Alert! Radio - Episode 154

Ian Angus, editor of the on line journal Climate and Capitalism and member of the Canadian Dimension collective talks about the outcome and the climate movement politics emerging out of The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth convened by Bolivia’s President Evo Morales in Cochabamba. Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) talks about the message he delivered to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues last Saturday about the woeful example of First Nations rights in Alberta’s Tar Sands. Ron Mackay, spokesman for British MP George Galloway talks about why Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenny ordered Galloway banned from Canada. Elle Flanders, driving force behind Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, talks about the campaign to bar QAIA from this year’s Toronto Pride parade. Mitch Podolak brings songs of the environment to this week’s Music Is The Weapon.