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Needs No Introduction episodes

June 10, 2008 Michael Lebowitz - Socialism for the 21st Century
Michael Lebowitz is a founding member of the Socialist Studies Society and a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University.

He delivers his speech "Socialism for the 21st Century" at the Humanities Congress 2008 held at the University of British Columbia.

He compares the past of Socialism to the current applications in Venezuela and its applicability in the North America.
48 min
May 29, 2008 Canadian Labour Congress - Dr. Henri Morgentaler
Dr. Henri Morgentaler accepts the Canadian Labour Congress Award for Outstanding Service to Humanity.
9 min
May 28, 2008 Canadian Labour Congress - AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine
TBD.
21 min
May 27, 2008 Canadian Labour Congress - AFL-CIO President John Sweeney
President of the The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), John Sweeney addresses the Canadian Labour Congress.
9 min
May 26, 2008 Canadian Labour Congress - President Ken Georgetti
Canadian Labour Congress President Ken Georgetti opens the 2008 National Convention.
9 min
May 23, 2008 Green sisters - women's religious orders and environmentalism
In this lecture, the author of Green Sisters: A Religious Ecology, Sarah McFarland Taylor, speaks about the growing environmental movement. Women in monastic and apostolic communities are seeing the effects of environmental problems on women.
54 min
April 05, 2008 One Nation Under Google
One Nation Under Google examines how technology (everything from the wireless gadgets we think we need to the mechanics of corporate industries), and the ideology of progress, affects democratic participation and citizenship in the modern day. Darin Barney is Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
57 min
January 14, 2008 Dr. Norman Finkelstein, Part I
On November 29, the Canadian-Palestinian Educational Exchange (CEPAL) in commemoration of the eleventh annual United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People featured keynote speaker, Dr. Norman Finkelstein discusses roots of conflict and prospects for peace in Israel and Palestine.

This is the first of a three part podcast.
1 hr 1 min
January 14, 2008 Dr. Norman Finkelstein, Part I
Israel and Palestine: Roots of conflict, prospects for peace
0 min
November 09, 2007 Through the looking glass, part I
This fall, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, launched Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada. Featured here is the first of two panels of speakers discussing racial profiling in the Canadian context: Dr. Monia Mazigh, Faisal Kutty, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Dr. Carol Tator, York University. Don't miss the second panel featured in the next episode!

And Charles C. Smith featured in the book lounge!
46 min