Archive for the ‘News 101’ Category

G20 Update: Peaceful Solidarity Protest Attacked by Police Sunday Morning

An audio report of this incident can be found on the Toronto Media Co-op’s website. For ongoing reports, follow @CiTRnews and the alternative media feed: #g20report.

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G20 Update: Firsthand report of arrests, muzzle blasts, beatings of peaceful demonstrators at detention centre

An account of events on Sunday morning Listen to this recent interview posted on the Toronto Media Co-op’s website with independent journalist Stefan Christoff. More footage from the police attacks on peaceful protesters and journalists at Queen’s Park yesterday. Queen’s Park was the “designated” protest zone.

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G20 Update: Peaceful Protesters and Journalists Attacked and Arrested

While the G20 protest began peacefully on Saturday morning, smaller groups within the protest did break off to take part in acts of vandalism. Unfortunately, these actions by a few distracted from the largely peaceful protests of many. The mainstream media largely categorized all of the day’s protest activities as “violent,” although there has been [...]

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G20 Report for June 26

CiTR’s News Department is committed to providing alternative coverage of events large and small. We worked to provide listeners with an alternative to the mainstream media’s coverage of the Winter Olympics. We would love to be in Toronto reporting from on the ground, but we are delighted to bring you coverage from our friends at [...]

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CiTR News for Friday, June 25: SPECIAL G20 EDITION

SPECIAL G20 Edition News 101 talks to an activist on the ground at the second major protest | G20 Report from the Alternative Media Centre and CKDU Halifax | Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada Co-Editors talk about the new book and pirate radio in Canada | FSRN Headlines Listen and subscribe to the [...]

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Exclusive Interview with Former Premier and Fight HST Leader Bill Vander Zalm

CiTR News Director Andrew Longhurst had the opportunity to chat with Former BC Premier and Fight HST leader Bill Vander Zalm. They spoke about the likelihood of Premier Campbell backing down on the new tax, the likely recall campaign targeting Liberal MLAs, and the possibility of an NDP government. Here is a preview of the [...]

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G20 Podcast for June 24

CiTR’s News Department is committed to providing alternative coverage of events large and small. We worked to provide listeners with an alternative to the mainstream media’s coverage of the Winter Olympics. We would love to be in Toronto reporting from on the ground, but we are delighted to bring you coverage from our friends at [...]

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CiTR News for Monday, June 21

G20 and National Aboriginal Day Edition Vancouver activists head to Toronto for the G20 | Special G20 and National Aboriginal Day Edition of Groundwire | Weekly feature with Colleen Kimmett of The Tyee | FSRN Headlines Listen and subscribe to the podcast HERE! Twitter: @CiTRnews Facebook: CiTR News Comments? Email us: news@citr.ca CiTR News 101 [...]

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Mayor Gregor Robertson Presented With Discorder

CiTR’s own DJ Brad Winter provided tunes for the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition’s Bike to Work Week BBQ at Creekside Park. Mayor Gregor Robertson spoke and was then presented with a copy of Discorder. CiTR now has a channel on YouTube. Check it out here! We will use it to upload videos from shows, festivals, [...]

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CiTR News for the Week of May 31st

Liberal MP and Public Safety Critic Mark Holland and NDP MP and Public Safety Critic Don Davies on the $1 billion G8/G20 security costs | Groundwire | Weekly feature with Colleen Kimmett of The Tyee | FSRN headlines Programming Note: During the summer, the Monday edition of News 101 will be rebroadcast on Friday. Listen [...]

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