Hier, dans le quartier de Parc-Extension, une discussion communautaire avait lieu dans le but de chercher une solution pour accéder à un salaire minimum de 15 dollars.
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As stories about Indigenous people are rarely covered in mainstream medias, same images about them come back again and again. According to Steve Bonspiel, people tend to be dissociated from their lands and ressources they use. That is why, find a new way to reconcile those two things was the purpose of the Panel about […]
Lia Tarachansky is an Israeli-Russian journalist and moviemaker who produced the documentary ”On the Side of the Road” in 2013. As a former Israel/Palestine correspondent for the Real News Network (RNN), she produced short documentary-style reports exploring the context behind the news. She has directed several documentaries that tackle different aspects of social justice struggles […]
As part of Israeli Apartheid Week, yesterday March 6, about 40 people gathered at the conference ‘Profiling of Arabs and Muslims in Canada : an historical perspective’ at Café artere. A conference organized by Tadamon Collective, which reunited the historian, Houda Asal and the activist Mary Foster as part of the BDS (boycott sanction and divestment) […]
Chaque année, la journée internationale des femmes est célébrée, occasion de faire le bilan sur les progrès faits en matière de droits des femmes et des avancées qu’il reste à effectuer.
Montréal, ville sanctuaire ?
Le 20 Février 2017 à Montréal, une conférence de presse était organisée par Solidarity Accross Borders – organisation qui lutte pour les droits des migrants à Montréal, faisant suite à l’adoption symbolique par la ville d’une motion la qualifiant de ”Ville Sanctuaire”. Initialement, ce terme désigne une ville qui appliquerait une politique de protection des […]
Listen to Wednesday Morning After – Rap Battle Reports On Wednesday, February 15th was organized the Rap Battle Against Police Brutality at Le Belmont in Montreal. CKUT was at the event and met Montreal emcees, poets, Concordia students and community members to tackle the issue of police brutality. This charity event may raise awareness on […]
Racial profiling
CKUT and Head and Hands for a 2 hour live broadcast from their Youth drop in NDG, This is a follow up braodcast on issues of racial profiling, police brutality, and new city related attempts to further criminalize, and marginalize youth of colour in Montreal. http://132.216.18.132/64/mp3.20061208.17.00-19.00.m3u
Nov. 19 Headlines
Click here to listen (runs 5m25s) JOURNALIST ARRESTED UNDER ANTI-TERROR LAWS -Sri Lanka: journalist A.R.Vaama Loshan arrested under anti-terrorism law. Amnesty International says arbitrary detentions and attacks on journalists have increased with rising tensions between government and rebels. SUIT AGAINST WALMART GOES AHEAD -Saskatchewan: Labour Relations Board rules that unfair labour practices suit against Walmart […]
Pro-Choice Picnic
The feminist collective, Rebelles Montreal, held a pro-choice picnic this past Sunday to celebrate the forty year fight for the right to an abortion, and raise awareness surrounding barriers still facing women who wish to obtain them. The picnic entailed speeches, workshops, quizzes and music, and reaffirmed the collective’s strong belief in a women’s right […]
Police violence in the United States and Canada has dominated the news over the past year. This violence typically focuses on abuse and excessive force by officers against the public. Recent revelations of police violence against indigenous women in Val d’Or, Quebec, only illustrate the immediacy and severity of this issue. CKUT’s Anna Marchese spoke to […]
CKUT News Header – August 24, 2016
https://soundcloud.com/radiockut/ckut-news-header-august-24-2016 Dakota Access Pipeline Justice For Abdirahman Abdi
CKUT News Header – August 19, 2016
– National Day of Reconciliation for Aboriginal Persons Gathering – 60s Scoop Rally
CKUT News Header – August 18, 2016
– #EJPriorities – Autostraddle’s coverage of the epidemic of murders among the trans women of colour community
CKUT News Header – August 17, 2016
– Standing Rock Sioux Nation Halts Dakota Access Pipeline – Hugh Papik Dies After Stroke is Mistaken as Drunkenness by Health Officials
CKUT News Header – August 16, 2016
– Ottawa Launches Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Inquiry – Colten Boushie Dies in Racially Motivated Shooting in Saskatachewan
Rob Robinson is a homeless and housing rights activist based in Brooklyn, New York, and does national and international organizing work with the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, NESRI. Rob was in Montreal last week for the World Social Forum and sat down with CKUT’s Aaron Lakoff for an in-depth discussion on gentrification, the […]