December 18th FMA Runsheet
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00 Fusion Opal – theme intro
02 show preview and greetings
-plug website www.fridaymorningafter.wordpress.com
-thank you to Dusty’s montroyal/parc for providing the breakfast
08 Weather w/ Margo
15 Canadian Headlines
-George Galloway to get his “Day in Court”
On March 19, 2009, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney used legal manipulation to prevent British Member of Parliament George Galloway from entering Canada. Galloway was to speak to Canadians about the humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza, and to speak about his opposition to the war in Afghanistan. Galloway had been invited to Canada by local peace coalitions, student unions and church groups.
On October 31, 2009, the Fedreal Court of Canada announced that it would hear a judicial review of the citizenship minister’s decision to prevent Galloway from entering Canada. The Court is expected to issue a final decision in January 2010.
The cost of the court case will involve a 20,000can$ bond. If you would like to help contribute to this bond which can set a precedent for the rights of free speech in Canada -
“Peace and Justice Committee”
Defend Free Speech Campaign
427 Bloor Street West, Box 13
Toronto ON M5S 1X7
-Federal Court Desicion to resind another security certificate
The Federal Court decided to rescind the security certificate imposed upon Syrian-born Toronto resident Hassan Almrei. Mr. Almrei was detained from October 2001 to January 2009 without charge, trial or conviction and has been living under severe bail restrictions since January.
This is the second security certificate that the Federal Court has judged to have been implemented without sufficient evidence, cause or merit. A September Federal Court ruling overturned the canadian gov’t security certificate imposed on Mr. Adil Charkaoui.
According to a CAIR-CAN press release, “This latest ruling only serves (to) reinforce (exposure of) the flawed nature of the security certificate process, namely, the lack of procedural fairness and respect for due process.”
-Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub wins his release from Canadian Dungeon
The Canadian government had been trying to deport Mohammed Mahjoub, 50, using their security certificate method, claiming he was a high-ranking member of an Egyptian Islamic terrorist organization.
Mahjoub had lost more than 50 pounds during his hunger-strike that began in June, 2009 to protest his jail conditions.
In a decision released Monday, Federal Court Justice Edmond Blanchard said Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub can leave a holding centre at Bath, Ont. Mahjoub’s new residence, to be pre-approved by authorities, will be monitored by surveillance cameras, and his outings, visitors and personal contacts will be closely regulated. He will not be allowed to use the Internet, his phone calls and mail will be intercepted. All this despite no valid proof from the government for their desire to clamp a security certificate on Mr. Mahjoub.
35 Letter from Maher Arar - December 11th, 2009 – Human Rights’ Day
My case reveals U.S. human rights sham
TODAY is Human Rights Day, but any gestures the United States makes in commemoration will come across as hollow to me.
A few weeks ago, seven federal judges told me I had no way to seek justice in American courts for being sent by U.S. officials to be tortured in Syria, where I spent nearly a year in a grave-like underground cell.
I was a victim of an “extraordinary rendition.” I was seized by U.S. officials while changing planes in September 2002 at the Kennedy International Airport on my way home to Canada, prevented from going to court and sent, over my protests, to a country where I knew I would be tortured.
Despite both the Syrian and Canadian governments finding I had no connection to terrorism whatsoever, I have still received no justice from the United States and have seen no change since President Obama took office.
Since I launched my lawsuit with the help of the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2004, many facts regarding my case have surfaced.
A public Canadian commission of inquiry exonerated me and found that Canadian officials gave the United States false information about me, for which the Canadian government apologized.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found that immigration officials concluded I would likely be tortured if sent to Syria. But that decision was overridden — in fact, the inspector general could not rule out that I was sent to Syria in order to be interrogated by unlawful means. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act have confirmed the involvement of high-level U.S. officials. This information has left no doubt that my case was not a simple immigration matter, as the U.S. government has always proclaimed.
The significance of the dismissal of my case goes much beyond my inability to obtain justice. At the core of this dismissal is the credibility of the administration of justice in the United States.
Courts are supposed to ensure that no one is above the law and that the weak and vulnerable are protected. Yet U.S. courts have sided with the most powerful — the executive branch that modified the definition of torture to suit its purpose and used “national security” to justify sending people to be tortured.
The climate of fear and suspicion that the executive branch promoted has allowed it to obtain from the courts exactly what it wanted: to turn a blind eye to its above-the-law practices, all in the name of safeguarding the security of the nation.
The role of judges becomes a lot more important in times of crisis and calamities. They should ask themselves an important question: What would they have done if their son had been forced to go through the same injustice? Finally, I want Americans to know that the actions taken by some of your government officials have destroyed the lives of many innocent human beings.
I was a successful engineer before all this happened. I had enjoyed life and had dreams of building a successful career. Now I am still suffering from the scars of torture and the disgrace of being labeled a terrorist.
I was at least expecting an apology from your government. With this latest decision, my hope of getting that apology is fading away.
Until the U.S. government rectifies my case, and the cases of all those who were tortured by the previous administration, the celebration of Human Rights Day by the United States will be a sham.
Maher Arar is a Syrian-born Canadian citizen. He wrote this for Progressive Media Project, a source of liberal commentary on domestic and international issues; it is affiliated with The Progressive magazine.
-municipal round-up
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
8-9am
www.democracynow.org
10 Michael Werbowski Presents
MW
20 Michael Werbowski – preview the Interview with Zbig Brezinski (who he is, history, biography, etc)
- Hannukah Poem
25 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-Barack Obama is to set an ambitious timetable for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, with the first troops pulling out by July 2011. Therefore the analysis from this program and from independant observers throughout the world is correct. The co-ordination of troop withdrawl from Afghanistan is to be timed to coincide with Obama’s re-election campaign for 2012.
-Even CNN reported on Tuesday that this wait of two years before beginning withdrawl will be too long to maintain the US public’s support for the expenditure of US public resources in Afghanistan.
