Alert! Radio
Episode 124 (April 30th 2009)
In Alert’s final show of the season, Noam Gonick interviews queer artists Kent Monkman and Adrian Stimson about Two Spirit in their work; a taste of CD’s Queer Issue (July/August). Sid Shniad, just returned from Geneva, tells what really happened at Durban II. Robert Albritton talks about his new book Let Them Eat Junk, How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity. Music is the Weapon profiles The Internationale, the most dangerous song in the world. Download this episode (26.7 MB)
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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.
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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.
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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.
