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Broadcast from the streets of Turkey's resistance movement
04 Jul, 2013 | 0:59:59 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
On July 4 CHRY dedicated an hour to speaking with activists about the Occupy Gesi movement that is taking over the streets and parks of Turkey. Starting as a resistance to urban renewal in Istanbul, the movement has spread to the rest of the country. In this one hour special we contextualize the current situation within the last 10 years...
04 Jul, 2013 | 0:59:59 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
On July 4 CHRY dedicated an hour to speaking with activists about the Occupy Gesi movement that is taking over the streets and parks of Turkey. Starting as a resistance to urban renewal in Istanbul, the movement has spread to the rest of the country. In this one hour special we contextualize the current situation within the last 10 years...
August 28th at Queen’s Park
04 Sep, 2012 | 0:07:28 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Over 5,000 teachers and their supporters from across the province converged on Queen’s Park on Tuesday, August 28th to tell Ontario’s politicians that betraying education professionals, tearing up collective agreements and curtailing the rights of citizens is an unacceptable way to govern. Thousands of participants from Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario , the Onatrio Secondary School Teachers Federation and CUPE...
04 Sep, 2012 | 0:07:28 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Over 5,000 teachers and their supporters from across the province converged on Queen’s Park on Tuesday, August 28th to tell Ontario’s politicians that betraying education professionals, tearing up collective agreements and curtailing the rights of citizens is an unacceptable way to govern. Thousands of participants from Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario , the Onatrio Secondary School Teachers Federation and CUPE...
Interview with Independent documentary film maker Suresh Pillai
12 Jun, 2012 | 0:13:43 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Suresh Pillai is an independent documentary film maker based in Ernakulam, Kerala and New Delhi in India. He has also worked as a reporter, web developer and analyst in media since 1989, and has also developed community museums, curated art exhibitions and organized cultural programmes on the Indian Diaspora since 2004. Some of his important works include documentary film series...
12 Jun, 2012 | 0:13:43 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Suresh Pillai is an independent documentary film maker based in Ernakulam, Kerala and New Delhi in India. He has also worked as a reporter, web developer and analyst in media since 1989, and has also developed community museums, curated art exhibitions and organized cultural programmes on the Indian Diaspora since 2004. Some of his important works include documentary film series...
CSI Ottawa, walking tour of sites where Canada is implicated in Torture of its citizens
02 Nov, 2011 | 0:26:51 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
In late October of this year, in Ottawa, Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture organized CSI Ottawa, a 3 day walking caravan tour of the sites in the nation’s capital where Canada is implicated in torture of its citizens and torture renditions. The tour included stops at the prime minister's office, parliament hill, CSIS, starbucks and many embassies on Sussex drive....
02 Nov, 2011 | 0:26:51 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
In late October of this year, in Ottawa, Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture organized CSI Ottawa, a 3 day walking caravan tour of the sites in the nation’s capital where Canada is implicated in torture of its citizens and torture renditions. The tour included stops at the prime minister's office, parliament hill, CSIS, starbucks and many embassies on Sussex drive....
Interview with Dr. Ananya Mukherjee Reed
13 Feb, 2011 | 0:20:03 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Ninety-seven years ago, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913. Tagore’s genius was truly multifaceted – he was at once a poet, a playwright, a novelist, a painter, a composer, a philosopher and an ardent social critic who spoke vehemently against colonialism and injustice. He is the author and composer...
13 Feb, 2011 | 0:20:03 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Ninety-seven years ago, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913. Tagore’s genius was truly multifaceted – he was at once a poet, a playwright, a novelist, a painter, a composer, a philosopher and an ardent social critic who spoke vehemently against colonialism and injustice. He is the author and composer...
Interview with Annar Cassam
04 Jan, 2011 | 0:25:54 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Annar Cassam is the co-editor of Africa's Liberation: The Legacy of Nyerere. The book is a collection of the words, works and legacy of the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, and is co-edited by Chambi Chachage. The book includes contributions from leading commentators, those who worked and fought imperialism alongside Nyerere, members of a younger generation – and Nyerere in his...
04 Jan, 2011 | 0:25:54 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Annar Cassam is the co-editor of Africa's Liberation: The Legacy of Nyerere. The book is a collection of the words, works and legacy of the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, and is co-edited by Chambi Chachage. The book includes contributions from leading commentators, those who worked and fought imperialism alongside Nyerere, members of a younger generation – and Nyerere in his...
Interview with Karim Hirji
04 Jan, 2011 | 0:24:10 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Karim Hirji is the the editor of a book called Cheche: Reminiscences of a Radical Magazine. Cheche was a radical socialist student magazine at the University of Dares Salaam, first published in 1969. It featured incisive analyses of key societal issues by prominent progressives, it gained national and international recognition in a short while. Because it was independent of authority,...