-Fears that the country is being sucked into a Vietnam-style morass are being justified by the actions of a US president who is willing to sacrifice the lives of US soldiers and Afghani Civilians for another two years. Not even to mention the lives of the soldiers of NATO “allies” like Canada who will be killing and being killed for another two years so that Obama can position himself to retain his hold on power at home. By timing the withdrawl of soldiers to coincide with his re-election campaign in 2012 the President of the US is showing the world, and hopefully his own citizens are seeing it as well, how he views the lives of his own soldiers and citizens as exploitable and expendable in order for his regime to retain its hold on power. Isn’t this precisilely the reason that the US claims to be in Afghanistan? to prevent Afghani leaders from exploiting their citizens’ lives to retain their power?
-Even after a NATO conference held in Brussels at the beginning of the month, NATO “allies” are still unwilling to unquestioningly support the US “War on Terror” by maintaining a military precesnce in Afghanistan. France, Germany and UK will hold their own conference at the end of January 2010 and are prepared to outline their own startegy, independant of the pressures and conveluted goals of the United States.
-As the US sees NATO support falling away as quickly as the countries in NATO are seeing their soldiers falling away, the US is trying to solicite the support of other, more non-traditional sources. In what can be seen as a sign of desperation, the US is appealing to the Russians and even the Chinese to support military interference in Afghanistan. The Russians have the experience with Afghanistan to know better, and the Chinese are where they are today, the country with the highest economic status in the world, precisely because the Chinese have not wasted their resources chasing pipedreams and bogeymen in foriegn enclaves. Canada should take note.
-One of the ironies of the situation is that throughout the entire Russian occupation of Afghanistan, the US and their “allies” decried the action as being a barbaric violation of human rights. Now the US is begging Russia to help them enforce the same barbaric violation of human rights, in the same place. Not only is Russia past that stage, the US’ NATO “allies” as well are begining to understand why they must stop focusing on foriegn countries and start focusing on domestic policies to strengthen their own quality of life, which is the true path to National Security.
-Matthew Hoh, a former Marine officer and State Department official who resigned in protest of the US administration’s Afghanistan policy in September, said that “Afghanis will fight harder as long as they are occupied by foriegn powers.” This means that by sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, Obama is strengthening the resistance. Mathhew Hoh said that “the only possibility of a resolution would be a sooner withdrawl, coupled with political negotiations to end the conflict”.
-The Afghani Parliment reinforced and validated Mathhew Hoh’s perception of the situation by on Tuesday announcing that they will not give a vote of confidence to any minister with dual citizenship. This clearly shows that the experience of the Afghani people over the last 30 years has been one that has taught them that Foriegners are untrustworthy and Afgahni parliment has backed up that perception.
-The UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan official website concides that even 8 years after the United States invasion, the quality of life of Afghanis has not improved. This is especially true for Afghani women, whose status has been used by the United states as a great justification for their invasion and occupation of a foriegn country. And as the UN reports, the US has done nothing for the women of Afghanistan over 8 years of occupation nor has Canada.
-As far as Canada is concerned, for all the horn-blowing of the Conservative government and all the unquestioned acceptance of this hot-air by the Canadian people, what is being discussed in Candian Parliment currently is not how the Taliban treat their prisoners, what is being discussed in Canadian Parliment is how Canadian security forces have mistreated Afghani prisoners and how canadian security forces have been involved in and had knowledge of the torture of Afghani detainees while Canada has done nothing about these crimes against humanity committed by canadians abroad.
30 Bike Report w/ Tom
35 Weather
40 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
50 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
UN Conference on Climate Change Update from Copenhagen
A Discussion w/ Diana Bronson – 7min38sec
Member of ETC Group
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December 11th FMA Runsheet
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00 Fusion Opal – theme intro
02 show preview and greetings
-plug website www.fridaymorningafter.wordpress.com
05 ads/promos
-thank you to Dusty’s montroyal/parc for providing the breakfast
08 Weather w/ Margo
10 Community Listings
15 Canadian Headlines
-Canada: Greatest Obstacle to Deal in Copenhagen
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sands-copenhagen-climate-deal
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> Canada’s image lies in tatters.
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> The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen
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> George Monbiot
> Tuesday December 1 2009
> The Guardian
>
>
> When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I’ve broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.
>
> So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush.
>
> Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.
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> In 2006 the new Canadian government announced it was abandoning its targets to cut greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol. No other country that had ratified the treaty has done this. Canada was meant to have cut emissions by 6% between 1990 and 2012. Instead they have already risen by 26%. Never mind special measures; it won’t accept even an equal share.
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> After giving the finger to Kyoto, Canada then set out to prevent the other nations striking a successor agreement. At the end of 2007, Canada singlehandedly blocked a Commonwealth resolution to support binding targets for industrialised nations. After the climate talks in Poland in December 2008, Canada “won” the Fossil of the Year award, presented by environmental groups to the country that had done most to disrupt the talks. The climate change performance index, which assesses the efforts of the world’s 60 richest nations, was published in the same month. Saudi Arabia came 60th. Canada came 59th and the US 58th.
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> In June this year the media obtained Canadian briefing documents which showed the government was scheming to divide the Europeans. During the meeting in Bangkok in October, almost the entire developing world bloc walked out when the Canadian delegate was speaking, as they were so revolted by his bullying. Last week, in Trinidad, the Commonwealth heads of government battled for hours (and eventually won) against Canada’s obstructions. A concerted campaign has now begun to expel Canada from the Commonwealth.
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> In Copenhagen next week, Canada will do everything in its power to wreck the talks. The rest of the world must do everything in its power to stop Canada from sabotage. But such is the fragile nature of climate agreements that one rich nation — especially a member of the G8, the Commonwealth and the Kyoto group of industrialised countries — could scupper the treaty. Canada now threatens the wellbeing of the world.
