Grahame Russell is a lawyer and director of Rights Action, he is the author of “Code Z59.5” & “The Never Ending”. In this segment we speak to Russell about his book Code Z59.5 There is Only One People Here. In which he exposes the systemic root causes of poverty, the link between mining and repression in Indigenous People’s land in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Why inequity affects us all.
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Host Stuart Richardson interviews both incumbent Mayor Mike Clay and mayor hopeful Rob Vagramov. Mike Clay has served on Port Moody Council for 13 years, as Mayor since 2011. Rob Vagramov was elected as Port Moody Councillor in 2014. We talk about the candidates visions around future affordability, new development and protection of park spaces, how to manage our growth while protecting the community we love.
Zoe Luba is an organizer with Stop Demovictions Burnaby, coordinated by the alliance against displacement, a political organization building dual power between working class and indigenous communities to dismantle capitalism and colonialism. Stop demovictions
Host Sylvia has a lively discussion with Robert Jensen about his newest book.
Justice and has worked on space issues for 30 years. In 1987 he organized the largest peace protest in Florida history when over 5,000 people marched on Cape Canaveral in opposition to the first flight test of the Trident II nuclear missile.
Damien Gillis is a B.C.-based documentary filmmaker and journalist. He co-directed and produced the award-winning feature doc Fractured Land and is the co-founder and publisher of the online journal, The Common Sense Canadian. His writing has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Desmog Canada, and The Tyee.
Linda gives an thorough interview about her new book The trouble with billionaires She touches on issues off philanthropy and academic freedom around controversial donations from corporations like Gold Corp, she offers alternatives to help us implement a more equitable tax system instead of the discredited neo liberal agenda currently in place
Sylvia Richardson speaks with Activist and author Derrick Jensen on his latest book: The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad. He makes visible the unspoken hierarchical structures of power and violence. Why in a capitalist, patriarchal system violence against women, people of colour and against nature is the norm not the exception
Maria Páez Victor is a sociologist, born in Venezuela and educated in Caracas, New York, Mexico City, and Canada. For several years she taught the sociology of health and medicine as well as health and environmental policies at the University of Toronto. Páez Victor has national and international experience in policy analysis and impact assessment, with expertise in the areas of health, environment, and energy.
