33. Mohamed Barry on non-status workers, Tim McSorley on opposing anti-terror legislation in Canada

Free City Radio

Listen to the 33rd edition of Free City Radio. On the broadcast today we hear about non-status essential workers in Quebec, an excerpt from a guest segment produced for @interference-archive-nyc in Brooklyn. For this segment we hear from Mostafa Henaway @mostafa-henaway of the Immigrant Workers Centre who speaks about the systemic mistreatment of frontline workers who live with precarious status, particularly focusing on the realities at the Dollarama distribution centre in Montreal, the main hub of distribution for all Dollarama's in North America. Also we hear from Mohamed Barry a Guinean community activist and former asylum seeker who worked at the Dollarama warehouse and speaks about the systemic mistreatment of workers with precarious status, particularly Black workers, within the context of the pandemic. Info on the Immigrant Workers Centre: http://iwc-cti.ca Also we hear from Tim Mcsorley of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group who gives a critical perspective on the use of existing "anti terror" legislation to target white supremacist organizations and far right organizations. An open letter from the ICLMG recently called on the government to take action against far right racism, but to not entrench existing anti-terror legislation which has historically been used to target anti-colonial movements and progressive movements opposing colonialism and injustice globally. The issue is complex, but this is why I thought that it was important to include this discussion on the program. Read the open letter here: https://iclmg.ca/letter-federal-leaders-terrorist-entities-list/ Music on this podcast by @pjs11, @thanyaiyermusic and Asher Gamedze. Free City Radio is hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and is also a community radio show that broadcasts weekly on @radiockut 90.3fm in Motnreal, on Wednesdays at 11h.