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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 […]
[audio https://ia801502.us.archive.org/22/items/SAturday8AugustMixageFinal/SAturday,%208%20August_mixage%20final.mp3] Click to download audio. Saturday 8 August, the Canadian Palestinian Foundation of Quebec (CPFQ) and the Palestinian and Jewish unity organization (Paju) organized a demonstration. Its aim : denounce the crimes committed by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinian population and the impunity which they have enjoyed. Nicolas Sayegh, secretary of the CPFQ, and Bruce Katz, […]
[audio http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/russell_tribunal_with_frank_barat.mp3] Click here to download audio En entrevue avec Frank Barat, fondateur du Palestine Legal Action Network ainsi que coordonnateur du Tribunal Russell sur la Paléstine, nous avons fait la réflexion sur le Tribunal des crimes de Guerre et crimes contre l’humanité à la suite des actions israëliennes en Gaza cet été. Nous parlons entre autre […]
CKUT Palestine Solidarity Sessions – Available for download and re-broadcast! In the wake of this summer’s Gaza massacre, CKUT produced a series of in-depth interviews with Palestinians and their allies. We interviewed academics, journalists, artists, actors, record labels, graphic designers and asked them one important question: “What can ordinary people do to prevent future […]
[audio http://www.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/hind_awwad_final.mp3] Click here to download audio Hind Awwad is the former coordinator of the Boycott National Committee (BNC) in Palestine, and is currently working with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) in Toronto. CKUT spoke with her for the Palestine Solidarity Sessions about how people can get involved in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) […]
[audio http://www.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/omar_barghouti_final.mp3] Click here to download audio Omar Barghouti is the founder of PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and a long time Palestinian activist based in Jerusalem. He spoke with the Palestine Solidarity Sessions at CKUT about the importance of the academic boycott of Israeli apartheid in the wake […]
[audio http://www.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/yafa_interview_final.mp3] Click here to download audio Yafa Jarrar is a Palestinian activist and organizer based in Ottawa. CKUT sat down with her during the People’s Social Forum to talk about the Palestine solidarity assembly happening at the forum, the links between Indigenous struggle in Turtle Island and Palestine, and recent developments in the case of […]
[audio https://archive.org/download/TeesriMTSpaceTheatreMixdownMixdown1/Teesri%20MT%20Space%20Theatre%20Mixdown%20Mixdown%201.mp3] Click here to download audio Interview with Rahul Varma, playwright, artistic director, Teesri Duniya Theatre and Majdi Bou-Matar, artistic director, MT Space Tiffany Lam of the CKUT news collective spoke recently with Rahul Varma and Majdi Bou-Matar on what playwrights, theatre companies, and artists of conscience can do to stand in solidarity with Palestine. The two […]
[audio https://ia902309.us.archive.org/19/items/IanIlavskyInterviewFinal1026minsMixdown1/Ian%20Ilavsky%20Interview%20Final%20%2810%2C26mins%29%20Mixdown%201.mp3] Click here to download audio Ian Ilavsky is the co-founder and co-owner of Montreal independent record label Constellation Records. Ian Ilavsky signed the Artists Against Israeli Apartheid statement in 2010 in support of BDS-Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions campaign and Constellation Records has recently released a statement on their website condemning the recent Israeli war crimes in Gaza. […]
Click here to download audio Kevin Lo is a Montreal based artist and community organizer. He is the founder of Loki Design, which is an independent graphic design studio based here in Montreal and he teaches design at Concordia University. He is also a committee member of the Imaging Apartheid initiative, which is a poster project […]
[audio http://www.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/hala_marley_-_focus_on_paju_8min36.mp3] Click here to download audio Hala Marley-Yassin is a board member of PAJU – Palestinian and Jewish Unity. PAJU was founded in the year 2000 by Bruce Katz, a Jewish anti-Zionist activist, and the late Rezek Faraj, a Palestinian-Canadian activist. In 2002, PAJU began a long-running weekly picket of the Israeli consulate in Montreal […]
[audio http://www.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/hanna_kawas_final.mp3] Click here to download audio Hanna Kawas is a Palestinian-Canadian originally from occupied Bethlehem. He is currently the chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association of Vancouver. Hanna is also a long-time media activist and the producer of “The Voice of Palestine“, which used to air on Coop Radio in Vancouver, and is now hosted on […]
As the tragedy unfolds in Gaza day to day, it underlines the importance of the work we are doing as independent community journalists to engage in truth-telling, and to also give our listeners tools to get involved in preventing Israeli aggression. Throughout the month of August, CKUT brings you “The Palestine Solidarity Sessions”, […]
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