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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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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Kinder Morgan pipeline would increase tanker traffic into Vancouver

May 3, 2012
| In April, Kinder Morgan announced that they were planning to expand an existing pipeline that carries crude oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C.

9:23 minutes (8.59 MB)
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Harper budget a disaster for environment

May 3, 2012
| The Conservative budget for 2012 will weaken environmental standards across the board. This is especially concerning when it comes to corporations seeking approval for major industrial projects.

15:36 minutes (14.28 MB)
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Reimagine the CBC

May 3, 2012
| One of the casualties of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's 2012 budget was the CBC. The network faces a 10 percent cut in funding over the next 3 years.

12:51 minutes (11.76 MB)
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Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt

May 3, 2012
| A new book by activist Yves Engler says that far from being a peacekeeper, former prime minister Lester Pearson was a dedicated cold warrior and an ardent supporter of NATO.

17:37 minutes (16.13 MB)
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Film: Bear 71

May 2, 2012
| An innovative multimedia projects documents the life of a female grizzly bear in Banff National Park. The story of Bear 71's life is illustrated with web cam images of wildlife in the park.

13:29 minutes (12.35 MB)
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