International
Israeli Refusenik speaks in Halifax
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Click here to listen: [mp3, 21 MB, Variable kbps]
Amir Locker-Biletzki is a former soldier in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF). In 2002, he co-founded the ‘Courage to Refuse’ campaign. By refusing to perform his reservist work during the height of the 2nd intifada, he subsequently served jail time, and inspired other to refuse to serve [...]
The Bottle Breakers Come
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010HALIFAX – The Coca-Cola Case, a controversial documentary about corporate-sponsored illegal activity in Colombia, is making its rounds in a nationwide tour. Organized by the National Film Board (NFB) and documentary film group Cinema Politica, the tour has hit major cities like Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver, and is now making its way towards Halifax.
On January [...]
Outsourcing Torture
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Listen Online: [Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-1-ckdu_torture_jan19.mp3]
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Abousfian Abdelrazik was arrested while on vacation in Sudan on the recommendation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He was beaten and threatened while detained with no charges. He remained in Sudan for six years.
He is one of many victims of Canada outsourcing torture, including Abdullah [...]
Uncovering Canadian Involvement in Honduras
Monday, January 4th, 2010Download Audio: [mp3] (14 minutes, 128 kbps stereo)
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Since June 2009, Honduras has seen it’s democratically elected leader, President Manuel Zelaya, ousted from government and sent into exile. He now resides in sanctuary at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Canadian journalist Dawn Paley (Dominion Newpaper, MediaCoop.ca) is spending a month in Honduras to uncover Canadian corporate [...]
Haligonians Heat Up for Climate Change
Saturday, December 5th, 2009December 6, 2009
by Tiffany Limgenco
HALIFAX – The city of Halifax has witnessed popular actions as citizens rally together to promote greater awareness on climate change. Participants began with a mini climate change parade on November 28 along Spring Garden Road. Students, professionals and other activists marched down the crowded street, encouraging people to call Prime [...]
Goldstone Report condemns Israel of Crimes Against Humanity
Thursday, November 5th, 2009White Phosphorus shells fall on a UN school converted into shelter, Jabalya/Gaza, January 2009
Picture: AP
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“We came to the conclusion on the basis of the facts we found that there was strong evidence to establish that numerous serious violations of international law — both humanitarian law and human rights law — were committed by Israel [...]
Truck explosion in Baghdad kills 95
Thursday, August 27th, 2009The Iraqi military released a video of a Ba’ath party loyalist confessing to coordinating a truck bomb that killed 95 people in Baghdad last week. Wissam Ali Kadhem, a former police chief, also noted that $10,000 was paid in bribes to checkpoint security staff to reach the finance ministry where the blast occured. The tape [...]
Netanyahu reacts to organ harvesting charge
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded official condemnation of an article in Sweden’s popular Newspaper Aftonbladet that suggested that Israeli Defence Forces were killing Palestinians they captured in the occupied Palestinian territories to harvest their organs. The article, published Monday, also implied a link between the recent arrest in the US of an American Jew [...]
Unembedded: An interview with Scott Taylor
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Scott Taylor’s new book, Unembedded (Douglas & McIntyre, year), is a memoir of Taylor’s life as a soldier and journalist covering Canada’s military. In a CKDU news/Halifax Media Coop interview, Taylor shares his perspective as an unembedded war reporter in Afghanistan and Iraq, and recounts the trials and tribulations of his magazine, Esprit de Corps, [...]
Halifax rallies behind Gaza
Saturday, January 17th, 2009For the full 12 minute audio report, click here.
Citizens around the world are taking to the streets in opposition to the recent Israeli military invasion of Gaza. Grassroots movements have mobilized people in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, acting together on co-ordinated international days of action.
In Canada, cities across the country [...]
