The Dispatch

The Dispatch

On the Dispatch, Briarpatch Magazine invites you to dip into our audio arsenal of essays, interviews, music, spoken word, and satire. With what we're packing, we'll have errorists from the boardrooms of Bay Street to the quail-hunting ranches of Texas quaking in their boots!

Fair trade and empire: An anti-capitalist critique of the fair-trade movement

March 27, 2012
| While fair trade channels more income into agricultural communities, it ultimately fails to address the colonial capitalist structures that produce the impoverishment of farmers on an ongoing basis.
Length: 13:02

Linguicide: Submersion education and the killing of languages in Canada

March 27, 2012
| While it is assumed that linguicide died with the closure of the last residential school in 1996, in truth it continues as a covert policy into the present.
Length: 17:38

Angela Davis at the University of Regina

April 1, 2011
| Dr. Angela Davis on her historic role in social justice movements and the continued relevance of radical social movements in the 21st century.
Length: 52:05

Naomi Klein

October 28, 2008
| Briarpatch's editor talks one-to-one with Naomi Klein.
Length: 00:00 minutes (0 bytes)

Naomi Klein

October 27, 2008
| Our interview with Naomi Klein
Length: 16:38

35 years of Briarpatch

October 26, 2008
| Two talks from Briarpatch's 35 year birthday party
Length: 35:51

Bali Climate Summit: Don Kossick interviews Rosa Kouri

January 18, 2008
| Fascinating eye-witness account of the Bali Climate Summit
Length: 29:55

Salvo 3 - Fair Travel

January 23, 2007
| The collective's third anti-errorist attack aims at the travel and tourism industry.
Length: 27:02

Salvo 2

May 24, 2006
| The second anti-errorist attack launched by the Dispatch: the collective kicks Maclean's butt, brings you some music by The Cracker Cats, interviews a teen drag king and more.
Length: 38:17

Salvo 1

February 15, 2006
| The first anti-errorist attack launched by the Dispatch: the collective examines China, explores food banks, crosses to the wrong side of the tracks and more.
Length: 36:25