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Kent

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Kent Wakely                                    Internet: kwakely@uoguelph.ca
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Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 21:10:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Craig S Benjamin <cbenjami@uoguelph.ca>
To: kwakely@uoguelph.ca
Subject: Shorter cassette cult catalogue


CASSETTE CULTURE: RADIO PROGRAMS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE


CASSETTE CULTURE is an independent, audio production group
providing broadcast quality, stand-alone programming for non-profit
broadcasters and the activist community. Since1990, 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. More than 20 campus and
community radio stations in Canada have aired our programs. CASSETTE
CULTURE tapes have also been broadcast on stations in the United States,
Ireland, France, Italy. In addition, CASSETTE CULTURE has a regular
half-hour time spot on the United Nations-funded Radio for Peace
International short-wave service broadcasting from Costa Rica.

CASSETTE CULTURE programs have also proven valuable to a wide
range of community groups and organizations. We are particularly proud of
the fact that one of our programs, a profile of Blackfoot leader Milton
Born-with-a-Tooth has been translated into Cree for broadcast in Northern
Ontario and Quebec. Parts of this same interview have also been excerpted
for inclusion in a new documentary by the International Rivers Network.

An abbreviated edition of the most recent CASSETTE CULTURE catalogue
follows. The CASSETTE CULTURE catalogue is updated as new programs are
produced. To receive a complete copy of this catalogue, please contact
CASSETTE CULTURE
c/o CFRU-FM, Level 2, University Centre, University of Guelph, Guelph,
Ontario, N1G 2W1, (519) 824-4120, ext. 8341,
EMAIL: cfru@web.apc.org



++++++ AGRICULTURE AND RURAL COMMUNITIES ++++++

HEARING THE VOICE OF THE LAND	3/01/93
1. Settling and Unsettling.
This half-hour documentary traces the roots of the present Prairie farm
crisis to the late 1800s and the beginnings of the grain economy.
According to Prairie historian Sarah Carter, government policy both
undermined the efforts of native people to establish their own farm
economy and robbed the new settlers of the benefits of indigenous
ecological knowledge. For agriculture critic Brewster Kneen, the
segregation of the Prairies between settler communities and native
reservations ruled out the possibility of a settler economy based on
alternative forms of land tenure and farm organization. Only today, in
the organization of land trusts and other community initiatives, are
these alternatives being rediscovered. This stand-alone program
introduces an ongoing series on food, ecology and the future of rural
communities.

THE SEED SATYAGRAHA  9/21/93
Since October 1992, hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers have taken
part in mass demonstrations against the General Agreement on Trade and
Tariffs (GATT) and against the transnational agri-business corporations
that stand to profit from the new provisions for intellectual property
rights. The world's largest grain trader, Cargill, has been a particular
target. Cindy Duffy speaks with Vandana Shiva about the potential for
farmers protecting their rights to grow, breed and exchange crops outside
the control of the transnationals. Runs 29:55 with intro and extro.

INDIGENOUS CULTIVATION IN EL SALVADOR  5/11/91
An interview with Qu'hetashu Tal, an indigenous person from El Salvador,
about traditional ecological values and control of the land. Runs 28:00
with intro, extro and one music bridge.

REBUILDING RURAL COMMUNITY  10/7/90
Brewster Kneen (From Land to Mouth and Trading Up) talks about the fate
of the rural community in the corporate-controlled food system


++++++++ ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE +++++++++

URBAN INSURGENCY AND THE CRISIS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION  3/7/94
Cynthia Hamilton has worked with numerous community movements in Los
Angeles. She has also written articles on race, gender and class issues
in urban environmental movements. In this interview, she discusses
environmental justice and the world wide urban insurrection against
economic restructuring.

TOXIC STRUGGLES ON THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER  3/3/94
Activists have coined the term "environmental racism" to describe the
fact that people of colour in Canada and the U.S. are disproportionately
exposed both to hazardous industries and to toxic dumping and
incineration on their lands and in their communities. In this interview,
Michael Guerrero, co-chair of the Southwest Network for Environmental and
Economic Justice, talks about community organizing against environmental
racism.

ECOFEMINISM  9/22/93
Indian scientist and environmentalist Vandana Shiva  speaks with Cindy
Duffy about the Himalayan Chipko movement, the relationship between women
and the environment, and the question of spirituality in eco-feminism.
Runs 29:55 with intro and extro.

ERIC MANN: WORKERS AND COMMUNITIES DEMAND A VOICE  10/3/92
Eric Mann is the director the Los Angeles Labor/Community Strategy Center
and author of L.A.'s Lethal Air and Taking on General Motors. This
program is an excerpt from a talk on public health, jobs and the
environment delivered at a meeting of the Toronto Green Work Alliance.

