Migrant Matters

Michael Parenti: Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies

migrant matters — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:44:51 +0000

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Progressive author and scholar Michael Parenti discusses his most recent book, "Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies" and the ongoing global struggle against austerity.

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How to find out the best election candidate

migrant matters — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:33:15 +0000

Influencing Politics

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Koba published an article showing one way of analyzing the election candidates. This interview examines the nuts and bolts of the analysis to help the audience easily understand the key messages. It is hoped, after hearing this interview, people will be less distracted by the misleading information of the politicians and their parties, and they will be able to device their own better analysis to find the best candidate for them.

Does LIP Really Respect Immigrants & What Actually is Needed to be Done for Immigrants?

migrant matters — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 01:18:34 +0000

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October 11, 2015

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This article reveals how the Guelph-Wellington Local Immigration Partnership exploit on the immigrants and immigrants' Issues

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Does LIP Really Respect Immigrants & What is Actually Needed to be

Done for Immigrants?

The following is a very critical article about the Guelph-Wellington Local Immigration Partnership (LIP), which explains how this organization misuses most of the money that it obtained from the federal government to support immigrants, by diverting it to help educate employers and service providers that discriminate or likely to discriminate immigrants.

How can there be an 'all-candidates' debate when candidates from minor parties are excluded?

migrant matters — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 06:45:04 +0000

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Is the fair election process a product of removing the voice of certain candidates? Is the democratic ruling achieved by sacrificing the democratic rights of marginalized candidates? Are the major party candidates that participate in the debates really concerned about democracy? In this interview, two party members that were excluded in the all candidates debate in Guelph, Ontario present their views.

Peter Miller is the campaign manager of the Communist Party in Guelph.

Uncovering the myths of communism!

migrant matters — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 03:46:11 +0000

Addressing some of the common concerns about communism

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This highly informative interview with Guelph Young Community League member Brendan Campisi addresses the common concerns about communism that exists in the community and compares it with capitalism and socialism.

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Interview at GCHC on the health services to marginalized populations

migrant matters — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 02:23:14 +0000

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Interview with Dr. Michael Stevenson on Refugee Health

migrant matters — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:42:23 +0000

Can we trust the offer of the Harper Government to support refugees?

Can we trust the offer of the Harper Government to support refugees? Please listen to this audio to learn how the Harper Government is supposedly aidinging the existing refugees.

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Interview with Dr. Michael Stevenson on Refugee Health

migrant matters — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:42:30 +0000

Can we trust the offer of the Harper Government to support refugees?

Can we trust the offer of the Harper Government to support refugees? Please listen to this audio to learn how the Harper Government is supposedly aidinging the existing refugees.

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Power to the PINAYs: On the work of Montreal-based Filipino women’s organization Pinay

migrant matters — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 02:18:09 +0000

On the work of Montreal-based organization PINAY, which is led by Filipinas, including women working as migrant workers.

An organizer with the all-Filipina and all-volunteer run, Montreal-based organization PINAY, speaks about their work to empower Filipinas residing in Quebec, and in particular Filipina/os working as live-in caregivers. Not unlike some of her fellow PINAY organizers, this women had worked as a live-in caregiver for almost six years and is currently living in Montreal. In this interview we cover an overview of Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP), one of Canada's four temporary foreign worker programs, and we take a look at how the LCP pertains to people working as live-in caregivers in Quebec as well as several campaigns that PINAY is working on.

Criminalization of Indigenous peoples and reproductive justice

migrant matters — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:48:12 +0000

Criminalization of Indigenous peoples throughout colonial Canada and reproductive justice

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Canadian campaign to reverse the deportation order on Jose Figueroa

migrant matters — Thu, 01 May 2014 18:03:09 +0000

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Jose Figueroa is a Canadian-Salvadorean currently fighting a deportation order in Langly, B.C. He’s a loving father of three and has lived in Canada for 15 years. He had applied to live in Canada long ago because he faced danger in El Salvador, having stood up against a repressive military dictatorship during a violent civil war there. Canada accepted him on these grounds, but 13 years later, the government wants to deport him based on the same reason he was accepted into Canada, and because of a mistaken view of both who Jose is and the politics of El Salvador. Jose joined a Guelph community panel on May Day via Skype to share his story and talk about his We Are Jose campaign.

Reproductive justice and criminalization of black and brown women

migrant matters — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 16:53:36 +0000

Lecture by Tina Reynolds, co-Founder of Women on the Rise Telling Her Story, an advocacy organization for incarcerated women.

This lecture by Tina Reynolds, co-Founder and Chair of New York-based Women on the Rise Telling Her Story (WORTH), outlines the impact of criminalization on the fastest growing population within the United States penal system: black and brown women, and discusses reproductive justice concerning incarcerated women looking through a human rights lens.

Claiming our bodies through the human rights framework

migrant matters — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 03:42:59 +0000

Lecture by Loretta Ross on claiming our bodies through the human rights framework

This 1 hour 56 sec recording of Loretta Ross’s talk discusses the eight categories of human rights to which everyone is entitled, and how to account for differences and diversities in making human rights claims.

A glimpse into women's history in the Soviet Union

migrant matters — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:32:41 +0000

Liz Rowley speaks about issues of gender equality in the USSR during it's socialist period.

Liz Rowley speaks about women's issues in connection with the socialist revolution taking root in the 19th century in the Soviet Union.

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We need to have more conversations about deportation and our community

migrant matters — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:52:15 +0000

Many wanting to stay face deportation. From his experience as an ally, Matthew Behrens talks about deportation.

Im/migration myth busting week happened in the Springtime of this year, on March 18-22 at the University of Guelph campus. In light of the continued and growing closing off of opportunities for migrating people to live and stay in our communities with full-on paper rights, the campaign commenced with a speakers event about Canada’s system of deportation of poor and working-class racialized im/migrants. Matthew Behrens spoke at the event, and Migrant Matters Radio recorded this representing of the knowledge and experience of allies. Behrens is a long-time community organizer and has worked closely with the targets of Canadian and U.S. “national security” profiling for many years.