| Hilary Clinton, Robert Gates, Rahm Emanuel - Barack Obama’s recent appointments suggest that there’s going to be little change in U.S. foreign policy, at least in the short term.
| We are told that healthcare costs are spiralling out of control and that our healthcare system is not sustainable. Sean Burnett crunches the numbers and comes to a different conclusion.
| A new collection of children’s literature brings together stories, poems and illustrations from the radical movements of the first half of the 20th century.
| The 1960 Sharpeville massacre in South Africa marked a turning point in how people saw the apartheid regime. Ali Abunimah believes the attack on Gaza may have the same effect.
| Whistler council were responding to the concerns of local businesses when they didn’t pass a bylaw that will give VANOC the right to sell food and souvenirs during the Games.
| Jewish activists protest the Israeli offensive on Gaza, Keith looks for economic inspiration, a trip to Bolivia and Cathi Bond's top ten DVD rentals.
| Here in Canada, five Muslim men continue to be detained under extremely strict bail conditions, without charge, and without being able to see the evidence against them.
| Only three of more than 60 indigenous languages is expected to survive this century. Andrea Bear Nicholas says this is a direct result of federal government polices on First Nations education.
| rabble.ca editor Derrick O'Keefe says the Liberal leader's many inconsistencies can be understood through the lens of his total identification with military and political power.
| Israel unilaterally declared a ceasefire in Gaza after it failed to achieve its objectives. Ali Abunimah discusses the prospects for justice in the region.
| The Gateway highway expansion project is being built as a private-public partnership. But the private investment bank that is partnering with the B.C. government can't raise the money it needs.
| A global movement of peasant farmers believes the latest food crisis has exposed the disasters of the world's food system. The solution is food sovereignity.
| Am Johal went on hunger strike for a week and he's organized a relay of concerned citizens to do the same to pressure the federal government to re-establish a national housing program.
| Amidst Canada's whirlwind of infrastructure development, Adam Bemma brings us a cautionary tale from Montreal of construction without consultation, and growing frustration among city residents
| How can you have agency in an environment structured on institutional control? Leisure education is one way prisoners are using to help them discover and assert agency and choice behind bars.
| Keith is watching the jobs crisis, a special feature on mennonites and social media, reel women say "You can't take it with you, " and music from Roxanne Potvin.
| A play at Vancouver PUSH festival catalogues how parents and other adults shape children's perceptions and understanding of the world. Laura Lamb joins us with a review.
| The Innocenti Report Card on childcare ranks Canada in last place out of the 25 wealthiest countries for providing early childhood education and care.
| Richard Wolff discusses the origins of the economic crisis, Tyler Shipley on recent York University strike, and MP Judy Wasylicia on backwards pay equity policies.
| Huge sums of government money has been pouring into failing American banks. Yet the banks remain in private hands. Joshua Holland says this needs to change.
| The movie Taking Root profiles Wangari Maathai, leader of Kenya's Green Belt Movement, an environmental and social justice movement that eventually brought down the government of Daniel Arap Moi.
| The boycott campaign against South Africa played a part in the fall of the apartheid regime. They are growing numbers of people who are calling for a similar campaign against Israel.
| Economist Armine Yalnizyan speaks to a conference for women negotiators for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). She says there is a way to save the economy, if governments will act quickly.
| A recent forum in Vancouver brought together a variety of speakers to address attacks on free speech, including SLAPP suits, press censorship and copyright pressures on artists.
| Personal life coach, personal success coach for individuals and couples, and life design consultant and trainer, Bruce Elkin is also a writer, speaker, workshop leader.
| They're calling him Danny Chavez after the Newfoundland premier expropriated the assets of a paper mill that laid off workers after it got generous government support.
| People across the United States are pressuring governments and banks to make it easier to people to keep their homes. We speak with Mary Rabon from Kansas City, Missouri.
| The Canadian Union of Public Employees commissioned a Vancouver accounting firm to do a forensic audit of P3s to determine the true cost of building public projects with private money.