HEALING THE FOREST, HEALING ITS PEOPLE  8/13/92
Dennis Rogers-Martinez talks about his work with the Intertribal Sinkyone
Wilderness Council in northern Californian on a project to restore and
reclaim a watershed devastated by logging.


+++++++++++ FIRST NATIONS +++++++++++++

REDISCOVERING INDIGENOUS ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE  8/11/92
Thom Alcoze has interviewed elders throughout North America and compiled
evidence of how native peoples traditionally managed their lands.

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT AGAIN: THE INNU NATION STANDS UP TO NATO  4/3/92
In this program, three members of the Innu Nation talk about the way of
life they are struggling to preserve from low-level bombing manoeuvres
and other unwanted intrusions. Runs 26:55 with intro and extro.

REASONABLE DEMANDS: NATIVE SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AMERICAS  2/24/92
An interview with Ronald Wright.

UNITY IN DIVERSITY: REGIONAL AUTONOMY IN NICARAGUA  2/15/92
Johnny Hodgeson discusses the history of the black and native communities
of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua and their struggle for self-determination.

DEFENDING THE OLDMAN RIVER  5/6/91 updated 1/31/92
An interview with Milton Born With a Tooth, the leader of the Blackfoot
Lonefighters Society, about his battle to save the Oldman River in
Alberta. Runs 29:30 with intro, extro, bridge.


+++++ WOMEN AND WORK+++++++++

THE WORLD TRANFORMED	4/01/93
1. Woman to Woman: Gender, Labour and Solidarity in the Era of Free Trade
By reducing barriers to the flow of goods and services throughout the
hemisphere, the North American Free Trade Agreement allows large
corporations to relocate wherever wage demands, labour unrest, and
environmental regulations are least likely to cut into their profits. But
as women in Canada, Mexico and the United States organize against NAFTA,
they are discovering that their own interests also transcend national
borders, as well as the border between home and workplace. This half-hour
documentary features the voices of Lynda Yantz of the international
womenUs group Mujer a Mujer, Lorraine Michaels of the Ecumenical
Coalition for Economic Justice (Canada), Angeles Lopez of the Frente
Autentico del Trabajo (Mexico), and Judy Rebick of the National Action
Committee on the Status of Women (Canada).Part of an ongoing series on
women, labour and economic restructuring. (Programs 2 to 4 in this
series, dealing with the enclosure of womenUs survival resources,
homeworking and the globalization of reproductive labour will be
available September 1994.)

NO BURDEN TO CARRY  3/11/92
According to conventional histories women have only recently entered the
workforce in Canada. Not true. Many working class women, and the majority
of Black women in particular, have always needed to work outside the
home. Dionne Brand, author of No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black
Working Women in Ontario, 1920s to 1950s, discusses the revolutionary
feminist project of making this work visible. Runs 26:55 with intro and
extro.


+++ THE WORLD BANK, MEGA-PROJECTS AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING +++

MODERN LAND WARS: FROM GUATEMALA TO DETROIT  12/5/93
For George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici, World Bank and IMF debt
repayment strategies, the energy and environmental crises,  and the 1991
Gulf War, must all be understand in relation to an international process
of "new enclosures" meant to drive more and more workers into an
increasingly exploitive global labour market. Both are contributors to
the publication Midnight Notes  and to the book Midnight Oil: Work,
Energy , War 1973-1992.

ALL DEALS ARE OFF! PEOPLE RESIST STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT  7/28/92
Facing reduced living standards and a loss of local power, people are
fighting back World Bank imposed structural adjustment programs. Terisa
Turner and Pade Badru, formerly of the University of Port Harcourt,
Nigeria, discuss structural adjustment in West Africa.

FROM JAMES BAY TO THREE GORGES  3/22/92
Patricia Adams is the co-founder and executive director of Probe
International, a Toronto-based NGO that monitors development agencies and
the multilateral banks. In this interview, she discusses the
international struggle against environmentally destructive development
projects.

PATRICIA ADAMS: ODIOUS DEBTS  3/22/92
In a talk based on her book, Odious Debts:  Loose Lending and the Third
World's Environmental Legacy, Patricia Adams outlines a strategy for
Third World populations to repudiate debt while holding national leaders
and the international banks responsible for corruption and mismanagement.
Runs 29:55 with intro and extro.


++++ORDERING INFORMATION++++

All of the programs and features in this catalogue are available to
not-for-profit organizations, community groups and individuals, as well
as to community broadcasters. The price is $9.00 per program.
"Subscription series" of 13 programs are available for $99.00. The price
for libraries and other institutions is $18.00 per program or $180 for 13
program sets. All tapes will be dubbed on chrome cassettes.