Alert! Radio

• Episode 162 (October 28th 2010)

  The Harper government foreign policy doomed Canada’s bid for a UN Security Council seat according to award winning editor and columnist Haroon Siddiqui. Stephen Shrybman, international trade and public interest lawyer and Board member of the Council of Canadians reveals the pitfalls of the Canada-European Union free trade agreement now being negotiated. Award winning film maker, broadcaster and writer Saul Landau talks about the right-wing swing in American politics and reflects on whether it matters that the Democratic Party will gain at the expense of the Democrats in next week’s Congressional elections. He also ruminates on California’s ballot to decriminalize possession of marijuana. Download this episode (27.4 MB)

• Episode 161 (October 21st 2010)

  Steven Staples, director of the Rideau Institute explains why the purchase of the F-35 Stealth Fighter is an obscene waste of money.  Observers of the mayoralty races in Toronto, Winnipeg and Edmonton talk about the issues in these three races and what is at stake.  Mitch Podoluk is back with Music is the Weapon. Download this episode (27.4 MB)

• Episode 160 (October 14th 2010)

  What was the October Crisis of 1970?  What the the FLQ Really About? How Does Trudeau’s Suspension of Civil Liberties in 1970 Compare With Harper’s Attack on Civil Liberties at the G20 Protests in 2010? How does the FLQ compare with the Black Bloc?  The University of Ottawa’s Pierre Beaudet answers these questions and more. He was one of the 500 innocents arrested under the War Measures Act in 1970. The missing women of Vancouver’s East End is the subject of David Hugill recent media study. How has the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star handled this tragic story? Tzana Miranda Leal, organizer of the Justice For Migrant Workers’ Thanksgiving Day march from Leamington to Windsor talks about the march and what it set out to accomplish. Download this episode (54.5 MB)

• Episode 159 (October 7th 2010)

  Pascale Robitaille who coordinates Stella, an organization that offers services and rights’ defence by and for sex workers in Montreal, comments on how the recent ruling in Ontario’s Superior Court will affect the safety of sex workers.  Diana Lombardi, coordinator at the Fédération des femmes du Québec talks about the World March of Women which is just completing the 2010 march as we speak. The FFQ has been among the main organizers of the march since its inception in 2000.  Award winning American-Venezuelan journalist Eva Golinger comments on the results of Venezuela’s parliamentary elections, the attempted coup in Equador and Brazil’s new president.  Mitch Podoluk goes story telling on Music is the Weapon. Download this episode (54.9 MB)

• Episode 158 (September 30th 2010)

  This week marks the ninth anniversary of the first American bombs dropped on Afghanistan.  Author John Warnock reviews how and why the US and Canada got into this war and he questions whether the US has any intention of pulling out in 2011. Sociologist Elizabeth Comack discusses the role of race in police and law enforcement practices in Winnipeg, and what can be done to resolve the problem. On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Council of Canadians’ Campaign Coordinator Brent Patterson reviews the evolution of the Council and discusses where it is headed. Folk music icon Mitch Podoluk is back with Music is the Weapon. Download this episode (27 MB)

• Episode 157 (September 23rd 2010)

  An exclusive in depth interview with Israel’s preeminent journalist Gideon Levy.  James Petras comments on next week’s crucial Venezuelan elections. War Resister Joshua Key indicates what’s at stake if he is ordered back to the USA by the Harper administration. Download this episode (27.5 MB)

• Episode 156 (September 16th 2010)

  What does the Green Party of Canada think about capitalism and how far will it go to stop the tar sands?  Alert talks with Elizabeth May. The Indigenous Environmental Network calls for a new social movement to stop ecocide and a new economic paradigm.  Alert talks with Clayton Thomas-Muller. Mitch Podoluk is back with music is the weapon. Download this episode (27.4 MB)

• Episode 155 (May 6th 2010)

  ALERT’S last show of the season! Pensions sufficient to keep retirees from growing old in poverty are under frontal attack. Joel Harden of the Canadian Labour Congress Research Department and CD collective member Andrea Levy explain why. This week’s episode also celebrates MayDay week and discusses Canadian mining companies in the global south. And, as always, Mitch Podoluk is here with Music is the Weapon. You can subscribe to our podcast via iTunes and listen to past episodes by clicking the links below. A new season of ALERT will begin in September 2010. Download this episode (27 MB)

• Episode 154 (April 29th 2010)

  Ian Angus, editor of the on line journal Climate and Capitalism and member of the Canadian Dimension collective talks about the outcome and the climate movement politics emerging out of The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth convened by Bolivia’s President Evo Morales in Cochabamba. Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) talks about the message he delivered to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues last Saturday about the woeful example of First Nations rights in Alberta’s Tar Sands. Ron Mackay, spokesman for British MP George Galloway talks about why Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenny ordered Galloway banned from Canada. Elle Flanders, driving force behind Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, talks about the campaign to bar QAIA from this year’s Toronto Pride parade. Mitch Podolak brings songs of the environment to this week’s Music Is The Weapon. Download this episode (27.4 MB)

• Episode 153 (April 22nd 2010)

  Honduras-based Rights Action worker, Karen Spring, explains that because the current post military coup government is particularly friendly to Canada’s mining interests in Honduras that the Canadian government is blind to that country’s numerous human rights violations including those conducted by death squads. Richard Fidler talks about the life and thoughts of Quebec firebrand Michel Chartrand who passed away last week at the age of 93. Chris Webb describes the latest activities and campaigns of a new project called the Toronto Workers’ Assembly. For Music is the Weapon, Mitch Podolak plays a short list of some of the songs he has carried in his head since he was a kid. Download this episode (27.1 MB)
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