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Women, Sex Work, and Homelessness

March 31, 2010 David Parker No comments

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On February 23rd, CKDU’s Jane Kirby and Melissa Albiani hosted Hour 2 of the 8th Annual Homelessness Marathon live from St. Matthew’s United Church, beside the Emergency Out of the Cold Shelter.

Kirby and Albiani interviewed a variety of panelists to discuss criminalization of sex work, the funding crisis and cutbacks to transition houses for abused women, and the reality of Indigenous women in Canada facing a higher risk of abduction and murder.

Guests:
Rene Ross, Executive Director of Stepping Stone, Halifax.
Megan Grey, Social Worker, Adsum House, Halifax.
Rhonda Fraser, Executive Director, Chrysalis House, Kemptville, Nova Scotia
Gladys Radek, organizer of Walk 4 Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, BC.
Lori Walton, activist, Friends of Transition Houses, Halifax.
Catherine Panteluk, poet, Halifax.

The Homelessness Marathon is annually carried by 40 campus, community and Native radio stations. For more information: http://ckut.ca/homeless.html

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Walking for Justice

September 4, 2009 Melissa No comments

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Gladys Radek walks in the Walk 4 Justice.

Gladys Radek walks in the Walk 4 Justice. Source: TML Daily.

HALIFAX – On Thursday, August 20th, CKDU’s Melissa Albiani interviewed Gladys Radek. Radek is a founder and co-organizer of the Walk 4 Justice. Radek, in collaboration with Bernie Williams, an activist working in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver, completed the third Walk for Justice in the spring of 2009.

This year’s walk began in Vancouver and ended in Prince Rupert, B.C., and travelled along the Highway of Tears, where an alarming number of Indigenous women have gone missing and murdered. According to Radek, these cases have not been sufficiently investigated.

The first Walk 4 Justice began two years ago, ending with a symposium in Prince George, B.C. The second walk traversed Canada from Vancouver to the steps of Parliament Hill in Ontario.

In this exclusive interview, Gladys speaks about the recommendations from the 2007 symposium, the effects of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics on Indigenous women, and about experiences of poverty.

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