Romila Barryman explores the hidden historical South Asian community of...
Episode 01: Being Brown in ChinatownLike this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming."There was a Japantown, there was a Chinatown, and the Black...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter bring fight for racial justice to Vancouver Dyke March
Tuesday, August 2, 2016 Support and solidarity were interwoven throughout the march on Saturday. Black Lives Matter members called for accountability. Like this article? rabble is reader-supported...
View ArticleVancouver housing activists achieve victory on city-owned lot
rey-2016-08-18a.mp3Like this podcast? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.After residents set up a tent city in the downtown eastside and held a day of...
View Article'We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice': Interview with director Alanis Obomsawin
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Obomsawin's documentry, featured at the Vancouver International Film Festival, highlights the lack of services for Indigenous children living on reserves. In 2007, the Child...
View ArticleDocumenting the lack of services available to Indigenous children: An...
Obomsawin's documentry, featured at the Vancouver International Film Festival, highlights the lack of services for Indigenous children living on reserves.'We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice':...
View ArticleLaura Tribe testifying at C-51 public hearings in Vancouver
Crucial parliamentary consultations on Bill C-51 kicked off on Monday in Vancouver and your OpenMedia team prepared and attended to testify on behalf of our community and thousands of Canadians who...
View ArticlePatti Bacchus on the firing of the Vancouver School Board
rey-2016-11-08.mp3Patti Bacchus had been a Vancouver School Trustee for eight years when B.C.’s Education Minister fired her and the rest of the Board on October 17. She tells the story of what...
View ArticleSurvivors Totem Pole marks resilience in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 A gorgeous, moving photo essay documents the landmark raising of a monument to the Indigenous women lost and murdered in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside -- and their incredible...
View ArticleSurvivors Totem Pole shines a ray of hope in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
A gorgeous, moving photo essay documents the landmark raising of a monument to the Indigenous women lost and murdered in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside -- and their incredible resilience.Survivors Totem...
View ArticleOpposing the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion
rey-2016-11-28a.mp3Justin Trudeau will soon announce his decision on Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline, and ship almost 900,000 barrels of oil per day down to Burrard Inlet in...
View ArticleKinder Morgan can't buy social license with ad blitz, but it's doing its...
Any metro Vancouver resident watching TV, checking websites, or browsing the local weekly in recent months could hardly avoid the multi-media barrage from extractivist corporate entities.The Canadian...
View ArticleKinder Morgan: The fight starts now!
At the thousands-strong demonstration against Kinder Morgan earlier this month in Vancouver, I lounged in a sailboat in False Creek with kayaktivists swarming around me, looking up under the Cambie...
View ArticlePeople Powered: The Activists Behind Vancouver’s Climate Justice Movement
rebecca_visser_vancouver_climate_change_finished.mp3Like all types documentaries, radio documentaries are extremely resource intensive. They take a lot of time to research, record and put together.But...
View Article'Today, let us commit to speaking out for those whose voices may not be as...
15,000 people attended the Vancouver Women's March on Washington on Saturday, one massive demonstration among over 600 worldwide in defiance of the election of a misogynist sexual predator to the White...
View ArticleBlack and trans voices frustrated by lack of inclusion in Vancouver Women's...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 Organizers of Vancouver's Women's March on Washington express remorse at lack of communication, while omission sparks wider conversation of inclusive organizing. Controversy...
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