GroundWire | Jan 19: Lelu Island Protest Update and Transgender Prisoner Solidarity Day

Jan 19, 2016

GroundWire | Jan 19: Lelu Island Protest Update and Transgender Prisoner Solidarity Day

This episode of GroundWire was produced by volunteers at CKUT Radio, on traditional Mohawk territory in Montreal.

Headlines

Canada's first dedicated LGBT youth shelter set to open Feb. in Toronto | Omme Salma-Rahemtullah, GroundWire

Saulteau First Nation camps out in Northern BC to resist Site C Mega Dam | CKUT

Coastal First Nations celebrate victory over Enbridge's Northern Gateway | CKUT

Features

Update from Lelu Island, where members of Lax Kw'alaams First Nations have been protesting a proposed LNG natural gas terminal | Gunargie O'Sullivan, Co-op Radio CFRO

Transgender Prisoner Solidarity Day approaching Jan 22nd. | Sheila Ferrando, CKUT

1000 members of Quebec teacher's union march Montreal streets for anti-austerity protest | Stefan Christoff, CKUT

Community Radio Report

Info on the upcoming NCRA homelessness marathon and how to get involved with GroundWire's homelessness episode

Music featured in this episode was by DJ Horg

We would like to thank all contributors as well as Omme Salma-Rahemtullah, Gunargie O'Sullivan, Mat Wilush, CKUT, Sheila Ferrando and Aaron Lakoff