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Canadian Youth Delegation asks is Canada lying? Hiphop artist Eekwol talks Indigenous rights and Olympics. John Bonnar on protests for climate justice in Canada. Also, we have music. Canadian Youth Delegation to Copenhagen asks whether Canada is lying and what that will mean for Canada. Hiphop artist Eekwol talks youth and indigenous rights. Eekwol with "Reluctant Warrior" John Bonnar at the Climate Justice rally in Toronto Eekwol with "The Future Wonders"

Amy Goodman launched her new book Breaking The Sound Barrier at an event co-hosted by community radio stations CJSF, Co-op Radio and CiTR in Vancouver, B.C. last night. Despite being detained by Canadian border services delaying her book launch by over an hour Amy Goodman delivered an impassioned lecture to a standing room only audience.

Food bank recipients volunteer, Tibetan Buddhism in B.C. Prisons, and Baka Beyond on a train platform in Nanaimo, B.C. Sachin Seth went to the Fort York Food Bank to talk about how the recession was affecting the facility, but found food bank recipients volunteering their time to keep the place running. Here are three of their stories. Anne McNeil is a Tibetan Buddhist nun who leads meditations in B.C. prisons. In this interview with Stark Raven: Prison Justice, she talks about what teaching meditation in prisons is like, and what the prisons get out of having meditation available for prisoners. Baka Beyond have worked with and learned music from the Baka people of Cameroon. The band's singer Su Hart was riding a train that stopped for 7 minutes in Nanaimo, where Living on Purpose's Lynn Thompson caught up with her for a quick interview.

In this podcast: protecting the rights of Vancouverites, advocating for Uganda's gays and lesbians, learning through art, and music from Ottawa. Leaked documents show that the Province of B.C. is considering legislation that would allow the police to detain the homeless. David Eby, executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association speaks about what that will mean for the homeless during the Vancouver 2010 games. A multi-media piece about child soldiers called Strange News made it's Canadian Debut last week, and featured actor Arthur Kisenyi, who travelled from Uganda to perform. Ugandan GLBT activists are asking for help from the international community. They want you to deliver letters against the implementation of a strict anti-homosexuality bill that is now on its way to becoming law. The Ruckus has been featuring Ottawa artists in its last few podcasts. In the latest Ottawa edition, the Mighty Popo. Here he is, with Ma Africa.

In this podcast: How a Canada-Colombia FTA affects trade union activists in Colombia, Denise Chong about an activist's life in China, and preserving the history of resistance in Canada's Africville. The Canadian Union of Public Employees has been working to prevent the implementation of a Free Trade deal between Canada and Colombia, because of the human rights abuses in that country against labour activists and indigenous peoples. Berenice Celeyta is a human rights activist in Colombia, and the director of NOMADESC, the Association for Social Research and Action in Southwestern Colombia. She is a winner of the Robert F. Kenedy human rights award, and has faced death threats and imprisonment for her work with labour activists and the displaced people of Colombia. Earlier this month, she took mic at CUPE's national convention in Montreal to tell the conference delegates what support from CUPE means for activists in her country. She spoke to the crowd in Spanish, with simultaneous translation. Here is part of what she shared with the crowd. This episode's second C: China. During the Tienanmen Square protests in 1989, Lu De Cheng (Lou Deh-Chung) was one of three young men who showed their anger at China's communist government by filling eggshells with paint and launching them at the portrait of Chairman Mao that presides over the square. That single action led the three of them to a life of imprisonment and harassment. After serving 11 years of a 16 year sentence, Lu De Cheng escaped to Canada. Writer Denise Chong has documented his story. Meagan had the opportunity to speak to Denise Chong about her book. It's called Egg On Mao: The Story of an ordinary man who defaced and icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship. Here's part of their conversation. We'll start by heading to Montreal, where Lillian Allen and Anne Healy were a surprise treat at the CUPE National Convention. Allen is known for bringing dub poetry to Canada, and Healy is part of the folk duo Healy and Juravich. African people were bought and sold in Nova Scotia, but after the war of 1812, many of those who escaped slavery or had been freed settled at the northern tip of the Halifax peninsula. The settlement became known as Africville. Lack of services, racism, and poverty made it infamous for being one of Canada's worst slums. But Africville was also a place of resistance until the 1960s, when black families were evicted to make way for industrial development by the city of Halifax. In this documentary, Adam Bemma speaks to some of the activists who are preserving the history of oppression and resistance that is embodied Africville.

A letter on healthcare that came in to rabble.ca/issues/healthcareUSA Fragile Day, a song from A Northern Chorus. Former prisoner Alex Friedman on having his play performed at the Kennedy Centre, from Stark Raven. Letter from rabble.ca/issues/HealthcareUSA Update on Dump Site 41, from Redeye Letter from rabble.ca/issues/HealthcareUSA

Yves Engler on Canada's negative influence and why Canadians don't believe it is possible. Sunday Wilde with Jivin' Man. Activists talk about how the fight to protect the water table in Simcoe County, Ontario has meant harassment but also inspired their continued dedication. The Reel Women talk spring water by reviewing Jean de Florette. Sunday Wilde with I Guess I Didn't Hear You Right.

Margo Greenwood speaks about a new report on Aboriginal children's health. Redeye finds out all the ways you can get a ticket on your bike. Last Rabble Radio until August!

Jack Layton speaks after a protest in Solidarity with Iran at Toronto's Queen's Park. An interview with the founder of the Global Detention Project, tracking migrant detentions around the world. Music by Pamela Brennan. The song is Amsterdam. Cathi Bond speaks to Joseph Heath about Filthy Lucre: Economics for those who hate Capitalism. Music from Colin Linden.

Jessa Runciman reports on a forum on Canadian Mining Practices Abroad. No Trespassing by Mendelson Joe Derek Blackadder on net neutrality, the labour movement, and the Web. Dr. John Agnew on the calls for an inquiry into research on indigenous communities in Latin America. Reel Women on Mamma Mia!