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Archive of May, 2006
The main focus of the workshops was to teach fifth and sixth graders in
Little Burgundy basic radio skills thus giving them the ability to tell
their stories to the greater Montreal population. This story is about
Steve Edwards the founder of BUMP, the Burgundy Urban Mediation Project.
This radio documentary ‘Bumping Heads with the Police’ is the result of
a series of workshops with children in the after-school program at the
Tyndale St. Georges Community Centre in Little Burgundy led by
independent journalist Brendan K. Edwards. This project is a community
news initiative that was launched during Black History Month.
Producers: Tivon Thompson of Tyndale St-Georges Community Center &
Brendan K.Edwards and Stefan Christoff of CKUT Radio’s Community News
Collective in Montreal.
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Reporter: Tivon Thompson
Radio Production: Brendan K.Edwards and
Stefan Christoff of the Community News Collective at CKUT Radio in
collaboration with the Tyndale St-Georges Community Center in Montreal.
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Montreal photographer Darren Ell interviews Mahmoud Jaballah, an Egyptian-born Canadian refugee who is being held without charge on secret evidence in the Milhaven Federal Penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario.
Mahmoud is one of five men who have been detained for years without charge on secret allegations of connections to terrorism. All men deny the allegations but remain in jail facing deportation to torture. In this interview, Mahmoud tells Darren about solitary confinement, the impact of his ordeal on his health and his family life, and his plea to politicians and ordinary Canadians.
Look for Darren´s upcoming exhibition entitled “Far from Refuge” at Dazibao centre de photographies actuelles, at 4001 Berri St. in Montreal from October 12th 2006 to November 11th. The exhibition addresses the struggle faced by refugee claimants in Canada.
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I guess the first thing I should say is that there´s a
real question as to whether deaf people are
“disabled.” Deafness is a communication handicap, not
an environmental handicap like blindness or paralysis.
Really, the only thing deaf people can´t do is hear.
To those of us who are hearing, this is tragic, but
for people born deaf, they can´t miss what they never
had. This is a controversial point in the deaf
community—witness the cochlear implant debate (to find
out more about that, I´d recommend the film
documentary The Sound and the Fury).
But my piece isn´t really about disability. It’s about
two kids on the fence between the hearing world and
the deaf world, in the midst of crossing from one into
the other. Listening to it now a few months later, I
think it is a much more universal story than I
realized when I was making it. At its core, this is a
story about finding your place in an imperfect world,
which is something we all have to do, regardless of
our abilities or disabilities. Kevin and James can´t
change their hearing loss—they can´t even explain it.
They´re in a position where they just have to accept
it and have to figure out where they fit best given
their condition. Fortunately, they are in a position
where there´s a lot of love on both sides—on one side
is their family and many of their friends (which I
didn´t delve into much in this piece), and on the
other is a very tight-knit community in which they
have been able to make some good friends. And I think
that Kevin and James are luckier than most of us in
that they have each other.
- Katie Freddoso, May 2006
Contact Katie Freddoso at kfreddos (at) yahoo (dot) com
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