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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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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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