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Old Man Luedecke to perform at CKDU’s Homelessness Marathon

February 20, 2012 david No comments
Old Man Luedecke

Old Man Luedecke will be performing songs at CKDU's Homelessness Marathon on February 22nd. Entry is free. Photo credit: Mark Maryanovich.

Old Man Luedecke will be performing songs at CKDU’s Annual Homelessness Marathon, February 22nd at St. Matthew’s Church, 1479 Barrington Street. The event is free, and the live broadcast is from 7 pm to 11 pm. Old Man Luedecke will be performing at 8:30 pm between live discussion panels on the sale of St. Pat’s Alexandra school in Halifax’s North End (7 pm to 8:30 pm), and on Occupy Nova Scotia and Occupy Wall Street (9 pm to 10 pm).

We have more amazing artists lined up from 10 pm to 11:30 pm: Paper Beat Scissors, The Occupiers (Antigonish, NS), Bentley Burke, and Wayne Sponagle. Afterwards the floor will open up to an Open Mic, and then a song circle lead by The Occupiers. Everyone is invited to come up and sing a song!

The entire broadcast will be aired on CKDU 88.1fm in Halifax, and on-line at ckdu.ca. CKDU will provide 1 hour of content for the national Homelessness Marathon, organized by CKUT Montreal, from 9 pm to 10 pm.

The Marathon will continue until 8 am the following morning. Free food, coffee and tea will be available all night long.

Please visit our web page for the detailed schedule, list of guests, and more information.

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VOICES OF OUR NATIONS: Eight hour special broadcast

June 26, 2009 David Parker No comments

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VOICES of our NATIONS
First Annual Radio-a-thon
on CKDU 88.1 FM
Friday, July 3rd from midnight to 8 am
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There are over one million First Peoples, from dozens of nations, with dozens of languages, living in Canada.

The Voices of our Nations Radio-a-thon is the first-ever collaboration of Indigenous programmers from radio stations in all corners of the country.

Tune-in on Friday, July 3rd from Midnight to 8 am for eight hours of First Nations stories, music and issues, celebrating Aboriginal identity, history and culture.

Topics include land rights, resources, missing and murdered indigenous women, the 2010 Olympics and the 120-year history of Residential schools.

After centuries of land and resource theft, attempts at assimilation and hundreds of missing and murdered women, it is time Indigenous peoples take something back. Join us as we take back the airwaves!

With such guests as Audrey Redman, Arthur Manuel, and many others, join host Irkar Beljaars of Native Solidarity News for this special broadcast on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, on Mi’kmaw territory.

This special broadcast is brought to you by the Native Caucus of the National Campus and Community Radio Association, CKUT fm in Montreal, and the CKDU News Collective in Halifax. For more information, call 494-2585.

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Investigating Haiti Since the Coup: Five Years of Resistance

March 7, 2009 David Parker No comments

The CKDU and CKUT Campus/Community Radio News Collectives present:

A SPECIAL BROADCAST TO INVESTIGATE HAITI SINCE THE COUP: FIVE YEARS OF RESISTANCE.

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On Operation Wake Up
CKDU 88.1fm
Tuesday to Friday,
March 10th to 13th,
8 AM to 9 AM.

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Five years ago, Canadian soldiers participated in a military operation to overthrow Haiti’s elected government. In the weeks following the 2004 coup d’état, minimum wages were rolled back, ministries were closed, corporate taxation was canceled, and Haitian activists who criticized the new order did so at the risk of their liberty or their lives. Today, after five years of neoliberal “shock therapy”, Canadian personnel remain in Haiti under the cover of a UN mission. Haiti remains Canada’s other, untalked-of, occupation, along with Afghanistan.

The shows will feature in-depth interviews with Haitian union leaders, progressive politicians, and rights advocates, and a panel discussion with members of the Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN). This special programme will aim to explore Canada’s strategy and praxis in Haiti as indicative of its broader imperialist designs through the Caribbean and the Latin American regions, and to highlight and celebrate the patterns of the Haitian people’s resistance to those designs.

For more information, please call the CKDU News Collective at 494-2585.

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Capitalism and the Economic Crisis of 2008

December 3, 2008 David Parker No comments

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The economic crisis of 2008 has been the worst ever in global history. Is capitalism safe from crises or are they bound to occur? Under the free market model, are they avoidable or are they the product of a free market capitalist system where corporations and speculators are allowed to run rampant?

Featuring an interview with John Clarke from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) by Aaron Lakoff from CKUT in Montreal.  John Clarke looks at the economic crisis, upcoming elections and the effects on the poor. According to OCAP, while the rich get bailed out, the poor get homeless.

In Miami, the ‘Take Back the Land’ collective, a group of 10 volunteers, is helping homeless and recently evicted to get housing by liberating foreclosed and empty homes.  They chose to take illegal direct action in order to meet the immediate and obvious needs of a growing urban homeless population in North America.

To listen to the hour long program, click here.

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