>
> Why? There’s a simple answer: Canada is developing the world’s second largest reserve of oil. Did I say oil? It’s actually a filthy mixture of bitumen, sand, heavy metals and toxic organic chemicals. The tar sands, most of which occur in Alberta, are being extracted by the biggest opencast mining operation on earth. An area the size of England, comprising pristine forests and marshes, will be be dug up — unless the Canadians can stop this madness. Already it looks like a scene from the end of the world: the strip-miners are creating a churned black hell on an unimaginable scale.
>
> To extract oil from this mess, it needs to be heated and washed. Three barrels of water are used to process one barrel of oil. The contaminated water is held in vast tailings ponds, some so toxic that the tar companies employ people to scoop dead birds off the surface. Most are unlined. They leak organic poisons, arsenic and mercury into the rivers. The First Nations people living downstream have developed a range of exotic cancers and auto-immune diseases.
>
> Refining tar sands requires two to three times as much energy as refining crude oil. The companies exploiting them burn enough natural gas to heat six million homes. Alberta’s tar sands operation is the world’s biggest single industrial source of carbon emissions. By 2020, if the current growth continues, the tar sands alone will produce more greenhouse gases than Ireland or Denmark. Already, thanks in part to the tar mining, Canadians have almost the highest per capita emissions on earth.
>
> The purpose of Canada’s assault on the international talks is to protect this industry. This is not a poor nation. It does not depend for its economic survival on exploiting this resource. But the tar barons of Alberta have been able to hold the whole country to ransom. They have captured Canada’s politics and are turning this lovely country into a cruel and thuggish place.
>
> Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayoquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these get-rich-quick schemes impoverished Canada and its reputation. But this is much worse, as it affects the whole world.
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> I will not pretend that this country is the only obstacle to an agreement at Copenhagen. But it is the major one. It feels odd to be writing this. The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada. How did this happen?
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25 Interview w/ Diana Bronson – repersenting “ETC Group” in Copenhagen
-update of UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen
-describe mood/atmosphere of Canada’s reception
-comment on Stephan Harper quote -
“THE KEY TO ALL THIS IS NOT THE SETTING OF TARGETS. IT IS ACTUALLY THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT OVER TIME WILL MAKE SIGNIFICANT TARGETS POSSIBLE.”
-describe the international coalition of groups calling for assessment in the standards and practices (morals?) of technology.
-municipal round-up
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
8-9am
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10 Michael Werbowski Presents
I will talk about the GG visit to Chaipas and the shut down of Black fire mining operations there.
-Visiting Canadian Governor General Michaelle Jean said here Wednesday that Canada and Mexico must work together to fight crime and to boost prosperity and democracy in the region.
Also I will talk about my recent visit to NYC and and Obama a year in power.
20 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-For Obama’s 30,000 troop surge in Afghanistan to take effect, it must first pass through the US House and Senate and then the funding must be approved by the US House and Senate
-57% of US Republicans do NOT want an increase in troops – Over 2/3rds of the US population do NOT want an increase in troops sent to Afghanistan. How backwards has the United States become when the majority of progressive humanists in the US will depend on the Republicans to protect them from the wastes of Obama’s Democrats? Hopefully it will turn out better for the American people then depending on the Democrats to protect the US population from the wastes of Bushes Republicans.A Nanos poll in Canada revealed that 84% of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan on or before the December 31, 2011 deadline set by Canada’s current government.
-There are already 68,000 US soldiers in Afghanistan that we know of – what you might not know is that there are an additional 104,000 military contractors in Afghanistan who are not counted in the figures that the US Department of Defense releases to the public. Most of these contractors came straight from the United States illegal war in Iraq.
-The timetables and strategy used in Afghanistan, including Obama’s request for a troop surge, mirror exactly the strategy used by the United States in Iraq. Change you can believe in.
-Private contractors employed by the Defense Department in Afghanistan will continue to outnumber the size of the American troop presence, even if President Obama’s wish for 30,000 more soldiers is granted.
-South Korea, a country that still institutes a military draft over its citizens, said it is to send 350 more soldiers to Afghanistan to protect its own aid workers there.
-NATO countries, however, met last week in Brussels to discuss collective strategy and came away not even sure if they still are a collective, with so many different approaches concerning NATO presence in Afghanistan. Not the least of these approaches is the collective desire of the citizens of these same NATO countries who are resolved in their opposition to any troop surge.
-In addition to the NATO meeting in Brussels, France, Germany and the UK have requested a UN meeting concerning the situation in Afghanistan to be held on January 28th in London.
-Only 27% of Germans support German troop presence in Afghanistan and after the resignation of both the defense minister and the head of ground operations last week due to repeated Afghani civilian deaths, German parliment decided that they will NOT deploy more troops but may consider extending their withdraw deadline after the conference on Afghanistan is held at the end of January 2010.
-France announced that it will maintain a presence in Afghanistan that “gives priority to the training of Afghani security forces”. Although it will not send more troops to Afghanistan, it will not issue a withdrawl date for its soldiers until after the January 28th conference.
-Gordon Brown, prime minister of England, a country which has lost 100 soldiers to death in Afghanistan this year, announced that he will send 500 more British soldiers to Afghanistan but didn’t say when. Brown contends that he based his decision on the comments of NATO secretary Anders Rasmussen who said that eight other NATO countries had already decided to send more troops. So far, this has NOT happened.
25 Interview w/ Kathy Kelly – Co-coordinator – Voices For Creative Non-Violence – 3-Time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
-letter to Obama opposing troop surge in Afghanistan
Coalition of anti-war groups involved in the creation of this letter
Methods outlined to oppose troop escalation here at home: lobbying representatives to withold tax money/refusal to pay taxes/creating work slowdowns and stoppages/strikes in the workplace and at schools/practical civil resistance
Under Obama’s plan, troop withdrawl from Afghanistan will be co-ordinated and timed to coincide with his own re-election campaign in 2012. In simpler words, Obama is sacrificing the lives of American soldiers, Afghani civilians and NATO Allies in order to maintain his personal position.