| This is the first in a two-part series. Lili Eskinazi and Roberto Nieto spent a month in Mexico recently, exploring the links between agricultural workers there and the food we eat every day here in C
| In 2007, a disturbed teenager strangled herself to death as prison officials watched. The report of the resulting investigation was released last week.
| Pakistan is dealing with a war to its north in Afghanistan, a hostile neighbour to the south and the interference of a foreign superpower, the USA. Now there are significant internal tensions as well.
| Five years ago, the first Israel Apartheid Week took place, organized by the Palestine solidarity movement at the University of Toronto. This year, the week was marked by activists across Canada.
| World water day address from a resident of Fort Chipweyan, auto workers strive for balance, music from across Canada, and AIG reflections from Keith.
| This is the final episode in a two part series. Lili Eskinazi and Roberto Nieto spent a month in Mexico recently, exploring the links between agricultural workers there and the food we eat every day h
| This Saturday, March 28, a symposium organized by Emeritus Professor Hari Sharma examines the efforts to build socialism in China in the last century.
| John Maynard Keynes has long been credited with saving capitalism with his radical economic ideas, but that's not how it happened, according to Cy Gonick.
| It's amazing what doesn’t get over the Canadian border these days, but Canada still lets in pretty of crap, including a crappy economy economy and more.
| Author and journalist, Andrew Nikiforuk visits Craik and shares his knowledge about the environmental and economic effects of tar sands production in western Canada.
| A delegation of Vancouver union activists went to the Philippines on a solidarity and human rights fact-finding tour three months ago. Bill Saunders brings this report.
| <p>Micheal Vonn of the BCCLA talks about the threats to patient privacy in particular and democracy in general when the government starts putting all our healthcare files into unified databases.</p>
| <p>Abousifian Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who was detained in Sudan and interrogated at the behest of the Canadian government. Now he's not being allowed to come home.</p>
| <p>Jeff Halper spoke January 19th in Ottawa to the Middle East Discussion Group on Parliament Hill</p><p>This is part one of a two part podcast, which includes questions and discussion.</p>
| <p>The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women is concerned about cuts to social programs and shocked at treatment of aboriginal women.</p>
| <p>When government talks about shovel-ready projects to help workers get through the economic crisis, the hands wielding the shovels belong overwhelmingly to men.</p>
| <p>AW@L Radio Host Dan Kellar discusses the Massacre of Tamil Civilians, AW@L's NATO Action and the MIC, and Greek Soldier-Student Solidarity, among other issues...</p>
| <p>The former chair of the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre community advisory board speaks about the board's decision to resign to protest new guidelines gagging free speech.</p>
| <p>The provincial government introduced Bill 42 to limit spending by third parties. The B.C. Supreme Court said the legislation is unconstitutional.</p>
| Canadian Dimension Alert! #122: Interviews with Aris Karafotias and Kathleen Connors, and Somali-Canadian hip hop sensation K'naan on the real story behind the Somali pirate hysteria.
| <p>Richard Louv, author of <em>Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder</em>, speaks at a conference held by Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC.</p>
| We speak with Clay Shirky, author of the bestselling book Here Comes Everybody, about social networking and the revolution it's creating in the media.
| For 20 years, thousands have gathered outside the School of the Americas to protest what goes on behind its walls - and what its students do once they graduate. Jon Marck reports in 'A School of Assas
| In Canada, people are no longer directly criminalized by the state for being queer or trans. But that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of connections between prisons, queerness and activism.
| Code Pink Women for Peace is all over social networking. Online organizer Paris Marron tells us how Facebook and Twitter can help us organize better.
| Manuel Rozental is the elected member of the Directorate Democratic Pole politcal party in Colombia. He says free trade cannot be achieved without repression and violence.
| Civilizations are absolutely dependent on the fertility of their land. A new book by geomorphologist David Montgomery looks how cultures collapse if they don't take care of their soil.
| Author and activist Joel Kovel responding to Al Gore's video by making his own. In it, he argues that the really inconvenient truth is that capitalism is at the root of climate change.
| Ian Angus says carbon trading looks like action on climate change but it isn't. He likens carbon trading to the Catholic Church practice of selling indulgences. Companies can keep right on polluting.
