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Mostafah Henaway & Stefan Christoff
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Listen to an interview with Ahmet Gulkan a taxi driver in downtown Toronto, organizer with the Toronto Coalition of Concerned Taxi Drivers and regular contributor to Taxi Post, Toronto’s monthly taxi newspaper.
Taxis are central to the North American urban economy and landscape, while the drivers represent an economic and social underclass of majority immigrant labour. In this interview Ahmet addresses the social and economic struggle of taxi drivers in Toronto, who collectively represent the second largest income for the City of Toronto.
Within recent months the Toronto Coalition of Concerned Taxi Drivers, in coordination with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty [OCAP], have held a number of demonstrations and actions, which have highlighted the disproportional amount of municipal tickets issued to taxi drivers by Toronto police. These actions have also targeted the Toronto police, demanding an end to racial profiling of taxi drivers in Toronto, a majority immigrants and refugees.
----> For more information on the Toronto Coalition of Concerned Taxi Drivers, visit Taxi Post online at: http://www.taxipost.ca
----> For more information on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty [OCAP] visit: http://www.ocap.ca
[This interview was conducted in a taxi in downtown Toronto by media activists, Mostafah Henaway & Stefan Christoff for CKUT Radio Montreal and CKLN Radio Toronto.]
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