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Echoes of the Marshall Inquiry
[Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-1-echoes_of_the_marshall_inquiry4.mp3]
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HALIFAX – Donald Marshall, Jr., was a Mi’kmaw man wrongfully convicted of the murder of Sandy Seale in 1971 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He spent 11 years in prison for murder, then was acquitted of all charges in 1983. However, grave oversights occurred during the initial Sydney Police investigation, the [...]
Walking for Justice
3412-1-owu_20090820_gladysradek.mp3
HALIFAX – On Thursday, August 20th, CKDU’s Melissa Albiani interviewed Gladys Radek. Radek is a founder and co-organizer of the Walk 4 Justice. Radek, in collaboration with Bernie Williams, an activist working in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver, completed the third Walk for Justice in the spring of 2009.
This year’s walk began in Vancouver [...]
Legal support for Mi’kmaw in Nova Scotia
3412-1-mlsn_interview_sept_2008.mp3
The Mi’kmaw Legal Support Network is an organization that seeks to provide support for aboriginal people in the justice system. Such a need was identified in part due to the historic Marshall Inquiry, involving a Mi’kmaq man wrongly accused of murder over 30 years ago. The Marshall inquiry found racism to be a systemic problem [...]
