CKUT Podcasts

Prison Radio June 14, 2018 by promo@ckut.ca

Naomi Myrakawa, as well as being an Associate Professor at Princeton, authored the books: The First Civil Right; How Liberals Built Prison America. Her assertion is Prison America may have started under Nixon and Reagan, but Liberals, through well-meaning changes to laws, procedures, the criminal code and policing, only made the justice system bigger and more complex, which ultimately led to the U...

An engineering feat of gigantic proportion, the Grand Renaissance Dam is currently being built on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. When completed in 2018, it will stand as the largest dam in Africa, a symbol of modernity and source of pride for that country. However this dam will drastically affect the water of the Nile river that merges with the Blue Nile in Ethiopia then flows downstream through Sudan...

Rose Marie Whalley interviewed well-known Montreal refugee lawyer, Stewart Istvanffy on the plight of young gay men who are being persecuted in their home countries because of their sexual orientation: there is clear evidence that their lives are in danger. Upon claiming refugee status in Canada, their applications for immigration are refused by the Government of Canada. What role does racism play...

Radio documentary on the Police raid of the LGBTQ community that happened in Montreal July 1990. Josh Marquis speaks to Puelo Dier and Linda Dawn Hammond about this event 25 years later for the CKUT radio show QueerCorps. More Oral History in CKUT's Time Capsule.

Episode One of the podcast "What Are You Frightened For? " Johnny Suck & LouEase Burns discuss themes of fear and anxiety as depicted in the 2018 Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. In this we discuss Screen Life and anxiety and duplicity as depicted in the films Unfriended The Dark Web and Profile. Airing on CKUT 90.3fm, a segment of Motion Picture Radio.

Amandla! - Grande Transition - Perspective panafricaine - 06/06/2018 by promo@ckut.ca

« La révolution est là » est un documentaire réalisé par la journaliste et réalisatrice tunisienne Teycir Ben Naser. Un voyage « dans la Tunisie des possibles », ou les revendications populaires de la révolution de 2011 se réinventent dans des initiatives locales. La réalisatrice du film nous parle de son documentaire et de l’impact de ces initiatives pour la Tunisie de demain.

Suoni Stories is a series of interesting stories about the artists and events performing at the 2018 edition of Suoni Per Il Popolo. In this clip Executive Director Peter Burton speaks about Else-Marie Pade, Danish Composer who'se work will be performed by Jacob Kirkegaard Sat. June 9th at the Darling Foundery in Montreal.

Listen to #RadioFreePalestine's panel with Max Blumenthal, Rania Khalek & Ben Norton {Finding solutions when "independent media," like Democracy Now! & Theintercept.com, fail to oppose imperialism} here Hosted by Laith Marouf https://t.co/L5g2vyvujz #Nakbah70 #GreatMarchOfReturn #Jerusalem

Radio Free Palestine - Entrevue Jooneed Khan - La Palestine, une lutte globale - 05/15/2018 by promo@ckut.ca

« C’est un scrutin historique, un scrutin qui consacre la décentralisation », ces mots ont été prononcés par chef du gouvernement Youssef Chahed à la suite des premières élections municipales Tunisiennes post-révolution qui se sont tenues dimanche 6 mai 2018. Ces élections qu’on annonçait historiques n’ont que faiblement mobilisé avec 33,7 % de participation. Reportées à quatre reprises, ces élect...

The Avalanche had the chance to attend the latest action by Le Mouvement PHAS on Monday, April 23rd, 2018. Gathered in front of Barrette’s office in Brossard, QC, members of Moelle épinière et Motricité Québec (Mémo-QC), Libre et Sauvage, and various partners of the Mouvement PHAS (Disabled individuals for access to services) demonstrated against the inaccessibility of medical clinics for disabled...

In 2016, the Canadian government made an about face and started issuing deportation orders to Guinean refugee claimants living in Canada. The policy change has left the members of this community—who have built lives here in jobs, at school and with neighbours and friends—feeling under threat and fearful of what awaits them should they be forced to return. Some have organized under the Guinean Comm...

Canada will soon be sending some 200 Canadian armed forces personnel and up to 6 helicopters to join the United Nations peacekeeping force in Mali. A country that is beleaguered from within and without, the situation is complex and it is not at all clear that ramping up foreign intervention using the UN model will bring justice or lasting peace. Amandla’s Gwen Schulman talks to Ameth Lô of the Gro...

Dans ce roman qui trace le destin de 8 réfugiés, Joël Casséus, nous dresse le portait de rescapés d'une guerre sans fin. L'histoire se déroule dans un pays qui n'a pas de nom et dont les personnages restent anonymes, à l'image de ceux qu'on en nomme jamais et qui vivent la détresse de l'exil forcée. La plume lyrique de l'auteur nous invite à réinventer l'espoir dans ce clair-obscur qui caractérise...

Amandla’s Tribute to Winnie Mandela

Ugandans open their hearts to 1.4 refugees. Refugees from neighbouring countries, assisted by the UNHCR are creating settlements in Uganda. Ranya Sherif, a Canadian environmental engineer describes the difficulties of re-settling such large numbers of people whilst minimizing the environmental impact on the host country.

Native Solidarity News enters a new chapter after bidding farewell to Irkar Beljaars, who helmed the show for the past 13 years. Listen to his swan song, aired on March 27th, 2018. Wishing him a chi-miigwitch and taking his place is the Urban Indigenous Radio Collective. Made up of Indigenous Voices from across Canada that now reside in Montreal, the Urban Indigenous Radio Collective hopes to brin...

Native Solidarity News enters a new chapter after bidding farewell to Irkar Beljaars, who helmed the show for the past 13 years. Listen to his swan song, aired on March 27th, 2018. Wishing him a chi-miigwitch and taking his place is the Urban Indigenous Radio Collective. Made up of Indigenous Voices from across Canada that now reside in Montreal, the Urban Indigenous Radio Collective hopes to brin...

The introduction of yet another wave of austerity measures in Sudan have pushed the cost of the most basic necessities—food, medicine, fuel—beyond the reach of most people. Gwen Schulman speaks with Mamoun Eltlib, poet, writer and cultural editor of the newspaper Al-Sudani, about the responses of people in Khartoum to these hardships.

Intervention de Drissa Sow (porte-parole du Balai citoyen) - Les luttes actuelles au Burkina Faso Afriques en lutte - Festival organisé pas l'association SURVIE - www.survie.org

Intervention de Ndongo Sylla ( économiste du développement, chargé de recherche au bureau Afrique de l'Ouest de la fondation Rosa Luxemburg - "Un regard sur les résistances africaines et le Franc CFA". Afriques en lutte - Festival organisé pas l'association SURVIE - www.survie.org

Intervention de Montassir Sakhi (Doctorant en anthropologie, ancien membre du 20 février) et Hamza Esmili(Doctorant en sociologie) - "Luttes pour le pouvoir VS luttes contre le pouvoir: les cas du 20 février et du Hirak au Maroc". Afriques en lutte - Festival organisé pas l'association SURVIE - www.survie.org

Intervention de Abdekkerim Yacoub (activiste politique tchadien, militant des droits humaines et coordinateur du PACT - Projet d'action pour une alternance crédible au Tchad) - " La réinvention des formes d'organisation et de revendication dans le combat pour les libertés et la démocratie au Tchad " Afriques en lutte - Festival organisé pas l'association SURVIE - www.survie.org