Here is the playlist from our April 15 broadcast:

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (April 16) is up at the website
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The Ontario 2010 budget, released on March 25th, confirms that the McGuinty government's "poverty reduction" efforts are all pretense. Poor and working people are being forced to pay for the economic crisis. New cuts to social assistance are the most devastating since Mike Harris slashed welfare rates in 1995. We saw this coming and we need to respond. How can welfare recipients, labor unions and social justice activists organize together?
Listen to featured speakers and following discussion about current conditions and recommendations on how to push strategies forward.

This week, Wikileaks.org released graphic video of the cold-blooded slaughter of Iraqi civilians in 2007, including the two Reuters journalists picture above, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen. While confirming the authenticity of the video, the Pentagon’s response is effectively “So what?”, which leads one to imagine that the indiscriminate massacre of non-combatants is rather commonplace.

dégenréE vous propose une émission sur les femmes et les trans dans les metiers du batiment... Riche en témoignages, ponctuée de musiques détonnantes et d’analyses éclatantes, cette émission donnera un aperçu des conditions de travail pour les femmes les gouines et les trans’ dans ce milieu tellement viril et permettra de s’interroger sur la repartition du travail entre les genres.

Tiger Windwalker, author of "Walk in Beauty", shared his poems, music and what it means to trust life. He emphasized the importance of transparency and vulnerability in the healing process.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has graciously allowed Virginians all across the state to spend a few moments remembering the historical significance of the Confederate States of America, declaring April to be an official 'Confederate History Month'

Unfortunately, he forgot to mention that small formality of slavery, an omission he has since apologized for, which is rather like a vicious wife beater apologizing to his neighbor for his wife’s terrible screams.

“I just had no idea she would make that much noise.”

Robert Reed of San Franciso's Recology, one of the largest composting and recycling employee owned organizations in the country, is with us for the first half of the show. Then soil scientist and agronomist, Bob Shaffer shares the known secrets of composting and recognizes the secrets of humus that no one really knows.

Interviewed by Susan Galleymore for Raising Sand Radio: www.raisingsandradio.org

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Feature: Don Weitz Takes a look back at the sordid history of the Queen Street 'Psycho-Prison'
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Feature: Phone interview with Signatory in opposition to 'Project Hero'
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News updates for the week;