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Who are the people in your neighbourhood?

By alex
Created Nov 17 2009 - 1:52pm
Story Publish Date: 
November 17, 2009
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In this podcast: Food bank recipients volunteer, Tibetan Buddhism in B.C. Prisons and Baka Beyond on a train platform in Nanaimo, B.C.


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(1:40 - 7:47) Sachin Seth went to the Fort York Food Bank to talk about how the recession was affecting the facility, but found food bank recipients volunteering their time to keep the place running. Here are three of their stories.


(8:22 - 20:39) Anne McNeil is a Tibetan Buddhist nun who leads meditations in B.C. prisons. In this interview with Stark Raven: Prison Justice, she talks about what teaching meditation in prisons is like, and what the prisons get out of having meditation available for prisoners.


(21:29 - 26:40) Baka Beyond have worked with and learned music from the Baka people of Cameroon. The band's singer Su Hart was riding a train that stopped for 7 minutes in Nanaimo, where Living on Purpose's Lynn Thompson caught up with her for a quick interview.

summary: 
In this episode of rabble radio Sachin Seth meets with volunteers at the Fort York Food Bank, an interview with Anne McNeil, a Buddhist nun, and Lynn Thompson catches up with musicians, Baka Beyond.
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Buddhist nun brings meditation inside prison [3]
Item 1 (Author, Where published) : 
Ann McNeil is a tibetan buddhist nun who serves as a chaplain at several BC prisons. She talks about the work she does to support and guide prisoners in buddhism and meditation.
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#165 ~ Su Hart of 'Baka Beyond' [4]
Item 2 (Author, Where published) : 
Su Hart and Martin Cradick of 'Baka Beyond' share fair trade music from the indigenous Baka community in Africa.
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Outstanding Volunteers: Fort York Food Bank [5]
Item 3 (Author, Where published) : 
Almost one third of Toronto’s entire population visited a food bank last year, an astonishingly large number for a developed North American metropolis.
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