-letter to Nobel Prize committee
how does it feel and what does it do to the credability of the award to see Obama, the Peace Prize recipient, actively attempting to esculate a war?
40 Bike Report w/ Tom
43 Weather
45 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
50 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
Bill C-391-The Removal of the Canadian Gun Registry
A Discussion w/ Vivien Carli – 9min56sec
Analyst – International Center for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC)
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Security Paranoia Discrediting Vancouver Olympics
A Discussion w/ Amy Goodman – 7min32sec
Host and Producer of DemocracyNow!
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University Precedent Set in Quebec Law
A Discussion w/ Abraham Weizfeld 9min17sec
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Film Screening: Citizen Nawi
Interview w/ Lynn Worrell 4min01sec
Presented by: “Not in Our Name”
December 4th, 2009 7pm Concordia Hall Building 9th Floor
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December 4th FMA Runsheet
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00 Fusion Opal – theme intro
02 show preview and greetings
-plug website www.fridaymorningafter.wordpress.com
-thank you to Dusty’s montroyal/parc for providing the breakfast
08 Weather w/ Margo
15 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
-Mangoes
20 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-president Obama announced a troop surge of 30, 000 troops to Afghanistan over the next 2 years
-Now Obama must sell his plan to the US House and senate – no mention of the US people in Obama’s plans.
-57% of US Republicans do NOT want an increase in troops – Over 2/3rds of the US population do NOT want an increase in troops sent to Afghanistan. A Nanos poll in Canada revealed that 84% of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan on or before the December 31, 2011 deadline set by Canada’s current government.
-Under Obama’s plan, troop withdrawl from Afghanistan will be co-ordinated and timed to coincide with his own re-election campaign in 2012. In simpler words, Obama is sacrificing the lives of American soldiers, Afghani civilians and NATO Allies in order to win himself a second term.
-Analysts say a second term becomes less and less likley for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner with every surge he makes to prolong war.(Kathy Kelly, Chicago-based VCNV, quotes 35 groups opposed to troop surge)
-The United States, in its search for political allies and support in Afghanistan, asked Russia to join and support the NATO effort. In the greatest poetic line this week Russia’s response was “How can we support NATO goals when not one member of NATO has any idea what their goals are? How can they explain their goals in Afghanistan to us when they themselves don’t have a clue what they are?”
-Russia then said that it was time to question the entire concept of NATO and defined it as an organization that has become obsolete in post cold-war reality. This poetically hinted that NATO countries were so caught up in living in the past that they are missing out on the future and hindering the present.
-German opposition to the Afghanistan war continues over the amount of Afghani Civilian deaths and H of S Angela Merkle continues to be on the hotseat. After the resignation of the German commander of ground troops in Afghanistan last week, the German defense minister resigned this week because of German air strikes resulting in Afghani civilian deaths.
-Germany did conclude a long-term trade arrangement with Pakistan that, organized by the US, was a reward for Pakistan’s “support” in Afghanistan
27 Interview w/ Abraham Weizfeld
-congratulations on your victory in court!
-outline the case brought to court against the university and the steps that were taken to present the case to the Quebec court
-discuss the details of the judgement and thoughts regarding the precedent being set regarding a university’s inability to censor the thoughts of its students based on subject or content.
-municipal round-up
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
8-9am
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10 Interview w/ Vivien Carli – Analyst -International Center for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC)
Bill C-391, which passed through the house on November 4, 2009 amends the Firearms Act enacted by the Liberal Government in December of 1998, by removing the requirement to register millions of common rifles and shotguns.
- documentation sources -> are they limited? what are some problems with these sources? credibility, reliability, completeness?
- Canadian Gun Registry -> what will replace it? will it make us safer? is it what Canadians want?
- Gun Ethics in Canada -> has creating fear and instability by Canadian gov’ts so as to increase police powers and diminish individual rights and freedoms shaped gun ethics in Canada?
20 Michael Werbowski Presents
For this week I have two items Mexico: Anti Mining activist murdered in Chiapas and the Canadian mining connection. Harper’s Extraction tour in China: Peddling Canada’s resources ( mines and petrol) to the Chinese.
30 Weather
32 Bike Report w/ Tom
-Proposal to exclude Canada from the Commonwealth
In the past, the Commonwealth has suspended Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa for electoral or human rights reasons. Now, The World Development Movement, the Polaris Institute in Canada and Greenpeace have called for Canada to be suspended from the Commonwealth over its climate change policies. The proposal was raised at this past weekend’s Commonwealth Conference in Trinidad and will be followed up on before the next Commonwealth Conference to be held in Mauritius in 2011.
-Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border
U.S. journalist Amy Goodman said she was stopped at a Canadian border crossing south of Vancouver on Wednesday and questioned for 90 minutes by authorities concerned she was coming to Canada to speak against the Olympics.
Goodman says Canadian Border Services Agency officials ultimately allowed her to enter Canada but returned her passport with a document demanding she leave the country within 48 hours
-Canada: Greatest Obstacle to Deal in Copenhagen
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sands-copenhagen-climate-deal
>
> Canada’s image lies in tatters.
>
> The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen
>
> George Monbiot
> Tuesday December 1 2009
> The Guardian
>
>
> When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I’ve broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.
>
> So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush.
>
> Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.
>
> In 2006 the new Canadian government announced it was abandoning its targets to cut greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol. No other country that had ratified the treaty has done this. Canada was meant to have cut emissions by 6% between 1990 and 2012. Instead they have already risen by 26%. Never mind special measures; it won’t accept even an equal share.
