Carla Green

Montréal activists hold anti-racist soccer tournament

CKUT News — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:14:34 +0000

In the lead-up to the World Cup final, a group of soccer aficionados gathered to play a very different kind of game.

CKUT News: Les opposants aux coupures à l'aide sociale ne lâchent pas

CKUT News — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:27:15 +0000

L'Organisation populaire des droits sociaux tente de re-occuper le bureau de la députée péquiste, Carole Poirier

“Si on regarde le coût du loyer, le coût de la nourriture, le coût de l’hydro, même, qui augmente à chaque année, les gens n’y arrivent plus,” a prononcé Lise Fournier de Mouvement action chômage de Longeuil. On était assises sur le trottoir en face du bureau de Carole Poirier, députée péquiste pour Hochelaga Maisonneuve.

Moralizing or Empowering: The Hot Topic that Affects Us All

CKUT News — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:30:52 +0000

A documentary on morality and moral development

When Lawrence Kohlberg was a psychology student at the University of Chicago in the 1950s, he came up with a theory of moral development. He theorized that our capacity to reason about moral decisions, from lying to murder, developed in stages throughout our lifetimes, and that by the time we reach adulthood, humans are capable of reasoning rationally through complex moral dilemmas.

CKUT's Off the Hour Panel Discussion: Unwraveling an inside look at the mining industry

CKUT News — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:04:33 +0000

On February 9th, as Montréal’s environmental activists chanted, marched, and were piled into police buses outside the Palais des congrés, we wound our w

Idle No More incorporates all voices, even the dissenting ones

carlaflournoy — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:23:50 +0000

Kahnawake's Mohawk Traditional Council critiques the movement at Montréal's Idle No More rally

Protest rhetoric tends to err on the side of boundless optimism, but when Stuart Myiow stood up in front of the crowd of hundreds at the Idle No More protest last Friday, he bluntly broke the mold.

CKUT's Off the Hour: Montréal joins in on the #IdleNoMore movement

CKUT News — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:19:35 +0000

The audio originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour on Tuesday, December 25th, 17h-18h.

In Montréal, activists don’t tend to be idle for long. So it was surprising when, as the Idle No More movement spread across Canada, Québec stayed silent for almost two weeks.

CKUT's Off the Hour: Students and activists gather for the international week of action against the commodification of education

CKUT News — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:48:10 +0000

ASSÉ organizes a demonstration on November 22nd in solidarity

The audio was originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour on Friday, November 23rd, 17h-18h.

CKUT's Off the Hour: Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza, and why the National Lawyer's Guild condemns it

CKUT News — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 03:16:33 +0000

This interview originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour on Tuesday, November 20th, 17h-18h.

The Turcot Interchange is falling down

carlaflournoy — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:18:09 +0000

How activists, architects, and government officials are in a death struggle over its reconstruction

There is one thing everyone agrees on: the Turcot Interchange is crumbling, and in desperate need of repair.

CKUT's Off the Hour: Occupy Montréal celebrates its first anniversary

CKUT News — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:03:45 +0000

Activists and supporters gather at the Place du Peuple to commemorate the revolutionary movement's arrival in Montréal a year before

The audio, a series of interviews with supporters at Place du Peuple on October 15th, was originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour on Tuesday, October

CKUT Off the Hour: "La destruction totale": Why the Plan Nord should be stopped, and how aboriginal women are leading the charge

CKUT News — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:40:51 +0000

Élyse Vollant, Denise Jourdain, and Ellen Gabriel speak out against environmental exploitation

This piece was originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour on Friday, October 6th, 17h-18h.

CKUT's Off the Hour: Occupons le Sud-Ouest

CKUT News — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:47:10 +0000

Occupy Montreal keeps on occupying: Activists took over a St. Henri park for a weekend to keep spreading their message of change

This piece was originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour on Friday, September 21st, 17h-18h.

A McGill Islamic Studies student experiences American Islamophobia firsthand

CKUT News — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:50:08 +0000

Interview with Pascal Abidor

When Pascal Abidor reached the US-Canadian border on May 1st, 2010, he was expecting the standard two-hour wait on the train while the border officials move through the cars and check passports. What he wasn't expecting was to be pulled off the train, handcuffed and detained for hours, and have his electronics searched. As Pascal explains, the agents decided to subject him to th

CKUT Off the Hour: “À qui profite le Plan Nord?”, une nouvelle recherche de l’IRIS

CKUT News — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:01:52 +0000

Entrevue avec le chercheur principal, Bertrand Schepper

L’institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économique (IRIS) vient de publier une nouvelle recherche sur le Plan Nord, “À qui profite le Plan Nord?&rdq

CKUT Off the Hour: Launch of a five-year study on homophobic bullying across North America

CKUT News — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:10:22 +0000

Reports of homophobic bullying have skyrocketed in the past couple of years, gaining particular attention in the media because of a numb