Program Title: April 2008 Edition
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GroundWire - 29-mins of community news from across Canada. This edition, features news from students, indigenous communities, labour unions and much more. Including a report from inside the NATO summit and of the protests in the streets of Bucharest around the meeting.

This program is presented by the National Campus and Community Radio Association and prepared by producers from campus and community radio
stations. GroundWire is produced monthly by journalists from campus and community radio stations across Canada.

Headlines:
-Canada and Israel sign a joint declaration of intent to cooperate.
-Recent violence in Tibet highlights indigenous struggle in anticipation of Olympic Games in China and Canada.
-The Canadian Federation of Students lose out in a student referendum at SFU.
-Are assassinations lighting homes in Atlantic Canada?

Features:
-Monsanto settles out of court, in a recent victory for farmers' rights in Saskatchewan.
-National roundtable discussions looking at the Canadian mining industry have led to recommendations of reform.
-First Nations chief Donny Morris and band council members have been jailed for protesting a mining company in the northern Ontario Boreal Forest.
-The Free Bob Anti-Uranium Campaign holds a rally outside of the Quinte Detention Centre in Kingston Ontario.
-The Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit will happen later this month in New Orleans.
-The largest NATO summit of member states took place in Bucharest this past week where Canada is likely to extend its mission in Afghanistan.

Station Report:
And, finally, one campus community station is in trouble. CKMS-Waterloo risks losing most of its budget funds.

For more information, visit us at http://groundwire.ncra.ca.

Host(s): Vanessa Lundgren, Seth Porcello, and gretchen king.
Featured Speakers/Guests:

Credits: Producers:

Phil Stillman of CKUT-Montreal; Frieda Werden of CJSF-Burnaby BC; Caitlyn Chappell of CKUT-Montreal; Kristin Swartz from Ottawa; Dexter X from Montreal; Cortney Kirkby of CFRC-Kingston;
Stuart Trew from the Council of Canadians; Aaron Lakoff of CKUT-Montreal reports from inside the NATO summit; and finally Vanessa Lundgren from CKUT-Montreal.

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