>>
> After giving the finger to Kyoto, Canada then set out to prevent the other nations striking a successor agreement. At the end of 2007, Canada singlehandedly blocked a Commonwealth resolution to support binding targets for industrialised nations. After the climate talks in Poland in December 2008, Canada “won” the Fossil of the Year award, presented by environmental groups to the country that had done most to disrupt the talks. The climate change performance index, which assesses the efforts of the world’s 60 richest nations, was published in the same month. Saudi Arabia came 60th. Canada came 59th and the US 58th.
>
> In June this year the media obtained Canadian briefing documents which showed the government was scheming to divide the Europeans. During the meeting in Bangkok in October, almost the entire developing world bloc walked out when the Canadian delegate was speaking, as they were so revolted by his bullying. Last week the Commonwealth heads of government battled for hours (and eventually won) against Canada’s obstructions. A concerted campaign has now begun to expel Canada from the Commonwealth.
>
> In Copenhagen next week, Canada will do everything in its power to wreck the talks. The rest of the world must do everything in its power to stop Canada from sabotage. But such is the fragile nature of climate agreements that one rich nation — especially a member of the G8, the Commonwealth and the Kyoto group of industrialised countries — could scupper the treaty. Canada now threatens the wellbeing of the world.
>
> Why? There’s a simple answer: Canada is developing the world’s second largest reserve of oil. Did I say oil? It’s actually a filthy mixture of bitumen, sand, heavy metals and toxic organic chemicals. The tar sands, most of which occur in Alberta, are being extracted by the biggest opencast mining operation on earth. An area the size of England, comprising pristine forests and marshes, will be be dug up — unless the Canadians can stop this madness. Already it looks like a scene from the end of the world: the strip-miners are creating a churned black hell on an unimaginable scale.
>
> To extract oil from this mess, it needs to be heated and washed. Three barrels of water are used to process one barrel of oil. The contaminated water is held in vast tailings ponds, some so toxic that the tar companies employ people to scoop dead birds off the surface. Most are unlined. They leak organic poisons, arsenic and mercury into the rivers. The First Nations people living downstream have developed a range of exotic cancers and auto-immune diseases.
>
> Refining tar sands requires two to three times as much energy as refining crude oil. The companies exploiting them burn enough natural gas to heat six million homes. Alberta’s tar sands operation is the world’s biggest single industrial source of carbon emissions. By 2020, if the current growth continues, it will produce more greenhouse gases than Ireland or Denmark. Already, thanks in part to the tar mining, Canadians have almost the highest per capita emissions on earth.
>
> The purpose of Canada’s assault on the international talks is to protect this industry. This is not a poor nation. It does not depend for its economic survival on exploiting this resource. But the tar barons of Alberta have been able to hold the whole country to ransom. They have captured Canada’s politics and are turning this lovely country into a cruel and thuggish place.
>
> Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayoquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these get-rich-quick schemes impoverished Canada and its reputation. But this is much worse, as it affects the whole world.
>
> I will not pretend that this country is the only obstacle to an agreement at Copenhagen. But it is the major one. It feels odd to be writing this. The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada. How did this happen?
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45 Interview w/ Lynn Worrell Rep – “Not in Our Name“
-discussion of “Not in Our Name” group and mandate
-similar organizations “Jews Say No” “New Profile” Israeli High school Students Yearly signitories of Shministim refusal letter – refusal to be drafted into an immoral offensive force – Or-Ben-David
Not In our name is organizing a film screening called citizen nawi, He is an israeli who is fighting for Palestinian rights.
here is the synopsis of the movie:
Citizen Nawi documents the tumultuous life of one of the most
fascinating men in the Israeli left – Ezra Nawi – a plumber by trade and a
political activist who fights for Palestinians’ rights. Simultaneously, Nawi
engages in a personal battle for his partner Fuad, a Palestinian from
Ramallah and an illegal resident chased by law enforcement officials. Tracking the
two intertwined parts of Nawi’s life, the film uncovers a deep seated
racism and homophobia that is common everywhere. Written by Esty Alsthul
December 4th at Concordia 7pm – Hall Building 9th Floor
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Discussion of Bill C-300 and Corporate Accountability
An Interview w/ MP John McKay Scarborough/Guildwood – 12m01s
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Maoist and Naxalite Movement in India
An Interview with Rana Bose – 13m24s
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15 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
-coffee
20 Interview w/ Band “Chinatown” in-studio
-presented by Jana Nolle
35 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-president Obama will announce his platform for Afghanistan on Tuesday
-57% of US Republicans do NOT want an increase in troops
-German Army chief of staff in Afghanistan, Wolfgang Schniederhan, resigns over amount of Afghani Civilian deaths
-as German opposition to the war builds, many Germans are re-discovering or reading for the first time the critiques of Richard David Precht. It was he who called any attempts by the German government to try to sell the war in Afghanistan to Germans through PR and not calling it a “war” - “Cowardice before its own people.”
Richard David Precht’s article appeared in the the German magazine Der Spiegel in July, 2009.
-Matthew Hoh, the US State Department Representative in Afghanistan who resigned his post in October after reaching the conclusion that the US presence was a waste of resources and soldiers’ lives said “The US is doing exactly what the Soviets did when they invaded Afghanistan”
-Pakistani civilians demonstrated again this week against their own government’s support of the US war in Afghanistan
-The US has begun applying diplomatic pressure against India to remove its presence from Afghanistan, which the US feels is undermining the NATO presence – Indian involvement includes directly dealing with Afghani civilians and not using the proxies of warlords.
-municipal round-up
-Canadian Headlines
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10 Interview w/ Rana Bose writer, political thinker, just returned from 5 weeks in India
Discussion of the current situation in India, speciffically the rising popularity of the Maoists and the re-emergence of the Naxalite movement – followed by details of the Indian Government’s reaction
For the past 25 years, independant local struggles have found common interest and united under the banner of Maoism, which can be seen as a re-naissance of the Naxalite movement that the Indian government thought it had wiped out in the early 70s.
