NCRA Program Exchange - Main Page http://previous.ncra.ca RSS of the most recent programs EN-ca Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:04:33 EDT Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:41:01 GMT http://previous.ncra.ca NCRA Program Exchange magnus@vcn.bc.ca (Magnus Thyvold) magnus@vcn.bc.ca (Magnus Thyvold) Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299931 12 Feb, 2025 || 0:29:51 || Possibilities Project Plus, music, Goal ball || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299931 Deep Threes for 2/12/25 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299927 12 Feb, 2025 || 0:58:00 || Music beyond boundaries for a digital world! || Deep Threes is now available on the !earshot platform. Please contact Jay at jj@deep3s.com to find out more. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299927 Howard Zinn – A People’s History of the U.S., Part One http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299788 10 Feb, 2025 || 0:57:01 || Howard Zinn – A People’s History of the U.S., Part One || "You wanna read a real history book?" Matt Damon asks Robin Williams in the movie Good Will Hunting. "Read Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States. That book'll knock you on your ass." It'll do that and more. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has sold more than 2 million copies. And it keeps on selling. Zinn's close friend Noam Chomsky said the book "changed the consciousness of a generation." Zinn's history from below approach was to foreground as he said, "the countless small actions of unknown people." It was a sharp departure from the standard Big Man theory of history: General so and so President so and so, etc. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299788 Deep Threes for 2/5/25 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299748 5 Feb, 2025 || 0:58:00 || Music beyond boundaries for a digital world! || Deep Threes is now available on the !earshot platform. Please contact Jay at jj@deep3s.com to find out more. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299748 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299745 5 Feb, 2025 || 0:29:58 || REACT, Jobs Unlimited, Advcate's story || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299745 Cornel West – The Legacy of Paul Robeson http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299534 3 Feb, 2025 || 0:57:01 || Cornel West – The Legacy of Paul Robeson || Paul Robeson, an enduring and multitalented figure, broke color barriers in sports, music, film and theater. He was an internationally famous singer and actor yet in the U.S. he was persecuted and blacklisted for his political beliefs. He died impoverished and in obscurity. His singular life is a model of courage and steadfastness in the face of racial and political prejudice. Robeson said, “The artist must fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.” http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299534 Deep Threes for 1/29/25 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299492 29 Jan, 2025 || 0:58:00 || Music beyond boundaries for a digital world! || Deep Threes is now available on the !earshot platform. Please contact Jay at jj@deep3s.com to find out more. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299492 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299489 29 Jan, 2025 || 0:29:49 || Manitoba Blind sports, Epilepsy Toronto Dasch || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299489 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299222 22 Jan, 2025 || 0:29:48 || Spinal Cord Injury PEI, Arts Accessibility, Sunshine Dance || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299222 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298907 16 Jan, 2025 || 0:29:48 || Autism Anglers || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298907 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298718 8 Jan, 2025 || 0:29:58 || Mayor, YWHAG, Wheelchair Rugby || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298718 Wendell Potter - Health Insurance: An Insane System http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298631 6 Jan, 2025 || 0:57:00 || Wendell Potter - Health Insurance: An Insane System || The murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO on a Midtown Manhattan street "unleashed,” the New York Times reported, “a torrent of morbid glee from patients and others who say they have had negative experiences with health insurance companies at some of the hardest times of their lives." Some comments were, "Thoughts and deductibles to the family." Another one said, "Unfortunately, my condolences are out of network." The dark commentary highlighted deep anger over the state of health insurance. Millions can’t afford it and go without it. And many who are on some plan have inadequate coverage with high deductibles. The answer, Ralph Nader says, is single-payer: “Everybody in, nobody out.” That would bring down prices. But the handful of corporations monopolizing the health insurance industry don’t want that. Why? That would cut into their profits. So, the insanity continues. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298631 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298625 1 Jan, 2025 || 0:29:51 || Musician, VAD, Disability without poverty || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298625 Koohan Paik-Mander - Algorithms, Digital Technologies & Warfare http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298594 30 Dec, 2024 || 0:57:01 || Koohan Paik-Mander - Algorithms, Digital Technologies & Warfare || Algorithms, the dictionary tells us, are a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by computer. Sounds innocuous enough. But hang on. It has a dark side. Algorithms can make mistakes due to biases, poor design, coding errors, or flawed assumptions. They can collect and process large amounts of personal data which can put people's privacy rights at risk. There are lethal dangers. Koohan Paik-Mander warns the algorithms that missiles have spawned “have been a scourge on Mother Earth and our own humanity with our smartphones, satellites, robotics, AI, nuclear power and all the rest through which civil society has unwittingly become militarized through and through.”  http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298594 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298590 25 Dec, 2024 || 0:29:51 || taps, prosper, thrive magazine || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298590 Ralph Nader - It’s in the Hands of the People http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298563 23 Dec, 2024 || 0:57:00 || Ralph Nader - It’s in the Hands of the People || What’s going on in the United States? People are asking that question not only in this country but around the world. Ralph Nader says “The twin swelling heads of empire and oligarchy are driving our country into an ever-deepening corporate state, wholly incompatible with democracy and the rule of law. America was not designed for kings and their runaway military pursuits. The media rolls over and fails to hold officials accountable.” So, what is to be done? Historically it’s always been citizens, overcoming differences, finding common ground, coming together and making progressive change. It can happen. As Nader says, “It’s in the hands of the people. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298563 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298547 18 Dec, 2024 || 0:29:46 || Daily Hugz, Basketball, Archery || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298547 Peter Beinart - Protest, Zionism & Gaza http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298493 16 Dec, 2024 || 0:57:00 || Peter Beinart - Protest, Zionism & Gaza || On December 5 Amnesty International determined that “Israel committed and is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.” In the landmark 296-page report entitled “You Feel Like You Are Subhuman,” Amnesty documents how, “during its military offensive launched in the wake of the deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza.” Amnesty goes on to say, “By continuing to supply weapons to the Israeli government, the U.S. government is violating its obligation to prevent and punish genocide and is at serious risk of becoming complicit in genocide.” http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298493 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298448 11 Dec, 2024 || 0:29:44 || Choice Living, Cure International, Lacrossing Barriers || This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298448 Justin Lewis – Consumer Capitalism http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298278 9 Dec, 2024 || 0:57:00 || Justin Lewis – Consumer Capitalism || Rene Descartes, the 17th century French philosopher once said, “I think, therefore I am.” In today’s context, it may be more like, I buy therefore I am. Orchestrated wants driven by sophisticated advertising techniques have created a culture of consumption. Appetites for the latest hot things are manufactured. Media campaigns sell cool and sexy. Data are collected. People are profiled, and then targeted. Take cell phones. You have to get the latest one with all the new features. We can’t be left behind. The capitalist economic system is predicated on making money and barely considers the environmental effects down the road. That’s somebody else’s problem. In the U.S., consumerism is connected to ideology. Freedom is equated with the ability to buy things. But the pattern of endless consumer capitalism is not sustainable. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=298278