Bumping Heads with the Police
| May 30, 2006- Artist: Brendan Edwards and Tivon Thompson
- Title: Bumping Heads with Police
- Album: CITIZENShift
- Year: 2006
- Length: 24:20 minutes (22.28 MB)
- Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Show Notes:
The main focus of the workshops was to teach fifth and sixth graders in Little Burgundy basic radio skills thus giving them the ability to tell their stories to the greater Montreal population. This story is about Steve Edwards the founder of BUMP, the Burgundy Urban Mediation Project. This radio documentary 'Bumping Heads with the Police' is the result of a series of workshops with children in the after-school program at the Tyndale St. Georges Community Centre in Little Burgundy led by independent journalist Brendan K. Edwards. This project is a community news initiative that was launched during Black History Month. Producers: Tivon Thompson of Tyndale St-Georges Community Center & Brendan K.Edwards and Stefan Christoff of CKUT Radio's Community News Collective in Montreal. Reporter: Tivon Thompson Radio Production: Brendan K.Edwards and Stefan Christoff of the Community News Collective at CKUT Radio in collaboration with the Tyndale St-Georges Community Center in Montreal.