04 Jan, 2011 | 0:24:10 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Karim Hirji is the the editor of a book called Cheche: Reminiscences of a Radical Magazine. Cheche was a radical socialist student magazine at the University of Dares Salaam, first published in 1969. It featured incisive analyses of key societal issues by prominent progressives, it gained national and international recognition in a short while. Because it was independent of authority,...
Repression by Morocco
19 Nov, 2010 | 0:50:30 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
The Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony, and is the scene of Africa's longest-running territorial dispute. The phosphate-rich territory was annexed by Morocco after Spanish settlers left in 1975. The Polisario liberation front fought a guerrilla war against Morocco until the UN brokered a ceasefire in 1991. Morocco now offers to grant it autonomy, while Polisario is demanding a...
19 Nov, 2010 | 0:50:30 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
The Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony, and is the scene of Africa's longest-running territorial dispute. The phosphate-rich territory was annexed by Morocco after Spanish settlers left in 1975. The Polisario liberation front fought a guerrilla war against Morocco until the UN brokered a ceasefire in 1991. Morocco now offers to grant it autonomy, while Polisario is demanding a...
Community led and centered
13 Nov, 2010 | 0:14:37 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Doña Luz, Denisse, Rene, Erick, Angela and Deepa welcome you, your friends and their friends, and anyone else, to join us in our open house. In any which way you can. We will buy land within 100 kilometers of Oaxaca City, Mexico. And, we will build a ‘green’ house by ourselves, along with friends. Using local material especially mud, stones...
13 Nov, 2010 | 0:14:37 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Doña Luz, Denisse, Rene, Erick, Angela and Deepa welcome you, your friends and their friends, and anyone else, to join us in our open house. In any which way you can. We will buy land within 100 kilometers of Oaxaca City, Mexico. And, we will build a ‘green’ house by ourselves, along with friends. Using local material especially mud, stones...
A Converstaion about "The Clearing"
21 Sep, 2010 | 0:26:32 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Lorraine O’Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and black female subjectivity. Her recent conversation with Andil Gosine focuses on her photographic diptych entitled "The Clearing". The conversation explores issues of sex, nature and love in her work.
21 Sep, 2010 | 0:26:32 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Lorraine O’Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and black female subjectivity. Her recent conversation with Andil Gosine focuses on her photographic diptych entitled "The Clearing". The conversation explores issues of sex, nature and love in her work.
Horn of Africa communities protest Meles Zenawi
01 Jul, 2010 | 0:25:41 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Ethiopia is neither a wealthy country nor is it democratic. Yet, its premier, Mr. Meles Zenawi, has been invited to the G20 summit. The invitation extended to the Ethiopian premier does send the wrong signal to the rest of the African dictators in that they can actually be rewarded for running their countries to the ground; and for perpetrating war...
01 Jul, 2010 | 0:25:41 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Ethiopia is neither a wealthy country nor is it democratic. Yet, its premier, Mr. Meles Zenawi, has been invited to the G20 summit. The invitation extended to the Ethiopian premier does send the wrong signal to the rest of the African dictators in that they can actually be rewarded for running their countries to the ground; and for perpetrating war...
Environmental and Climate Justice
23 Jun, 2010 | 0:10:55 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Welcome to the fourth installation of the G20 report for June 24th 2010. The G20 Report is your daily rundown of news about the resistance to the G8 and G20, straight from the streets of Toronto produced by the Alternative Media Centre. Wednesday marked the 3rd day of themed resistance to abolish the G8 and G20. The theme was Climate...
23 Jun, 2010 | 0:10:55 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Welcome to the fourth installation of the G20 report for June 24th 2010. The G20 Report is your daily rundown of news about the resistance to the G8 and G20, straight from the streets of Toronto produced by the Alternative Media Centre. Wednesday marked the 3rd day of themed resistance to abolish the G8 and G20. The theme was Climate...
Queering the G20
23 Jun, 2010 | 0:11:09 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Welcome to the third installation of the G20 report for Jun 23rd 2010. The G20 Report is your daily rundown of news about the G8 and G20 summits in Toronto and Huntsville straight from the streets of Toronto produced by the Alternative Media Centre. In today’s report: Queering the G20, building stronger anti-mining coalitions, and a look at actions to...
23 Jun, 2010 | 0:11:09 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Welcome to the third installation of the G20 report for Jun 23rd 2010. The G20 Report is your daily rundown of news about the G8 and G20 summits in Toronto and Huntsville straight from the streets of Toronto produced by the Alternative Media Centre. In today’s report: Queering the G20, building stronger anti-mining coalitions, and a look at actions to...
