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Archive of March, 2009

Episode 85 & some podcast news!

Written by tim
March 12, 2009

If you’ve visited CITIZENShift lately, you may have noticed something new. This Tuesday we launched our latest redesign, aimed to improve navigability and community interaction. While I think the whole site looks and runs better, particularly exciting to me is that our podcast is now integrated into the main site at citizen.nfb.ca/ourpodcasts. We will continue to post to the blog whenever we have a new episode out, but instead of embedding the audio, we’ll link you back to the actual podcast episode’s page. Don’t worry, we’ve kept the same feed address, so if you’ve subscribed via RSS or Feedburner, you’ll still receive episodes automatically.

Beyond keeping what we already featured, you’ll now be able to browse all of our podcast episodes in one convenient place, streaming or downloading them from the main page, or clicking on them to visit the dedicated episode page. We’ll also be introducnig handy links for one-click subscriptions via iTunes, Zune, and (once it is possible) for the open-source Songbird.

Our first episode to inaugurate the new page is part one of a two-part series, Pathways to Your Plate, by Roberto Nieto and Lili Eskinazi. Entitled Dignified Rage, in this first part, they visit the Festival of Dignified Rage organised by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, and examine the ties between agricultural work and broader issues of political and economic autonomy.

Click here to listen on our new podcast page.

Or: Listen to Episode #85 Pathways to Your Plate: Part 1 (Running time: 15:37)

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Roberto and Lili have also been writing about their trip over at the Pathways to Your Plate blog.

One last thing: we’ve been nearly overwhelmed with the number of incredible submissions we’ve been receiving. So much so, that we can’t handle posting them every two weeks. So from now until mid-April, at least, you’ll be able to listen to a new episode every week! I hope you enjoy listening to them as much I have!

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Beyond the Numbers

Written by tim
March 6, 2009

Much has been said and written about the ongoing economic crisis, and for good reason. No sector seems to be protected from the current financial problems. But these problems are usually described through numbers: number of layoffs, number of points dropping off the stock market, number of bankruptices, number of foreclosures… Behind all these numbers though are thousands - more likely millions - of people, affected in their daily lives.

This week’s podcast breaks through these numbers. Jeff Armstrong is a first time contributor to CITIZENShift. He’s also an auto-worker living in Oshawa, one of the hardest hit towns in one of the hardest hit regions of Canada. He heads out into his community to talk to local community organisers to get a look at what is happening on the ground, and is joined by renowned economist Jim Stanford to break down exactly how we got to this point - and some ideas of how to get out of it

Listen to Episode #84 Beyond the Numbers (Running time: 15:37)

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If you have any thoughts or comments about today’s episode we’d love to read them below. If you’d like to get in touch with us for any reason, send an e-mail to citizen@nfb.ca.

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