What are your rights, anyway? Justice Vs. is a podcast that explores the ever changing landscape of civil liberties in Canada. Host Maria Rio will interview activists, lawyers, organizers and those most impacted by rights violations across the country. Through these conversations, we seek to understand: What are our rights in Canada - to protest, to security, to equality? What are the limitations on those rights and how our systems fail the most vulnerable?
Episodes to come will explore issues faced by LGBTQ2S+ youth in school, G20 Toronto mass arrests, the Canadian bail system, decriminalization of sex work, and much more. The goal with Justice Vs. is to provide people with an accessible platform to be educated on the importance of protecting civil liberties.
A big thanks to the Justice Vs. Volunteer Team:
Writing and Research Team: Natalie Sequeira, Kate Tutu, Jeremy Zhang, Luke Ryan, Imran Dhanani, Rachael Dyal, Rachael. Bridge, Leo Ghiran, Stella Racca, Sae Furukawa, managed by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry and Eilish Waller
Audio Team: Paul Berry, Ren Bangert, managed by Farid Pesteh
Marketing Team: Arlet Vazquez, Irene Lee, Hope Arpa Chow, managed by Soaad Qahhār Hossain
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Original Music by Ren Bangert.
Audio Editing by Ren Bangert.
Script Writing by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry
Becky McFarlane: In a situation where you're fighting for something that's so personal to you, any way that someone who wants to deny your humanity in the world feels like they won. You know, that's a hard thing to have to kind of sit with. But it's also a lesson, which is that the fight never ends. Even in victory the fight never ends.
Cara Zwibel: And people said that they had no warning, they weren't aware that they were being asked to clear out. And police did use this tactic of kettling, where you essentially block people in so that there's no way for them to exit really, and then you you go through and systematically arrest them.
Maria Rio: In 2020, in a time of mass protests, calls for policing reform, a global health crisis and far reaching restrictions on our rights, we need a space to talk about the changing landscape of civil liberties in Canada. The Canadian civil liberties Association ccla has been around for over 50 years defending human rights, civil liberties and democratic freedoms. This fall, we're launching our new podcast justice vs. We interview activists, lawyers, organizers, and those most impacted by rights violations across the country. Through these conversations, we seek to understand what are our rights in Canada to protest security to quality? What are the limitations on those raised in how do our systems fail the most vulnerable My name is Maria Rio and I work at cc Lake Lake ccla. I believe all people should have the rights and freedoms protected. I came to Canada as a refugee and saw how important human rights protections are. Through CCLS podcast, we hope to make topics about equality, privacy and democratic values accessible to the public. In our first episode of justice vs. We explore what being a student entails for youth in the LGBTQ community.
Kyle McGiverin: That fear is the absolutely the biggest obstacle. We call those fears and barriers out. And we we do that openly and unapologetically. We recognize that we have to do it it's a human rights matter.
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