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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

Guelph celebrates May Day (3 of 3)

May 2, 2013
| To help build a worldwide common front against capitalism, war and the increasing marginalization of workers, residents of Guelph, Ontario rallied in front of City Hall to pay our respects on May Day!
Length: 16:30 minutes (15.12 MB)
Migrant Matters
Migrant Matters

Guelph celebrates May Day (1 of 3)

May 1, 2013
| Contributing to building a worldwide common front against the increasing marginalization of workers, residents of Guelph, Ontario rallied in front of City Hall to pay our respects on May Day!
Length: 29:41 minutes (27.18 MB)
Migrant Matters
Migrant Matters

Guelph celebrates May Day (2 of 3)

May 1, 2013
| In honor of May Day and in the spirit of solidarity and celebration of the international labour movement, chanting and sign-waving fellow workers recently rallied in front of City Hall in Guelph, ON.
Length: 31:23 minutes (28.74 MB)
Migrant Matters
Migrant Matters

On strategic 'violent' resistance

June 18, 2012
| Gord Hill, author of "500 Years of Indigenous Resistance," and Peter Gelderloos, author of "How Nonviolence Protects the State," talk about how strategic "violent" resistance can work.
Length: 13:44
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.
Length: 1:03:26
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.
Length: 10:59
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.
Length: 18:35
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.
Length: 34:42
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.
Length: 43:31
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'.
Length: 24:54