CKUT Podcasts

An intense month of work marked the trip to Malawi of Tom Peters, Rikano dhe Paganon and Amandla’s, Doug Miller. They were dedicated to finishing another phase of building the Chilanga Community Clinic, including building the structure, drilling a well and installing the piping to the clinic and nurse’s house, getting electricity connected and working with their Malawian partners to recruit medica...

Le mardi 9 octobre 2018, le parlement tunisien a voté à l’unanimité un projet de loi visant à éliminer tous les formes de discrimination raciale en Tunisie. Cette loi est une victoire pour les militant.e.s tunisien.ne.s noir.e.s, les organismes de défenses des droits des minorités, mais aussi pour les associations d’étudiants d’Afrique subsaharienne. C’est le point de départ d’un long combat à men...

Featured Speakers: Nick Estes,abolitionist and voice for indigenous rights; Ann Hansen, former political prisoner in Canada. Summary: Today we’ll be airing part of Rust Belt Abolition Radio’s Episode number 19, Rust Belt Abolition Radio is an abolitionist media and movement-building project based in Detroit, Michigan. In this episode, Nick Estes talks about the anti-Indian origins of the carceral...

Du 25 au 29 septembre dernier s’est tenu en Tunisie, les journées de la souveraineté alimentaire et de l'environnement (JOSAE) organisé par l'Observatoire de la souveraineté alimentaire et de l'environnement (OSAE). Alors que l'agriculture tunisienne est largement médiatisée sous des aspects techniques et/ou comptables, la question de la souveraineté/dépendance alimentaire n'est que trop peu abord...

Samedi 29 septembre à Montréal, s'est tenu un sit-in en solidarité avec les mouvements protestataires au Maroc et pour exiger la libération des prisonniers politiques. Organisé par le CSMPM ( Coordination de soutien aux mouvements protestataires au Maroc), ce sit-in visait à sensibiliser l'opinion publique sur la situation politique et sur la repression policière et judiciaire du peuple marocain....

On October 1st, The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has launched “ U.S. Out of Africa!: Shut Down AFRICOM ” a campaign designed to end the U.S. invasion and occupation of Africa. Ten years ago, at the beginning of Barack Obama's presidency, AFRICOM (The United States Africa Command) was launched. After 10 years of operations, militarization of the continent and illegitimate presence on African soil...

The Indian Ocean island of Lamu is a special place. It is small and delicate, and home to the 700-year-old port city of Lamu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It belongs to Kenya, and is now on the threshold of a massive industrialization scheme. What will this mean for the thousands of Lamu residents who have derived their livelihoods and autonomy from a centuries-old fishing industry? What will it...

Samaa interviewed the Producer/Director of the documentary, Ariel Nasr. She asked him about what motivated him to present this particular story and what difficulties he has encountered. She discussed with him the art of featuring horrific abuse, like torture to which AbouSoufian has been subjected, with such a light touch. It is implied but not graphically depicted. Listeners may recall that Amand...

The Pan-Africanist Federalist Movement is setting things in motion to hold its first congress, in Accra, Ghana early next year. Who are they? What is their vision? Gwen talks to Ameth Lô of the Group for Research and Initiative for the Liberation of Africa. He is a member of the Federalist Movement and excited about this nascent organization.

Featured speakers: Gene, Prison Radio Show coordinator; Ashanti Alston, anarchist, writer and former member of the Black Panther Party. Summary: Gene reads a letter from Tommy Bassio, a federal prisoner and activist fighting for prisoners rights. Tommy sends a call out to his fellow cons, asking them to get involved in getting the word out to the public about the abuses they are experiencing in pr...

À l'occasion de la sortie de son nouveau livre : Walter Rodney : un historien engagé, Amzat Boukari Yabara nous parle de cette figure incontournable du panafricanisme. À la fois brillant intellectuel et militant internationaliste, Walter Rodney est né en 1942 et meurt assassiné en 1980 à Georgetown, Guyana. À la fois enseignant, militant, homme politique et intellectuel, Walter Rodney s'est engagé...

