Open Letter to Co-Op Radio Board and Members: Supporting BDS is necessary
December 8, 2011 in Features, Statements and Articles
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In Memoriam: Bob Rosen
November 23, 2011 in Features, Statements and Articles
Sign on: Defend Lebanese BDS Activists – Stand in Solidarity
October 24, 2011 in Features, Statements and Articles
BIAC has signed on to the following call to defend Lebanese BDS activists against an effort to use the courts to stifle their call for cultural boycott. Please do sign on, and email rania.z.masri@gmail.com with your signatures: Samah Idriss, director of Dar al-Adab publishing house, received a court summons [recently] from Beirut’s commerce court. Idriss [...]
BIAC supports national Community Radio BDS resolution
August 25, 2011 in All, Features, Statements and Articles
The National Community and Campus Radio Association (NCRA) passed a strong BDS resolution at its most recent Annual General Meeting (see resolution text below.) The AGM took place in Halifax, NS on June 10, 2011; Vancouver-area community radio stations that are members of NCRA include Co-Op Radio (CFRO 102.7) and the student radio stations at [...]
CanWest Huffs and Puffs while Free Speech Burns
June 20, 2008 in All, Statements and Articles
By Carel Moiseiwitsch and Gordon Murray In June 2007, the Palestine Media Collective produced a newspaper parody of the Vancouver Sun that satirized CanWest’s anti-Palestinian bias with articles such as “Study Shows Truth Biased Against Israel” by Cyn Sorsheep. Six months later, CanWest Mediaworks Publications Inc. launched a lawsuit against those “conspiring” to produce and [...]
