November 8, 2012
Clayton Thomas-Muller at Powershift 2012
Clayton Thomas-Muller spoke about the political context of PowerShift 2012.
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November 7, 2012
Keira-Dawn Kolson at Powershift 2012
Tso’Tine-Gwich’in youth Keira-Dawn Kolson spoke about the effect “resource development” has on her people.
November 6, 2012
Joshua Kahn Russell at Powershift 2012
Joshua Kahn Russell spoke about the intersections between racial justice and climate justice at Powershift.
November 5, 2012
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois at Powershift
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois spoke in French at Powershift’s kick off in Gatineau, Quebec.
November 4, 2012
Melina Laboucan-Massimo at Powershift 2012
On October 26, Melina Laboucan-Massimo spoke at Powershift about being an indigenous environmentalist.
October 31, 2012
Sheila North Wilson on Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
Sheila North Wilson is a former CBC journalist and indigenous advocate working with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.
October 24, 2012
Dr. Barbara Perry on Islamophobia
In this podcast, Dr. Barbara Perry discusses her work on the Islamophobia faced by Muslims in Ontario.
August 3, 2012
Monia Mazigh: Telling Muslim Women’s Stories
Monia Mazigh gives a talk on perceptions of Muslim women in the media and what she calls ‘human rights fatigue’.
August 3, 2012
Monia Mazigh: Telling Muslim Women's Stories
‘Human Rights Fatigue.’ It’s the feeling that people are weary of hearing stories of victimization in the media. Monia Mazigh knows all about it. The Canadian academic and politician’s husband Maher Arar was held without charge and tortured for almost a year by the government of Syria. The whole time, Mazigh fought to have his…
August 3, 2012
Monia Mazigh: Telling Muslim Women's Stories
‘Human Rights Fatigue.’ It’s the feeling that people are weary of hearing stories of victimization in the media. Monia Mazigh knows all about it. The Canadian academic and politician’s husband Maher Arar was held without charge and tortured for almost a year by the government of Syria. The whole time, Mazigh fought to have his…
July 19, 2012
Congress of the Humanities: Chris Hedges on America and the ‘Empire of Consumption’
Chris Hedges says America is experiencing a coup d’etat in slow motion. The American liberal class has allowed an unregulated, unfettered capitalism to create an ’empire of consumption.’
July 19, 2012
Congress of the Humanities: Chris Hedges on America and the 'Empire of Consumption'
Chris Hedges says America is experiencing a coup d’etat in slow motion. The American liberal class has allowed an unregulated, unfettered capitalism to create an empire of consumption. At the same time, the anonymity of the corporate state has corrupted the very fabric of social institutions. With American investigative journalism all but dead and legislation…