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Updates
First Production Email!
February 5th, 2012Late last week, I received the first email of the production process from the publisher. This is definitely an exciting thing, even if it is still fai[...]
Interview Excerpt #1 from Rev. David Murata
January 29th, 2012The following is an excerpt from the interview I did in Winnipeg with United Church minister Rev. David Nobu-tsune Murata. In this snippet, he relates[...]
Rev. David Nobu-tsune Murata
January 29th, 2012Reverend David Murata was born in Japan in the late 1950s and moved to the downtown eastside of Vancouver with his family in 1968, where "the blunt he[...]
Active Remembering and Community History
January 22nd, 2012Title: Active Remembering and Community History Date: Saturday, February 25, 2012. Time: 10:00 to 11:45 am Location: Founders College Assembl[...]
Don Weitz on His Experience of Psychiatric Incarceration
January 15th, 2012This six minute audio clip features anti-psychiatry activist Don Weitz talking about his brutal experiences of psychiatric incarceration in an asylum [...]
Category Archives: Audio Sample
Don Weitz on His Experience of Psychiatric Incarceration
This six minute audio clip features anti-psychiatry activist Don Weitz talking about his brutal experiences of psychiatric incarceration in an asylum in the northeastern United States in the early 1950s — experiences which, later in life, contributed to his politicization … Continue reading
Doreen Spence on Resisting the Sterilization of an Indigenous Girl
Take a listen to this four and a half minute clip of Cree elder Doreen Spence’s memories of working as a nurse at a hospital in northern Alberta in the 1950s and standing up to the hospital administration against the … Continue reading
Madeleine Parent on Organizing Textile Workers in the 1940s
Take a listen to this ten minute audio clip of Madeleine Parent talking about organizing textile workers in Montreal in the 1940s in the lead-up to the climactic 1946 strike that is the focus of her chapter in the Gender … Continue reading