Summary: Multi-host 2 hour Special (first half of show anchored by guest host Stef Gude; 2nd half anchored by host Susy Alvarez) featuring pre-recorded and in-studio interviews with CKLN allies and past guests/contributors.
1st Half Intro
1. Phone interview feat. CKLN volunteer Lauren Speers and a legal update re. CKLN's license and recent news of a stay allowing the station the ability to broadcast past Feb. 12, 2011. 2. Interview with Shelley Robinson, Executive Director of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA), about the common threat to independent radio posed by the CRTC decision. Interview conducted by Mother Politic host Jacky Tunistra-Harrison. 3. Pre-recorded phone interview feat. Wendy Nzinga Maxwell, former CKLN programmer and IWD coordinator now living in San Jose, Costa Rica. Nzinga talks about her experience at CKLN with host Kristin Schwartz. 4. Phone Interview with John Clarke about OCAP's history and involvement with CKLN. John also speaks to host Stef Gude about this week's action at city hall, where OCAP and several allied groups such as NOII & DAMN shut down a budget committee meeting held to cut services to the poor and disadvantaged living in Toronto. 5. Phone Interview with Mostafa Henaway, independent journalist and activist with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal. Mustafa speaks to Stef about his experience with OCAP radio, and also about the recent uprising in his birth-country, Egypt. 6. Anti-Psychiatry Radio host and producer Don Weitz speaks to Dr. Bonnie Burstow re. the important role independent media plays in exposing psychiatric abuses and supporting the anti-psychiatry movement.
7. Pre-recorded interview by host Kristin Schwartz feat. cherokee/afro-european artist, writer and local activist Zainab Amadahy about the history of 1st nations reporting on WOM and the need to support the existence of alternative media spaces like CKLN. 8. In-studio interview by Susy Alvarez with QuAIA member Sue Goldstein who speaks about solidarity efforts with Palestine, what the Egyptian uprising may mean to the Palestinian cause; and Jeff Halper's visit and talk in support to the Canadian 'Freedom Boat to Gaza' effort. 9. Phone Interview with former CKLN staff and contributor Kristiana Clemens (currently the Operations Manager at sister station CFRC, Kingston). Host Sheetal Lodhia speaks to Kristiana re. CKLN, its historty and the crucial service it provides to the city, its communities and listeners. 10. A special 'FriDaY WoRd of MoUth/CKLN' collage featuring highlights in CKLN news programming over the years (produced by Kristin Schwartz). 11. Special thanks and parting comments.
Credits:
Word of Mouth hosts/producers/techs: Stef Gude, Jacky Tunistra-Harrison, Sheetal Lodhia, Don Weitz, Kristin Schwartz, Susy Alvarez
Guests: Kristiana Clemens, Sue Goldstein, Zainab Amadahy, Wendy Nzinga Maxwell, Bonnie Burstow, Mostafa Henaway, John Clarke, Shelley Robinson, Lauren Speers
Music: The Revolution will not be Televised - Gil Scott Heron, Where we Belong - LAL, Fight the Power - Public Enemy, Black Gold - 100$ Dollars, Mahk Jchi - ULALI, Alylul Fi Montreal - Maryam Tollar, Papeles para todos - La Plataforma.
Special thanks to our listeners, past and present, and CKLN/Ventana al Barrio host/producer Maria Elena Escobar