On Today’ s show we feature a report back from the April 15th 2020 community organizing meeting in Kitchener to address the Coronavirus pandemic in respect to the homeless population, and implement immediate measures to mitigate the impacts. The meeting was held at the LOT 42 events and conference campus, and among other things, concluded with the announcement of the establishment of a tent city on the LOT 42 property.
We then speak with Nadine Green, Heather Majaury, and Ron Doyle, about the Lot lot 42 site which will be used to house people, as well as run programs that help poor people. The site includes a tent city in the court yard as well as a building with washrooms sports facilities a movie room and common area.
Nadine Green was a downtown store owner who used her store as a place to house homeless people as well as provide them with employment until the city and other forces forced her to shut down. As a result of this resistance was built and Heather Majaury came on board as an indigenous activist who found common cause with Nadine in terms of the plight of homeless people. This collaboration touched the heart of Landlord Ron Doyle who donated his property, lot 42 for Nadine, Heather and other like minded activists to use to solve the housing crisis.
Ron Doyle did this unprecedented move of donating his land as a result of the fact that the city is not doing enough around the, housing crisis and with the outbreak of Covid 19 homeless people more then ever need a place to go and if the city will not provide this space Ron took it upon himself to provide the space.
This program is a part of the “Local Journalism Initiative” grant program and is funded by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, the Government of Canada, and the CKMS Newsroom.
Regan Sunshine Brussé
Regan Sunshine Brussé is an anti-poverty activist working with Alliance Against Poverty, and is now working to find shelter for those left unsheltered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tonight I will go back to the basics, back to what made me want to do this to begin with. No themes, just me showing some of my favourite music and explaining why I love it so much. This is part 4 of this series.
03m58s: Acoustics vs. Electrics, engineering an album.
08m52s: Jake Feeney — Calling Cards, Live in-studio.
12m06s: Writing sad songs, the process of writing music.
19m13s: Jake Feeney — Growing Pains, Live in-studio.
22m25s: Finger picking, “Travis Picking”, and other guitar techniques. What genre is Jake’s music? “Finger-pickin’, melancholy folk music.” Jake writes music for Jake.
35m24s: Melancholy music, happy music; audience requests, playing various venues like The Free Times Cafe, getting gigs, playing with other musicians, writing for other musicians, promotion and business, maybe teaching music.
Tonight I will go back to the basics, back to what made me want to do this to begin with. No themes, just me showing some of my favourite music and explaining why I love it so much. This is part 3 of this series.
Check out the great new album by Yuka called Dreamscape as aired on CKMS! Yuka is a seven-piece ensemble. This full album was recorded on tape! Check the the old school vibes here:
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