Escape Velocity Radio

Well dear listeners, this is it – the final episode of Escape Velocity Radio (for the foreseeable future anyway). And it’s not even a real episode. It’s about one-tenth of an episode – an...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-29-escaped-velocity-radio

After celebrating Winnipeg’s triumphant victory as Canada’s most racist city, we look at the disconnect between viewing racism as bigoted acts by individuals and seeing it as a colonial syste...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-28-canadian-museum-for-human-rights-winnipegs-colonialism-problem

This month we get into the copious feedback we received from last episode, specifically reflecting on the dissonance between our discussion of sexual assault and two of our past G7 releases. Next...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-27-critical-feedback-extra-judicial-police-murder-interstellar

In the wake of widespread allegations detailing disgraced CBC Radio personality Jian Ghomeshi’s long history of violent sexual assaults, Winnipeg-based writer and journalist Melissa Martin (@Do...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-26-jian-ghomeshi-consent-assault-and-justice-with-melissa-martin

Boo! It’s October, which means another terrifying Halloween episode! This month we visit the home of Anishinaabe/Metis comedian and podcaster Ryan McMahon (@RMComedy ) – which, like most home...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-25-ryan-mcmahon-on-comedy-decolonization-and-podcasting

This month we delve (very-shallowly) into our personal video game histories in order to reveal just how little we know about games and gaming, then discuss Anita Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-24-tropes-vs-women-in-video-games-museums-vs-human-rights-in-canada

We return from our summer travels (and travails) with stories of colonial homesteads and colonial privilege, followed by a debunking of prominent atheist and neuroscientist Sam Harris’ absurd a...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-23-nora-barrows-friedman-on-israel-palestine-debunking-sam-harris

We start by discussing the new documentary Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, which delves into how animal agriculture is the primary source of environmental degradation on the planet, and as...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-22-jean-kilbourne-on-women-in-advertising-and-rape-culture-cowspira

As we return from our extended absence, Chris brings us tales of Propagandhi’s Australian sojourn, including their introduction to the RISE organization, and their time with Sea Shepherd. Then ...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-21-australia-plagiarism-addiction-and-the-end-of-food

In this month’s extended installment of the podcast, we begin by taking a field trip to a corporate chain movie theatre to watch better-than-average Hollywood slop in the form of Darren Aronofs...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-20-noah-cosmos-sealfies-leigh-phillips-gmos

To celebrate the vernal equinox in the tradition of Chris’ ancestors, we at once lamely lament the continued dearth of female voices on our podcast, and simultaneously criticize The Agenda for ...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-19-media-sausage-parties-canada-reads-decolonial-veganism

With the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia just winding down, we sit down with Jules Boykoff – author of Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games and Activism and the Olympics – to ta...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-18-jules-boykoff-on-the-olympics-and-celebration-capitalism

We take the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico to interview teacher, researcher, and author of Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global, ...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-17-the-zapatistas-20-years-on-with-alex-khasnabish

While on a short break from our clandestine preparations for liberating Santa’s reindeer from chattel slavery, we recount some of the feedback we received on last month’s Chris Hedges intervi...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-16-we-steal-secrets-the-unpaid-story-of-antibiotic-resistance

This month we bring you our conversation with Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges. Recorded during his late-2013 visit to Winnipeg, we discuss the idea of human progress; re...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-15-interview-with-chris-hedges

On this month’s terrifying episode, which may or may not have been recorded in an actual haunted house, we spend the hour with activist and economist Robin Hahnel discussing his book Of the Peo...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-14-interview-with-robin-hahnel-on-participatory-economics

This month, we take time out from exposing each other as undercover operatives working for the corporate state to discuss Jamie Meltzer’s new documentary Informant, about the bizarre case of ac...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-13-informants-and-infiltrators

Come, sit by the lake and eavesdrop while we review your copious feedback to episode 11’s discussion of the BDS movement against Israel; debrief on Propagandhi’s European tour and the ubiquit...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-12-ethical-life-under-capitalism-speculative-futures-alternative-ec

Derek barely reviews World War Z (the shitty movie, not the excellent book), which segues into a discussion of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel (wherein Chris calls f...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-11-the-bds-movement-and-israel-stefan-christoff-on-the-quebec-stude

Derek backpedals on calling Jared Diamond “douchebaggy”, we give wildly divergent recommendations of who to follow on Twitter, and we attempt to convince you to back the new Media Education F...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-10-interview-with-dave-zirin-on-sports-and-politics

After a month-long absence we explode back onto the scene with a hilarious skit about the media coverage of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s death, followed by a recap of Propagandhi’s Eur...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-9-interview-with-colleen-patrick-goudreau

Sink your teeth into our discussion of the hypocrisy and absurdity behind the horse meat debacle; the real scandal behind SodaStream’s SuperBowl ad; the 10th anniversary of a key propaganda cou...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-8-is-that-an-implement-of-power-and-death-or-are-you-just-happy-to

Join us for a discussion about the Idle No More First Nations movement in Canada, as we review the key issues and timeline of events; talk to John K. Samson about the Canadian Artists Statement o...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-7-round-dance-dance-revolution

Ring-in 2013 by listening-in on our conversation with Laura Jane Grace from Against Me! where we discuss gender dysphoria, her decision to transition, and the band’s forthcoming album. We also ...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-6-in-45000-words-or-less-tell-us-about-gender-dysphoria

After reflecting on both the outcome of the recent U.S. elections and Israel’s latest bombardment of Gaza — and after getting immolated in a Predator drone strike — we interview Shawna Pott...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-5-when-did-you-first-realize-you-were-a-feminazi

Make yourself a sandwich and listen in while we examine the Stanford organic food study and media illiteracy; get a report from Chris on Propagandhi’s north-eastern tour; discuss Ralph Nader’...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-4-organic-you-glad-i-didnt-say-banana

Join us as we dissect the controversy around Chris Hedges’ “Cancer in Occupy” article and the Occupy Tactics debate; discuss the excellent documentary If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth ...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-3-i-essentially-agree-with-everybody-on-the-planet-about-everything

This month we review your feedback on episode one; solve once and for all the issue of mass shootings and gun violence in one 15 minute discussion; hear the latest news from local four-piece band...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-2-building-better-communities-by-sitting-in-the-basement

In this, our inaugural episode, we discuss and preview Propagandhi’s forthcoming album “Failed States”; gawk with jaws slack at the unmitigated gall of the executives at Enbridge; pontifica...

https://escapevelocityradio.com/episodes/detail/episode-1-please-explain-to-me-what-our-mandate-is