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In this podcast: talking election violence in Manila, a little more Olympic activism, fish farming on vacant city land in Toronto. We also bring you the music of Caracol and Alejandra Ribera, and you could find out who has called 360-566-2214 to tell rabble radio just what they think of us! The Winter Olympics have ridden out of Vancouver, headed for Sochi but the party has not shut down on Canada...

In this podcast: Why protest the Olympics, Aboriginal activists speak out, talking diversity of tactics, and all about Vancouver's Red Tent campaign for housing. The Olympic torch was intended to sail through the city on a sea of goodwill. But the celebrations hit rough water in a rising tide of protest. Protestors and celebrants alike lined the route, but in the end, Olympic organizers changed th...

In our 100th podcast, we're talking a hundred! A centenarian shares advice, cancelling highway plans, and remembering the birth of the aged rabble radio. You could also win an ipod nano! Highlights from the first 100 episodes. Wayne remembers the first meeting of what has become the rabble podcast network. Introducing our new comment line. First caller wins an ipod nano. 1-360-566-2214 Stephen Ree...

The world has been watching Haiti ever since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the country on January 12. If you are wanting to donate money to the relief effort the Canada Haiti Action Network has listed NGOs they think are best able to deliver aid. You can find that link at rabble.ca Sarah Kramer is a volunteer with Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods, an organization dedicated to gra...

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Canadian Youth Delegation asks is Canada lying? Hiphop artist Eekwol talks Indigenous rights and Olympics. John Bonnar on protests for climate justice in Canada. Also, we have music. Canadian Youth Delegation to Copenhagen asks whether Canada is lying and what that will mean for Canada. Hiphop artist Eekwol talks youth and indigenous rights. Eekwol with "Reluctant Warrior" John Bonnar at the Clima...

Amy Goodman launched her new book  Breaking The Sound Barrier  at an event co-hosted by community radio stations CJSF, Co-op Radio and CiTR in Vancouver, B.C. last night. Despite being detained by Canadian border services delaying her book launch by over an hour Amy Goodman delivered an impassioned lecture to a standing room only audience.

Food bank recipients volunteer, Tibetan Buddhism in B.C. Prisons, and Baka Beyond on a train platform in Nanaimo, B.C. Sachin Seth went to the Fort York Food Bank to talk about how the recession was affecting the facility, but found food bank recipients volunteering their time to keep the place running. Here are three of their stories. Anne McNeil is a Tibetan Buddhist nun who leads meditations in...

In this podcast: protecting the rights of Vancouverites, advocating for Uganda's gays and lesbians, learning through art, and music from Ottawa. Leaked documents show that the Province of B.C. is considering legislation that would allow the police to detain the homeless. David Eby, executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association speaks about what that will mean for the homeless during the...

In this podcast: How a Canada-Colombia FTA affects trade union activists in Colombia, Denise Chong about an activist's life in China, and preserving the history of resistance in Canada's Africville. The Canadian Union of Public Employees has been working to prevent the implementation of a Free Trade deal between Canada and Colombia, because of the human rights abuses in that country against labour...

A letter on healthcare that came in to rabble.ca/issues/healthcareUSA Fragile Day, a song from A Northern Chorus. Former prisoner Alex Friedman on having his play performed at the Kennedy Centre, from Stark Raven. Letter from rabble.ca/issues/HealthcareUSA Update on Dump Site 41, from Redeye Letter from rabble.ca/issues/HealthcareUSA

Yves Engler on Canada's negative influence and why Canadians don't believe it is possible. Sunday Wilde with Jivin' Man. Activists talk about how the fight to protect the water table in Simcoe County, Ontario has meant harassment but also inspired their continued dedication. The Reel Women talk spring water by reviewing Jean de Florette. Sunday Wilde with I Guess I Didn't Hear You Right.

Margo Greenwood speaks about a new report on Aboriginal children's health.  Redeye finds out all the ways you can get a ticket on your bike. Last Rabble Radio until August! 

Jack Layton speaks after a protest in Solidarity with Iran at Toronto's Queen's Park. An interview with the founder of the Global Detention Project, tracking migrant detentions around the world. Music by Pamela Brennan. The song is Amsterdam. Cathi Bond speaks to Joseph Heath about Filthy Lucre: Economics for those who hate Capitalism. Music from Colin Linden. 

Jessa Runciman reports on a forum on Canadian Mining Practices Abroad. No Trespassing by Mendelson Joe Derek Blackadder on net neutrality, the labour movement, and the Web. Dr. John Agnew on the calls for an inquiry into research on indigenous communities in Latin America. Reel Women on Mamma Mia!

Keith Gottschalk is not seeing the change promised by the Obama administration. Murray Dobbin has some suggestions that could change the face of the country. RPN's latest show F Word talks queer parenting. Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond talk wrestling. And music from Jenn Grant - Everybody Loves You.

Keith Gottschalk takes us on a Last Hurrah vacation, in his mind anyway. Next an excerpt of an interview with Susan Holtz of the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, where she shared some of her big-picture thinking about energy, food and transportation. Peter Stock opened with a question about the relationship between bio-fuels and food. Next we bring some of the choices around tr...

Filmmaker Tina Hahn's film Tale of a Yellow Bike was featured in Vancouver's Projecting Change film festival. She stopped by Redeye to talk about her film, and why bicycle culture doesn't thrive in North America. Part of Linda McQuaig's address at rabble.ca's eighth birthday celebration in Toronto on April 16th. Joel Plaskett speaks about working with his father on his latest album Three. Deny, De...

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Liana Salvador speaks to the crowd assembled for International Women's Day in Toronto about one of the factors that make equality difficult for young women - Student Debt. Keith looks at some of the women who are powerful in American Politics. Shani Mootoo talks with Allendria Brunges about her latest book, Valmiri's Daughter. Poet Lillian Allen performing at International Women's Day in Toronto.

Economist Armine Yalnizyan speaks to a conference for women negotiators for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). She says there is a way to save the economy, if governments will just act quickly.

Keith on the jobs crisis. Reel women remind us that "You Can't Take It With You" Roxanne Potvin, with the song "Je T'aime" Special Feature: first presentation from Who R U, a podcast featuring identity on the edge of tech.

Kevin McGowan's top music picks from last year. www.rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/theruckus . Allison Crowe, with the song Angels. Prudent Nsengiyumva takes us to Rwanda's first school for the deaf to meet a student who is changing her life by studying there. Norman Finklestein is an indendent academic. He writes on Israeli-Palestinian issues. His speech is called Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflic...

Jewish activists across Canada are taking action against the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Last week a group of Jewish women held a protest in the Israeli Consulate in Toronto. Rabble Founder Judy Rebick was there. She told her story to Rabble Radio's Meagan Perry. Judy Rebick is not the only one Karine Silverwoman is a Toronto writer, performer, and activist. She has worked with Nightwood theater, a...

Interview with Jaimie Biggar from Canadians for a Progressive Coalition about how to keep the coalition a reality. Keith Golding with his song Golden Cup. You can hear more from him at http://www.themeeting.ca Interview with Kenneth Whyte, the author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolf Hearst. The Reel Women on Hellboy II Kensington Prairie with Bluebirds