Alert! Radio - Episode 160




Alert! Radio show

Summary: What was the October Crisis of 1970? What the the FLQ Really About? How Does Trudeau’s Suspension of Civil Liberties in 1970 Compare With Harper’s Attack on Civil Liberties at the G20 Protests in 2010? How does the FLQ compare with the Black Bloc? The University of Ottawa’s Pierre Beaudet answers these questions and more. He was one of the 500 innocents arrested under the War Measures Act in 1970. The missing women of Vancouver’s East End is the subject of David Hugill recent media study. How has the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star handled this tragic story? Tzana Miranda Leal, organizer of the Justice For Migrant Workers’ Thanksgiving Day march from Leamington to Windsor talks about the march and what it set out to accomplish.