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EVE (formerly Exploited Voices now Educating) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization composed of former sex-industry women dedicated to naming prostitution "violence against women" and seeing its abolition through political action, advocacy and awareness-raising that focuses on ending the demand for paid sexual access to women and children's bodies. EVE operates under a sex-positive femini...

This past Saturday, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School of York University hosted a conference titled "Canada 2020: The future of public interest law." The keynote speech was by prominent immigration lawyer and human rights advocate Barbara Jackman. Jackman has been involved in nearly all of the Supreme Court cases related to non-citizen issues. She references the...

Once a "very conservative republican," David Korten holds an MBA and PhD From Stanford Business School and worked for five and a half years as a faculty member of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business. After spending a number of years working in the global South, believing that all these low-income countries needed was to adopt America's capitalist system in order to resolve poverty,...

On Feb. 4, journalist Firoze Manji walked in on Egyptian theorist Samir Amin and Mamdou Habashi, a well known Egyptian activist talking politics, and joined right in. Here's the recording he made. Hello and welcome to Needs No Introduction on rabble.ca. What you're about to hear is an impromptu conversation between Egyptian theorist Samir Amin, Pambazuka editor Firoze Manji and Egyptian activist M...

This podcast presents the fourth and last panel recorded at the "Walking the Talk: Human Rights Abroad" conference held September 27th at the House of Commons. For this portion of the event, discussion focused on how to take action towards corporate accountability through new legislation – namely, NDP International Trade Critic Peter Julian's proposed Bill C-354. Julian himself moderated the panel...

On September 27th, NDP International Trade critic Peter Julian hosted a conference in Ottawa to assess the impacts of Canada's industries abroad. Over the course of the day, four panels took place. Each one explored a different aspect of the issue, from the voices of affected communities themselves, to legislative solutions such as Julian's proposed Bill C-354 to amend the Federal Courts Act in th...

On September 27th, Peter Julian, NDP Critic on International Trade and MP for Burnaby- New Westminster, hosted a conference entitled "Walking the Talk: Human Rights Abroad." Activists, lawyers and politicians alike gathered at the House of Commons for a day-long series of panels exploring international violations of human and environmental rights at the hands of Canadian corporations. The conferen...

This podcast brings you a recording of the second panel from MP Peter Julian's "Walking the Talk: Human Rights Abroad" conference held September 27th at the House of Commons. The event was held to examine violations of human and environmental rights at the hands of Canadian corporations abroad, and to explore legislative solutions such as MP Peter Julian's Bill C-354 to amend the Federal Courts Ac...

Billy Diamond, former Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees died September 30. In this podcast, recorded at the 2010 Congress of the Humanities, he tells his life story.

On May 28th, the Whitehorse Chapter of the Council of Canadians, along with sponsor PSAC (Public Service Alliance of Canada) North, held a panel discussion to examine the impact of trade agreements and industry on the access of local communities to clean water sources. Bill Slater -- an environmental consultant in Whitehorse -- was one of its featured speakers. He has worked with the Yukon First N...

On May 28th, the Whitehorse Chapter of the Council of Canadians, along with sponsor PSAC (Public Service Alliance of Canada) North, held a panel discussion to examine the impact of trade agreements and industry on the access of local communities to clean water sources. The key speaker was Maude Barlow, international water activist, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, and author of 16 books in...

In 1935, one of the biggest labour battles of the depression took place, when thousands of unemployed men from B.C.'s relief camps embarked on the On to Ottawa Trek for union wages and better working and living conditions. They made it as far as Regina on the tops of railway freight cars, but were stopped there by the RCMP and a riot ensued. Up until recently, even the On to Ottawa Historical Soci...

On June 29, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid hosted its Pride in Our Politics Cabaret in Toronto. One of the event's speakers was Haneen Maikey - a Jerusalem-based activist and the director of al-Qaws, a grassroots organization that works with LGBTQ Palestinians throughout Israel and the Palestinian occupied territories.

Kasari Govender is Legal Director of the West Coast Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). She spoke with Peter Driftmier of Simon Fraser University's CJSF-FM about the discussion of maternal health issues at the G8 and G20 summits, and its implications for women's rights.

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. June 2nd marked the launch of a new book by Peter Stevens - a teacher of media studies at...

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. This last lecture from the Congress was delivered on June 2nd by Chief Billy Diamond, who...

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. Jared Wesley is a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Manitoba. His lectur...

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. Florian Olsen is a PhD candidate with the School of Political Studies at the University o...

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. Robert Smith is a Master's student at Concordia. His June 1st presentation shared the ong...

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. "The Neo-Liberal Superhero Soldier" was the title of a lecture by Lori Crowe, of York Uni...

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. JP Lewis is a doctoral Political Science student at Carleton University. His lecture expl...

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. In 2010, Canada is playing an important role at the Social Summit on the Environment in B...

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. In 2010, Canada is playing an important role at the Social Summit on the Environment in B...

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. In 2010, Canada is playing an important role at the Social Summit on the Environment in B...

The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners to exchange ideas and nurture groundbreaking research. This year's Congress is being held at Concordia University in Montreal, with "connected understanding" as its overriding theme. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol has been hailed as the grand...