Category: Issues

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Michael Keefer – Revolutionary Compassion Against Colonialism

Tom and his father Michael Keefer sit down to talk about the colonial situation in Palestine and Turtle Island and the letter that Michael is writing to Stephane Dion. Michael Keefer is Professor Emeritus...

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Esu Crossing the Middle Passage: An Interview with d’bi young anitafrika

Playwright and poet d’bi young anitafrika speaks to Real Peoples Media about her upcoming play “Esu Crossing the Middle Passage.” The show is playing in Toronto from April 4th to April 17th 2016 in...

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Dbi Young Anitafrika Stranded in Trinidad

d’bi young anitafrika is a renowned Jamaican-Canadian poet, musician and playwright. On March 6th, 2016 on her way back to Toronto from a working visit to Trinidad and Tobago she was racially profiled and...

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Don’t Blame The Nation State

In this excerpt from Episode 36 of the What’s Going On Podcast Kanenhariyo talks his frustration with how people blame “the system” for its wrongdoings without understanding the complicity of everyday people active in...

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Kanenhariyo on the fabrication of the white race

In this excerpt from Episode 36 of the What’s Going on Podcast, Kanenhariyo talks about the fabrication of the white race.

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Gustafsen Lake’s Exiled – by Fernando Acre

The Gustafsen Lake is one of the most significant conflicts between Indigenous people and the Canadian state in recent memory. Over 400 RCMP officers used helicopters, armoured personnel carriers and fired over 70,000 rounds...

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Kanasaraken on the Onkwehon:we relationship with Ecuador

Mohawk Kanasaraken (Loran Thompson) speaks about his visit to Ecuador to see the devastation in the Amazonian rainforest, and speaks about the importance of developing indigenous to indigenous relationships with the original peoples of...

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The Intersection of Black and Native Hip-Hop: Interview with Wasun

Wasun is one of Toronto’s most most politically active Hip Hop MCs. In December of 2015 he released a new album entitled “Comrade Music” which features extensive collaborations with Indigenous rappers including James Blood,...

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Running Down Line 9 – Jan 2 Interview With Rachel Thevenard

Rachel Thevenard has been running to draw attention to the reversal of Enbridge’s controversial Line 9 pipeline. Rachel started her run in Sarnia on Dec 4th, 2015 and when we spoke to her on...

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WGO 34 – Crooked cops, Trudeau’s tears and John A. MacDonald’s last murder case

There have been some new developments with Kanenhariyo court case. As Kanenhariyo fuels up with multiple cups of coffee we get an update, and discuss crooked cops, Justin Trudeau’s tears, and where things went...