Radio Show - By the People March 6 - News

Listen to: By the People March 6

Listen to: By the People February 27

The show starts with a conversation of host Sjeng Derkx with Seth Klein, who is the BC director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The discussion is about the recently adopted Federal and Provincial budgets and Seth explains how the lack of poverty reduction measures in both budgets does not only have negative social consequences but also reduces the effectiveness of economic stimulus measures.

Next Sjeng plays a recording of the presentation in Nelson by BC Citizens' Assembly member Gladys Brown. Gladys describes her personal experience as a member of the randomly chosen group of BC citizens, who after intensive study and discussion chose the BC Single Transferrable Voting system, which will again be put before BC citizens on a referendum May 12.

The show ends with the first in a series called 'Looking through a Different Window', in which producer Glyn Humphries has a conversation with long time and actively involved Nelson citizen Jim Bartels.


Listen to: By the People February 20

Today on By The People, Howie Ross interviews Kevin Annett and Stewart Steinhauer in an hour-long "Activism and Democracy" piece. Kevin Annett is a former United Church minister who is on a mission to raise awareness of what he quite bluntly calls the genocide of aboriginal people in Canada. He has produced a film titled: "Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide" which won the award for "best director" at the 2006 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.
Stewart Steinhauer was born on a reserve in Alberta and has lived and worked both on and off reserve for most of his life. For the last 17 years he has earned his living as a stone sculptor. Currently he lives and sculpts on Kutenai Nation lands near Creston. Tune in for a wide-ranging discussion of First Nation Issues and history.

Kevin Annett's website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org
Stewart Steinhauer's website (stone scupture only; no politics): www.stonesculpture.ca

Tech: David Beringer

Listen to: By the People February 13

Host: Marianne Bond
Tech: Willem Oudemans

Activism & Democracy – Howie Ross interviews Marilyn James, appointed spokesperson Sinixt First Nation.



Interview with John Ralston Saul about his new book – A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada – where Saul argues passionately that Canada is a Metis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas.

Link to full interview

Marianne talks with Andre Carrel, retired city administrator and author of Citizen’s Hall: Making Local Democracy Work. While doing research for his second book Andre became aware of the aboriginal political philosophy which greatly influenced the writing of the Yukon Municipal Act and the provisions within the Act for citizen’s to initiate a referendum. Andre has also recently read John Ralston Saul’s book – A Fair Country and Tony Penikett’s book – Reconcilliation: First Nations Treaty Making in British Columbia. Both talk about the Aboriginal influence on early Canadian political thinking. Marianne and Andre, discuss Saul’s book and the Yukon experience.

Listen to: By the People February 6