Tonight’s Alternative Frequency will focus on the recently announced closing of the Kingston Penitentiary. Cameron Willis, a former employee of the Kingston Penitentiary Museum, offers his perspective on the recent announcement. Professor Kevin Banks, a faculty member at the Queen’s Law School, also discusses the provisions that the government has put in place for employees who are likely to lose their jobs as a result of the shut down. Tune in at 5pm to CFRC radio 101.9 FM, or online at cfrc.ca.
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Filed under: Interview | Tags: Adam Shapiro, International Solidarity Movement
Tune in at 5:00 pm on Thursday, February 25th, to hear Christopher Currie’s special half-hour interview with Adam Shapiro, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. Alternative Frequency can be heard at CFRC Radio (101.9 FM) in Kingston and online at cfrc.ca.
Filed under: Interview | Tags: Valarie Steele; Jamaican Canadian Association; Boxing Day Shooting; racism
On Thursday, February 18, Alternative Frequency featured Christopher Currie’s interview with Valarie Steele, former president of the Jamaican Canadian Association. Ms. Steele was in Kingston for a talk entitled, “The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere: Anti-Black Racism Following the 2005 Boxing Day Shooting.”
Filed under: Interview | Tags: Acentralidade, Afro-Brazilian, Brazil, Queen's University
On today’s program, Sonja Grgar interviewed Queen’s graduate student Alexandre da Costa, who presented the paper, “Afro-Brazilian `Ancestralidade’: Critical Perspectives on Knowledge and Development” at 1 pm on Thursday, February 18 at B204 Mackintosh-Corry Hall (Queen’s University).
Filed under: Community Events, Interview | Tags: Queen's University, Sustainable Kingston, Vagina Monologues
Today’s Alternative Frequency program features guest correspondent Annie Crane’s interview with Paul MacLatchy from Sustainable Kingston and Christopher Currie’s interview with Vlada Bilyak, the producer of an upcoming Queen’s University performance of The Vagina Monologues. Tune in at 5 pm on CFRC Radio, 101.9 FM in Kingston and online at cfrc.ca!
CFRC Radio (101.9 FM in Kingston) ran a special edition of “Alternative Frequency” this Monday from 5 to 5:30 pm. Christopher Currie’s interviewed a representative of the United Way of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington about the new Workers’ Help Centre, a joint initiative with the Kingston & District Labour Council. This program also featured an encore presentation of Sonja Grgar’s interview with Amber Potter, an organizer of Kingston’s recent rally against prorogation.
Alternative Frequency featured two interviews on February 4, 2010: Christopher Currie interviewed Alan Rankin and Terry Bridges from the Kingston Central America Solidarity Committee, and Sonja Grgar interviewed a representative of the Kingston Community Cultural Policy Plan.
Filed under: Community Events, Interview | Tags: ACSA, African and Caribbean Students Association, Black History Month, CFRC, Haiti, Queen's University
Tuesday’s show featured two pieces on Black History Month in Kingston. Christopher Currie interviewed Sacha Atherly from the Queen’s African and Caribbean Students Association (ACSA) about both Black History Month and ACSA’s role in Haitian relief efforts. For the second piece, Jessie Stephenson interviewed Anna Thomas, coordinator of Black History Month at Queen’s.
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On Friday August 7th, Alternative Frequency was able to interview Mohammed Mahjoub.
Mohammed was arrested in May 2000 on a security certificate issued by then Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay. Nine years later, Mohammed is still being detained under a security certificate at the Kingston Immigration Holding Centre (KIHC) without any formal charges ever having been filed against him. The story of Mohammed and his family is a bizarre tale of overreaching and overcompensation by the Canadian government and their agents.
In February 2007, Mohammed was released under supervisory conditions to house arrest from KIHC. Mohammed’s house arrest basically extended to a house arrest of his wife and their children. The family’s mental and physical well-being suffered because of the constant surveillance and restrictions placed upon them.
Facing a future in which his family and children could not lead a life free from surveillance and government thuggery, Mohammed was forced to ask to be put back in KIHC in March 2009. As of June 1, Mohammed has been on a hunger strike to protest this discrimination and violence on the part of the prison staff.
In this interview, Mohammed talks about his current hunger strike in protesting his treatment at KIHC, the affects of house arrest on his family and his hopes for the outcome of his case.
