Latin Waves was born in 2005 when Sylvia Richardson’s passion for social change hit the radio air waves. The show was started as a resource to educate the public about the extraordinary changes and social movements that are happening in Latin America, there is a literal blackout in the Canadian main stream media around these historic changes. Shortly after the show started Stuart Richardson joined as co-producer channelling his passion into journalism and research, with such an overwhelming amount of critical news not being covered properly in the main stream media Latin Waves decided to open its spectrum.
Our original mandate to cover Latin America still stands but we have expanded our coverage into local/national and international issues making those critical political connections, we bring our listeners in-depth coverage of issues with a focus on the history of an issue and what that history means for us today and most importantly what we can do to move society forward in a healthy way.
In short our show is focused on building community across borders, positive social change has only come through communities of interest working together.
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Truth About the Economy - Robert Reich (mirror) MoveOn.Org
Robert Reich is former U.S. Secretary of Labor and has a terrific new book, "Aftershock."
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Damien Gillis is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker with a focus on environmental and social justice issues - especially relating to water, energy, and saving Canada's wild salmon.
Latin Waves speaks to film maker Damien Gillis, about a Foreign Trade Zone in Delta British Columbia. The loss of food security as some of the most fertile land is turned over to industrial production. The sale of public assets: BC Rail, while promoting a mass expansion of highways to facilitate imports that will undermine the local economy.
Interview with Damien Gillis Here
Audio : Jorge Cortez
Sylvia interviews Jorge Cortez, Cortez is a member of the Anti-mining Justice Alliance, he studied engineering in Guatemala and has been in Canada since 1981. Since coming to Canada he has obtained a BA in Anthropology and Sociology and currently works as a family counselor. He speaks of the impacts of mining specifically Vancouver Based Gold Corp in the land of his birth Guatemala.
Audio : Dr. Darren Lund
He speaks about his most recent book The Great White North? Exploring Whiteness, Privilege and Identity in Education, Dr Lund has a frank discussion about the challenges of teaching privilege to students who can’t even recognize their own privilege, he speaks about the need to problematize the classroom taking take students out of their comfort zones.Interview with Dr.Darren Lund
Audio : Martha Nussbaum
Sylvia Interviews American philosopher, author and legal expert Martha Nussbaum. She speaks about her latest book , Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Interview with Martha Nussbaum Here
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Audio : Michael Albert
Michael Albert is an American activist, economist and writer. Michael speaks give a class analysis of economic issues at election time or any time for that matter, he speaks about the need or citizens to make the important step forward in dispelling the myth that this capitalist system is inevitable and natural. Once that step is made people can start thinking about alternatives that are more equitable and humane.
Interview with Michael Albert Here
Naomi Klein - Addicted to Risk Talk
Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP's risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more ... and too often, we're left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein's question: What's the backup plan?...
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America Is NOT Broke
"Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich." -- Michael Moore
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Audio : Jorge Martin
Jorge Martin, international secretary of Hands Off Venezuela speaks about the worker's uprisings in Wisconsin, the impact of corporate capitalism in the creation of endless wars. He speaks against the UN's "no fly zone" in Libya and points to the Hypocrisy of the US acting as a spokesman for the protection of people, when they are actively engaged in supporting dictators worldwide who oppress and kill people daily.
Interview with Jorge Martin Here
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Audio : Susan George
For more than three decades ground-breaking scholar and activist Susan George has written expansively on the effects of Neo-liberal economics on the poor. She speaks about her newest book “Whose Crisis, Whose Future” and the need to study the rich not the poor.
Interview with Susan George Here.....................................................................................................................................................................................
Audio : Robin Hahnel
Robin speaks about the crisis in Wisconsin and how we as progressives should move forward. He also sets forth a solution for the economic and environmental crisis. His latest book is "Green Economics"Interview with Robin Hahnel Here
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Audio : Dr Mark Leier
Dr Leier speaks about his new book “Rebel Life, The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labor Spy”.
Interview with Dr Mark Leier Here
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Audio : Dr. Aviva Chomsky
She speaks to us about her "Her latest book “They Take Our Jobs and 20 Other Myths about Immigration”, she dismantles common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like “I’m not against immigration, only illegal immigration”Interview with Dr Chomsky Here
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Audio : Dr. Jared Ball
Dr. Jared A. Ball is an assistant professor of communication studies at Morgan State University where his research interests include the interaction between between colonialism, mass media theory and history, as well as, the development of alternative/underground journalism and cultural expression as mechanisms of social movements and political organization. Ball is a columnist with, and produces a weekly radio column for, BlackAgendaReport.com.Jared warns us to be cautiously optimistic about what’s happening in Egypt, he asks progressives in the West “When are we going to have true Democracy”.