Institutions most responsible for the environmental impacts of extractive industry
23 Jun, 2010 | 0:29:24 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Environmental justice organizers guided a tour through Toronto to expose institutions most responsible for the environmental and social impacts of Canada's extractive industries both at home and abroad. Canada is home to 75% of the world's mining and exploration companies, making it a global leader in this industry. Canada's place within the G8 nations is largely due to the exploitation...
23 Jun, 2010 | 0:29:24 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Environmental justice organizers guided a tour through Toronto to expose institutions most responsible for the environmental and social impacts of Canada's extractive industries both at home and abroad. Canada is home to 75% of the world's mining and exploration companies, making it a global leader in this industry. Canada's place within the G8 nations is largely due to the exploitation...
G20 Environmental and Climate Justice Themed Day of Resistance
23 Jun, 2010 | 0:57:25 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
With the success of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April 2010, social movements from all over the world have begun to cross-pollinate their efforts to forge an urgent movement for Climate Justice that demands governments respect and protect the rights of climate-impacted communities and our planet, Mother Earth....
23 Jun, 2010 | 0:57:25 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
With the success of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April 2010, social movements from all over the world have begun to cross-pollinate their efforts to forge an urgent movement for Climate Justice that demands governments respect and protect the rights of climate-impacted communities and our planet, Mother Earth....
The second podcast in a five part series
22 Jun, 2010 | 0:10:52 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Monday, June 21st marked the First day of the week of Resistance to Abolish the G8 and G20 in Toronto. Demonstrators converged downtown in the first of many mobilizations, as G8 and G20 leaders meet in Huntsville and Toronto later this week. Actions have been called by multiple community organizations, ranging from peaceful rallies to confrontational direct action. Monday’s themed...
22 Jun, 2010 | 0:10:52 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Monday, June 21st marked the First day of the week of Resistance to Abolish the G8 and G20 in Toronto. Demonstrators converged downtown in the first of many mobilizations, as G8 and G20 leaders meet in Huntsville and Toronto later this week. Actions have been called by multiple community organizations, ranging from peaceful rallies to confrontational direct action. Monday’s themed...
The first podcast in a five part series
21 Jun, 2010 | 0:10:00 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Why are people opposing the G8 and G20? What groups are involved? What was the People’s Summit, and why is it important? In this first of five daily podcasts, we hear from the Toronto Community Mobilization Network, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, the Canadian Peace Alliance, the People’s Summit, and volunteers. The Group of 8 Leaders and the Group of 20...
21 Jun, 2010 | 0:10:00 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Why are people opposing the G8 and G20? What groups are involved? What was the People’s Summit, and why is it important? In this first of five daily podcasts, we hear from the Toronto Community Mobilization Network, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, the Canadian Peace Alliance, the People’s Summit, and volunteers. The Group of 8 Leaders and the Group of 20...
A campaign against the use of secret unsourced intelligence as evidence in Canadian courts
02 Jun, 2010 | 0:20:07 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
The Hassan Diab Support Committee is launching a campaign against the use of secret unsourced intelligence as evidence in Canadian courts. By using intelligence as evidence, the Government is facilitating the “legal” extradition of Canadian citizens to foreign countries based on secret and unsourced intelligence that may be the product of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and which...
02 Jun, 2010 | 0:20:07 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
The Hassan Diab Support Committee is launching a campaign against the use of secret unsourced intelligence as evidence in Canadian courts. By using intelligence as evidence, the Government is facilitating the “legal” extradition of Canadian citizens to foreign countries based on secret and unsourced intelligence that may be the product of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and which...
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
22 May, 2010 | 0:27:03 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) is a Toronto-based organization that was formed to work in solidarity with queers in Palestine and Palestinian resistance movements around the world. As a queer group, QuAIA recognizes that homophobia exists in Israel, Palestine, and across all borders, but queer Palestinians face the additional challenge of living under occupation, subject to Israeli state violence and...
22 May, 2010 | 0:27:03 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) is a Toronto-based organization that was formed to work in solidarity with queers in Palestine and Palestinian resistance movements around the world. As a queer group, QuAIA recognizes that homophobia exists in Israel, Palestine, and across all borders, but queer Palestinians face the additional challenge of living under occupation, subject to Israeli state violence and...
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
22 May, 2010 | 0:29:06 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) is a Toronto-based organization that was formed to work in solidarity with queers in Palestine and Palestinian resistance movements around the world. As a queer group, QuAIA recognizes that homophobia exists in Israel, Palestine, and across all borders, but queer Palestinians face the additional challenge of living under occupation, subject to Israeli state violence and...
22 May, 2010 | 0:29:06 |
EN | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah |
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) is a Toronto-based organization that was formed to work in solidarity with queers in Palestine and Palestinian resistance movements around the world. As a queer group, QuAIA recognizes that homophobia exists in Israel, Palestine, and across all borders, but queer Palestinians face the additional challenge of living under occupation, subject to Israeli state violence and...
