Tag Archives: Democracy Watch
Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women the Push to end Colonization
BRANDI MORIN is an award-winning Cree/Iroquois/French multimedia journalist from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta. Among her many awards over a decade of reporting on Indigenous oppression in North America, she won the 2021 Edward R Murrow Award in the Feature … Continue reading
Humanizing education so that it sustains learners in times of chaos
Latin waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Darren Lund, author of The Great White North? Exploring Whiteness, Privilege and Identity in Education. They speak about humanizing education so that it sustains learners in times of chaos. Resilience and hope are … Continue reading
In-depth discussion about the SNC Lavalin Affair and how to improve ethics
Duff Conacher, LL.B., is an internationally recognized leader in the area of democratic reform and government accountability. A graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, he has a long-standing interest in democratic process and corporate responsibility issues. He … Continue reading
The Right To Stay Home, How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
David Bacon is an Award-winning photojournalist, author, and immigrant rights activist he has spent over twenty years as a labor organizer. For the past two decades he has been a reporter and documentary photographer, shooting for many national publications and … Continue reading
Walden Bello on his book “The Food Wars”
Author of The Food Wars Walden Bello provides an analysis of the various causes of the rise in food prices. Not just the rise in energy costs, but also the IMF and WTO-led restructuring of the worldwide agricultural system. Charting … Continue reading
Big money in politics with a focus on the BC Elections and the Federal Canadian government
Stuart Richardson co-host of Latin Waves interviews co-founder of Democracy Watch Duff Conacher who is an internationally recognized leader in the area of democratic reform and government accountability, and is Director of GoodOrg.ca Consulting. They speak about big money in … Continue reading
Solving contemporary issues facing humanity using the wisdom and spirituality of our ancestors
Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Aymara Elder and Professor of Indigenous Studies Marcelo Saavedra-Vargas about solving contemporary issues facing humanity using the wisdom and spirituality of our ancestors. How remembering the stories of the land about living and … Continue reading
Dr Lund on his book The Great White North? Exploring Whiteness, Privilege and Identity in Education
We speak to Dr Darren Lund, Dr. Lund is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary, where his research examines social justice activism in schools and communities. Since the 1980s Darren has published over 230 … Continue reading
Finding sustainable paths to coexisting is a call we all must answer
Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speak with Aymara Elder and Professor of Indigenous Studies Marcelo Saavedra about the human journey of cultivating roots and becoming grounded to the life regeneration cycles of mother earth. In a world mired in ecological, … Continue reading
Exalted Subjects, a critical analysis of race in Canada
UBC Professor Dr Sunera Thobani speaks about her book Exalted Subjects, she gives a critical analysis of race and how the Canadian state has been active in nationalizing those “so called” Canadian values and then measuring them against the other … Continue reading