Daniel joins us from Halifax, Nova Scotia (or Mikmaw territory) and talks about the September 9, 2018 "Noise" demonstration outside the Burnside provincial prison in solidarity with the prisoners who were striking against the conditions inside and the incredible hardships their loved ones face trying to navigate the roadblocks used against them by the prison bureaucracy. As for Don and Gene, these...

Show featured news and a long interview with Yusuf Faqiri whose brother Soleiman was killed by prison guards in Lindsay Ontario in December 2016.

Our featured speaker is Mr. Gauther, a retired criminology professor who also did time in one of the federal prisons he talks about. So, we have a unique perspective as he takes us on a history lesson of Canadian prisons from the twenties through the penal reform era of the forties and sixties. Robert discusses former prisoner rights groups based inside and outside prisons and how some of the well...

"What Are You Frightened For? " discusses themes of fear and anxiety as depicted in the films presented at the 2018 edition of the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. In this episode Johnny Suck and LouEase Burns discuss the films "Bodied" and "Searching" The series airs on CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal

"What Are You Frightened For? " discusses themes of fear and anxiety as depicted in the films presented at the 2018 edition of the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. In this episode Johnny Suck and LouEase Burns discuss "Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana". The series airs on CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal

In January 2011, the whole world followed with interest and admiration the unprecedented events when the Egyptian people defied the regime of Hosni Mubarak, camped in Tahrir square demanding ‘Bread, Freedom and Social Justice’. What happened then and what is happening now? Samaa Elibyari interviews Mohamed Kamel on the situation in Egypt. Mohamed S. Kamel is a human rights activist and founding bo...

A newly minted peace and friendship agreement between Ethiopia and Eritrea brings an official end to 20 years of cold war between the two countries. This unexpected rapprochement was greeted with jubilation on both sides of the border and for the first time in two decades phone lines and flights are up and running between the two countries. But many Eritreans are left wondering if this will lighte...

David,a volunteer with Circles of Support and Accountability, or OsSA; Rabbis Eric Weiss and Jon Sommer from the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center. Summary: David, from CoSA, a program for recently released prisoners run by the Quakers' Friends Service Committee in partnership with the Church Council on Justice and Corrections, discusses his experiences as a volunteer with CoSa. He also draws connect...

This audio file is based on an event that took place in Montreal on the 29th of May. The event was a launch for the film "Emergent Visions: No Prisons"; a prison abolitionist science fiction film. Amina, Sheena and Nasrin talk about the complicity in systematic structures that shape our world and about imagining a world without prisons.

Prison Radio June 22, 2018 by promo@ckut.ca

Summary: First up, we aired news from April 6 about the Policeman’s Benevolent Association in New York’s attempt at stopping the release of Herman Bell from prison. Herman is a former Black Panther and political prisoner who was granted parole by the Parole Board in March. The PBA sued the Parole Board in an attempt to stop Herman’s release. In this audio, Amy Goodman from Democracy Now talks with...

Summary: This show featured audio from a panel discussion at Concordia University in March 12, 2018. The panel was part of the Week Against Police Brutality. The panel was called Racial Profiling and Police Violence in Canada and the United States. We air the speeches from Robyn Maynard and Andrea Ritchie. Yusuf Faqiri also spoke on the panel. For all the info on the event and the speakers bios ch...

Catherine Latimer discusses how new laws in Canada as well as the use of police intelligence reports are being used to deport landed immigrants. She uses the governments case against Vincenzo DiMaria to make her point. Kelly L. Hernandez talks of past and present state colonialism in the USA. Mumia Abu Jamal uses excerpts from his book to show how slave trade in colonial times was state allowed, e...

Johnny Suck & LouEase Burns discuss themes of fear and anxiety as depicted in the 2018 films presented at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. In this episode we discuss The People's Republic of Desire, CAM and Lifechanger.