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Interview with director Oliver Hodge about environmental architecture. Keith Gottschalk talking about why Canada looks so good.  Macabean the Rebel with Tobacco Road. You can check him out at cdbaby.com. Mae Sot is a town on the Thai Burmese border, rabble podcast network's newest show, Everybody Knows, collected some voices at Mae Sot. Online tools, and Reel Women talk about The Weather Undergrou...

Social media browser anyone? Bring all your friends together and blog about it. Whoa. Keith knows they know what he knows. Yikes. John Pilger has covered conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, and around the world. He's produced over 50 documentaries, and he stopped in at Montreal's CKUT. Here is that interview. Madviolet is the band. Skylight is the song. It all comes from the podsafe music network.

Straight and Narrow, a tune from Deep Dark Woods of Saskatoon. Keith is wondering if left-wing talk show hosts are targets for attack. Author Thomas Pawlick talks about the beginnings of his latest book, The End of Food. Judy and Cathi are talking about a little movie about a little disagreement between good and evil. Wayne's got a new tool - Mogulus.com. Deep Dark Woods sing for us again - the so...

Keith Gottschalk is looking for some help getting some sleep.  The BC Civil Liberties Association's Executive Director Murray Mullard, speaks about why more oversight is needed for both the public's and the police's sake. Music from A Northern Chorus: The Shepherd and the Chauffeur  The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti's Brian Concannon speaks about the current political situation in H...

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Lisa Rundle in conversation with Naomi Klein about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. To hear more and a segment from Klein's new film, tune in to the radio book lounge at www.rabble.ca/rpn/rbl

Victoria Fenner goes to Bangalore, India to follow the work of mosquito hunters. They're on the trail of the insects in order to combat the spread of diseases like malaria. Reel Women Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond take on the sex in John Cameron Mitchel's Shortbus. T. Nile sings us a little song called Something Better Radio Tadamon speaks with the Washington editor of Harper's magazine about his rec...

Rabble Radio this week was mixed and recorded in a Toyota Yaris on a gravel road. Please be forgiving. Wayne introduces us to ning. Denise Pelley's singing career recently took her to Sudan. Africafiles: The Pulse spoke to her about her experiences there teaching music. You can hear more by logging on to rabble.ca/rpn/afr. For more about Denise Pelley, go to denisepelly.com. Music: Ride Theory wit...

Keith, the new bookstore owner highlights those who hold a candle against the dark. We hear a doc from Green Planet monitor on Grupo Fenix which is bringing Solar energy to Nicaragua. The doc is by Janna Graham.  Our songs are from Woodpigeon's Songbook album. This eclectic collective of Calgerians starts at no less than seven members on any given song and can top out at nearly fourteen collaborat...

Wayne lets us all in on the new plans for the iphone.  Reel Women go head to head over All That Jazz. We have a winner! Well, 35 winners to be exact. They all got tickets to Michael Winterbottom's new film, a Mighty Heart. Why? They all subscribed to our newsletter by sending a note to rabbleradio@gmail.com . You can subscribe too to find out about more contests. A Mighty Heart tells the story of...

The Green Planet Monitor speaks with organic farmers in Bolivia. For more, head to www.rabble.ca/rpn/ecp   The Besnard Lakes sing about Devistation. For more: www.thebesnardlakes.com   Vandana Shiva joined two other luminary activists - Maude Barlow, and Starhawk for a symposium on Women and Water. Wayne's introducing us to igoogle. More from The Besnard Lakes. This is You Lies to Me.

Keith Gottschalk bemoans the loss of spring, and wonders when the U.S. government will do something about global warming. Promo for our feature documentary, Listen to the Land: A Season With the Quinte Organic Farmer's Co-op. Adria Vasil speaks with rabble radio's Charlotte Scott about her new book Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Cana...

Keith Gottschalk has a word of warning for us all. Have you heard the buzz? No? It's because the bees are dying. Are reel women talking to you? They might be. This time, they review Babble. The Acorn, a sextet from Ottawa, bring us Spring Thaw.  Tired of paying through the nose for Adobe Photoshop? Head for picknick.com. Radio Tadamon! has provided this interview excerpt with author Rawi Hage abou...

Keith Gottschalk on Scooter Libby. Writer and artist Paddy Johnson takes us into the art world for a visit to the Canada Gallery. Do Make Say Think with A With Living. Chad Oberg on space and virtual space in Secondlife.  Reel Women have been on the killing floor, via Fast Food Nation that is. No surprise, they've got a review. Do Make Say Think with The Universe!

We hear you, friend. Keith wonders just how he's supposed to make pleasant small-talk while there is a war on.  Chad Van Gaalen can be found at flemisheye.com/chad. The first song we play this episode is called Burn to Ash. On this episode's Reel Women, Judy is back from Kenya with a chip on her shoulder. She and Cathi engage in a little verbal sparring over "The Constant Gardener."  One final son...

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Keith Gottschalk casts a keen eye on the military push toward Iran. Is it for real? Alex Samur speaks to award-winning author and investigative journalist Carol Off about her latest book Bitter Chocolate.  Obijou hail from Branford, Ontario. You can find them at obijou.com, or listen to this song, St. Francis.  Neil McInlay is a speaker, coach, and Buddhist. He tells us how he's got competitive sw...

Keith Gottschalk muses about the inevitable demise of the Bush presidency. Cathi Bond and Judy Rebick fight it out in a cheery little way about this weeks DVDs, Little Miss Sunshine. From the Golden Dogs' latest release Big Eye Little Eye, the song is Construction Worker. Meagan heads to a Lego robotics tournament in Scarborough, Ontario. Wayne's showing us all how to be more organized. Thanks, te...

Jen Moore takes us to the Press Freedom Awards on this episodes installment of Homebrew.  Keith was watching the pre-election frenzy when he recorded his column, and he's got a prediction... is it now true? Music comes to us this episode from Shotgun and Jaybird. First up, a song called Stolen Mini-Van.  DVDiva is trying something a little different this episode. She's bringing in her reel-woman p...

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Keith Gottschalk gets all fired up by US media coverage of the war in Iraq. Wayne interviews Rebekah Shoop about her new NGO for Mayan Guatemalans, Alianza . DVDiva lights one up for her review of Thank You for Smoking... Charlotte presents a new track from Montreal turntablist Kid Koala's new album, Your Mom's Favourite DJ, released last month on Ninja Tune Records . Wayne checks out Google Reade...

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Homebrew takes us to a Kentucky prison where messages from distant relatives reach inmates via the airwaves. It's one of several projects run by appalshop.com. Keith is back from vacation in Canada, and reflecting on all that has occurred since he left. Brad is one guy. One guy who makes songs to put on the internet. And he has one CD. It's called I Don't Know What I'm Doing. The song we're going...

Keith Gottschalk is on the road and checking out Canada wherever he goes! Toronto's Pomegranate are a band of queer women with a conscious klezmer mission. You can check them out at sonicpomegranate.com While he was recently at the Media Giraffe Conference in Amherst, Massachusetts, cohost Wayne MacPhail sat down with Cho and Ilona Meagher, of E Plurbis Media. E Plurbis Media is a citizen journali...