31. MiningWatch Canada, The First Peoples' Post-Secondary Storytelling Exchange

Free City Radio

Listen to the 31st edition of Free City Radio! On this edition, another interview within a series done in collaboration with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institue. This one, an exchange with Jamie Kneen from MiningWatch Canada who speaks about the mission of the organization and also the current challenges around pushing the Liberal government toward having a review process on the actions of Canadian mining corporations that actually includes real world consequences. Jamie also specifically speaks about the case against HudBay mining company for the case around human rights abuses associated to their mining operation in Guatemala. More info on this case here: https://miningwatch.ca/news/2019/11/28/hudbay-operations-peru-and-guatemala-violence-and-repression-found-result-mining Also on this edition we hear from both facilitators and participants in the First Peoples' Post-Secondary Storytelling Exchange an important project that focuses on telling Indigenous stories through film. We hear from Métis filmmaker Michelle Smith, an educator from Kahnawake Morgan Phillips and project participant Pasha Partridge. Full information on the project here: https://fppse.net Music on the edition by @secretpyramid and also @bodyoflight Free City Radio is hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff who also hosts a weekly radio show called Free City Radio, broadcasting every Wednesday on @radiockut at 90.3fm in Montreal.