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Liana Salvador speaks to the crowd assembled for International Women's Day in Toronto about one of the factors that make equality difficult for young women - Student Debt. Keith looks at some of the women who are powerful in American Politics. Shani Mootoo talks with Allendria Brunges about her latest book, Valmiri's Daughter. Poet Lillian Allen performing at International Women's Day in Toronto.

Economist Armine Yalnizyan speaks to a conference for women negotiators for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). She says there is a way to save the economy, if governments will just act quickly.

Keith on the jobs crisis. Reel women remind us that "You Can't Take It With You" Roxanne Potvin, with the song "Je T'aime" Special Feature: first presentation from Who R U, a podcast featuring identity on the edge of tech.

Kevin McGowan's top music picks from last year. www.rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/theruckus. Allison Crowe, with the song Angels. Prudent Nsengiyumva takes us to Rwanda's first school for the deaf to meet a student who is changing her life by studying there. Norman Finklestein is an indendent academic. He writes on Israeli-Palestinian issues. His speech is called Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Ghandi. At one of his lectures he was asked to compare Barack Obama with Ghandi, which is when he told everyone that they should not believe the hype. His vociferous response was recorded from the crowd. Keith Gottschalk might love Obama, but he's been distracted. He'll tell you all about it. The Good Lovelies, with a song from their self-titled album. The song is Cheek to Cheek.

Jewish activists across Canada are taking action against the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Last week a group of Jewish women held a protest in the Israeli Consulate in Toronto. Rabble Founder Judy Rebick was there. She told her story to Rabble Radio's Meagan Perry. Judy Rebick is not the only one Karine Silverwoman is a Toronto writer, performer, and activist. She has worked with Nightwood theater, and Toronto's Mayworks Festival. She performed her piece This Is Not a Poem in Toronto early this month. Keith Gottschalk is keeping his eyes firmly on the economy as the Obama inauguration comes over the horizon. He's found his inspiration in the Maritimes. We're revisiting some of our best documentaries of 2008. This is Dave Kattenburg, from the Green Planet Monitor, on Ecological Food in Bolivia. Only one of the Reel Women is with us today, but Cathi's looking back over 2008 to tell us what her rental picks are. Let her help you through the early DVD questions of 2009.

Interview with Jaimie Biggar from Canadians for a Progressive Coalition about how to keep the coalition a reality. Keith Golding with his song Golden Cup. You can hear more from him at http://www.themeeting.ca Interview with Kenneth Whyte, the author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolf Hearst. The Reel Women on Hellboy II Kensington Prairie with Bluebirds

Wayne MacPhail attends a Hamilton vigil for Teenage Head's Frankie Venom. Frankie Venom died October 16. He was 52. Part of the panel discussion from Rabble.ca's relaunch party. Speakers include Duncan Cameron, Maude Barlow, Jessica Yee, Murray Dobbin, and Anne Lagace Dowson. Studs Terkel, speaking at Chicago University in 2005. Terkel died October 31, 2008. He was 96.

When the 2010 Olympic Spirit Train stopped in Edmonton, protestors were on the case, and they stole the show. Thanks to CJSR FM88 program RISE UP! for this piece. LAL's tune Self Defense. Susan Nathan is a British Jew who exercised her right of return only to find conditions for Arab-Israeli's akin to those under the apartheid regime. She talks about her book The Other Israel: My Journey Across the Arab Israeli Divide. Keith is waiting for the end of the election tunnel to appear. Reel Women discuss Ironman. One more tune from LAL: Wasteland.

Which is your least favorite party, and what would they have to do to gain your vote. What Whitehorse has to say. Keith completes the following assignment: compare and contrast the U.S and Canadian election debates. Horreya - Maryem Tollar and Ernie Tollar. Redeye podcast brings us an interview with Ian Angus, the editor of Climate and Capitalism on the political parties, and their platforms when it comes to the environment. Maryem Tollar with Watad Ya Gamil/Bel Enfant.

Election streeters: How engaged are you in following the campaign? Stephen Lewis has devoted himself in the last few decades to fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS infections. Lewis delivered an address in Whitehorse last week (September 15, 2008). Canada's Aboriginal Communities, he said, have higher rates of the disease due to poverty and government neglect. At the end of the address a question came from the audience about what Aboriginal Communities can expect from the Canadian Government in the future. Here is what Lewis said in response. Keith Gottschalk is struggling on in the face of a double header news story: the U.S. Election campaign, and the government's bailout of Wall Street. Electioneering, DVD style. Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond get into it over their favorite election movies. Feature interview with Salman Rushdie on his new novel The Enchantress of Florence.