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GroundWire | River Run, Indigenous Death in Detention, Equity and Media Literacy
GroundWire | June 6, 2016
This week GroundWire is produced at CILU FM, on Fort William First Nation's Annishinabe Traditional Territory, part of the Robinson-Superior Treaty in Thunder Bay Ontario.
Headlines:
Canada extends human rights to trans people while the media stays silent about arson to the only clinic that provides gender affirming surgeries in Canada | Lindsay Nixon, CKUT
Inquest determines police shooting of Jermaine Carby during a traffic stop was a homicide | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, GroundWire
NCRA releases a zine providing guidance for acknowledging First Nations territories | Ophira Horwitz, NCRA
Somali Communities respond to anti-black racism in Vice's “This is Dixon” | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, GroundWire
Features:
Grassy Narrows River Run, an arts based action demanding mercury be cleaned from the community's river | Mandy Hiscocks ,CFRU and Carly Forbes, GroundWire
Indigenous prisoner dies while incarcerated at the Winnipeg Remand Centre after being denied access to seizure medication | Stéphane Doucet , CKUW
Community Media Report:
Equity and media literacy at the Discoverability Summit – Gretchen King, CKUT
Hosts: Jayal Chung and Carly Forbes Music: Home to Me – N'we Jinan, Grassy Narrows Youth
Thank you to: Michael Welch and Catherine Fisher
Source: http://www.mediacoop.ca/audio/groundwire-river-run-indigenous-death-detention-eq/35437
