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Matt moved to Toronto from the U.S just in time for Mike Harris to take power in Ontario and has been stunned ever since. Matthew Adams is a co-founder of the Catalyst Centre (a social justice popular education worker co-op), www.catalystcentre.ca, and works with a number of organizations including the Fourth Pig Worker Co-op, the publicist for the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts in Toronto (where he is a proud member of CUPE local 1281) and rabble.ca where he is the Special Projects Coordinator. You can hear Matt rant about politics on the podcast "I read the news today (oh boy)" on the rabble podcast network and read him on the blog of the same name at rabble.ca.
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Organized sports and Gingrich on the moon

January 27, 2012
| The players' association for the NFL in the U.S. comes out swinging against so-called "right to work" anti-union legislation and we talk labour and sports. Gingrich is over the moon for colonization.

33:04 minutes (30.27 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 34 - Interview with Deb Barndt, editor of ¡VIVA!

January 25, 2012
| Matthew Adams speaks with Deb Barndt, editor of the book ¡VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas, about the history of the project.

21:13 minutes (19.43 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Below the fold: News you might have missed in 2011

December 21, 2011
| Our top choices from our feature Below The Fold where we seek out news that highlights the crazy, the frustrating and even the hopeful. Plus, bonus predictions for 2012.

46:13 minutes (42.31 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Official suckatude: Canada and the U.S. destroy the world

December 16, 2011
| It's official. The Harper government works to make the climate crisis worse. The U.S. government is officially giving itself the right to arrest and indefinitely detain its citizens.

36:01 minutes (32.98 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Democracy on the run: The Occupiers are told they can't, the U.S. 'supercommittee' isn't

November 22, 2011
| Challenges for the Occupy movement, the" supercommittee" isn't and technocratic governments start popping up. Plus climate crises news and other extremes.

38:45 minutes (35.48 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

A taxing conversation: Changing the tax debate

November 3, 2011
| Did you know 50 per cent of Americans don't pay tax? Neither do we, because despite what right-wing talking heads say, it isn't true. In fact, a lot of tax talk is misdirection.

36:30 minutes (50.13 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

World of class warfare

October 11, 2011
| Democracy in the streets is a good thing, and if people start talking about class and other privileges, it will be a good thing, though you wouldn't know it from the pundits.

33:14 minutes (45.64 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Fear and loathing, eh? Canadian PM brings the hate, where's the security?

September 27, 2011
| The PM goes all in with the hate, but where is the love for building communities and actually protecting people? Plus, the Koch brothers rear their ugly plans, and civil disobedience goes old school.

30:55 minutes (28.3 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Tar sands go to Washington, but will Perry?

August 30, 2011
| The U.S. media has finally realized that the tar sands are a story, oil-loving Texan Rick Perry keeps going for the strange and a few words about Jack Layton.

35:47 minutes (32.77 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Are the kids all riot?

August 16, 2011
| David Cameron, the British PM, is wagging his finger at parents and kids but, of course, the idea of simple thuggery doesn't cut it. Plus straw polls, political hypocrisy and other joys.

39:47 minutes (36.42 MB)
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