| The Alternatives to Violence Project provides a space for community members and prisoners to understand their relationships to themselves and others, and learn the skills of non-violent living.
| Stephen Leahy is an independent environmental journalist who just returned from the Indigenous Peoples Global Summit in Alaska. He talks about that and the media's response to climate change.
| The countries that benefited the least from industrial development are paying the highest price for climate change. Canada has an obligation to help out.
| Dr.Paul Winchester is a neonatologist in Indianopolis. He was so surprised by the number of birth defects showing up in his small community hospital that he decided to investigate further.
| B.C. voters will decide whether to move to a new voting system. Problem is, people don't get how it works. Michael Gobbi has created a website to explain the system.
| AW@L Radio - We discuss the May Day demonstration in Toronto with interviews from organizers of the No One is Illegal Demonstration, and an indepth discussion on Abousfian Abdelrazik with justice and
| This is just one of the ideas being floated by geoengineers as a possible solution to the problem of catastrophic climate change. Diana Bronson has been tracking this issue for several years.
| Denis Rancourt was fired in March, ostensibly for his practice of refusing to grade students in his classes. He explains what he believes is the politics behind his dismissal.
| Todd Gordon says that the Conservatives are using fears about the recession to sideline environmental regulations, especially for oil and gas projects on First Nations land.
| The first World Conference Against Racism took place in Durban in 2001. The second, dubbed Durban II, was held in Geneva in April. Sid Shniad, a delegate from Independent Jewish Voices, reports back.
| New senior contributing editor Murray Dobbin. Keith's not happy with the new prez. RPN's newest program. New music from the ruckus. New conversation from the reel women, a
| Are Canada's political parties selling their image, or changing their image to suit you? Professor Alex Marland looks at the last two election to answer that question.
| Peter Dennis signed a self-exclusion contract with the OLG asking them to keep him out of their casinos. They failed to do that so he's suing them on behalf of problem gamblers across the province.
| The Koffler Centre of the Arts commissioned an installation from Toronto artist Reena Katz then withdrew support when they found out she supported Israel Apartheid Week.
| 19 environmentalists cycled 1300km from Waterton Park to the tar sands. Jodi Martinson made a low-budget film about their trip from the back of her bicycle.
| NDP MP Bill Siksay has introduced a bill to allow Canadians to register as conscientious objectors and divert their tax money away from the military.
| Ed Mead was imprisoned in the 1970s for his actions with the George Jackson Brigade, a radical group which blew up public buildings and robbed banks.
| There are 42 different bike sub-cultures in Vancouver according to Toby Barratt. He's one of the curators of a big new exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver.
| What's with the right wing thing? The EU elections have some real right wingers, England has a neo-nazi and right wing domestic terrorists in the U.S are shooting people.
| In 1907 Alexander Pantages built a theatre in Vancouver's bustling Downtown Eastside. A hundred years later, the theatre is in near ruins. We speak with Janet Leduc of Heritage Vancouver.
| Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers of America, speaks about women's rights and organizing workers at an event in Madison, Wisconsin.
| Discussing the theme of how the web enables people of all ages to participate in their communities: Mayor David MIller, Don Tapscott, and many of Toronto's social innovators.
| Ottawa's Open Internet Town Hall was designed to give local citizens the chance to shape Canada's broadband future. Guest speakers include Michael Geist, Rocky Gaudreault, and MP Charlie Angus.
| How many times can people fall for the same thing? We hear that the U.S most be more bold in Iran, (that's worked so well), that public health care brings evil and that family values pols are pure.
| Police in Vancouver chose Bike Month to hand out information tickets about cycling infractions. Cycling advocates say they're sending the wrong message.
| To celebrate the launch of "Afghanistan and Canada," co-editors Lucia Kowaluk and Steve Staples, and contributor Stephen Cornish conduct a panel discussion of the conflict's key issues.
| B'nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress amonst others tried to ban this activist group from participating in Toronto's Gay Pride parade in June.
| Six years ago the B.C. government dropped the work start age to 12. Now children in the youngest age group are showing a skyrocketing rate of job-related injuries.
