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A social issues podcast from the National Film Board of Canada featuring documentaries, interviews, and public conversations.

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CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on October 01, 2007
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Yves Engler is co-author of the groundbreaking book Canada in Haiti: The War on the Poor Majority. It is the first and only in-depth analysis of Canadas participation in the 2004 coup detat against the democratically elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on September 26, 2007
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Darren Ell interviews the director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, Brian Concannon, about the political situation and specifically the crimes of UN forces (MINUSTAH) in Haiti.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on September 26, 2007
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Sometimes a garden is not just a garden. Sometimes it is the meeting point for a whole community and the things that grow in the garden can tell us a lot about the people that live there.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on September 04, 2007
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We've been using a wiki to simplify communication and organization for a while now, and every now and then we're asked why - and how - we do it. To answer these questions we threw together this short video.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on August 22, 2007
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Severn Cullis-Suzuki, daughter of David Suzuki, is taking the lead with a new generation of environmentalists. In this podcast, Mark Leiren-Young interviews her about her new book, Notes From Canada's Young Activists: A Generation Stands Up for Change.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on August 14, 2007
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Part II: This documentary follows a group of students aged 10 to 13 as they create their own rhymes, record their first tracks, and sharpen their literacy skills.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on August 14, 2007
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This documentary follows a group of students aged 10 to 13 as they create their own rhymes, record their first tracks, and sharpen their literacy skills.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on August 01, 2007
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Celebrating 50 podcasts - here's a short animated video for CITIZENShift from Montreal flash-animation guru, Olivier Groulx.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on July 24, 2007
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A Promise is a Promise is a moving film about Sheremet and Musa, two boys from war-torn Kosovo who, with the help of one Canadian soldier, made their way to Canada.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on July 17, 2007
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Darren Ell interviews Dr John Carroll about the health problems in the impoverished region in Haiti known as Cite Soleil.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on June 06, 2007
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This week, we bring you Surfing the Waste - a music video about a group of musical dumpster-divers directed by Tomoe Yoshihara, Sanora Lombardi, and Paul Aflalo. Watch the full movie at http://citizen.nfb.ca

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on June 06, 2007
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This week, we talk to Jim Milles who is a podcaster and law librarian at the University of New York at Buffalo. Jim and the UB Law Faculty use podcasting as a means to discuss legal issues in ways that can have a meaningful social impact on the community around them.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on May 23, 2007
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Following up on part one of our interview, Hugh McGuire talks about the Atwater Digital Literacy Project, which provides communities in Montreal with media access and training.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on May 22, 2007
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Hugh McGuire talks about Librivox, the online free audiobook community that he founded. The Librivox community is now among the most prolific producers of audiobooks in the world.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on May 15, 2007
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Hamilton radio journalist, Maggie Hughes, gives an overview of the Aboriginal land dispute in Caledonia. Speaking to residents and protestors first-hand Hughes investigates the roots of the conflict.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on April 19, 2007
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The third piece brings our attention to Indigenous languages, and education both as a tool of oppression and resistance. We wrap up the series with a brief exploration of resistance to colonialism in Canada.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on April 10, 2007
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This first of three episodes examines the origins of European colonialism, its growth in Canada, and the importance of treaties winding up with a look at why the absence of the truth about this history can best be described by a newly-coined word, historicide.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on March 16, 2007
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Tara Narwani's award-winning audio doc follows the water cycle from the Columbia Icefields through the river into her tap, into the waste treatment plant and back to the river again. CITIZENShift explores WATER all month at http://citizen.nfb.ca/water

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on March 16, 2007
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A conversation with Maude Barlow about the threats posed by an international trade in water.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on March 14, 2007
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In this on-demand world, is AM/FM´s reign on the dial about to roll off the end of the tuner? An audio piece by Russ Cooper.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on March 14, 2007
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A podcast public service announcement about CITIZENShift's cross-Canada World Water Day events. We're coming to a theatre near you...

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on March 02, 2007
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Graham French explores Communauto, a community auto sharing initiative in Montreal in this great 15 minute audio documentary.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on February 12, 2007
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Boston-based musician and activist, David Rovics, talks about using music as a tool for social change.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on January 31, 2007
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Gadget is an outreach worker for Homeless Nation, which is an online social network initiative where people from across Canada congregate to discuss homelessness and other issues. For more on Homeless Nation, check out our Homeless Nation dossier or visit the site, itself.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on January 25, 2007
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Teprine Baldo interviews audio producer Stephanie Guyer-Stevens about the challenges faced by media makers in covering issues of sex trafficking.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on January 09, 2007
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Part 2/2 of Kawthoolei: the captivating audio documentary about Karen refugees living on the Thai-Burmese border. Produced by Outer Voices. Learn more at http://www.outervoices.org/

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on December 18, 2006
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Outer Voices presents this captivating audio documentary about Karen refugees living on the Thai-Burmese border. To learn more about the Karen experience and what you can do to help at http://www.outervoices.org/

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on December 05, 2006
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Olabimpe Olatubosun discusses the state of violence against women in Nigeria. Olatubosun is a gender activist and researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan, in Oyo State, Nigeria.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on November 29, 2006
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When parents die of AIDS, grandmothers often inherit the responsibility of taking care of the children. Jann McConnell and Nina Minday discuss the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign which unites South African and Canadian grandmothers.

CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts
from CITIZENShift - Social Issues Podcasts on November 23, 2006
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OWL (Older Women Live) is a community radio collective that empowers older women by giving them a voice in media and demystifying technology. This piece by Karen Loeb is an overview of their show. Hear more of OWL at ckut.ca.

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