GroundWire | November 10th, 2014

Nov 11, 2014

GroundWire | November 10th, 2014

This edition of GroundWire was produced on unceded Anishinabe and Haudensaunee territories at CFRC in Kingston, Ontario, by Filza Naveed and Brenna Owen.

 

Headlines:

-Anti-pipeline protestors took to social media last week to post their best #KMFace following Kinder Morgan`s court case to remove protestors from their TransMountain Pipeline project site on Burnaby Mountain near Vancouver| Maegan Thomas, Jay Peachy and Stephen Collis, CJSF, BC

-An estimated 50 thousands people took to the streets of Montreal to protest against austerity measures planned by the Quebec Liberal government of Philippe Couillard| Aaron Lakoff, CKUT Montreal 

 

Features:

-CFRC conducted an interview with the co-founder of openkingston.ca. This initiative aims to encourage democracy, citizen journalim and empower citizens, increasing voter turn out|Filza Naveed and Brenna Owen, CFRC, Kingston

- A demonstration occured outside the Mexican Consulate in downtown Montreal. Activists protested against the violence surrounding the disapearance of 43 students in Mexico.|Leila Lemghalef, CKUT Montreal

- Walking with Our Sisters : an art installation that honors the lives of missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada|Ophira Horwitz

Community Radio Report:

- The National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) is hosting the second edition of their Equity Reading Group later this month. Their topic will be 'positive space'. We will hear how its Equity Committee has grown into an Equity reading group | Ophira Horwitz