Red Hot Topics

Project Inclusion

Gunargie O’Sullivan interviews Meenakshi Mannoe, manager of Community Engagement for the Pivot Legal Society. They discuss the Project Inclusion Report; a comprehensive study into the ways in which specific laws and policies in policing, health care, and the court system, directly undermine the health and safety of people who are homeless and living with substance use issues, by trapping them in a cycle of criminalization.

Pivot Legal Society
http://www.pivotlegal.org

Pivot Legal Society – Meenakshi’s bio
http://www.pivotlegal.org/meenakshi_mannoe

Pivot Legal Society – The project inclusion report
http://www.pivotlegal.org/project_inclusion_full

Kanata Day at Crab Park, Surrey Fusion Festival and Other Events

Gunargie O’Sullivan receives Red Jam Slam board member Derrick Whiteskycloud to discuss the 1st annual Kanata Day event, taking place at Crab Park on July 1st
They also talk about the Surrey Fusion Festival and various events organized by the Red Jam Slam society and the BC Metis Federation.

Kanata Day
fb.com/events/2318285935105601/Fusion Festival

https://www.surreyfusionfestival.ca

Red Jam Slam
fb.com/redjamslam/

BC Metis Federation

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Red Hot Topics: Red Women Rising

Red Hot Topics with Gunargie O’Sullivan

On April 3, 2019, The Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC) released Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside based on the lived experience, leadership, and expertise of Indigenous survivors. This comprehensive report is the culmination of a participatory process with 113 Indigenous women and 15 non-Indigenous women regarding the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Gunargie O’Sullivan is discussing the report with Carol Muree Martin, one of its co-authors.

http://dewc.ca/resources/redwomenrising

Update on Fish Farms and the Wild Salmon Defenders

Gunargie O’Sullivan introduces Tsastilqualus Ambers Umbas > (wild savage woman) the Matriarch of the Anti fish farm movement.
Together they discuss Indian and Northern Affairs Chief Maamtagila/tlowitsis, how fish farms are making agreements with Elected Chiefs rather than Hereditary Chiefs and the idea of removing fishfarms from territory’s with no options to relocation.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1630676467

60’s Scoop: Gary and Flora reunited.

This months Red Hot Topics covers the emotional reunion of artists Gary Olver and Flora Johnson after a 47 year separation due to the 60’s Scoop.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sixties-scoop/