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 […]
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https://archive.org/download/RealDeRealEnMp3/Real%20de%20real%20en%20mp3.mp3 https://archive.org/embed/RealDeRealEnMp3“>Download here On March the 15th, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) officially released its report Out in the Cold on the state of the Toronto shelter system . The study’s findings are based on numerous interviews with service users and workers. It points out to a shelter system in crisis, plagued by constant overcrowding, […]
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Pre-Moving Day Live Housing Panel
Click HERE to download the Mp3 file. On the eve of July 1st, the Moving Day, CKUT Community News Collective got to renew a tradition of holding a Housing Panel on June 30th to inform our listeners about their housing rights as tenants and answer some of the pressing questions. Anouk Millet, Aaron Maiden and […]
Click HERE to download the Mp3 File. At the beginning of June the City of Montreal made public an emergency number that can be used by low-income families in need of home as the 1st of July Moving Day is approaching. Whereas some families do indeed qualify to be helped and given home, many households […]
[audio https://ia601507.us.archive.org/25/items/ITWCollectifLogementPlateauMontRoyal/ITW%20Collectif%20Logement%20Plateau%20Mont%20royal%20.mp3 ] Cliquez ici pour telecharger le fichier audio. Antoine Cadaux a recu dans En Profondeur Paule Lesperance, membre du collectif Logement Plateau Mont-Royal. Leurs principaux objectifs sont de défendre le droit au maintien dans les lieux des locataires et de mobiliser ces derniers pour l’obtention de logement social dans le Grand Plateau. Paule Lesperance […]
[audio http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/rclalq.mp3] Click here to download audio Le Regroupement des comités logement et associations de locataires du Québec (RCLALQ) nous explique la problématique de l’annonce récente du ministre des Affaires municipales et de l’Occupation du territoire, Pierre Moreau, l’annonce visant à réduire les délais à la Régie du logement. Leila Lemghalef s’est assise avec Maude Bégin Gaudette, […]
[audio http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/genesis.mp3] Click here to download audio Selon une entente de 2012, la province est supposée céder le terrain de 43 hectares de Blue Bonnets à la Ville de Montréal pour un développement qui profiterait aux mal-logés du quartier Côte-des-Neiges, mais le dossier stagne. Sheetal Pathek, organisatrice communautaire avec Projet Genèse nous en parle. Crédit photo […]
Anti-Copa, Resistance Art, and Brazil’s World Cup Struggles An interview with Andalusia Knoll [audio http://www.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/andalusia_edit.mp3] Click here to download audio As we approach the World Cup final match, protests and discontent continue on the streets of Brazil’s cities in what is known as the “anti-copa” movement. To get a sense of what is happening on […]
Click here to download audio CKUT brings you a panel on community resistance to gentrification on the island of Montreal. Residents of several different neighborhoods met for the A Qui La Ville assembly, an initiative to begin coordinating neighborhood-based activism to fight austerity, rising rents, and the commodification of public space. You’ll hear from some of the […]
[audio https://ia902509.us.archive.org/20/items/RCLALQMixdown1/RCLALQ%20Mixdown%201.mp3] Click here to download audio Hundreds of people marched in Quebec City with the tenants rights coalition RCLALQ to demand better rent control policy from the new Quebec Liberal government. CKUT’s Susan Fitch was there to bring us a report.
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Homeless women in Montreal
[audio https://ia601008.us.archive.org/23/items/InterviewWithLaRueDesFemmes/interview%20with%20la%20rue%20des%20femmes.mp3] Click here to download audio Last week, the government of Quebec announced a new policy to which the homeless solidarity network in Quebec responded positively in most parts. CKUT spoke with Ann-Gaelle Whiteman who works at the Dahlia center that provides, accomodation, support and guidance to homeless women.
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