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Michael Lebowitz is a founding member of the Socialist Studies Society and a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He delivers his speech “Socialism for the 21st Century” at the Humanities Congress 2008 held at the University of British Columbia. He compares the past of Socialism to the current applications in Venezuela and its applicability in the North America.

Dr. Henri Morgentaler accepts the Canadian Labour Congress Award for Outstanding Service to Humanity.

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President of the The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), John Sweeney addresses the Canadian Labour Congress. 

Canadian Labour Congress President Ken Georgetti opens the 2008 National Convention. 

In this lecture, the author of Green Sisters: A Religious Ecology, Sarah McFarland Taylor, speaks about the growing environmental movement. Women in monastic and apostolic communities are seeing the effects of environmental problems on women.

One Nation Under Google examines how technology (everything from the wireless gadgets we think we need to the mechanics of corporate industries), and the ideology of progress, affects democratic participation and citizenship in the modern day. Darin Barney is Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

On November 29, the Canadian-Palestinian Educational Exchange (CEPAL) in commemoration of the eleventh annual United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People featured keynote speaker, Dr. Norman Finkelstein discusses roots of conflict and prospects for peace in Israel and Palestine. This is the first of a three part podcast.

This fall, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, launched Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada. Featured here is the first of two panels of speakers discussing racial profiling in the Canadian context: Dr. Monia Mazigh, Faisal Kutty, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Dr. Carol Tator, York University. Don't miss the second panel featured in the next episode! And Charles C. Smith featured in the book lounge!

This fall, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, launched Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada. This podcast features the second of two panels of speakers discussing racial profiling in the Canadian context: Karl Flecker, Canadian Labour Congress, Filsan Fadal, youth activist, and Jana Kooren, Educational Co-ordinator, ACLU Minnesota. Don't miss listening to Charles C. Smith featured in the book lounge! LISTEN HERE

On April 27, 2007, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, and Starhawk were featured at the Water and Women of Action conference in Toronto, hosted by the Transformative Learning Centre and OISE. rabble.ca first presents Vandana, who speaks of the importance of viewing water as sacred.

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Part One of the readings at PEN Canada's annual fall gala benefit held on Friday, October 20 at the University of Toronto. It featured Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. Also appearing will be Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran) along with acclaimed Canadian writers Miriam Toews, Wayson Choy and MG Vassanji. The host is writer and actor Ann-Marie McDonald. The PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Prize was presented to Vancouver Sun journalist Kim Bolan.

IMPERIAL BLUES: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine. A Public Lecture by TARIQ ALI. Tariq Ali spoke in Toronto on October 15th on the topic of "Imperial Blues" Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine", and on the subject of his new book: "Pirates of the Carribean - an Axis of Hope". The event was organized by CUPE 3903 ... and recorded for rabble.ca by Kim Elliott. TARIQ ALI was born in Lahore (then British India) in 1943. He was educated in Pakistan and later at Oxford. His opposition to the military dictatorship in Pakistan prevented his return to his native country and forced him to become an unwilling exile in Britain. A leading figure of the European left during the 60's and 70's, Ali debated Henry Kissinger and others in one of the first TV debates organized by CBS. He edited two seminal radical magazines of the periodThe Black Dwarf and The Red Mole, which combined politics and culture and whose contributors included John Lennon and Mick Jagger. Tariq Ali has written over a dozen books on history

Veteran White House bureau chief, Helen Thomas, speaks out against the Bush government and the press at the Media Giraffe Conference in Amherst, Mass. Learn more about the Media Giraffe here: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_487.shtml

This is the second in a three-part series of talks from the Social Change Institute, held at Hollyhock on Cortes Island in early May. This time out, Van Jones, an environmentalist, social justice advocate and social entrepreneur who Judy Rebick believes might become a greater leader than Martin Luther King. Van Jones, 37, is the founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, EBC is a national organization that challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system.

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simmons of the Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) address the Social Change Institute conference Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons - The Bioneers Story Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons are respectively the founder and co-executive directors of Bioneers. One year after Kenny founded the organic biodiversity seed company Seeds of Change, where he and Nina served as CEO and President until 1994, he founded the Bioneers conference to highlight practical solutions for restoring the Earth and human communities. Together they have co-produced Bioneers for the past sixteen years. Kenny is an award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker and radio producer. Nina is also an leader in community-based marketing. The two were named ?Utne Visionaries? in 1996, and in 2006 received the Global Green Award for Community Environmental Leadership from Green Cross International, founded by Mikhael Gorbachev, for their work with Bioneers. For more information about Hollyhock, visit http://sci.hollyhockleadership.org

Dr. Michael Geist is a professor of law at the University of Ottawa, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, and is a leading authority on internet-related legal issues in Canada. Dr. Geist is a member of Canada's National Task Force on Spam and is a syndicated columnist for the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen. Dr. Geist is also the editor of In The Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law (2005, Irwin Law). The Hart House Lecture Series was inaugurated in 2001, with the aim of initiating discussion about identity and society. Organized by students, the Lecture brings issues raised by students to a national audience. Thanks to Dray Perenic of Hart House and CIUT for their help in producing and recording the lecture.

Flora MacDonald has been active in Canadian politics since the 1970s. She served as an MP and Cabinet Minister, and in 1979 she became the first woman to be appointed Secretary of State for External Affairs. Since leaving politics in 1989, Flora has been involved in a range of human rights and environmental activities around the globe, and is currently working in Afghanistan and India. She has received numerous honours in her life, including the Order of Canada, the Pearson Peace Medal, India's Padma Shri Award, and the EVE award from Equal Voice. Equal Voice is a national multi-partisan advocacy organization committed to promoting the election of more women to every level of government, and to raising awareness about the under-representation of women in Canadian politics. Equal Voice has chapters in every province, as well as youth chapters. The Canadian Club of Toronto was founded in 1897, and is one of the premier public affairs forums in North America. Over its 109 year history, many distinguished leaders

Dr. Arne Kislenko in an Associate Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, and an Adjunct Professor in International Relations at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre. Dr. Kislenko has experience in foreign affairs and Canadian Intelligence. He was recently named Ontario's Best Lecturer by TV Ontario's Big Ideas competition. http://www.ryerson.ca/mgroup/arteries/kislenko.html http://www.tvo.org/bi/arneQA.html