The implications of the new NAFTA deal

Host Sylvia speaks to Raul Burbano from Common Frontiers regarding the new NAFTA agreement being pushed by the Trump administration.

How these agreements subvert democratic rule, weaken worker and environmental rights and how they are related to the mass migration we are seeing form the global south. And how we as citizens need to stop fighting each other and play a role in international solidarity movements.

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Universal Basic Income, Green New Deal and Public Banking

Ellen Brown has written what will become one of THE most important books of our time. She eloquently educates us on how the democratization of money is the very foundation of a free society in her book Web of debt,

In this weeks show host Sylvia Richardson talks about the need for a UBI, Green New Deal and the role public banking could play in transforming how our society is run.

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Economic fundamentalism and imperialism in current context

Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of “Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity” (City Lights Books),All my bones Shake.

He speaks racial profiling, about economic fundamentalism and imperialism in current context

Music by David Rovics

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Ongoing Coups, pandemic response and global uprisings against police brutality

Sylvia Richardson speaks to Jorge Marti about global uprising for justice. Today world wide protests over George Floyd’s murder by police continue to grow and expand, it is hard to even remember all of the other things that happened in May. A full month of pandemic. Another coup attempt in Venezuela…Jorge Marti, speaks to the ongoing aggression against Venezuela adding to the fail coup in 2019: Illegal economic coercive measures, military invasions under the guise of humanitarian aid launched from Colombia, a naval blockage, and stolen assets by USA and European Banks to the amount of 238 million Euros.

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Neo Liberalism and the relationship to the Prison Industrial Complex

Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist and author. His books include: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (2000), a survey of the rise of the prison industrial complex from the Nixon through Reagan Eras and into the present; The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror (2003), a study of surveillance and control in modern society. The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (2004), is an account of the US occupation in Iraq.His most recent book is Tropic Of Chaos: Climate Wars and the New Geography Of Violence (2011), Parenti has also reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ivory Coast and China.

Dr Parenti engages in a lively discussion about the rise of Neo Liberalism that replaced Keynesian economics and the relationship to the Prison Industrial Complex

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Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson is interviewed by the late  Charles Boylan from Vancouver’s Co-op Radio, she speaks about her new book Fleshmapping, Cartography of Struggle, Renewal and Hope in Education

Sylvia L. Richardson is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the host and producer of the internationally syndicated radio program Latin Waves.

A Brief Book synopsis
What can be learned from a story woven out of fragmented moments of joy, pain, horror, and blissful awareness? Flesh Mapping is an attempt to create a pedagogy of shared narrative, place, and politics; to narratively map the injuries of the material, emotional, and spiritual impact of poverty, displacement, hunger and war on an individual life.

The book is an invitation to instructors in education, anthropology, women’s studies, and labor studies to re-imagine education as the praxis for liberation, renewal, and hope. It serves as a process of naming the injuries inflicted on real bodies by privilege and power, like sites on a map. The goal is not simply to name and make visible privilege but to simultaneously create emergent spaces of dissonance in education that can challenge and transform power at the site where the personal is political. Purchase Copy Now




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A deeper look at COVID19 and how mainstream society responds to crisis

Derrick Jensen is an American, anarchoprimitivist, ecophilosopher and radical environmentalist living in Crescent City, California. According to Democracy Now!, Jensen “has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement.

Host Sylvia Richardson takes a deep dive with Derrick Jensen on COVID19, how governments seem to respond to different crisis in different ways, who are the winners and losers of this crisis and how we must start to think about the natural world if we are going to survive.

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Anniversary of the attempted coup in Venezuela

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has supplied, since 2017, over 467 million dollars to the Venezuelan opposition for what they falsely call “humanitarian aid,” On this interview Host Sylvia Richardson talk with Dr. Maria Paez Victor about the anniversary of the attempted coup in Venezuela, the anniversary of the Battle of the Bridges, and the power of a united people against imperial aggression.

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Canadian foreign and domestic policy checkup with author Yves Engler

Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Yves Engler about Canadian Colonialism, the role of Canadian corporations, oil and gas industries, and mining in the drafting of both domestic and international policy. The involvement of Canada in the attempted coup against Venezuelan elected president Nicolas Maduro. Canada’s hostility toward indigenous president of Bolivia Evo Morales, ousted in a military coup November 20, 2019. Canadian domestic and international policy of dispossession against Indigenous peoples is further exemplified in the ongoing aggression against Wet’suwet’en peoples’ Indigenous land rights in British Columbia.

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Canadian Imperialism from Venezuela to Bolivia to the Wet’suwet’en

Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with journalist Arnold August about Canada’s imperialist campaign to recognize Juan Guaidó, a man who self-declared himself president of Venezuela in February 2019. Canada’s involvement in the failed attempted coup to oust democratically elected president Nicolas Maduro, Canada’s involvement in the Lima group has discredited any pretense of Canada as a democratic influence in Latin America. He connects the struggle of Bolivia as the Indigenous leader Evo Morales was ousted in a military coup, in November 2019 and Canada was quick to express support for the post-coup leader Jeanine Áñez Chávez. While in Canada the Wet’suwet’en people face aggression from the Canadian government for defending their unceeded lands from being further scared with pipelines.

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