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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!

Keith Gottschalk is not seeing the change promised by the Obama administration. Murray Dobbin has some suggestions that could change the face of the country. RPN's latest show F Word talks queer parenting. Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond talk wrestling. And music from Jenn Grant - Everybody Loves You.

Keith Gottschalk takes us on a Last Hurrah vacation, in his mind anyway. Next an excerpt of an interview with Susan Holtz of the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, where she shared some of her big-picture thinking about energy, food and transportation. Peter Stock opened with a question about the relationship between bio-fuels and food. Next we bring some of the choices around transportation closer to home. In the Lower Mainland of British Colombia, the transit authority Translink is short of money. They need $150 million in the next two years and double that amount to meet expansion plans. They say a tax on individual cars would be one way to bring in some of the cash, and have proposed a $100 levy. Jane Williams of Vancouver Co-op Radio's "RedEye" examined the proposal with Anthony Perl, director of the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University. Here's an excerpt of their conversation. Whenever, where ever Victoria Fenner travels she takes her audio gear with her, she samples sounds the way most of us snap pictures. And, in her new podcast, The Roaming Ear, she brings those sounds home, plucks them off her hard drive and serves them up as as audio fieldnotes. Here's just an acoustic taste of her travels and discoveries Finally, we leave you with a lovely, mellow tune from the Saskatchewen based group, Deep Dark Woods. It's just one Western Canadian group the Ruckus has been presenting on the eponymous podcast here on the rpn. But, before we go, just a remind you to consider becoming a rabble.ca member so we can keep bringing you shows like rabbleradio, the Ruckus, the Roaming Ear and so much more here on the good ol' rpn. Now, the music: This track is All the Money I Had is gone from the band's new album Winter Hours.

Filmmaker Tina Hahn's film Tale of a Yellow Bike was featured in Vancouver's Projecting Change film festival. She stopped by Redeye to talk about her film, and why bicycle culture doesn't thrive in North America. Part of Linda McQuaig's address at rabble.ca's eighth birthday celebration in Toronto on April 16th. Joel Plaskett speaks about working with his father on his latest album Three. Deny, Deny, Deny from Joel Plaskett's latest album Three. Cindy Corrie speaks about remembering her daughter during a Code Pink delegation trip to Gaza. Part of George Galloway's speech, delivered at the border, and played in Canada via internet. From Joel Plaskett's album La De Da, Absentminded Melody.

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