Discussion of Bill C-300 and Corporate Accountability
An Interview w/ MP John McKay Scarborough/Guildwood – 12m01s
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November 27th FMA Runsheet
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02 show preview and greetings
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08 Weather w/ Margo
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)
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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
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
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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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
50 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
November 13th FMA Runsheet
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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.
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00 Democracy Now! headlines
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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00 Fusion Opal – theme intro
02 show preview and greetings
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08 Weather w/ Margo
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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00 Democracy Now! headlines
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
-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.
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