| There have been a rash of cougar sightings and two attacks near this community north of Vancouver. Brian Vincent of Big Wildlife blames Olympic-fueled development
| Yves Engler says Canadian corporate interests in Honduras strongly influenced the Harper government's response to the overthrow of President Zelaya in a military coup last month.
| Linda Tanaka is the new artistic director of the Vancouver Folk Fest. She brings with her 20 years of experience from the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival.
| Vancouver drivers who use the Burrard Street bridge are having to give up a lane to cyclists in a new 6-month experiment. John Pucher says it's the only way to get more people using bikes.
| Palin quits (again) but the GOP and media just can't quit her, the G8 just can't quit screwing up on the climate crises, & the hypocritical attacks on judge Sotomayor won't quit.
| Five speakers from across Canada made up the first of a four-part panel series held at the Congress of the Humanities to explore the status of equity-seeking groups in today's Canadian Academy.
| Anthony Stewart, Aruna Srivastava and Darren Lund headed the second installment of a four-part panel series conducted by the Federation Equity Issues Portfolio at the 2009 Congress of the Humanities.
| Gloria speaks about Indigenous Women's Day, a CD called Colours of My Life that is dedicated to love for the missing and murdered Aboriginal women of Canada, and issues facing Indigenous women today.
| Ocean Wise, Seafood Watch and similar programs offer consumers the opportunity to select more sustainable seafood. Jennifer Jacquet says the choice is essentially meaningless.
| On July 2nd, USC Canada presented three young organic farmers from both Canada and Honduras, who shared their experiences and explored the global movement to reclaim control over healthy, local food.
| Activist and researcher Susan Boyd on the Tories latest mandatory minimum bill (Bill C-15), how this fits into their large drug policy and the impact of these policies on women.
| A look at the Autonomous Social Centre project, a recent initiative to squat an abandoned building and to turn it into a community centre in Montreal’s Pointe St-Charles neighbourhood.
| Obama's first official visit to Africa was the chance to propose a radically different vision for U.S.-Africa relations. Gerald Lemelle says he didn't take it.
| New podcasts are always arriving here, although featured items won't be changing much in July. Check out our "newest podcasts" and archives. In the meantime, a summer song from a local 5-year old.
| Neil Turok, founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, lectures on his school's achievements and the importance of nourishing math and science skills among Africa's youth.
| If your looking for a public nuisance, legally it sure wasn't Professor Gates, but we can make an argument that it might be the Blue Dog Democrats marking their territory on health care and maybe even
| The Federation Equity Issues Portfolio's third panel discussion featured Joyce Green, Makere Stewart-Harawira and Rauna Kuokkanen, who examined the status of indigenous peoples in Canadian academies.
| Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance in Olympia, Washington were infiltrated by a member of the Force Protection Service at the nearby Fort Lewis Army base.
| We interview Moe Berg, and hear about his new AUX TV show, Master Tracks. We hear two tracks from TPOH, as well as tracks from The North and Shortwave.
| From the 2009 Congress of the Humanities, Judy Rebick speaks on the cultural movement that has evolved out of mass communication technology, and on the social and political power it allows.
| When a U.S. Senator invokes "Death Panels" and a white man brings a loaded gun to an Obama health care rally, and when "town hall meetings" are organized shoutdowns it's enough to make you sick.
| The final installment of the equity issues panels held at the Congress of the Humanities presented a retrospective look at what progress has been achieved for the equity agenda over the past 25 years.
| Despite strong opposition from the Canadian Jewish Congress, United Church delegates discussed and voted on a motion to support boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
| Michael Niman says the Obama administration's program to encourage Americans to trade in their old cars for newer models is worse for the environment than leaving them on the road.
| Essential services legislation has kept the strike out of the public eye since April 1. Now paramedics are donning in t-shirts instead of uniforms and it's bringing them much-needed support.
| Malalai Joya's autobiography will be published in Canada in October. Rabble editor Derrick O'Keefe worked with Joya on the book, recently released in Britain under the title Raising My Voice.
