another world is possible – Sylvia Richardson

Interview with hockey legend Ernie “Punch” McLean

In hockey circles, the name Ernie ‘Punch’ McLean is legendary. A prospector, business owner and talent scout – McLean’s reputation as a true character of the game has been forged through a lengthy resume of accomplishments. One of the founders of the Western Hockey League, McLean survived a plane crash in 1971 and within a year moved his hockey club from Estevan to New Westminster, settling himself in Coquitlam. His hockey teams soon took on a reputation of their own by carving out a fierce record during the rough-and-tumble 1970s. McLean’s Bruins would set a record in qualifying for four straight Memorial Cup championships, capturing the lofty junior title in 1977 and 1978. Among the players he prepared for future fame in the NHL were Brad Maxwell, Stan Smyl and Ron Greschner. He also coached the Canadian squad to a bronze medal at the 1978 world junior championships, picking up a scrawny teenager named Wayne Gretzky.

Ernie at a youthful 91 years old goes over his career and what led him to hockey, some of the huge challenges he faced including a plane crash and getting injured and lost in the bush for 3 days at the age of 85. He gives advise for young players or anyone who is facing adversity in their careers. his can do attitude is an inspiration to all of us.

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Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women the Push to end Colonization

BRANDI MORIN is an award-winning Cree/Iroquois/French multimedia journalist from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta. Among her many awards over a decade of reporting on Indigenous oppression in North America, she won the 2021 Edward R Murrow Award in the Feature Reporting category for The stench of death: On Canada’s Highway of Tears.
two National Native American Journalism awards in 2022 for her work in Al Jazeera English , her book is titled “Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising”

Host Sylvia Richardson speaks to her about the ongoing Genocide of Indigenous women in Canada, how nothing has gotten better since the MMIWG inquiry, how little of the recommendations have been implemented, how we are in the final push against Colonization and the culture of death.

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Cuba and its 60 years of resistance to US Imperialism

Sylvia Richardson speaks with journalist Arnold August about the legacy of empire.

After more than 100 years of US imperialistic aggression in Latin America, people in the Latin America have learned the habits of empire. Starve the nation with sanctions, make the people scream so they will turn against their own leaders and if that doesn’t work invade with military force…

Cuba alone has resiliently stood against the 60+ years of US Blockade, an act denounced by the world in countless calls at the United Nations council to lift the embargo on Cuba. Arnold takes us back to 1959 when the story we are living now began

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Indigenization of our Struggle against Capitalism

Host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Silvia Federici author of Revolution at Ground Zero. The zero point of revolution is our social relations, the violence of capitalism as our primary organizing system has normalized slavery, repression, control, and surveillance of brown and black people. We speak of pandemic but the virus that is killing society is a man made system of exploitation, and injustice. We must remember our ability to re-enchant the world, to envision a society with justice.

She speaks of a new Indigenization of our social movements.

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Humanizing education so that it sustains learners in times of chaos

Host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Darren Lund, author of The Great White North? Exploring Whiteness, Privilege and Identity in Education.

They speak about humanizing education so that it sustains learners in times of chaos. Resilience and hope are cultivated by actions. Likewise a world with justice is co-created daily by our commitments to act and to cultivate cooperation and wholeness.

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Sarah Turner Ford on the art of teaching

Sarah Turner Ford speaks about the art of teaching, holding space and making learning safe is a practice of presence, passion, and playfulness mixed with the rigour of inquiry and reflection.

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Dr Robert Jensen Unlearning Oppression, End of Patriarchy

Dr Robert Jensen is an emeritus professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, a founding board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center, and a member of the team developing Ecosphere Studies at The Land Institute.

Jensens most recent book, The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men from Spinifex Press, offers a critique of the pathology of patriarchy that is at the core of todays crises.

Host Sylvia Richardson has a lively discussion with Robert about radical patriarchy for men, what it means when men give up power and support women, moving from power over to power with. How to move society

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Dr Gregory Cajete the ecology of Indigenous education

Sylvia speaks to author, artist and educator Dr. Gregory Cajete, an elder with of the Tewa Peoples, about . Faced with the affects of colonization on the lives of indigenous people, a dominant Euro-centric education system can no longer be called neutral. How do we build bridges to the many ways of knowing how we come to know what we know.

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