Needs No Introduction

On March 9, 2009, John Ging, UN Director of Operations in Gaza, addressed a Code Pink delegation in Gaza City. Code Pink visited Gaza at the invitation of UNRWA - the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict, UNRWA,was established by United Nations General Assembly by a resolution made in December 1949 to carry out direct relief and wo...

You're listening to a special edition of Needs No Introduction, Fresh ideas from speakers of note. British MP George Galloway was refused entry into Canada this week, Conservative Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney learned he had taken aid that included food, money, and basic toiletries to the people of Gaza. Galloway was coming to Canada to speak about that tr...

Don Tapscott is the author of Wikinomics, a book on the way online collaboration is shaping the economy and society. He is one of the leading authorities on business strategy with an emphasis on business technology and how it changes government, society, and organizations. At the end of February, he spoke after the presentation of Us Now, a UK film about how the internet inspires community partici...

Deena Ladd was instrumental in organizing the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and continues to do so, teaching training workshops and continuing to fight discrimination for low-wage, home based, and immigrant workers. Here's some of what she had to say at the Good Jobs Coalition conference "Good Jobs for All" in Toronto last month.

Elena Durazo has been a labour activist for much of her adult life. She advocates for workers across the spectrum, and is the executive Secretary-Treasurer for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labour. In November, she spoke to the Good Jobs for All Conference.

The Executive Director of the Blue Green Alliance believes that with a focus on jobs that help the environment, we can help the economy and keep our planet running well. Foster spoke last month at Toronto's good jobs for all conference.

OnOctober  23rd, Media Democracy Day, rabble.ca celebrated the relaunch of our website. The evening included a panel discussion moderated by Duncan Cameron. Speakers: Maude Barlow, Jessica Yee, Murray Dobbin, and Anne Lagace-Dowson.

Susan Nathan, the author of The Other Side Of Israel speaks about the lives of Arab-Israelis.

Changes in government and changes in economics mean changes for unions too - Fletcher speaks about his bookSolidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labour and a New Path to Social Justice.

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Jim Stanford, CAW economist, speaking at the C.A.W. convention on June 12, 2008 in Toronto. He spoke about his latest book, Economics is for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism, published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Fernwood Press.

Michael Lebowitz is a founding member of the Socialist Studies Society and a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He delivers his speech "Socialism for the 21st Century" at the Humanities Congress 2008 held at the University of British Columbia. He compares the past of Socialism to the current applications in Venezuela and its applicability in the North America.

Dr. Henri Morgentaler accepts the Canadian Labour Congress Award for Outstanding Service to Humanity.

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President of the The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), John Sweeney addresses the Canadian Labour Congress. 

Canadian Labour Congress President Ken Georgetti opens the 2008 National Convention. 

In this lecture, the author of Green Sisters: A Religious Ecology, Sarah McFarland Taylor, speaks about the growing environmental movement. Women in monastic and apostolic communities are seeing the effects of environmental problems on women.

One Nation Under Google examines how technology (everything from the wireless gadgets we think we need to the mechanics of corporate industries), and the ideology of progress, affects democratic participation and citizenship in the modern day.  Darin Barney  is Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

On November 29, the Canadian-Palestinian Educational Exchange (CEPAL) in commemoration of the eleventh annual United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People featured keynote speaker, Dr. Norman Finkelstein discusses roots of conflict and prospects for peace in Israel and Palestine. This is the first of a three part podcast.

This fall, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, launched Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada. Featured here is the first of two panels of speakers discussing racial profiling in the Canadian context: Dr. Monia Mazigh, Faisal Kutty, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Dr. Carol Tator, York University. Don't miss the second panel feature...

This fall, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, launched Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada. This podcast features the second of two panels of speakers discussing racial profiling in the Canadian context: Karl Flecker, Canadian Labour Congress, Filsan Fadal, youth activist, and Jana Kooren, Educational Co-ordinator, ACLU Minnesota. Don't mis...

On April 27, 2007, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, and Starhawk were featured at the Water and Women of Action conference in Toronto, hosted by the Transformative Learning Centre and OISE. rabble.ca first presents Vandana, who speaks of the importance of viewing water as sacred.

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Part One of the readings at PEN Canada's annual fall gala benefit held on Friday, October 20 at the University of Toronto. It featured Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. Also appearing will be Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran) along with acclaimed Canadian writers Miriam Toews, Wayson Choy and MG Vassanji. The host is writer and actor Ann-Marie McDonald. The PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Pr...

IMPERIAL BLUES: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine. A Public Lecture by TARIQ ALI. Tariq Ali spoke in Toronto on October 15th on the topic of "Imperial Blues" Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine", and on the subject of his new book: "Pirates of the Carribean - an Axis of Hope". The event was organized by CUPE 3903 ... and recorded for  rabble.ca  by Kim Elliott. TARIQ ALI was born in La...