| On August 23, the Vancouver Public Space Network is going to do a count of all the video cameras in Vancouver's downtown eastside and central business district.
| The people of Gaza are under siege by Israel with the complicity of the Egyptian government. Independent journalist Jon Elmer was blocked from entering Gaza from Egypt.
| On August 26th, Abdullah Almalki, Yavar Hameed and Maureen Webb headed a panel discussion on the abuses of Canadian citizens' civil rights at the hands of our government.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada estimated that more than ten million sockeye salmon were going to return to the Fraser River this year. Now they say there'll only be two million.
| Canadian and U.S. Senates are pretty light on the democracy front, Texans talks of secession but missed some history and can Kennedy rule from the grave on health care?
| Adil Charkaoui was arrested under a Canadian security certificate in May 2003. In June 2009. he was finally allowed to leave Montreal and went on a speaking tour across Canada.
| b.h.Yael is one of the artists who drafted the Toronto Declaration, protesting the Toronto International Film Festival’s City to City Spotlight on Tel Aviv.
| At a panel discussion in Ottawa, Colombian human rights lawyer Dora Lucy Arias and trade analyst Gauri Sreenivasan voice insights and concerns regarding the proposed Bill C-23.
| Mairead Maguire was 32 when she and Betty Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976. We talk with her from Ireland about her work for peace in Palestine.
| The B.C. government says it wants to make the province a clean energy powerhouse. Joe Foy of the Wilderness Committee says the only way to do that is to keep B.C. Hydro public.
| The tea partiers lied about their numbers and seem to make up a bunch of things, but they could be a force to reckon with, ramping up the hate, anger, and racism with help from Fox.
| In August, the Liberal government announced a 20 per cent reduction in funding to the arts and cultural sector with much deeper cuts to come next year.
| Letters from Canadians about how our health-care system works, a play penned in prison hits the Kennedy Centre stage, and what's happening at Dump Site 41.
| Women have good reason to be wary of prescription drugs after decades of poorly-tested drugs from thalidomide 50 years ago to HRT now. A new book tackles women and drug policy in Canada.
| There's a corrupt regime with no support outside the capital, a hostile population and an elusive enemy - even Washington is talking openly about the parallels, according to Conn Hallinan.
| Alert! Radio #127 - Winnipeg Gang Members Offer Solutions to street violence (Jim Silver); Restoring the Canadian Left (Thom Workman); Canada's Greatest Troubador, Stan Rogers (Mitch Podolak)
| The Canadian Labour International Film Festival is close to its goal of screening films in 100 communities across Canada. The movies will screen in cinemas, labour halls and living-rooms.
| Filmmaker Paul Manly examines the Security and Prosperity Partnership in his latest film. He discusses what he learned about this project for deeper integration between the U.S. and Canada.
| A group of researchers in Winnipeg spent two days meeting with six members of a North End street gang in August. The gang members had strong opinions about how best to combat crime.
| Chris Genovali of Raincoast Conservation Society says that salmon are critical for the health of bears. Poor salmon runs, and trophy hunting, are threatening B.C.'s bear population.
| Alert! Radio #128 - Canada’s Plan to Bury Carbon Emissions Sheer Folly (Graham Thomson); New interviews with Fidel Castro and Raul Castro (Saul Landau); Europe's Drift to the Right (Ingo Schmidt)
| Laura Track of the Pivot Legal Society talks about the impact of Olympic security plans on the residents of the 'Canada's poorest postal code', the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
| On September 23, the Kenyan human rights activist stood before an audience at Amnesty House in Ottawa to speak of her political experiences and encounters with electoral violence.
| The neocons seems to want to double-down on Iraq playing on a bunch of myths, plus they gloat over an Obama "failure" to get the Olympics. Chicago should thank their lucky stars.
| From "Safe Assembly Zones" to "Brand Violation" patrols, there is little to celebrate when it comes to the 2010 games and civil liberties. David Eby of the BCCLA gives us the lowdown.
| Melissa Elliott is co-founder of Young Onkwehonwe United. She has been the front person for the building resistance at Six Nations against the 2010 Olympics and the Torch Relay.