Interview with Dr. Jared Ball Here
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Audio : Jon Elmer
Jon Elmer is a Canadian freelance writer and photojournalist specializing in the Middle East and Canadian foreign and military policy. He has lived in and reported extensively from the West Bank and Gaza Strip - based in Jenin, Bethlehem and Gaza City.Jon contextualizes the ongoing struggle of the Egyptian peoples attempt to liberate themselves from dictatorship, he speaks to the Geo political importance of Egypt in the region and the good example Egyptians are providing for the region and the rest of the world.
Interview with Jon Elmer Here
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Audio : Sister Elizabeth Kelleher -
We speak to Sister Elizabeth Kelleher, an 85 year old nun with the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement, we talk about her efforts to stop more gentrification in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside the poorest postal code in Canada. Sister Elizabeth is a pillar in the Downtown Eastside where she tirelessly gives of her time and continues to be a source of inspiration for many, many people. She operates a soup kitchen that feeds between 300 and 500 of the city's most poverty stricken each day.
Interview with Sister Kelleher Here
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Audio : Dr David McNally
We speak to Dr David McNally author of Another World Is Possible, Globalization and Anti-Capitalism. He speaks about the roots of the anti-corporate globalization movement, and where is it going? He and makes the case for the continued development of a anti-capitalist analysis
Interview with David McNally Here
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Audio : John Gibler
Journalist and author of “Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt” John Gibler speaks about the ongoing social struggles that grip Mexico, the overwhelming violence of the state using the “war on drugs” to legitimize violence and repression of the population. He also points out how the drug trade has been used as a policy tool in the same manner globally.
Interview with John Gibler Here
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Audio: Bill Conroy
Bill Conroy a journalist from the Narco News speaks about the current violence in the Mexican city of Juarez and how the Industrial parks have become the "Green Zones". He demystifies the violence and gives us a clear picture of who is benefiting from this violence and exploitation. He also points out that nothing will change under the current economic model as the main players have no intention of finding a solution.
Interview with Bill Conroy Here
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Audio: Ellen H Brown
Ellen Hodgson Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. She speaks about her new book Web of Debt, She shows how private banks or cartels has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. She also speaks about a potential class action lawsuit in the US that could save millions of homes from foreclosure
Interview with Ellen Brown Here
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Audio: Dana Lyons
The first interview with Dana Lyons goes over his musical inspirations and philosophies of life with songs TV God, RV, Swimming in the Big and Cows with Guns. Dana speaks about how we need to nudge the population into doing the kind of work that needs to happen to protect this beautiful world. The second interview covers Dana’s new CD The Three Legged Coyote
Interviews with Dana Lyons
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The world is a better place because of Howard Zinn,
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Audio: Rex Weyler
Rex Weyler is an ecologist, historian and the author of Green Peace history , The Jesus Sayings, Blood in the Land and Chop Wood Carry Water...is a freelance journalist and one of the original directors of Greenpeace Foundation. He speaks frankly of the failings of current economic policy and gives advice for the future
Interview with Rex here..
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Proposition 8 Bites the Dust
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Audio: Gary Kinsman
Gary Kinsman, one of Canada's leading academics on lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender issues , He speaks about past victories and struggles that we must keep fighting for in regards to his most newest book, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation . Gary speaks about turning theory into practice , it makes no sense to understand the world unless we are prepared to do something about it.
Interview with Gary here...
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Audio:Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti , internationally known award-winning author and lecturer and one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts speaks about his new book "God and His Demons", a critical look at contemporary religion and his current and historic hypocrisies
Interview with Dr Parenti here...
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Audio: Dr Noam Chomsky
Dr Noam Chomsky contextualizes the economic crisis and speaks about the hypocrisy of powerful nations in proposing different solutions for themselves than the usual solutions proposed for weaker nations. He also speaks about exciting developments in the south.Interview with Dr Chomsky here...
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Audio: William Engdahl
American German economist and Journalist, author of several books including his latest Book Full Spectrum Dominance talks about the key role of the US NATO war agenda and the connection to the economic crisis and what we can do about it. In His book "Seeds of Destruction” The Hidden Agenda of GMO" was published in 2007. He speaks to Latin Waves about the political, economic and social threats of genetically modified foods and corporate control over our food supply.
Both interviews here...
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Audio: Robin Hahnel
Economist and author Robin Hanhel, speaks about the unjust economic tragedy that is being imposed on the citizens of Greece and Spain. And how global powers like the US and Germany have failed in implementing policies that will put the global economy back on track. He contextualizes how the financial sector is literally playing a game called “Whack the Piñata” this is an old game the only difference is that it is now being played with white European countries for the first time.
Interview with Robin here...
