Social Justice

The rabble podcast network examines struggles for social justice worldwide.
Asia Pacific Currents

18 workers die in a fire in the Philippines

May 26, 2012
| Labour news from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Noel Colina, executive director of the Filipino OHS group IOHSAD, about a shopping centre fire that killed 18 workers in Mindanao, Philippines.

31:01 minutes (14.2 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse

Azawad: Can this breakaway African state work?

May 24, 2012
| A Tuareg group declared the independence of northern Mali in April. Africafiles explores the implications and future of an independent Azawad.

19:50 minutes (18.17 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents

Repression of Bersei protests in Malaysia

May 19, 2012
| Labour news from the Asia-Pacific region, followed by an interview about the recent Bersei demonstrations for clean and free elections in Malaysia, with Arul from the Socialist Party of Malaysia.

30:06 minutes (13.78 MB)
Redeye

Movie: Big Boys Gone Bananas!

May 14, 2012
| Big Boys Gone Bananas! documents the campaign Dole waged against Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten to try to prevent him from showing his film Bananas! from being distributed in the United States.

13:55 minutes (12.75 MB)
Redeye

Mayday: A Graphic History of Protest

May 14, 2012
| Mayday: A Graphic History of Protest is a new comic produced by the Graphic History collective. It traces the history of Mayday from its beginning in the late 1800s to its expression in Canada today.

15:06 minutes (13.84 MB)
Redeye

The big banks' big secret

May 12, 2012
| In 2008 Stephen Harper said that Canada has the only banks in the western world that were not looking at bailouts. But a new report says that several banks did need extra money.

15:53 minutes (14.55 MB)
Redeye

Movie: A Separation

May 12, 2012
| Asghar Farhadi directs this award-winning drama about a woman who wants a divorce from her husband so she can leave Iran with the couple's child.

13:49 minutes (12.65 MB)
Redeye

The false paradigm of peace: Revisiting the Palestine question

May 12, 2012
| Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and activist currently teaching at the University of Exeter in Britain. In May 2012, he toured Canada speaking about his current research.

22:30 minutes (20.61 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents

Japan labour movement: issues and challenges

May 12, 2012
| Interview with Chie Matsumoto, trade unionist and journalist about the major issues facing the Japan Labour Movement at the moment.

29:59 minutes (27.46 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents

Privatization of oil and natural resources in Afghanistan

May 12, 2012
| An interview with Anonia Juarez, oil and energy analyst and activist, about the privatization of Afghanistan's oil supplies and natural resources under foreign occupation.

29:25 minutes (26.94 MB)
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