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Jul 28 2008 - Naida Hyde in Lesotho, part 2
In Part 2 of this interview, trauma worker Naida Hyde reads some poetry and gets specific about a couple of the young women she met in Lesotho. World Report reviews a report on carbon neutrality and several Canadian positions on the US-India nuclear deal soon to come before the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Suppliers Group for exceptional treatment.
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Jul 21 2008 - Gender violence in Africa: Interview with Naida Hyde
Three meetings loom large in the coming weeks: WTO negotiations in Geneva; meetings of the IAEA and NSG; and the pan-African conference to end impunity on sexual and gender-based violence. The latter is likely the most meaningful and therefore commands the most of our attention. I caught up with Naida Hyde just before she moved from Nelson to Victoria. She has been doing trauma work with women for 30 years and had just come back from a project in Africa.
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Jul 14 2008 - Algonquins win appeal to protest mineral exploration
Back in February 2008, Robert Lovelace, retired Chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, was sentenced to six months in a maximum security prison for refusing to obey a court order which banned peaceful protest against uranium exploration on his community’s territory in eastern Ontario. Shortly after, World Report interviewed Donna Dillman, the settler grandmother who had fasted between October and December to protest against uranium exploration in the same part of Ontario. This week the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the conviction of Lovelace and six others on related charges..
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Jul 07 2008 - Interview with Randy Janzen: A day in Hebron
Randy Janzen describes a day in Hebron as a Christian Peacemaker Teams volunteer. Headlines on the arrest of Robin Long, Joshua Key's victory in a Canadian court, civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Bangor Six and the Raytheon Nine; Peace education in Jerusalem; non-violence intervention training in Brilliant, BC; Forum on Women's Rights and Development in Capetown; the Percy Schmeiser event and nominations for the Top 10 Who Are Changing the Internet and Politics.
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Jun 30 2008 - Has Israel done something right?
How is the the Hamas-Israel ceasefire holding up? What are the parties saying? What are the likely outcomes? World Report continues its exploration.
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Jun 23 2008 - Interview with Ramzy Baroud
Hamas and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire. What does it mean? World Report begins its exploration by interviewing Ramzy Baroud, editor of Palestine Chronicle.
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Jun 16 2008 - We need dialogue more than hope
This is the week Corky Evans announced he wouldn't be running again for the Provincial Legislative Assembly. Former Nelson city councilor, Donna McDonald, talks about her activist approach to hosting Nelson Before Nine, including her interest in TILMA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The conversation turns to how corporate concentration undermines objectivity. Copyright bill gets first reading in Ottawa. Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement revealed.
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Jun 02 2008 - Readers and Listeners
In the wake of the spring membership drive, World Report presents some of the benefits of interaction with readers of the blog and listeners to the broadcast.
May 26 2008 - Five-year retrospective
Excerpts from World Report's first five years, including the NCRA award winning pieces. This 66-minute edition of World Report is a special Membership Drive edition.
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May 19 2008 - I have media issues: Panel #1
Do you have media issues? Jim Terral talks with Kootenay Coop Radio hosts Micahel Lavinder and Charles Jeanes about theirs. The discussion takes an introspective turn as they talk about consciousness, truth, empowerment, emotion, and relativism.
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