30. Cesar Jaramillo on Prohibition of Nuclear Arms Treaty, Ahmad Jaradat on Palestinian prisoners

Free City Radio

Listen to the 30th edition of the Free City Radio podcast. This edition includes the second in a new interview series done in collaboration with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute. (https://www.foreignpolicy.ca/) On this edition we hear from Cesar Jaramillo of Project Ploughshares (https://ploughshares.ca/), who speaks about the international campaigning that has taken place around the global Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which was signed by many countries globally in January. https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/tpnw/ Canada didn't sign, while the Liberal government speaks about the importance of a world without nuclear weapons. Jaramillo addresses the contradiction of Canada's stated opposition to nuclear weapons and the fact that the Liberal government wouldn't support a global treaty. This identifies a common distance between the rhetoric of the Liberal government and actual policies which are distant from the progressive rhetoric that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issues at times. Also on this program we hear from Ahmad Jaradat from the Alternative Information Centre in occupied Palestine. In this exchange Ahmad speaks about the ways that the pandemic is impacting people in occupied Palestine, giving a particular focus to the dangers faced by Palestinian political prisoners and the hundreds being held in administrative detention which doesn't require a legal trial. You can find Ahmad's work here: https://aicpalestine.org/ Free City Radio is hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff. Music on this show by Lonnie Liston Smith and Bas Relief @basrelief.