http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts Social issues podcasts by engaged citizens. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:46:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi folks! Great news: after being a little dormant lately, we're back in force with a series of daily updates on the climate change conference taking place this week in Copenhagen. The Canadian Youth Delegation to Copenhagen are reporting everyday on the happenings at this crucial event. Listen below, or on ... http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts/2009/12/07/podcastinhagen/ Episodes 100, Popular Resistance Facing Repression in Mexico, went up last week, and Episode 101, Olympic Resistance, just went up today. Two podcasts on two widely different topics, but both do what we love here at CitizenShift: putting forward voices and ideas you won't usually find in the mainstream media. ... http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts/2009/08/20/100-101-and-your-favorite-cs-podcasts/ Episode 100 is fast approaching and so is the deadline to vote for your favorite CITIZENShift podcast episodes! Check out our list of 20 of our favorites to kick things off - but vote for any of the episodes from the last three years that you liked. Vote by emailing ... http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts/2009/08/10/only-three-days-left-to-vote/ Episode 99 of the podcast is up. 'Losing Home to Wind and Water' is an exploration by journalist Nelly Bassily of the growing plight of the world's climate refugees. While for some climate change is still a vague theory, and for others a seemingly far off reality, many more are living ... http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts/2009/08/09/losing-home-to-wind-and-water-the-growing-plight-of-climate-refugees/ You may have noticed that we’re rapidly approaching the 100th episode of the CitizenShift podcast. It’s an exciting accomplishment for us: we’ve seen the podcast series change and evolve over the years – take pauses and restart. Of course, it would never have been possible without the support of you, ... http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts/2009/07/30/help-to-celebrate-our-100th-episode/ Just a quick note, Episode 98 is now online. In Taking Toronto's Streets, Dan Kellar interviews participants and organisers in Spring 2009's protests by the Canadian Tamil community while the bloody civil war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam and the Sri Lankan government raged on. http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts/2009/07/30/ep-98-online-taking-torontos-streets/ Episode 97 is up! Amy Miller brings us Canada's National (In)Security 2009, an incisive round-up of ongoing controversies surrounding Canadian national security practices. It was four years ago, in 2005, that CITIZENShift first began to explore the balance between national security measures and the protection of civil liberties, human rights and ... http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts/2009/07/21/canadas-national-insecurity-2009/ Colombian President Alvaro Uribe didn't pass unnoticed in Montreal last week during the 15th International Economic Forum of the Americas. In town to promote free-trade, protesters gathered outside to denounce his government's human rights abuses. What was all the fuss about? Get a better idea from this week's podcast episode, ... http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts/2009/06/19/ep-93-colombia-beyond-the-wall-part-1/ Hi Folks! Just a quick note to say that this is a lucky day for all you RSS subscribers. Just sent out all five parts of the Strangest Dream podcast. And for those of you who aren't subscribed yet - what are you waiting for? Go to citizen.nfb.ca/ourpodcasts and click ... http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts/2009/05/14/strangest-dream-podcast-sent-out-on-the-intertubes/ [caption id="attachment_5352" align="alignnone" width="470" caption="Will the next generation see a nuclear weapon-free world?"][/caption]When the Allies defeated Germany in World War II, the outlook many had on the war changed drastically. While Japan continued to fight, many felt it was only a matter of time before the war in the east ... http://citizenshift.org/blogs/podcasts/2009/05/12/dreaming-of-a-nuclear-weapon-free-world/