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Archive of July, 2006
Stefan Christoff and a group of Montreal journalists filed this report from Beirut last week as the heavy bombing began.
This podcast features Lebanese, Palestinian, and volunteer workers’ reactions to the recent escalations of conflict in the Middle East. They speak from the refugee camps of Mar-Elias, Burj el-Barajneh and Chatila, in and around Beirut.
* Nohad Hammad, coordinator of Al-Najdeh Association a Palestinian women´s NGO that works in & around the refugee camps.
* Mariam Baidoun, volunteer with Al-Najdeh Association.
* Souheil el-Natour, spokesperson for the DFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine) and coordinator of the Palestinian Human Rights Protection Center.
* Shadi Fadda, founder of the ‘Today in Palestine´ news service.
This episode of Radio Tadamon! was produced by Mohammed Shublaq, Dima Ayoub, Jackson Allers & Stefan Christoff of the Tadamon! collective in Beirut Lebanon and was originally broadcast on July 15, 2006 on Indymedia Radio.
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Radio Tadamon! is just one of several international podcasts which are featured on the Rabble Podcast Network. Check out these other international RPN podcasts:
Beyond the Wall: A podcast from the West Bank.
The Pak-Cast: From Lahore to Seattle - an international dialogue.
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On June 22nd 2006, after a 22-year-long struggle for redress, the federal government officially apologized for the injustice of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act and offered compensation to the last living survivors of this legislation.
Lasting from 1885-1947, this dark chapter in Canadian history plunged tens of thousands of Chinese Canadians into decades of debt and family separation.
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Filmmaker, Karen Cho, re-visits some of the subjects from her film, In the Shadow of Gold Mountain, to hear their impressions after the historic apology and announcement of the redress package.
Captured live in this podcast is the unveiling of the redress package: a $20,000 payment to surviving Head Tax payers (approximately 300 people). Some 4000 descendant families of deceased Head Tax payers were excluded from individual compensation.
Many of those in the Chinese Canadian community, whose lives were shaped by the 62 years of discriminatory legislation against the Chinese in Canada, give their impressions of the day and opinions of the redress package.
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To learn more about the legacy of the Head Tax, Exclusion Act and movement for redress, please visit the following sites:
Head Tax Redress Campaign
GungHaggisFatChoy Weblog
Chinese Canadian National Council
Asian Canadian
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
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Listen to a presentation given by Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women’s Mission & radio host of Uprising Radio at KPFK Pacific Radio in LA. This presentation was given in Montreal in April 2006, at an event organized by CKUT Radio’s Community News Collective concerning media in
a time of war, within the context of Canada’s growing military role within Afghanistan.
In this presentation Kolhatkar offers a critique of Canada´s military role in Afghanistan, while specifically focusing on the situation facing Afghani women and the organizing of RAWA [the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan].
Kolhatkar is the coordinator of the Afghan Women’s Mission based out of Los Angeles. In this presentation Sonali spoke on the current reality in Afghanistan four years after the U.S, lead attack, invasion and military occupation. The Afghan Women’s Mission works closely with RAWA [the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan] to support health, education, and other programs for Afghan women. [http://www.afghanwomensmission.org]
For more information on the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan visit: http://www.rawa.org
This presentation was recorded & edited by Stefan Christoff for broadcast on CKUT Radio and podcast on Citizenshift.
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