The Maoists today are much more then just a movement. They have become a parallel government (In about 170 districts of India)
24 Music
26 Michael Werbowski Presents
My topic for this week’s segment would be Yemen and the civil war there with Iran and Saudi Arabia involved in the conflict.
MW
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA, BILL C-300: An Act respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries
-Outline the provisions of Bill c-300
-Outline the need for Bill c-300
-What will it take for the bill to pass through the house?
three factors of bill c-300 on first reading
-Bill c-300 does not lay the framework for legal accountability for Canadian mining companies – it in fact removes Canadian mining companies from the legal framework and places the accountability in the hands of two specific ministers - the minister of foreign affairs or the minister of international trade, who are to act “on their own initiative”.
-Bill c-300 only applies to Canadian mining companies that receive government funding, defined as being through the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board or Export Development Canada and states that companies suspected of infractions will be named to the individual president and chairperson of these respective bodies.
-If the ministers, acting “on their own initiative” (no legal review process) decide that companies have transgressed respect for human rights through their operations, the CPP and EDC are obliged to cut investment ties, there is nothing that legally prevents the Canadian companies in question from continuing their disrespectful actions on their own dime.
47 Weather
49 Bike Report w/ Tom
55 Community Listings
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November 20th FMA Runsheet
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15 Movie Review : Pirate Radio
‘Pirate Radio’ is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rogue DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing Rock n Roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in their power to shut them down.
25 Interview w/ Nour Dib ALSA McGill Representative (recorded)
The Arab Law Students Association of McGill and the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism are happy to invite you to a lecture by Hina Jilani, leading human rights lawyer and Member of the Goldstone Commission: One of the four writers/drafters of the Goldstone report.
“The Promise of International Law for Civilian Victims of War: The Goldstone Report”
*Date and time: Wednesday 25 November 2009, 6.00pm.
*Venue: Moot Court (Room 100), 3644 Peel Street, New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill Faculty of Law.
*Information: Tel. 514-582-4391/ E-mail: alsamcgill@gmail.com
-Municipal Political Update
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-Vancouver, B.C. – A senior member of the Vancouver Police Department confirmed to the BCCLA (British Columbia Civil Liberties Association) late last week that the VPD has acquired an LRAD (Long Range Acoustical Device) crowd control weapon for the 2010 Olympics. He advised that the VPD would be using the device to ensure that police instructions were clearly heard. The LRAD sonic gun fires a concentrated beam of sound at its targets that can cause hearing damage and temporarily disrupt vision.
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-In May 2008, the Canadian Supreme Court determined that Ottawa shared culpability in the United States violation of Omar Khadr’s human rights. Ottawa allowed Canadian intelligence agents to interrogate Khadr and share that information with US authorities despite knowledge of abuses being inflicted on Omar Khadr by US authorities. Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who has been held at Guantanamo Bay Prison since he was 15. All other citizens of Western countries have been repatriated by their respective/respectful governments.
On Friday, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre told reporters that “any decision to ask for Mr. Khadr’s return to Canada is a decision for the democratically elected government of Canada and not for the courts.” The MP did not mention what Canadians and the Canadian court system were to do if the Gov’t failed to do its job.
Ottawa asked the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a decision that required Ottawa to repatriate Khadr.
Supreme Court said “No” Ottawa must try to repatriate Omar Khadr, especially now that he is facing a US Military Commision from Guantanomo. No word on where or when this comission will be held, meaning the clock is ticking on the Canadian Gov’t’s window for action in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling.
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-Harper in India
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10 Michael Werbowski Presents
20 Weather w/ Margo
25 Bike Report w/ Tom
Revisiting /No Logo/: A message from Naomi Ten years ago, on November 30, 1999, tens of thousands of protestors shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. The activists were not against trade or globalization, despite the many misleading claims in the mainstream media. They were against a system of deregulated capitalism that was spreading around the world. At the time of the Seattle protests, my first book, /No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies/, was at the printer. The book tracked the ascendency of the "superbrands" as well as the first signs of a new fight back against corporate power. It was good timing for an author-activist: I had the rare privilege of watching my book become useful to a movement I believed could change the world. On the ten-year anniversary of the Seattle protests, with anger mounting at the open collusion between corporations and governments, I am rereleasing /No Logo/ with an extended new introduction. Among other developments, the new essay looks at the unprecedented bailout of Wall Street, as well as the rise of the Obama Brand (the most powerful brand in the world right now) and examines the troubling gaps between its marketing and reality. But I don't think this is a time for nostalgia. A new wave of exciting "climate justice" activism is underway in the lead up to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, one that builds on many of the networks born in Seattle. As I write in /Rolling Stone/ (full article below), for activists, Copenhagen "represents a chance to seize the political terrain back from business-friendly half-measures, such as carbon offsets and emissions trading, and introduce some effective, common-sense proposals—ideas that have less to do with creating complex new markets for pollution and more to do with keeping coal and oil in the ground." The 10th Anniversary edition of No Logo will be available in the US and Canada in mid-November and January in the UK.
40 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
-Eggplant Recipies
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15 Interview w|DJ Andy Williams
-mentor, teacher and role model
-discussion of his recent DJ tour in South Africa and the African roots of Hip-Hop
28 Music – Nicodemous
32 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
-mixed bean salad
-the imminent collapse of the ADQ (which may have already happened by Friday).
-Municipal election aftermath (who are MTL’s new leaders? Is the new executive committee lacking in talent?)
-byelection results
-Discussion of the “Poppy Debate” and Remembrance Day
-Vancouver, B.C. – A senior member of the Vancouver Police Department confirmed to the BCCLA (British Columbia Civil Liberties Association) late last week that the VPD has acquired an LRAD (Long Range Acoustical Device) crowd control weapon for the 2010 Olympics. He advised that the VPD would be using the device to ensure that police instructions were clearly heard. The LRAD sonic gun fires a concentrated beam of sound at its targets that can cause hearing damage and temporarily disrupt vision.
