29. Kasim Tirmizey on solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en, Rachel Small from World Beyond War

Free City Radio

Listen to the 29th edition of Free City Radio. Featuring a conversation with researcher and writer Kasim Tirmizey speaking on the importance of pushing McGill to divest from TC Energy corporation, which is building the Coastal Gas Link pipeline on Wet'suwet'en territory against the collective will of the Wet'suwet'en Nation. Also Wet'suwet'en activist Marlene Hale speaks about the importance of sustained solidarity and support for the Wet'suwet'en even if not in the headlines right now. I drafted an open letter with Kasim that was published last week by the McGill Daily calling for McGill to divest from TC Energy, you can read that here: https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2021/02/open-letter-respect-wetsuweten-sovereignty-and-divest-from-cgl-pipeline Also we hear from Rachel Small who is an activist from World Beyond War. In this interview, which is part of a series that I am working on in collaboration with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, Rachel speaks about a recent action in which activists took direct action to protest and block transport trucks in the Hamilton and Toronto areas to protest the shipment of arms from Canadian corporations for export to Saudi Arabia's government and military. Info on the action here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/yemen-1.5886743 Info on World Beyond War here: https://worldbeyondwar.org/ Music on this episode by Pie Corner Audio and Alice Coltrane + Charlie Haden. Free City Radio is hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and is also a radio show broadcasting every Wednesday at 11h on @radiockut