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The following programs have recently been added to the catalogue
of programs available through "Cassette Culture":

THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS
4/15/94 In an increasingly interconnected global economy, even the
simplest  actions -- from plugging in the radio to brewing a cup
of coffee -- involve  an intricate chain of social and
environmental relationships touching  people in far flung points
in the world.  Barbara Johnston is the editor of  Who Pays the
Price? a new book examining some of these connections  through
case studies from around the world. In this interview she explains
why new approaches to human rights and environmental activism are
needed to forge a broad-based international movement for social
and  environmental justice. She also talks about the mulitple
impacts of  uranium mining and nuclear weapons testing on
indigenous territory in  the United States and the south Pacific.
Runs 29:55 with intro and extro.

THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE ZAPATISTA UPRISING
4/13/94 The Zapatista uprising that began in the south of Mexico
on January 1  has helped highlight the widening gulf between the
rich and the poor in  the restructured North American economy.
Lourdes Arizpe, a Mexican  rural sociologist, has worked with
indigenous women and other peasant  farmers in the Lacandon
rainforest where the Zapatista uprising began. In  this interview,
she talks about some of the social and economic  conditions --
both recent and longstanding -- that have contributed to  the rise
of a rebel movement whose soldiers are one-third women and  mostly
beneath the age of 25. Runs 29:30 with intro and extro.

FREEING THE NARMADA
4/10/94 For two decades, the Indian government has been planning a
massive  irrigation project for the Narmada River. But in all this
time, neither the  Indian government nor its international backers
has come up with a way to  protect the livelihoods of the tens of
thousands of Indian peasants and  tribal people who will be
displaced by the flooding and ecological  destruction caused by
the large dams. The Indian government's failure to  defend the
rights of the poor has resulted in the growth of a powerful,
broad- based movement to assert popular control over the resources
of the Narmada Valley. Smitu Kothari is the editor of the Indian
journal Lokayan and has written numerous articles on popular
movements and  the failure of industrial development. In this
interview he discusses the  broader context of the Narmada
struggle, including the re-emergence of  Gandhian social
philosophies and the impacts of structural adjustment  programs on
Indian society. Runs 29:55 with intro and extro.

LAND AND LIBERTY
3/17/94 Seventy-five years after the assassination of Mexican
revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, his most famous slogan -- tierra y
libertad -- is resounding in the villages and barrios of Mexico.
In this program, Salvador  Peniche, a Mexican social worker and a
member of the Mexican Action  Network Against Free Trade (RMALC)
discusses the impact of NAFTA on  rural communities in Mexico and
the Zapatista's proposal for overhauling  the Mexican state. Runs
29:55 with intro and extro.

CHIAPAS WITNESS
3/7/94 Suzanne Rumsey, the Associate Director of the Inter-Church
Committee  on Human Rights in Latin America, was part of the first
international  delegation to enter the Mexican town of Ocosingo
when the Mexican  military first relaxed travel restrictions on
January 13. In this interview she  talks about the massive state
assault on indigenous communities that followed the Zapatista
uprising, about the  long-standing pattern of human rights abuse
in the south of Mexico, and  about the importance of international
solidarity efforts. Runs 27:00 with  intro and extro.

TAKING ON PROCTOR & GAMBLE
10/8/93 Proctor & Gamble is a $30 billion international empire
which has been  steadily increasing its profits for more than 35
years. But the economic  health of Proctor & Gamble has been
purchased at the price of  environmental destruction in the
communities where its factories are  located. In Taylor County,
Florida, for example, P&G's cellulose mill is the  source of one
of the state's worst environmental disasters. Dioxins and  furans,
by-products of the bleaching process, have made the waters of  the
Fennhalloway River hazardous to the community. Joy Towles
Cummings, a resident of Taylor County, has been speaking out
against  P&G since 1989. In this interview she discusses the
intimidation, harassment and violence she and women have faced for
participating in  the P&G boycott campaign. Runs 30:00 with intro
and extro.

CASSETTE CULTURE is an offshoot of CFRU-FM, the not-for- profit
campus and community radio station at the University of Guelph.
Established as an independent working group in 1990, CASSETTE
CULTURE  has produced and distributed more than 50 radio programs
for broadcast  across North America and around the world. Topics
have included indigenous  land rights, ecological restoration,
biotechnology and intellectual property rights, alternative
agriculture, gender and development, and the impact of structural
adjustment programs in West Africa.

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