Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Canadian Federation of Students focus on ending poverty, not tuition hikes. Behind the Gitxsan proposal to give up their status.

| November 12, 2009

Show Notes:

Alert! Radio #134Shelly Melanson, Chair of Ontario Federation of Students and Jonny Sopotiuk of the Manitoba CFS explain why CFS Day of Action this year focused on ending poverty and not merely ending tuition hikes. Native Studies professor and noted author Peter Kulchyski explains the proposal extended by the Gitxsan people of northwest British Columbia to extinguish their status in the Indian Act in exchange for full rights to their traditional lands and to its resources. Mitch Podolak introduces music from the Spanish Civil War.