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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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Psychiatrists concerned about new DSM-5

June 13, 2013
| The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the American Psychiatric Association. The publication of the new DSM-5 this spring has mental health professionals worried.
Length: 20:08 minutes (18.44 MB)
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Residents call for creation of Social Justice Zone

June 13, 2013
| People in the Downtown Eastside have been working with the City of Vancouver to develop a local area plan since 2011. They want to protect residents from the gentrification of their neighbourhood.
Length: 15:56 minutes (14.59 MB)
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Tribute to Henry Morgentaler

June 12, 2013
| Dr. Henry Morgentaler died peacefully at his home on May 29. Carolyn Egan worked closely with him in the campaign for choice on abortion.
Length: 16:40 minutes (15.27 MB)
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New York corporation making false promises in Cameroon

June 6, 2013
| Herakles Farms aims to establish a huge palm oil plantation in one of the poorest countries in Africa. Frederic Mousseau calls the project a land grab that will make billions of dollars for investors.
Length: 15:17 minutes (14 MB)
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Protecting Canada's grizzly bears

June 5, 2013
| A new report by the David Suzuki Foundation says that a number of populations of grizzly bears in North America are at risk of decline. Jeff Gailus is author of the report.
Length: 11:18 minutes (10.36 MB)
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Barack Obama challenged over drones and Guantanamo

June 4, 2013
| Medea Benjamin interrupted President Obama during the first major speech of his second term on U.S. foreign policy. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Code Pink.
Length: 11:32 minutes (10.56 MB)
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Sierra Club calls for ban on bee-killing pesticides in Canada

June 4, 2013
| John Bennett, of the Sierra Club of Canada, talks about the club’s call on the Federal Government to ban pesticides that prove fatal to bee populations.
Length: 11:07 minutes (10.18 MB)
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International body says Canada violating First Nations human rights

June 3, 2013
| Two years ago the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group of Vancouver Island brought a complaint against Canada before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington.
Length: 55:17 minutes (50.62 MB)
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Is Japan developing into a post-capitalist society?

June 3, 2013
| In a talk given at the University of British Columbia in March 2013, cultural historian Morris Berman suggests that Japan is becoming the world's first zero-growth economy.
Length: 45:04 minutes (41.27 MB)
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WTO rules Ontario's Green Energy Act illegal

May 30, 2013
| The World Trade Organization says the local content requirements of legislation introduced in Ontario in 2009 discriminates against investment.
Length: 15:47 minutes (14.46 MB)