Migrant Matters
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)
Migrant Matters
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)
Migrant Matters
Migrant Matters

The powerful sacred life stages of women, Cree, Métis and Ojibway

November 12, 2011
| Nurturing and appreciating women, at each life stage, sustains healthy communities. The Sacred Feminine and story as healing forces in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities.

43:31 minutes (39.84 MB)
Migrant Matters
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)
Migrant Matters
Migrant Matters

Seven Deadly Myths: Denying the Palestinian narrative

October 15, 2011
| A new film on the collective denial which has led to emotional and physical walls between the Isrealis and Palestinians. The bloodshed and psychological abuse bred from the conflict on Canada's hands

33:19 minutes (76.27 MB)
Migrant Matters
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)
Migrant Matters
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)
Migrant Matters
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)
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