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Welcome to your weekly report from Canada's #1 podcast community!  In this edition we:

 * look at climate change as class war
on GREEN MAJORITY


* examine the tech oligarchy's campaign against the media
on TECH WON'T SAVE US

* ask how the Left should respond to Trump's tariffs 
on
VICTOR'S CHILDREN


But first, did you know? - next week Montreal will host Harbinger and Unrigged's 2nd Progress Publics conference! 



That's right - the second Progressive Publics Symposium is happening February 28th and March 1st at Concordia University featuring panels with scholars and the independent journalism community exploring surveillance and prison abolition, Canadian media and Palestine, data justice, the future of journalism and more with Harbinger hosts Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us), Megan Linton (Invisible Institutions), Shama Rangwala (Replay), Pivot's Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours (La shop est fermée) and Claire Ross (Autour de l'Info), Michael Bueckert (CJPME Debrief) The Rover's Chris Curtis and Isaac Peltz (The Midnight Choir) and the Data Justice Hub (Data Decoded), plus a live recording of The Breach Show with Desmond Cole and guests.  Watch for details on the line-up and schedule in next week's newsletter or just RSVP hopefully see you there!

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Now here's the latest in new releases:

  
Pro-Palestinian student protester Catherine Curran-Groome speaks with host David Kattenburg about suing Columbia University for negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, harassment and endangerment. (New York City/ Amsterdam)


  Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left author Eoin Higgins joins Paris Marx to discuss how tech billionaires set out to change the media ecosystem and made it profitable for influential voices to shift to the political right.  (St. John's/Portland, Maine)

  On a landmark episode 50 Todd Gordon and Mostafa Henaway join host David Camfield to discuss how the left is responding as the threat of sweeping US tariffs touches off a political crisis in the Canadian state.  (Winnipeg/Montreal/Toronto)

  On a new episode of Harbinger's weekly syndicated campus and community radio show we look at the lawsuit challenging Canada’s role in the Gaza Genocide on CJPME’s PALESTINE DEBRIEF, explore how student movements of the past inform what's going on today on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and more. (Calgary/Toronto/Montreal)

  Vancouver Co-op Radio's flagship news and current affairs show's 46th season continues with conversations reporting on how attacks on trans rights across Canada are putting youth at risk, unpacking a court challenge to Vancouver's daytime ban on outdoor sheltering and more. (Vancouver/Victoria)

   Co-hosts Naomi K. Lewis and Aaron Giovannone discuss the Apple TV thriller Severance, focusing on its intriguing sci-fi premise and The Office-meets-Lost character-driven narrative. (Calgary)

  Catholic Near East Welfare Association Jerusalem regional director Joseph Hazboun sits down with Jeremy Appel to explain why it’s crucial not to lose sight of Gaza's humanitarian nightmare, which will only worsen if the war resumes. (Edmonton/Jerusalem)

  On episode 954 the team review the roles of carbon guilt and degrowth as argued in chapter 4 of Matt Huber's 2022 Verso Books release Climate Change As Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. (Toronto/Ottawa) 

  Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Shayana Kadidal discusses the role that legal advocacy and activism has played in securing the release of prisoners under indefinite detention at Guantánamo. (Montreal/New York City)

 

                                       IN OTHER MEDIA:                                  

* THE END OF SPORT co-host Nathan Kalman-Lamb was prohibited from entering the US to speak at his own book event - find out more at The Nation and find his and Derik Silva's new book The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game, available now from UNC Press.

* THE PROGRESS REPORT host Duncan Kinney is being targeted by the Edmonton Police and Alberta Crown Prosecution for a 10 year prison sentence on the charge of vandalism of a 14th Waffen SS cenotaph. He has pled 'not guilty' you can support his legal defense fund here.

* VICTOR'S CHILDREN host David Camfield's new book Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future is available now for pre-order from Fernwood Publishing - use code 'DC15' for 15% off any of Camfield's books.

* TECH WON'T SAVE US host Paris Marx has a new weekly tech news show with critic Brian Merchant you won't want to miss called System Crash - find new episodes wherever you get your podcasts - and don't forget to vote in Round 2 of TWSU's annual 'The Worst Person in Tech' event beginning tomorrow!


* UNRIGGED is a national journalism community featuring 25 publishers covering news and current events including BriarpatchThe IndependentThe BreachThe Hoserle Co-op de Solidarité Pivot, the Harbinger community and nineteen others - find out more at unrigged.ca.

ROB ROUSSEAU discusses topics of interest to the left M-F from 12-4 EST on Twitch with highlights available on Youtube.

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