How does community radio contribute to emancipation movements in Montreal and around the globe? What is radio's role in historic and contemporary social justice movements? How can the principles of anti-oppression be practiced through community media work? Hear first-hand accounts from community radio producers.
Liam Michaud O'Grady, Prison Radio Liam Michaud O'Grady has been doing radio work with CKUT for less than a year - this time has been spent contributing to and producing Prison Radio, and trying to negotiate a working idea of solidarity reporting in this context. Liam is involved with Open Door Books/Books to Prisoners and a Queer and Trans Prisoner Solidarity Project.
Sharmeen Khan
Sharmeen Khan is a graduate student in Communications and
Culture at York University. She is also on the Editorial Collective
of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action. She has
volunteered and worked in community radio for the past eight years,
most recently as the Volunteer Coordinator at CHRY 105.5FM at York
University. She has been facilitating anti-oppression workshops for
the past eight years and worked on the Women's Hands and Voices
Project for the NCRA.
Grimy, Street Radio
Grimy has facilitated Street Radio for one year. It is podcasted on
HomelessNation.org and aired on CKUT. The program is produced in the
streets and aims to put radio equipment in the hands of street youth.
