Mud and Water Radio is a weekly current affairs and arts program that airs Mondays at 5:30 pm on CKUW 95.9 FM, produced by Josh Brandon, Val Cavers and Karen Mackintosh.
Special recording: May 6, 2012
Roland Woodward, chair of Keepers of the Water Athabasca, on the impact of the Alberta tar sands on First Nations communities and the Athabasca River and Lake Watershed.
May 7, 2012
Elizabeth Comack on the book Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the Police.
April 30, 2012
Jodi Read on the Migrant Trail and the ongoing displacement of Mexican and Central American workers by global capitalism.
April 23, 2012
Peter Miller of Green Action Centre on budgets, gas taxes and the environment.
April 9, 2012
Sheldon Birnie on hog plants and foreign labour in southwestern Manitoba.
April 2, 2012
Radhika Desai on austerity budgets.
March 26, 2012
Jim Hiscott of Groundswell on John Cage – 100 Years.
March 19, 2012
Clark Brownlee of Right to Housing on federal cuts for affordable housing in Canada.
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March 12, 2012
Glenn Michalchuk of Peace Alliance Winnipeg on why we need to oppose Canadian support for war on Iran.
March 5, 2012
Jessie Klassen of Green Action Centre on the search for greener birth control.
Roewan Crowe, of the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, on feminist art and the film !Women Art Revolution.
February 20, 2012
John Sinclair, of the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba, talks about federal attacks to the environmental assessment process under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government.
February 13, 2012
Julie Guard on fighting back against Stephen Harper’s attacks on workers.
February 6. 2012
Eric Reder on peat mining in Manitoba.
January 30, 2012
Kim Ives on U.S. intervention in Haiti.
January 23, 2012
Leonard Conolly on the politics and plays of George Bernard Shaw.
January 16, 2012
Henry Heller speaks on his book The Birth of Capitalism: A Twenty-First Century Perspective.
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January 9, 2012
Neil Cohen of the Community Unemployed Help Centre on problems with the Employment Insurance system.
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January 2, 2012
Ani Terton reports back from the international climate change negotiations in Durban.
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December 19, 2011
Jenny Gerbasi on bus fares, rapid transit and urban infrastructure in Winnipeg.
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Emily Wiebe on the impact of higher transit fares on low-income residents.
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Petition against transit fare increase
December 12, 2011
Chris of the Winnipeg Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid.
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December 5, 2011
Bob Ripley of CUPE Local 500 talks about the federal plan for pooled private pensions plans and why an expansion of the public Canada Pension Plan would provide better income security for retired Canadians.
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November 28, 2011
Ken Kalturnyk on the Canadian Wheat Board.
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Josh Brandon on CentrePort.
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October 17
Vera Goussaert and Brendan Reimer on the historical role of Manitoba co-operatives as an alternative to capitalist economic organizations.
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October 4 (special program)
Steve Bates on the audiovisual exhibition Dead Air.
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September 19
Toronto-based academic activist David McNally, author of Global Slump, on the ongoing global economic crisis and working peoples’ resistance.
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September 12
Vancouver-based artist Jayce Salloum talks about the heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not a heart, his multimedia installation with Afghan-Hazara artist Khadim Ali.
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September 5
Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about the tar sands protests in Washington DC.
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August 8
John Hutton, executive director of the John Howard Society of Manitoba, discusses prison expansion and the tough-on-crime agenda of the Canadian government.
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August 1
American sociologist Erik Olin Wright on Envisioning Real Utopias.
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July 25
The report of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism states that anti-Semitism is a growing threat in Canada, especially on university campuses. Michael Keefer, author of Antisemitism Real and Imagined, talks about the problems with the findings of the coalition.
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