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
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00 Democracy Now! headlines
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10 Michael Werbowski Presents
I can talk about my personal experience of witnessing the wall fall back in Nov.1989..The impact of neo liberalism over the past two decades and other reflections.
20 Weather w/ Margo
-She was a member of a delegation that traveled to Israel and the Occupied Territories in July 2008, meeting with human rights and peace activists both Palestinian and Israeli. The delegation was sponsored by Interfaith Peace Builders and The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
-a brief history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, looking particularly at the role that mainline Protestant Christian denominations played in the founding of the State of Israel and the role of Christian Zionism in Israel’s founding.
40 Bike Report w/ Tom
50 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
November 5th FMA Runsheet
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15 Interview w/ Buddhist Monk STEPHEN SCHETTINI in-studio
25 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
30 Michael Werbowski Presents
Poetry Reading and Discussion of
Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
Bird /Swine flu
-Discussion/Analysis of Montreal Municipal Election results
-Round-Up of the Canadian Headlines that caught our eye this week:
*Canada “the disgrace of the world” on climate change issues
*Afghani Gov’t publicly accuses Canadian army of taking bribes and extorting protection money from Afghani farmers growing poppy seeds for heroin – FACT -> Poppy production has increased 600% in Afghanistan since the Canadian army arrived
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10 Interview w|Rebecca Dooley, McGill VP University Affairs and Nikki Bozinoff, Demilitarize McGill in-studio
-Discussion concerning proposed amendments to the Regulation on the Conduct of Research policy at McGill
www.demilitarizemcgill.wordpress.com
-UN removes half its staff from Afghanistan – 600 out of 1200 workers will be evacuated after the killing of 5 UN workers on October 28th – “The perception that we will stay in this country no matter what, is incorrect…” Kai Eide, head of the UN mission. The UN claims that Western forces are responsible for at least 340 civilian deaths since the start of this year.
-British Soldier Joe Glenton from Royal Logistics Corps leads London Demonstration to get out of Afghanistan – receives standing ovation and applause from soldiers in his barracks – “Politicians have abused the trust of the army and the soldiers who serve…”
-US Political Officer and former Marine Mathhew Hoh resigns post (US gov’t rep in Zabul Province) in Afghanistan – “I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources…” – he has been asked to stay on by US foreign service
-Afghani Gov’t publicly accuses Canadian army of taking bribes and extorting protection money from Afghani farmers growing poppy seeds for heroin – FACT -> Poppy production has increased 600% in Afghanistan since the Canadian army arrived
32 Weather w/ Margo
35 Bike Report w/ Tom
40 Interview w|DJ Andy Williams – mentor, teacher and role model
-discussion of recent DJ tour in South Africa and the African roots of Hip-Hop
50 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
October 30th FMA Runsheet
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15 Best of Friday Morning After
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-Yves Engler
-Kahatineta Horn
-Abdullah Al Malki
-Avigail Abarnanel / Dalit Baum
-Libby Davis
-Howard Zinn
-Yves Engler
25 Rezaq Faraj 1943-2009
-Municipal Elections
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
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10 Michael Werbowski Presents
Turkey/Iran
Swine Flu
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-Yves Engler
25 Interview w/
-peacekeeping vs. warmaking
-Canada’s real role in the world vs. the myth
-Somalia affair 1993 w/airborne regiment
-Iraq War Resister supporters confront Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Toronto on October 16, 2009.
-As of July 2009, there are at least 28 public cases of US Iraq War resisters in Canada
-Rodney Watson, on Monday October 19, 2009, decided to seek sanctuary in a B.C. church rather than face deportation to the United States to face desertion charges
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
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10 Michael Werbowski Presents
discussion of the emerging political climate in Eastern Europe
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00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
50 Community Listings
Irshad Khan – Sitar + Surbahar Concert
Hindol Majumdar – Tabla
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
730pm Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Tickets – 50$ and 20$ (students/golden age 15$)
Presented by Kabir Cultural Centre
25 Bike Report w/ Tom
00 Fusion Opal – theme intro
October 16th FMA runsheet
Hello Everyone,
here is the runsheet for tomorrow’s show – it is funding drive so there will be some additional “special moments” throughout the program based on the highlights from the past year of broadcasting.
I am very proud of all of you!
talk soon,
tj
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15 More to life then Hummus w/Chef Ali Hassan
Mangoes Recipies!!! Back by Demand!!!
The Walks, the Pavements, the Categories and the Statistics
website – www.montrealserai.com
35 Interview w/ Gaynde Djibril member of GRILA and Independant Journalist phone -
Today’s Economic System as a Hinderance to Development for Africans
-Canada Mining Interests
-Civil Situation in Guinea
a roundtable discussion of the Canadian News Headlines that caught our eye this week
-Municipal Elections
-BodyBags sent to Reservations – H1N1 Flu Ad
-Federal Elections
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
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00 Democracy Now! headlines
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15 Interview w/ Denys Heward author “The Bugle Sounded One Note”
-History of the NDG School Lower Canada College
-Personal recollections through the eyes and ears of a man who was a teacher and student at LCC
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Bike Report w/ Tom-mandate
-collaborators and growing pains
-outline of current product
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October 9th FMA runsheet
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Mangoes!!! Back by Demand!!!
