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August 25/2014
In this feature interview we talk to inmate Ryan Jordan about systemic racism, racial discrimination, racial divides between administration and inmates and a racial division between who gets privileges and who gets punishments within Canada’s “Correctional Institutions”. Incarcerated since 2003, Jordan speaks from his experiences as a grievance clerk for other prisoners, as well as from his own experiences launching a number of legal challenges against the prison system and its administrators, the most recent of which in April 2014 was concluded in his favour at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Ryan Jordan is currently serving a life sentence and is currently institutionalized at Collins Bay minimum security

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Interview with inmate Ryan Jordan – a grievance clerk for his fellow prisoners. Photo: Huffington Post

We interview two long-time organizers around the issue, whose positions though not necessarily contradictory somewhat reflect the long-standing debate between those pushing for “decriminalization” and those advocating “abolition”.  We speak to Chanelle Gallant from Maggie’s-Toronto, a Toronto-based sex workers action project; and Suzanne Baustad, co-founder of  Grassroots Women – an anti-imperialist women’s group that was active in Vancouver between 1995 and 2010 and worked to address the systemic marginalization of working class women. Baustad also wrote in to BASICSNews.ca with an Op-Ed that you can read here.

After a decade of ‘drop fees’ rhetoric and little tangible successes in rising tuition feeds – a failure that contrasts sharply with the militancy of Quebec students and their relative successes – are students in Canada ready to break from the CFS?

In this show we reflect on Sept. 11th and how imperialism has used it to propel war on the people around the Globe.

In our feature interview, we focus on the ‘Defederation Campaign’ and how and why students are organizing to defederate from the Canadian Federation of Student. Through our conversation with Ashleigh Ingle, Ontario Spokesperson, we explore why.

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On this edition of Radio Basics Kitchener-Waterloo, we interview Martin Rafferty, who has been engaged in the struggle for Irish Republicanism since his youth, and was been imprisoned as a result. Rafferty is currently a leading member of Belfast 32 County Coverieghnty Movement. In this interview he discusses the creation of 32CSM, the struggles of the current POWS and the struggle to build a socialist Independent Irish Republic.

You can listen to Radio-Basics in the KW region every Friday from 3-4pm @ SoundFM 100.3 or live at SoundFm.ca.

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January 14, 2013 on Radio Basics: Zig Zag on Idle No More / Toronto High school teacher Luis Filipe on teachers rank-n-file resistance to Bill 115

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Feature interviews on today’s show with Zig Zag (warriorpublications.wordpress.com) on the “snakes in the grassroots” of #IdleNoMore and his analysis of the role of AFN Chiefs in the rising movement of grassroots Indigenous peoples; and Toronto high school teacher Luis Filipe, (a union executive member of the OSSTF local brank at Parkdale C.I. and member of Rank-n-File Education Workers of Toronto – REWT) on the ongoing resistance of teachers to Bill 115 and other attacks on the education sector.

Zig Zag interview begins 16:25.
Luis Filipe interview begins 42:10.

Six Nations hip-hop from Henny Jack, Tru Rez, Kardboard Kid, Pete Nyce & MC Sage. Filipino hip-hop from L.A., Power Struggle.

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This week we will be interviewing a Dr. who was in Gaza during the recent attacks by the brutal Israeli govt. So Tune in!

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