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.

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.

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.

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!

This fall, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, launched Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada. This podcast features the second of two panels of speakers discussing racial profiling in the Canadian context: Karl Flecker, Canadian Labour Congress, Filsan Fadal, youth activist, and Jana Kooren, Educational Co-ordinator, ACLU Minnesota.

Don't miss listening to Charles C. Smith featured in the book lounge! LISTEN HERE

On April 27, 2007, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, and Starhawk were featured at the Water and Women of Action conference in Toronto, hosted by the Transformative Learning Centre and OISE. rabble.ca first presents Vandana, who speaks of the importance of viewing water as sacred.

TBD.

Part One of the readings at PEN Canada's annual fall gala benefit held on Friday, October 20 at the University of Toronto. It featured Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.

Also appearing will be Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran) along with acclaimed Canadian writers Miriam Toews, Wayson Choy and MG Vassanji. The host is writer and actor Ann-Marie McDonald.

The PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Prize was presented to Vancouver Sun journalist Kim Bolan.