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Archive of January, 2007
Ali Olshefsky presents Documentary In the Rushes - a short video profile of Gadget, D-Rock and the Homeless Nation initiative.
Gadget and D-Rok are youth intervention workers tied to Homeless Nation, online community that connects and gives a voice to homeless people across Canada. The short self-reflexive doc profiles the work of the site whilst discussing the larger implications of alternative voices and role of participatory activism in shifting the hegemonic status quo of traditional media.
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Ali Olshefsky is a documentary filmmaker and social activist based in Montreal. She is currently completing a specialization in Communications at Concordia University.
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Filmmaker, Teprine Baldo, describes this week’s podcast:
In our podcast Stephanie and I spoke about the Cambodian Women’s
Crisis Center and Oung Chantol who is the lawyer who organized and
runs the CWCC. She works with women who have been trafficked, raped or who live with domestic abuse and gives them the access
to lawyers and information about their rights.
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Oung Chantol also works on a policy level trying to implement laws
that protect women as well as training for police and officials on how
to deal with women’s issues. The work of Oung Chantol is figures heavily into the audio doc, Girls from Cambodia, by Outer voices, which you can listen to here.
We spoke about how decriminalization is a good thing only if there are
steps taken to protect the women who live in the corruption cycle.
By simply decriminalizing and not addressing
the corruption issues around the brothels, we will have women in the
same cycles of abuse that they experience now.
If the bar owners, brothel owners, police and officials are corrupt,
what will make it different when prostitution is decriminalized?
To watch my films and get information on human trafficking, check out
my blog and the Human Trafficking dossier, which just went up this week.
Thanks for listening,
Teprine Baldo
January, 2007
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I’ll be heading to Podcamp Toronto next month representing the CITIZENShift Podcast.
PodCamp follows the unconference model - which is basically a user-friendly version of a conference. People will be satisfied with the programming because they program it themselves - through a wiki. And if seminars are not informative, people are free to leave.
Sounds great! Should be lotsa fun.
See you there!
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This episode concludes the audio documentary, Kawthoolei: Karen refugees in Thailand, by Outer Voices.
The Burmese military is waging a military offensive against many of the country’s eastern ethnic groups. The conflict is forcing thousands of refugees - mostly Karen minorities -to abandon their villages in search of safety in Thailand.
You can read more about the Karen Women´s Organization in this article, Fighting for Change.
Learn more about Project Burma at OuterVoices.org.
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