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On the issues of the day - political, social and cultural - Redeye digs deeper. Open your ears to alternative voices. Hear incisive and challenging interviews with activists and progressive thinkers. Produced by an independent media collective, broadcasting over 25 years on Vancouver Cooperative Radio.
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MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley opposes pipeline and tankers

February 1, 2012
| Nathan Cullen is MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley. His constituency encompasses much of the proposed Enbridge pipeline route.

9:31 minutes (8.72 MB)
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Coastal First Nations oppose pipeline and tankers

February 1, 2012
| Art Sterritt is executive director of Coastal First Nations, an alliance of eight First Nations with traditional territories extending from Rivers Inlet up to Prince Rupert and Haida Gwai.

8:14 minutes (7.55 MB)
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Organic outperforms conventional farming on all counts

February 1, 2012
| A longitudinal study by the Rodale Institute shows that organic farming can produce yields as high as conventional and in fact does better in some conditions.

12:36 minutes (11.53 MB)
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International Day of Solidarity with American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier

February 1, 2012
| Leonard Peltier has been in jail since 1976, convicted of killing two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

12:50 minutes (11.75 MB)
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Caterpillar lockout critical fight for Canadian labour

February 1, 2012
| The U.S. heavy equipment giant Caterpillar Inc. locked out its 400 workers in London, Ontario in January. Despite record profits, the company's final offer was a 50 per cent pay cut.

11:34 minutes (10.59 MB)
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Musical adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Idiot

January 24, 2012
| A musical adaptation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece The Idiot premiered at the PuSh Festival in Vancouver last week.

19:23 minutes (17.75 MB)
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Dangers of cyber attack greatly exaggerated

January 24, 2012
| Some commentators in the United States would have us believe that the possibility of cyber attack is imminent. Conn Hallinan believes that there is another agenda behind this fear mongering.

19:24 minutes (17.76 MB)
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Attack on Naheed Nenshi typical of Sun Media

January 24, 2012
| A recent column by right-wing columnist Ezra Levant accused Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi of being an anti-Christian bigot. David Climenhaga says this kind of journalism is typical of Sun Media Corp.

16:42 minutes (15.29 MB)
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Use of drones growing dramatically

January 18, 2012
| Drones are robotic aircraft that can carry arms but are also for surveillance. Currently one in every three aircraft in the U.S. is a drone and over 50 countries have some form of unmanned aircraft.

14:42 minutes (13.47 MB)
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Book: A Hard Man to Beat

January 18, 2012
| Bill White was the head of the Vancouver Labour Council and president of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union during the war.

21:23 minutes (19.59 MB)
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