Artists Against Apartheid X -
- SATURDAY OCTOBER 10th 20h00
suggested donation 5-10$
Cégep du Vieux Montréal
255 rue Ontario east
room 4.82 A
métro Berri-UQAM
Artists Against Apartheid X is taking place within the Quebec Social Forum (QSF) within a special focus day at the forum on building the Palestinian solidarity movement. QSF 2009 is uniting thousands of grassroots activists from across Quebec, a special event within the ongoing Artists Against Apartheid series is part of the the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid.
performances from
Qurna
Qurna is a conceptual and experimental music project of Iraqi Maqam repertoire, building on improvisations and experiences of local musicians in Montreal.
musicians
Omar Dewachi: oud, djouza
Jérémi Roy: double bass
Pierre-Guy Blanchard: percussion
Sam Shalabi: oud, synth
Radwan Moumneh: saz
Xarah Dion: synth
Zayid Al-Baghdadi: nay
Lubo Alexandrov
Bulgarian-born guitarist, composer and singer, Alexandrov has developed a unique musical style, merging Bulgarian, Turkish and Roma musical traditions, recipient of the 2007 Juno Music Award for the ‘Best World Album’. www.luboalexandrov.com
musicians
Lubo Alexandrov: guitar, voice
Sergiu Popa: accordion
la Banda de Gaza
ensemble of six musicians including violin, double-bass, percussion, guitar, key-boards and accordion. La Banda de Gaza is front-lined by singer Iqi Balam who brings biting, politically charged lyrics to the group’s electricity of musical rhythms from Latin America, African percussion and modern beats.
projection
‘Once Upon A Country’
a film by Rula Odeh 15 minutes
“Once Upon a Country” paints a very human portrait of Palestinian-Canadians who tell their own story of their forced exile from Palestine in 1948.
This film gives a face and voice to Palestinian-Canadians as they tell their remarkable story of resilience and survival and express their yearning for recognition of the injustice they have endured.
Through their stories of 5 Palestinian-Canadians, we follow the trajectory of their lives from their care-free, happy childhoods in Palestine, through the shattering events of 1948 to the rebuilding of their lives in exile.
theater performance
Seven Jewish Children a piece for Gaza
Caryl Churchill’s play, Seven Jewish Children, was written in response to the situation in Gaza in January 2009 has been adapted into a French language performance by Stéphane Jaques
actors
Nathalie Costa
Dominique Daoust
Esther Hardy
Cécile Lasserre
Jean-Pierre Matte
Émilie-Lune Sauvé
Alexandre Préfontaine
stage manager: Diane Potvin
sound: Gabriel Lesage-Bilodeau and Hugo Le Bleu-Tadaros
translation Jocelyne Doray.
This is the tenth Artists Against Apartheid concert occurring within the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid.
* Tadamon! Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Tadamon! Montreal
tel: 514 664 1036
email: info[at]tadamon.ca
a roundtable discussion of the Canadian News Headlines that caught our eye this week
-Municipal Elections
-BodyBags sent to Reservations – H1N1 Flu Ad
-Federal Elections
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10 Glen Ford Editorial
Friday Morning After on signal
Quebec Social Forum
-What is the Quebec Social Forum?
-What is the History of Social Forums in Quebec? Worldwide?
-Outline some of the events that will be taking place
-Where and When can people register?
50 Community Listings
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October 2nd FMA runsheet
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08 Weather Update w/ Margo
15 More to life then Hummus w/Ali Hassan
Mangoes!!!
As part of the activities for Israeli Apartheid Awareness week at the University of Adelaide, Action for Palestine was pleased to host Avigail Abarbanel to speak about Apartheid in Israel.
Avigail Abarbanel is a professional psychotherapist who was born in Israel and served for two years in the IDF. Her experience has greatly shaped her political views and she has been active in many campaigns against military injustice and human rights abuses in the Middle East and Australia. You can find her personal website here.
This interview was conducted by Catherine Zengerer for The Wire, our news and current affairs program here at Radio Adelaide. We bring you the extend interview from that session with thanks to Catherine Zengerer.
This talk was broadcast on Radio Adelaide on the 19th of August.
Time segments - 20:47 - kingston key
a roundtable discussion of the Canadian News Headlines that caught our eye this week
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10 Glen Ford Editorial
Friday Morning After on signal
15 ODI Cricket Championship Update w/ Zoreen Rahaman Wrap-up and discussion of ICC Cricket ODI(50 Over) World Championships going on in South Africa
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EditorialMaya Khankhoje
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Artrosalind hampton“…the berths represented a new form of alienation and containment…”
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CommentaryBernard Miller“…will we ever see them mobilise as effectively to house the needy and homeless?”
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CommentaryRana Bose“…having a home is a constitutional right…”
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Film ReviewMaya Khankhoje
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MeditationEdgardo “Gar” Morales
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ProseRona Altrows
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ProseMaya Khankhoje
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PoetryGary Beck
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ProseIlona Martonfi
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Book ReviewPrasun Lala“…a collection of musical scores, beautifully written, drawn, painted, etched, computer generated…”
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Book ReviewJooneed Khan“…demolish, …“Canadians’ self-appraisal of their country’s foreign policy…”
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Theatre ReviewAnna Fuerstenberg“Truth and Treason is politically compelling”
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Artrosalind hampton“…the berths represented a new form of alienation and containment…”
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CommentaryBernard Miller“…will we ever see them mobilise as effectively to house the needy and homeless?”
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CommentaryRana Bose“…having a home is a constitutional right…”
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Film ReviewMaya Khankhoje
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MeditationEdgardo “Gar” Morales
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ProseRona Altrows
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ProseMaya Khankhoje
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PoetryGary Beck
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ProseIlona Martonfi
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Book ReviewPrasun Lala“…a collection of musical scores, beautifully written, drawn, painted, etched, computer generated…”
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Book ReviewJooneed Khan“…demolish, …“Canadians’ self-appraisal of their country’s foreign policy…”
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Theatre ReviewAnna Fuerstenberg“Truth and Treason is politically compelling”
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Climate Chaos: A Poem
An Ode to Our Ailing Planet
Read and Written by Michael Werbowski (Minou) – 1min20sec
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December 11, 2009 Posted by fridaymorningafter | Commentary, Michael, World Events | change, climate, minou, poetry | No Comments Yet