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In the winter of 2012, flash mob round dances, demonstrations, hunger strikes, and blockades swept Canada.  What began as a protest against new laws seen as curtailing environmental protections and infringing indigenous sovereignty, quickly grew into a movement for indigenous rights and environmental justice.  On this edition, Sylvia McAdam, one of the founders of Idle No More, tells the story of the movement.

Featuring:

Sylvia McAdam, Idle No More co-founder; Charm Logan, Idle No More activist; Harsha Walia, Immigrants in Support of Idle No More activist.

More information:

Idle No More

Documentary on Idle No More
 
Canadian Parliament Bill C-4

Round Dance and Flash Mob

Q&A on Bill C-45

The Canadian Progressive

Tar Land

Why Canada’s Indigenous Uprising Is About All of Us

Why First Nations Movement Is Our Best Chance for Clean Land and Water

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Humans have always used drugs, but current level of drug abuse could indicate a bigger problem that we’re driving people into addiction. What’s the connection between the increase in chronic diseases, mental illness and drug addiction in our society today? On this edition, Dr. Gabor Maté talks about the relationship between mind and body health – and what the rise of capitalism has done to destroy both.

Special thanks to KPFA in Berkeley, CA.

Featuring:

Dr. Gabor Maté, physician and author of several books including, “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction,” “Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers” (co-authored by Gordon Neufeld), and “When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress.”

For More Information:

Dr. Gabor Maté

The Canadian Institute of Stress
 
 

National Alliance on Mental Illness

National Institute of Mental Health

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study

Childhood abuse may stunt growth of part of brain involved in emotions, by Alok Jha

Patients Seek Greater Role in Mental Health Recovery by Ryan Faughnder

7 Reasons America’s Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity by Bruce Levine


What’s Needed Next by Richard Frank

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs

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Listen to excerpts of the documentary “We’re Not Broke.” An exposé on how the government has allow U.S. corporations to avoid paying taxes and the growing wave of discontent that it has fostered.

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The struggles of undocumented youth in the US often fly under the radar of the mainstream media. But with the tools of creative expression and the power of social media, a new generation of young immigrants is making sure their voices are heard. On this edition, young undocumented artists speak their truth, as the world listens.

Special thanks to the Left Tilt Fund and the Berwick-Degel Family Foundation.

Featuring: Homero Rosas, Deanne Palaganas, Marsh Youth Theater performers; Maija Arriaga, high school student; Gary Soto, playwright; Emily Klion, Marsh Youth Theater Director; Laura Chavez, college counselor; Julio Salgado, visual artist; Jesus Iñiguez, musican and writer; Yosimar Reyes, poet.
 

For More Information:

“Undocumented & Awkward”

“Legalities of Being”

Jesus Iñiguez/ESL

Dreamers Adrift

Dream Activist

Culture Strike

Aspire Dreamers

Vosimar Reyes

Gary Soto

The Marsh Youth Theater

Undocunation

Undocuqueers

Julio Salgado

Articles:

Undocumented Youth Pay Tribute to the Original Dreamers

Queer Undocumented Youth Set the Record Straight

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Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy says her country’s government has declared war on its own people.  Her outspokenness earned her an invitation to spend time with the so-called ‘Maoist’ rebels.  On this edition, Arundhati Roy takes us into the jungles of India, as she reads excerpts from her new book ‘Walking with the Comrades’.

Special thanks to the Center for Place Culture and Politics at the City
University of New York’s Graduate Center.

Featuring:

 Arundhati Roy, author of “The God of Small Things” and “Walking with the Comrades”

For More Information:

We– Featuring the words of Arundhati Roy

Walking With the Comrades

Arundhati Roy in the Guardian

Center for Place Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center

The Committee on Globalization and Social Change

South Asian Terrorism Portal-Status Paper on the Naxal Problem

Naxalite Maoist India 

Articles:

Walking With the Comrades-the Essay that Inspired the Book

IN THE NAME OF MAO-INDIA PICKS UP THE SLAUGHTER

Financial Times on Arundhati Roy

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The growth of the ex-gay movement in the last two decades gave rise to hundreds of therapy programs aiming to change people’s sexual orientation. Many were explicitly religious, and claimed to be able to “pray away the gay”. But there’s a growing movement, led by survivors of ex-gay therapy, to disprove and ban these harmful practices for good. On  this edition, stories of recovery from conversion therapy, and becoming ex- ex-gay.

Special Thanks to Robert Frazier of Monitor Studios and Terry Gildea of KUER.

Featuring:
Russ Gorringe, Kim Mack, Ben Jarvis, Evergreen therapy survivors; Gabriel Arana, writer and American Prospect Web Editor

For More Information:

Gabriel Arana’s Article

Is the Ex-Gay Industry Going Under? 

