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• Episode 147 (March 11th 2010)

  Sarah Granke of FemRev talks about the new generation of feminists in Canada.  Mordecai Briemberg explains why there is such a strong campaign, now reaching into the Ontario Legislature and the Parliament of Canada, to criminalize critics of the Israeli state.  Mitch Podolak reaches back into the music of the civil rights movement. Download this episode (27.5 MB)

• Episode 146 (March 5th 2010)

  Denis Pilon argues that the Olympic Games is less about sports than it is another scheme to transfer public wealth to a small number of private beneficiaries.  Professor Farid Easack of the University of Johannesburg in Canada as part of Israel Apartheid Week explains why he regards Israel as an apartheid state even more oppressive than apartheid in South Africa. Anisa Mirza, IAW organizer on the campus of McMaster University, describes the administration and community response to IAW. Chief Fabian Alexis and Grand Chief Stuart Phillips explain why BC’s Okanogan band is blockading the Telco company logging operation in the Okanogan Valley.  Mitch Podolak introduces new and old labour songs on Music is the Weapon. Download this episode (25.7 MB)

• Episode 145 (February 24th 2010)

  Denis Lemelin, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers warns against Canada Post’s plans to further downsize and privitize the postal service.  Danny Schur, creator of Strike-the Musical (based on the Winnipeg General Strike) talks about his plans to bring it to the big screen.  Grad student Tyler Shipley laments about what the Olympic Games is doing to our love of sports and our sense of national priorities. Mitch Podoluk’s Music is the Weapon focuses on the art of Woodie Guthrie. Download this episode (27 MB)

• Episode 144 (February 18th 2010)

  Stephen Lendman asks if the Haiti earthquake could have been manufactured and he makes some startling revelations about where all the aid is ending up. James Petras praises Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution as it celebrates its 10th anniversary while noting some of its weaknesses. Michael Spourdalakas explains why Greece is in such an economic mess and what the government can do about it. Download this episode (27.2 MB)

• Episode 143 (February 11th 2010)

  Economist Jim Stanford explains why the economic recovery is so weak and what kind of fiscal and bank reform policies are needed.  Journalist Haroon Siddiqui gives an inside view of what is going on at the Montreal Rights and Democracy and the new direction given it by the Harper appointed ‘Gang of Seven’.  Maria Paez Victor of the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle refutes the media claims that Venezuela is falling apart and that Hugo Chavez’s popularity is at an all time low.  She explains the reasons behind the media blitz to discredit the Chavez regime.  Mitch Podoluk’s Music is the Weapon is all about ‘borders’. Download this episode (26.9 MB)

• Episode 142 (February 4th 2010)

  Is Harper A Dangerous Man?  Political Scientist Dennis Pilon makes a case that the minority Harper government is changing the face of Canada ­and getting away with it.  Why is the Canadian Jewish Congress putting so much pressure on the United Church of Canada to terminate its relationship with the upstart Independent Jewish Voices?  Sid Shniad, co-chair of IJV gives the inside story. Download this episode (23.8 MB)

• Episode 141 (January 28th 2010)

  Judy Rebick describes how young protesters used Facebook to organize rallies in 65 cities against Stephen Harper’s erosion of democracy.  Roger Annis, coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network outlines how Haitian sovereignty can be and must be restored if poverty in that country is to be eliminated. Montreal writer Paul Jackson relates first hand stories from the streets of Port au Prince.  Mitch Podoluk offers Music is the Weapon. Download this episode (27.1 MB)

• Episode 140 (January 21st 2010)

  Author Yves Engler on why Haiti was so ill prepared to deal with this earthquake and earlier ones in 2004 and 2008 and Canada’s role in Haiti since the coup that replaced the elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide. Download this episode (26.3 MB)

• Episode 139 (January 13th 2010)

  Hugh Mackenzie, author of a new report, shows how the pay levels of Canada¹s top CEOs got to be so outrageous.  He outlines measures to restore them to more reasonable levels. David Robinson, author of a report for the Canadian Association of University Teachers describes how the Middle East conflict is damaging academic freedom in both Israel and Palestine. The Now Show presentation of Dr. Seuss at Copenhagen. Mitch Podoluk: Music is the Weapon Download this episode (25.9 MB)

• Episode 138 (December 10th 2009)

  Amy Goodman Tells Alert about Her Experience of being Harassed at the Canadian Border Last Week and about her impressions of the early Days of the Copenhagen Summit.  Tony Clarke talks about Strategies to Accelerate Actions to stop Climate Change and in particular about the use of Civil Disobedience.  Penni Stewart, President of the CAUT talks about how Governments world-wide are attempting to Privatize University Education and how faculty and students are responding to the resulting cut-backs. Download this episode (27.2 MB)
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