CKUT 90.3 FM News Collective
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 […]
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 download the interview. Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) mediated a meeting between some members of independent media and the Montreal Police on September 21st, to bridge existing disputes between the two groups. At Montreal demonstrations and rallies, the police have often been acting aggressively towards the protesters, kettling and using force […]
Photo credit: Jalani Morgan, https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=426726174176168&set=pcb.426729977509121&type=1&theater [audio https://ia601500.us.archive.org/27/items/BlackLivesMatters/Black%20Lives%20Matters.mp3] Click here to download audio. On Monday 27 July, the Black Lives Matter Toronto coalition held a “day of action”. The goal: call for an end to police brutality and to seek justice after the death of two black men – Jermaine Carby was shot at a traffic stop and Andrew […]
[audio https://ia601501.us.archive.org/2/items/heberbrown/heberbrowninterview.mp3] Click here to download audio. On Friday May 1st the Baltimore City State Attorney, Marilyn Mosby, announced publicly the charges against 6 police officers involved with the murder of Freddie Gray. This comes as the first step towards justice for Freddie Gray, who sustained fatal injuries in police custody, and died a week after he […]
[audio https://ia801507.us.archive.org/5/items/SimoneAyotzinapaCaravanFINAL/Simone%20Ayotzinapa%20Caravan%20FINAL.mp3] Click here to download audio Interview in Spanish: [audio https://ia801509.us.archive.org/9/items/AyotzinapaEntrevistaMontrealFINAL/Ayotzinapa%20Entrevista%20Montreal%20FINAL%20.mp3] Click here to download audio On September 26th 2014, police forces in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, attacked a busload of students from a rural teacher training school in Ayotzinapa. This attack resulted in the death of six people, and the forced disappearance of […]
Click here to download audio file Bobette du Collectif Opposé à la brutalité policière nous a donné ses propos envers la loi 3, mais tout d’abord elle nous a parlé de l’initiative Solidarité avec Bobette. Leila Lemghalef nous a ramené l’entrevue.
[audio http://www.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/ferguson_panel_nov_25.mp3] Click here to download audio On Monday, November 24, a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, decided not to criminally indict Darren Wilson, a police officer who shot and killed unarmed Black youth Michael Brown back in August. Protests and riots quickly errupted in Ferguson, a suburb of St-Louis, following the court’s decision, and also […]
Click here to download audio The Quebec Network of Environmental groups announced at the end of last month their solidarity with the people who got arrested at the October 10th demonstration against a pipeline project. CKUT’s Amelie Phillipson spoke with the network’s general coordinator Bruno Masse about how the arrests happen at the demonstration, why […]
Click here to download audio Cold temperatures and pouring rain did not deter more than 30 Pro-Choice demonstrators from turning out Saturday, April 26th for a rally in Place Emile Gamelin. The rally was just one of many actions held across Canada the same day in solidarity with New Brunswick Pro-Choice, where the Morgentaler abortion […]
Click here to download audio CKUT’s Tiffany Lam reports from Wednesday May 7th’s demonstration against police brutality and repression from outside the SPVM headquarters downtown Montreal. For more pictures, click here.
Tune in to Off the Hour at 5pm tomorrow, May 9th, for an audio report of the gathering!
[audio http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/audio/ckut_news/dominiquepeschard2014.mp3] Click here to dowload audio The Ligue des droits et libertes sent out a statement, signed by 55 organizations, denouncing the arrests at this year’s police brutality protest, which took place on March 15th. The protest, which has developed a reputation for ending in mass arrest, lasted less than ten minutes this year before […]
Transcription provided by Cecile Branco This interview originally broadcast on CKUT 90.3fm in Montreal and highlights the gaps in mainstream reporting and the constant focus on police narratives that dehumanize the victims. Looking specifically at the case of Jean-François Nadreau, killed in a hail of police bullets at home two winters ago, this interview details the underreported aspects […]
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