| Alert! Radio #130 - Raj Patel on Food Week and Global Hunger; Mike Fudema on how Greenpeace Invaded the Tar Sands; Mitch Podolak on Music is the weapon.
| In this podcast: How a Canada-Colombia FTA affects trade union activists in Colombia, Denise Chong about an activist's life in China, and preserving the history of resistance in Canada's Africville.
| Alert! Radio #132 - Global human rights activist Grahame Russell, and community organizer Eric Shragge. Folk legend Mitch Podoluck with Music Is The Weapon.
| On October 8th in Montreal, the Canadian Labour Congress President called upon governments everywhere to support the people who build their economies.
| Toufic Haddad is an American-Palestinian based in Bethlehem. He speaks with Mordecai Briemberg about the history of organizing efforts in Palestine from the 1930s to the 1990s.
| Toufic Haddad is an American-Palestinian based in Bethlehem. He speaks with Mordecai Briemberg about the history of organizing efforts in Palestine from 2000 to the present day.
| A bill to implement Canada's free trade agreement with Colombia is on the order paper for this session of Parliament. Activists believe the bill can be defeated.
| In his speech on October 9th, the NDP Leader praised the work of public sector employees and stressed the importance of public services to our economic security.
| Indigenous Sovereignty Week 2009. Recorded live at the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Centre for community justice- Melissa Elliott and John Henhawk of Young Onkwehonwe United
| The average American spends 6 hours a week shopping but only 40 minutes a week playing with their children. John de Graaf says these are the symptoms of a malaise called affluenza.
| Indigenous Sovereignty Week 2009. Recorded live at the Kitchener-Waterloo Community Centre for Social Justice, Oct. 27. - Jim Windel if editor or the Teka News and a founder of TRUE
| The mighty righty members of the GOP are kidding themselves, lucky for them they have Democrats (and one annoying independent) to push things to the right, especially on abortion and health care.
| AW@L went to Kitchener City Council to discuss the Olympic Torch Relay and the city's inability to reveal the agreements with VANOC around instructions to host cities that repress free speech.
| Animal rights activists are increasingly being targetted by the state as terrorists. A lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights is challenging the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.
| Yves Engler spoke at the KWCCSJ about Canada's international role in abuse of human rights and the country's hidden history of military intervention abroad.
| Developers' plans to build five reservoirs to supply over five thousand housing units on Brohm Ridge have been called into question by the Environmental Assessment Office.
| Canadian officials are in negotiating a copyright treaty behind closed doors that could result in familes being barred from going online for a year if someone is suspected of illegal downloads.
| Long-time host and collective member Peter Royce died on November 4. Mordecai Briemberg reads this appreciation of Peter on behalf of the Redeye collective.
| In this documentary, you'll hear long-time Redeye host Peter Royce in conversation with Michael Shermer, Joanna Michal, Hope Shand and Wendy Pedersen.
| Civil society groups are sounding the alarm about the purchase of vast tracts of farmland in the Global South, saying the sales threaten food security and land reform in the world's poorest nations.
| The majority of Canadians aren't aware of the existence of this group of parliamentarians which formed in March 2009. Alan Sears fills in some of the gaps.
| Reverend Yarbrough of the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, New York, talks with Tariq Jeeroburkhan about the historical role played by Protestant Christian denominations in the conflict.
| The Canadian government makes refugees cover their own costs for coming to Canada. Refugee support groups say this puts enormous financial and emotional stress.
| One of Canada's most famous architects designed a Downtown Eastside hotel for hard-to-house residents. Sean Mullen finds out why in this documentary on housing and homelessness in Vancouver.
| Pull Focus offers film students and community groups the opportunity to work together to create short documentaries about social issues. We speak with Pull Focus founder Steve Rosenberg.
| The video documentary Colony by Cinema Suitcase examines a crumbling outpost of the Bata Shoe Company in Batanagar, India. Laura Lamb shares her thoughts about the film.
| Daisy Kler of Rape Relief and Women's Shelter talks about what has and what has not changed in violence against women since Marc Lepine murdered 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique.
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