GroundWire Oct 10 | Standing Rock, Sisters in Spirt, CJLY Celebrates 15 Years

Oct 16, 2016

GroundWire Oct 10 | Standing Rock, Sisters in Spirt, CJLY Celebrates 15 Years

This episode of GroundWire was produced on Sto:Lo Nation traditional territory in Abbotsford, British Columbia by the GroundWire National Coordination Team, and hosted by Cameron Schmitke, Raynah McIvor, and Sam Odel

Headlines

Honouring of indigenous women artists at Ottawa’s Missing and Murdered Women and Girls Vigil | Cynthia Nixon, CKUT

BC Supreme Court upholds lawsuit by Eritrean miners against Nevsun Resources Limited | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, GroundWire

Features

Report Back from Standing Rock Solidarity Camp in North Dakota, against the Dakota Access Pipeline | Gunargie O'Sullivan, Co-op Radio

11th annual Sisters in Spirit Vigil in Montreal to honor the lives of missing and murdered Aboriginal Women and Girls | Hanaka Mitani, CKUT


Community Radio Report

Nelson, British Columbia's Kootenay Co-op Radio CJLY celebrates it's 15th year on the air | Catherine Fisher, CJLY


Music in this episode was by Tanya Tagaq and Gal Gracen

We would like to thank all our contributors, as well as Carly Forbes, Gretchen King, Djenaba Dayle and the new National Coordination team Glen Swarnadhipathi and Braden Alexander.