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Struggles for freedom from Montreal to Los Angeles

No one is Illegal — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:08:39 +0000

The October 2011 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio lends a focus to local struggles against deportations, on movements against police killings, and organizing for rights for temporary workers and workers in temp agencies. Also a historical and current account of people of colour organizing in Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Featuring:

Rosalind Wong of Solidarity Across Borders discusses the recent deportation of Mexican refugee mother of two, Paola Ortiz, who had been living in Montreal after fleeing violence in Mexico. Rosalind also provides perspective on importance of directly supporting those facing deportations in the struggle to create a world in which people have the ability to migrate freely.

Solidarity movements against deportations

No one is Illegal — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:59:10 +0000

The June 2011 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio focuses on solidarity movements against deportations from Montreal to Toronto to Sydney, Australia.

Featuring:

Alvaro Orozco, a queer Toronto-based artist who spent weeks in detention following his arrest at a subway station after leaving dinner with friends. Alvaro has since won his humanitarian claim and has won full status in Canada. This exclusive interview took place while he was still in detention.

No One Is Illegal Radio: Canadian mining companies -- Global land grabs, displacement and grassroots resistance

No one is Illegal — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:34:21 +0000

The December 2010 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio focuses on Canadian Mining Companies: Global Land Grabs, Displacement, and Grassroots Resistance. Featuring voices from across the world, it examines the harmful effects of Canadian mining projects on indigenous people and the rural poor across the world. This show provides tangible examples of the relationship between capitalist globalization and forced displacement.

Featured interviews:

Sakura Saunders, editor for protestbarrick.net. She discusses the world's largest mining company, Barrick Gold, which is based out of Toronto, and its lived effects on the self-determination of indigenous people and the rural poor in the global South and in Canada.

No One Is Illegal Radio: 'Women's rights' in Canada in the age of border control, imperialism and colonialism

No one is Illegal — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:44:01 +0000

The October 2010 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio focuses on 'Women's Rights' in Canada in the Age of Border Control, Imperialism and Colonialism. It examines the way that the Canadian state affects the lives and self-determination of migrant women, indigenous women and the women it affects to be helping abroad in Afghanistan.
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No One Is Illegal Radio: The criminalization of dissent in Canada -- G20 resistance in the wake of 20 years since Oka

No one is Illegal — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:28:25 +0000

The July 2010 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio examines the repression of the G20 protests in the context of the 20 years since the indigenous land struggle in Oka, 1990. The show includes includes excerpts from the "No Fences No Borders" press release in front of the security fence in the days leading up to the G20, and interviews with different generations of indigenous activists on the G20, on the importance of commemorating 20 years since Oka, and on state repression in their communities.

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No One Is Illegal Radio -- Grassroots voices from Africa about the G8 and G20

No one is Illegal — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:16:11 +0000

The June 2010 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio features perspectives from Makoma Lekalakala (Johannesburg) & Njoki Njehu (Nairobi) about the G8/G20 and self-determination by Africans, in the lead-up to the upcoming protests in Toronto later this month. Makoma and Njoki address: celebrity activism, African social movements, debt relief versus reparations, climate change in Africa, the role of South Africa in the G20, and the G8-promoted New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Both Makoma and Njoki offer a special message for protesters who will take the streets of Toronto against the G8/G20 later this month.