On Monday July 4th the queer femme P.O.C. collective Re:Bodies held a poetry night at Coop l’Artère to raise funds for the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, as well as for Pagsibol. CKUT spoke with Nakuset, director of the women’s shelter, about their work and the services that they provide, and excerpts from the poetry night […]
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Click here to download Émission spéciale autour d’un atelier intitulé L’ABC de l’antiracisme, longue entrevue avec Thérèse Namahoro diffusée sur En Profondeur le lundi 4 juillet entre 17h et 18h sur CKUT (ckut.ca et sur le 90.3fm à soi-disant «Montréal») Jeudi 7 juillet 2016 à 15:30 au Pavillon Jean-Brillant à la salle B-4225, Thérèse […]
Click here to view full playlist or download individual presentations. The International Women’s Day Conference was held March 5, 2016 at Concordia University, and marked the 41st annual celebration of Women’s day and the march held on March 8th. International Women’s Day was only officially recognized by the U.N. in 1975. The conference was put together […]
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Part 1: Our Lost Sisters in Mexico
[audio https://ia601502.us.archive.org/13/items/OURLOSTSISTERSINMEXICOFINALMp3Version1/OUR%20LOST%20SISTERS%20IN%20MEXICO%20(FINAL)%20mp3%20version%201.mp3] Click here to download audio. Feminicides–the killing of women because of their gender–have been occurring for decades in both Mexico and in Canada. Why has there been so much impunity surrounding these cases and so little justice for the victims and their families? What can be done to put a stop to them, to help […]
[audio https://ia601501.us.archive.org/31/items/InterviewWithElene/Interview%20with%20elene.mp3] Click here to download audio On May 12th, the Migrant Sex Worker’s Project and Butterfly, an Asian and migrant sex workers support network, held a forum in Toronto to discuss some of the problems with discourse of “anti-trafficking”. Following the event, CKUT’s Emily Enhorning spoke with Elene Lam, founder of Butterfly, about some of these issues.
Click here to download audio. We bring you sounds from the streets of Montreal from last Sunday’s International Women’s Day march. Also, Montreal Sisterhood, a local anti-fascist feminist collective celebrated their 5 year anniversary over the weekend. Leonie Karwath was at both those events to bring us a report. CKUT News Collective
[audio http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/polytechnique_for_blog.mp3] Click here to download audio file Le 6 décembre la cérémonie pour les 25 ans après la tuerie de Polytechnique s’est déroulée au Place du 6 décembre. Plusieurs actions ont soulignés la date et nous passons maintenant à l’écoute des entrevues captées par Leila Lemghalef le samedi.
[audio http://www.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/tbtn_mixdown_final.mp3] Click here to download audio This past Friday November 21 was the annual Take Back the Night march hosted by Concordia Center for Gender Advocacy as part of their ‘A Safer Concordia’ campaign. The march from Guy Concordia to McGill campus opposes gendered and sexual violence and promotes safe public spaces. Produced for the […]
[audio https://archive.org/download/OTHNov7/OTH%20Nov%207.mp3] Click here to download the audio [This panel originally aired live on Off the Hour November 7, 2014] Beyond Jian: Confronting Rape Culture As Canada and the world react to the Jian Ghomeshi sexual assault scandal, CKUT’s Off the Hour looks deeper at the issue, beyond celebrity culture, beyond the stigma against survivors, and beyond […]
[audio http://www.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/sexual_assault_series_2_-_final_mixdown.mp3] Click here to download audio file In recent years, several high profile sexual assault cases have come to trial in North America. The issue is now coming to light in Montreal. In the second instalment of her series on sexual assault at McGill University, Camille Baker speaks with the dean of students who’s been […]
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Min Fami book launch
Listen at The voices of Arab feminists have come together in an anthology packed with insights on the themes of home & homeland, exile, feminism, borders, gender and sexual identity, solidarity, language, creative resistance, and colonization. Leila Lemghalef from the CKUT News Collective attended an intimate book launch recently held in Montreal. We’re about […]
[audio http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/min_fami_mixdown_for_blog.mp3] Click here to download audio Min Fami: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space, and Resistance An Arab Feminist Perspectives Book Launch takes place Saturday evening in Montreal at the Concordia Community Solidarity Co-op Bookstore. Ahead of the Book Launch, Leila Lemghalef spoke with coeditor Ghadeer Malek out of Toronto. Malek is a Palestinian feminist […]
The report on The Best and Worst Cities for Women in Canada, released by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, was met with widespread acclaim across the country. Off the Hour’s Andre Goulet spoke with Kate MacInturff, the report’s author, to explore some of the statistical data and to talk about what Quebec’s doing right. [audio https://ia902501.us.archive.org/14/items/KateMcInturffInterview/Kate%20McInturff%20Interview.mp3] […]
Listen back to the opening panel of the Study in Action conference, on the theme of “Struggles of self-determination”. Christina Xydous spoke about feminist anti-racist opposition to the Quebec charter of values (this speech is in French). [audio https://ia600700.us.archive.org/30/items/ChristinaXydousSpeechAtStudyInAction/Christina%20Xydous%20speech%20at%20Study%20in%20action.mp3] Click here to download audio Amanda Lickers (Onkwehonwe from the Turtle Clan, Onondowaga nation) spoke about the fight […]
Last week, the government of Quebec announced a new policy to which the homeless solidarity network in Quebec responded positively in most parts. Amelie Phillipson from the CKUT’s community news collective, spoke with Ann-Gaelle Whiteman who works at the Dahlia Centre that provides, accommodation, support and guidance to homeless women. Thanks to Alejandro […]
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Dolores Chew on women and precarity
[audio https://ia601201.us.archive.org/23/items/ItwWithDoloresChew/itw%20with%20dolores%20chew.mp3] Click here to download audio Saturday was International Women’s Day. CKUT brings you an interview with Dolores Chew, who spoke about International Women’s Day activities in Montreal and about how precarity affects women. Dolores is a co-founder of the South Asian Women’s Community Centre, and a member of the Women of Diverse Origins collective.
On February 14, CKUT’s community news collective and Native Solidarity News team were broadcasting live from Place Emilie Gamelin for the annual Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Women. Tune in to 90.3 FM, or online at http://www.ckut.ca, or come down and participate in the event and broadcast! More info below. Hour 1 [audio https://archive.org/download/MissingJusticeHour1/missing%20justice%20hour%201.mp3] To download the […]
On Wednesday February 12th, Bonnie Brayton, National Executive Director of DAWN-RAFH Canada, spoke to CKUT about the criminalization of women with disabilities and the lack of systemic support that exists for women like Ashley Smith and Nichele Benn: Stephane Bertand: Today on the Avalanche show we will be speaking with Bonnie Brighton from the DisAbled […]
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