En Profondeur: la version francophone de Off The Hour. Nous sommes à la recherche de collaborateurs pour participer à cette émission. Vous pouvez venir avec vos idées à la réunion hebdomadaire chaque lundi, à 14h30 pour préparer l’émission de la semaine d’après. Nous participons aussi à la réunion du collectif chaque jeudi à 18h. Le mandat de cette émission est de parler de sujets que l’on n’entend pas forcément dans les autres médias francophones et qui sont plus présents dans les médias anglophones. Si vous êtes intéressés, contactez gretchen ou l'un d'entre nous.

Open Conspiracy for Social Change: A special edition of Off the Hour concerning rights and resources available to people in Montreal. Every Tuesday the community news team opens its doors to groups working for social change in the Montreal community. Right here, community groups who would otherwise not have access to the mass media can BEcome the media.

Long Term Memory Radio: A special presentation of extended documentaries ranging from four to five hours of audio that focuses on a central theme, providing an opportunity to examine the issue from a variety of perspectives. This award winning series has already shaken up the soundbite media world.

This time slot is reserved for special Community Call-in Discussions (often bilingual) on topics ranging from Montreal's housing crisis to the impacts of anti-terrorism legislation (like Bills C-36 and C-11). This is supplemented with lectures and debates, special documentaries, or radio segements created by participants in the Radio Station for a Day Project.

Thematic coverage featuring two or more stories related to some central issue (police brutality across Canada or Canadian foreign policy, for example) and the occasional theme featuring a variety of kickass news stories.  Be sure to check out the archive for links to past programs.

YOUTH RECRUITMENT

Off the Hour is currently seeking youth oriented environments for cultivating community radio.  Several news collective volunteers want to venture into classrooms across the city to engage with young people about the work of media activism and independent media at ckut and in the Montreal area.  Schools & youth centers are welcome to contact CKUTs Community News Collective for more information on this campaign.

PRISON RADIO CALL OUT

Dear prisoners' rights activists and others insterested parties:

My name is Dee and i have recently been involved, along with other activists in the Montreal area, in this year's Prisoners' Justice Day committee that organised a benefit night, video night as well as prisoner related radio at the community radio station CKUT (www.ckut.ca).

I've recently learned that CKUT is interested in airing a regular radio show on prisoners' rights and prisoner/prison issues. Recently, I spoke with the community news director at CKUT, Gretchen King, who has informed me that CKUT would like to keep up the momentum of prisoner related programming throughout the year. The Community News Collective at CKUT has agreed to this and has suggested that a regular show be aired on prison/prisoner issues and with the participation (when possible) of prisoners.

If you were interested in contributing in any way, we would be interested in hearing from you. Here are some ways that we could co-ordinate our efforts at getting out prisoner/prison related issues on the air. If you are already doing radio in regards to prison issues - either on a regular basis or occasionally, maybe you could let us know when you have uploaded mp3s that we could air them at CKUT.

If you are a prisoners' rights activist and would like to keep us informed you could send us press releases in regards to prison/prisoner issues (prisonshow@ckut.ca).

If you just have up-dates on certain issues in regards to what is happening at a local prison we would be interested. You all have something worthy to say and if you'd like to be interviewed this could be easily arranged.

If you know of prisoners and/or friends or family of prisoners who wish to contribute to our programming, this could be arranged as well, though in the case with prisoners this would take longer (to have a number put on their phone list, contact the prisoner etc.). Also, prisoners will not be limited to speaking only about prison issues, but can make commentaries on anything from current and world events, politics, etc. The goal of this programming is to inform the public on a regular basis on prisoner/prison issues as well as opening the opportunity for prisoners, who are part of our community, to have a voice.

For further information contact Dee or gretchen at prisonshow@ckut.ca.

Note: We would discuss either by phone or email in advance what the questions would be if an interview was to take place with anyone being interviewed. If it is necessary, family and friends of prisoners, as well as prisoners themselves, can go by a first name basis or pseudonym - we understand that repercussions can happen to prisoners and their loved ones and that speaking out is a courageous act. We would never do anything to jeopardize their situation.

Another Note: Some people/groups on this list, who live in the Montreal area, have already expressed a desire to produce this show. There is the suggestion that different teams work one different prison/prisoner issues, thus producing their own show i.e. Political Prisoners/POWs, Immigrants incarcerated, Canadian prisons/prisoners, etc.  

Radio Station for a Day: An Educational Outreach Project.  In May 2002, CKUT initiated a hands on educational radio project for schools in the Montreal community.  In May CKUT visited Mackay Center - a Montreal school for deaf and differently-abled youth - to assist in the production of a radio script that the students of Rick Vann's fifth grade class had written.  The students had selected songs and practiced their script for a half-hour radio show.  When CKUT arrived at Mackay Center, we brought along recording equipment and a one-watt transmitter, so that the students could actually broadcast their script on the FM dial.  The show that the students produced is linked here.  Included is the students discussion with CKUT about the workings of radio and the magic of transistors.  Any teacher (or student) who is interested in having CKUT assist in the production of a working radio station at their school should contact CKUTs Spoken Word department at 514.398.6787 ext. 2593.

Mackay Center - MCC3 104fm (MP3, Length: 37:32), produced by youth from Rick Vann's fifth grade class. Thanks to Noel Thomas for production assistance and a BIG shout out to all the students, Rick, Tim, and Principal Dan Faghan.

The Long Term Memory Radio Project (LTMR) was initiated in January 2002 with a four-part series on State Sponsored Terrorism.  In the post-September 11th atmosphere, the mainstream media glaringly demonstrated a dependency on short-term memory.  Much of the reporting by Canadian journalists mirrors the current political climate of the elite, effectively producing content which lacks any broad historical perspective.  At CKUT, LTMR aims to fill a void that exist within mass media content.  Seeking to supplement this gap is a huge task and so every series of the LTMR features extended documentaries (ranging from four to five hours of audio), offering a variety of perspectives and style of presentation.  All episodes are available for non-profit use only and are distributed through CKUT or available on the world wide web at www.radio4all.net.

In June of 2002, the National Association of Campus and Community Radio Stations recognized this series, awarding LTMR the Standard Radio Award for Programming Excellence (thanks!).  To receive CDs or tapes of any episodes of this series (** indicate those available for distribution), contact the CKUT Spoken Word department at news at ckut dot ca or 514.398.6788.  Long Term Memory Radio airs every Wednesday from 5-6pm.

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