Dr. Robert Spitzer Repudiation from New York Times

Dr. Robert Spitzer’s Repudiation on NPR

Gabriel Arana

Beyond Ex-Gay

Beyond Ex-Gay II

Truth Wins Out

Box Turtle Bulletin

Ex-Gay Watch

Heartstrong

Soulforce

Videos:

Dr. Robert Spitzer Apologizes

Beyond Ex-gay Conference “Chalk Talk”

Gabriel Arana on Rachel Maddow

Former Ex-gay Leaders Apologize

Senator Ted Lieu introduces CA SB1172

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Imagine paying almost nothing in taxes.. Sounds great doesn’t it? Some of America’s biggest companies are doing just that and making millions…or even billions in profits- thanks to loopholes and more than a little political influence On this edition, why does big business pay lower tax rates than the rest of us? And how activists have brought the issue into the spotlight.
This program includes excerpts from the film “We’re Not Broke” produced by Onshore Productions.

Featuring:

Jesse Drucker, Bloomberg News reporter; Rebecca Wilkins, Citizens for Tax Justice attorney; Martin Sullivan, Tax Notes journalist, Jeffrey Winters Northwestern University Professor of Political Economy; David Marchant, Offshore Alert publisher and journalist; Senator Carl Levin; Lee Sheppard Tax Notes contributing editor; Nicholas Shaxton, “Treasure Islands” author; Jack Blum, tax attorney and investigator; James Henry, “Blood Bankers” author; David Cay Johnston, journalist; Robert Goulder, Tax Analysts editor in chief; Dave Camp Michigan Representative; Mark Everson, Internal Revenue Service former Commissioner; Ryan Clayton, US Uncut co-founder.

For More Information:

We’re Not Broke

Offshore Alert

Citizens For Tax Justice

US Uncut

Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the men who stole the world

The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy

Tax Analysts

Internal Revenue Service

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When city budgets are cut, public transportation is often on the chopping block.  And routes and lines serving those who need the service most, can be the first to go.  But from New York to Argentina, an emerging ‘transportation justice’ movement is standing up for people’s right to ride.

Thanks to the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation for partial support of this show.

Featuring:

Nick Persky, San Francisco Youth Commission member; Paolo Acosta, Balboa High School student; David Campos and John Avalos, San Francisco Supervisors; Romeo Edmead, blind advocate in New York City; Lester Marks, Lighthouse International Director of Government Affairs; Laura Rodríguez, train rider; Edgardo Reynoso, Sarmiento Line Trainworkers’ Union organizer; Olga Vicente, Transportation planner; Adrián Lutvak, Student activist; Juan Carlos Cena, National Movement for the Recovery of Argentina’s Trains president; Julián Rebón, Universidad de Buenos Aires sociology professor; Suzy Thurston, Derek Espinoza, TriMet riders; Cameron Johnson, OPAL member; Neal McFarlane, TriMet CEO, Khan Pham, former OPAL communications director; Jared Franz, OPAL transportation policy assistant.

For More Information:

POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights)

Free MUNI for Youth Program

OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon

National Movement for the Recovery of Argentina’s Trains

Sarmiento Line Trainworkers’ Union

Lighthouse International

Urban Habitat’s Transportation Justice Program

What’s driving privatization of public transit?

NYC Metropolitan Transit Agency

TriMet

National Federation of the Blind

American Foundation for the Blind

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Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds and cells. Others are being sterilized, some say, against their will. Correctional institutions claim the policies are for safety’s sake, and that consent is always obtained.  But others see a larger pattern at work. On this edition, from shackling to sterilization, thousands of incarcerated people are struggling to maintain control over their own reproductive health.

Featuring:

Courtney Hooks, Justice Now! campaign and communications director; Tina Reynolds, Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH) co-founder and chair; Samantha Rogers, California Coalition for Women Prisoners program assistant; Karen Shain, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children former policy director; Victoria Law, “Resistance Behind Bars” author ; Kimberly, formerly incarcerated mother; Joe Higgins, Rappahannock Regional Jail Superintendent; Carolyn Sulfrin, former prison nurse;

For More Information:

California Coalition for Women Prisoners

Women on the Rise Telling HerStory

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children

Birthing Behind Bars

SPARK Reproductive Justice Now

Justice Now

Nation Inside

Critical Resistance

Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice

California Prison Moratorium Project

All of Us or None

National Advocate for Pregnant Women

The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Strong Families

ACLU of Northern California

The Movement to Stop Prisons From Shackling Women in Labor Builds

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