Season 1, Episode 16
After Haiyan: The politics of disaster relief in the Philippines 

Co-hosts: Aiyanas Ormond and Tristan Markle

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Season 1, Episode 13
Victoria vs. Vancouver: Poverty, Gentrification and the War on Drugs

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Co-hosts: Tristan Markle and Nathan Crompton

On this episode of Mainlander Radio:

Poverty, gentrification, and the war on drugs affect the city of Vancouver, but they are also big issues in BC’s capital city Victoria. Today we’ll be talking to activists from Victoria about how these issues affect their city; they’ll also offer their perspective on Vancouver’s situation and ways that activists in BC’s two largest cities can work together. Guests: Seb Bonet (Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group / Radical Health Alliance), Kim Hothead (Ctte to End Homelessness / co-founder of the Victoria Drug User’s Union) and Carol Romanow (Victoria AIDS Resource & Community Service Society).

Season 1, Episode 12
“If capitalism doesn’t work, what does?” – highlights from the annual World Peace Forum teach-in in Vancouver

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Co-hosts: Daniel Tseghay and Tristan Markle

On this episode of Mainlander Radio we talked to:

Roger Rashi, a founding member of Québec solidaire, about building an anticapitalist political party;

Tom Walker, an instructor in Labour and the Environment at SFU, about de-growth and the commons;

Tamara Herman, an organizer with the Carnegie Community Action Project and a member of the Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan.

Season 1, Episode 11
How to build a sanctuary city

Co-hosts: Daniel Tseghay and Tristan Markle

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On this episode of Mainlander Radio:

• Harsha Walia of No One is Illegal (Vancouver) on services denied to people with non-status and local strategies to fight border imperialism.

• Syed Hussan of Solidarity City Network (Toronto) on the grassroots movement to make Toronto a sanctuary city.

On Vancouver Co-op Radio CFRO 100.5 FM