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East Van Calling

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Sci-fi / Afrofuturist writer Nalo Hopkinson says for people of colour living with brutal police violence, unemployment and crumbling infrastructure: ”it’s not the apocalypse, its just Tuesday”"What happens to disabled people in the brave new
What does TV's The Walking Dead reveal about the colonization of Indigenous peoples? Native American studies scholar Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy sees many connections. For her people, the Hupa, Yurok, and Karok tribes of Northern California, the a
In 1988 the Nestucca tanker barge spilled 874 000 liters of Bunker C oil into the Pacific. This radio play chronicles volunteer cleanup amid official foot dragging, as oil washes up on 95 miles of BC coast. Amid 18 foot swells off Washington
During World War 2, across Europe, partisans used underground radio against the Nazis. Ljubljana, Slovenia, was occupied and encircled by barbed wire. Subversive broadcasters set up Radio Kričač in a different basement every night, trying to
There is a new enemy. An enemy over there, but also an enemy within. And an omnibus of new security measures too: Bill C51 Anti-Terrorism Act 2015. The architecture of a total surveillance state.If this becomes law, Canadian spies would have
On the San Blas Islands, people with albinism save the world during lunar eclipse. Kuna cosmology holds that during a lunar eclipse, a jaguar is eating the moon. Kunas with albinism fire arrows at the celestial jaguar and save the world.Unlik
Italian revolutionary, Marxist thinker and prisoner under Mussolini, Antonio Gramsci laments this artificial celebration in Jan 1, 1916 column in Avanti!"Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New
The UN has proclaimed every June 13th as International Albinism Awareness Day - to bring attention to the rare genetic condition and to the discrimination & voilence that often accompany it.People with albinism - albinos - tend to have little
Interview with Indigenous comedian & media maker Ryan McMahon about recently launched Indian & Cowboy Media platform.I&C is a network of writers, artists, storytellers, musicians, directors and producers. The platform aims to disrupt, engage
The Tsilhqot'in Nation marked 150 years since their war chiefs were wrongfully executed by the colonial government of what is now British Columbia, Canada. In the 1860s, British settlers tried to build a road to the Caribou gold fields – rig
Indigenous leaders celebrate winning Aboriginal title. For the first time, the Supreme Court Court of Canada acknowledged what the Tsilhqot'in have always known. At least 1700 square Km of BC is theirs. Just after the June 26, 2014 decision,
Young mums fight for housing! In the shadow of the 2012 Olympics site, an East London working class neighbourhood is derelict and boarded up. But the E15 mothers are not going quietly. Their struggle has resonated with people in gentrifying 'ho
Is a far north Indigenous broadcaster headed for radio silence? Staff were let go. All live programing has ceased to remote communities across the Canadian arctic. For over three decades, CKLB broadcast in Gwich’in, Sahtu, Tlicho, Dehcho, Den
The City of Vancouver & big developers plan to erect up-scale condo towers on top of traditionally low income neighbourhoods. Hyper-gentrification is already displacing East Van residents. Two speeches from Garth Mullins to local residents an
Clean crack pipes become available in 2 repurposed vending machines on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside - to reduce HIV, Hep C transmission. BUt social conservatives are not happy. After an article I wrote appeared in VICE in early February 2014
Is the Internet really such a threat to radio? This media scholar & internet activist says no. Radio can still teach us something about risk, about the unexpectedI interview Ethan Zuckerman, the guy responsible for the “Cute CatsTheory of Dig
Interview with the author of "Late Nights on Air" and former announcer-operator at CFYK Yellowknife in the 1970s. The first voice I heard coming out of a radio. I was six and wide awake, in the middle of the night, and listening to an old, B
My interview with the host of This American Life about the future of radio. Ira's long, awkward pauses are preserved here, in real time. The interview was part of "End of the Dial" a program I made for CBC Radio with Lisa Hale. It aired on Fe
The sun is deadly to albinos in Africa. We have little pigment to protect us. So we started making our own sunscreen. People with albinism have no natural resistance to the sun - little or no melanin in our skin, hair or eyes. In Africa, suns
At 12, Adam is attacked by a machete-wielding butcher. His body parts are worth thousands on the black market because he has albinism.In Tanzania and surrounding countries, hundreds of people with albinism have been killed or mutilated becaus
People with albinism, like me, were side show 'freaks' at carnivals & traveling circuses as late as the 1970s. In the 19th century, it was one of the only jobs that would have been available to me. Just by existing, I would have been a form of
Jeff Louden warns of the coming changes to the methadone program in BC. Jeff has been on the methadone maintenance program for nine years and is a connoisseur of opiates for much longer. He’s articulate about harm reduction strategies and drug
Will BC's new methadone kill people? Its about to get ten times stronger - but will patients & drug users find out? Methadone – a highly regulated narcotic prescribed to treat opiate addiction - is about to get ten times stronger in BC. Taki
A eulogy for shortwave broadcasting in Canada & nostalgic, crackly, analog scan across Cold War frequencies. Then snow. Last year Radio Canada International went off the air. RCI's budget was slashed and the transmitter was mothballed after 6
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