GroundWire | BLM Toronto and US solidarity, detention hunger strike, Lakatos family PR

Jul 19, 2016

GroundWire | BLM Toronto and US solidarity, detention hunger strike, Lakatos family PR

This episode of GroundWire was produced on traditional territory of the Mohawk people at CKUT radio in Montreal, hosted by Elliott Lobel.

Headlines

Tent city in Vancouver's east side to decry lack of affordable housing | Aaron Lakoff, CKUT

Negotiations between Canada Post and CUP-W | Greg McDougall, EquitableEducation.ca

Resistance to proposed mega-dam project Site C in Northern BC | Aaron Lakoff, CKUT

Features

Public meeting of the Ontario government’s Anti-Racism Directorate | Alannah Johnson, GroundWire

Response from Black communities in Montreal to the recent police killings of Black men in the USA | Geneva Gleason, CKUT

Lakatos family escaping anti-Roma discrimination and violence in Hungary still await response to their PR application | Janna Bryson, CKUT

Community Radio Report

FreeRadioOnMyPhone.ca campaign asks telecommunications companies to enable FM receivers in smartphones | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah

Headlines this week were written by Aaron Lakoff.

We thank all our contributors, as well as Aaron Lakoff, Carly Forbes, and Gretchen King.