NCRA Program Exchange - Main Page http://previous.ncra.ca RSS of the most recent programs EN-ca Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:15:17 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) Naomi Klein – What Are We Going to Do? http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=297316 11 Nov, 2024 || 0:57:00 || Naomi Klein – What Are We Going to Do? || The day after the Trump election, the New York Times wrote: “America stands on the precipice of an authoritarian style of governance never before seen in its 248-year-old history.” For many, the results of November 5th confirmed the view that we are in dark times. So, the big question is: what are we going to do? We can wallow in self-pity and depression, or we can find kindred spirits and organize and form alliances to not just resist the repression to come but promote progressive causes. As writer Rebecca Solnit says, “Not acting is a luxury those in immediate danger do not have, and despair is something they cannot afford. But despair is all around us, telling us the problems are insoluble, that we are not strong enough, our efforts are in vain, and no one really cares.” Hope, Solnit says, counteracts cynicism and pessimism. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=297316 Deep Threes for 11/6/24 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=297277 6 Nov, 2024 || 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=297277 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=297274 6 Nov, 2024 || 0:29:53 || CAST for kids, Cure ARS, Author || 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=297274 P. Sainath - Gagging Democracy India-Style http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=297034 4 Nov, 2024 || 0:57:00 || P. Sainath - Gagging Democracy India-Style || India, the world's most populous country, is ruled by Narendra Modi who is the head of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the BJP. He first became prime minister in 2014 and has been reelected twice since though in 2024 with much lower margins. Before coming to power in Delhi he was chief minister of the state of Gujarat where he presided over a major massacre of Muslims. Modi and the BJP promote Hindutva, Hindu majoritarianism. It is laced with Islamophobia. Modi is allied with India’s billionaire class who control the country’s major media and function as cheerleaders for a regime that gags democracy, free speech and dissent. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=297034 Deep Threes for 10/30/24 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296998 30 Oct, 2024 || 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=296998 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296994 30 Oct, 2024 || 0:29:45 || This Ability, Singer, Put on the Cape || 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=296994 Brian Klaas - The Wrong People at the Top http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296792 28 Oct, 2024 || 0:57:01 || Brian Klaas - The Wrong People at the Top || Power. What is it? Political theorist Robert Dahl gave one example. He said, “A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something that he would not otherwise do.” Why is it that often that those who are on top are the wrong people? The high rollers and the nabobs lust for power behind a smokescreen of homilies about doing good. Today, more and more power is concentrated in the hands of the few, thus weakening democracy. Who wields it? How is it allocated? What are effective ways to ensure power is not abused and serves the societal greater good? How can we organize and protect ourselves from those seeking personal power and profit? How can we get the right people on top? http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296792 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296769 23 Oct, 2024 || 0:29:54 || Prom tastical, Angel Guardians, Morgan's wonderland || 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=296769 Deep Threes for 10/23/24 http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296766 23 Oct, 2024 || 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=296766 Norman Solomon – War & the Media http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296609 21 Oct, 2024 || 0:57:00 || Norman Solomon – War & the Media || In times of war the corporate media play a salient role in shaping public opinion. There are worthy and unworthy victims. Muslims, Arabs, and Iranians generally fall into that latter category whereas Washington and its allies are worthy victims that we support and empathize with. The current phase of the Gaza war did not begin on October 7 as the media repeat ad nauseum. But to dig into the underlying causes and provide context and history rarely occurs because it would undermine the dominant propaganda. Thus the Norah O’Donnells, Wolf Blitzers, Lester Holts and other corporate news anchors don’t question the embedded assumptions and simply mimic, with few exceptions, the dominant official line. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296609 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296569 17 Oct, 2024 || 0:29:55 || Employment, PossAbilities, singer || 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=296569 Zachary Lockman – A Brief History of Zionism http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296389 14 Oct, 2024 || 0:57:00 || Zachary Lockman – A Brief History of Zionism || Zion is the name of a hill in ancient Jerusalem. The Jewish nationalist movement coined the term Zionism in the 1890s. Zionism got the big power backing it was looking for when Britain issued the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917. Arthur James Balfour, the British foreign secretary stated: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” This declaration became the major legal cornerstone for Zionist claims to Palestine. Two issues complicated things. At the time, 90% of Palestine's population was Arab Muslim and Christian, and only 10% Jewish. And the British were signing away land that was not theirs. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296389 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296333 9 Oct, 2024 || 0:29:44 || Musician, DRI, 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=296333 Russell Means – Welcome to the Reservation http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296124 7 Oct, 2024 || 0:57:01 || Russell Means – Welcome to the Reservation || Indigenous communities are among the poorest in the U.S. This is one of many persistent symptoms of the colonial relationship imposed by force upon Indigenous peoples. As famed historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz says, “Neither arcane colonial laws nor the historical trauma of genocide simply disappear with time and certainly not when conditions of life and consciousness perpetuate them.” From the earliest days of colonial settlement, a theme of eliminating Indians in the name of expansion and settler opportunity became embedded into the U.S. political system and culture. The violence unleashed on the largely defenseless Indian nations had few parallels in history. Treaties and policies involving Indigenous peoples have consistently been designed to disadvantage them, locking them into suppressed social status and codifying their dependence on the U.S. government. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296124 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=296084 2 Oct, 2024 || 0:29:44 || dreams foundation, boxing without barriers, wings of power || 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=296084 Richard Forer – Blaming the Victim: Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=295898 30 Sep, 2024 || 0:57:00 || Richard Forer – Blaming the Victim: Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict || Blaming the victim is as old as the hills. It occurs when the victim of a crime or tragedy is held at fault for the harm that befell them. In other words, you had it coming to you. The great scholar Edward Said ruefully remarked that the Palestinians were the victims of the victim hence it was very difficult for them to generate support. Said quoted Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the “conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion…than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea.” From the Palestinian perspective in the wake of the Holocaust, they were paying for the crimes of Europeans. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=295898 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=295850 25 Sep, 2024 || 0:29:49 || Opulent Mobility, Innovative Life Options Fencing || 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=295850 Noura Erakat – International Law: Real or Fiction http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=295685 23 Sep, 2024 || 0:57:01 || Noura Erakat – International Law: Real or Fiction || The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine would be described repeatedly as a violation of the "rules-based order." Then a curious thing happened when Israel invaded Gaza in 2023. The term virtually disappeared as the U.S. sought to protect its close ally Israel. But the U.S. itself has a long record of violating the international rules-based order with its own invasions, occupations, coups, assassinations, sanctions and UN vetoes. A compliant corporate media consistently fail to point out this brazen hypocrisy. Since the leader of the so-called free world and its allies are not held to account, the rules-based order is in total disorder. From Washington’s perspective, the rules are for thee but not for me. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=295685 Handi-Link http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=295636 18 Sep, 2024 || 1:06:28 || PACT, digital accessibility, autism advocacy || 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=295636 Ilan Pappe? – Myths of Israel http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=295434 16 Sep, 2024 || 0:57:00 || Ilan Pappe? – Myths of Israel || A myth is a story passed down through generations that attempts to explain the origins of something. The foundational myth of Israel was “a land without people for a people without a land.” That myth had profound consequences that reverberate today. There were people there - the Palestinians. Such myths are characteristic of settler colonial societies such as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the U.S. Sure there were a few primitive savages but they had to give way to superior beings. John Kennedy famously said: “We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier. The pioneers gave up their safety, their comfort, and sometimes their lives to build our new west.” Kennedy did not mention the great Indigenous nations that were slaughtered by the colonizers. We must deconstruct the myths and reveal the realities behind them. http://previous.ncra.ca/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=295434