December 26th, 2005 || Listen | Download

Featured Guest(s):
Marty Two-Bulls, Yves Engler,

Phil speaks with Marty Two-Bulls, a writer/illustrator and Oglalla Dakota, about the Dec. 29 1890 massacre of Chief Big Foot and his followers at Wounded Knee, and the role of the Ghost Dance and its links to Christianity. They also talk about L. Frank Baum, the author of "the Wizard of Oz", who editorialized for the annihilation of native Americans.

We also speak with Yves Engler, a militant opponent of Canada's involvement in the illegal occupation and repression in Haiti.

Links:
Indian Country Today

Featured Guest(s):
Tiphaine Dickson,

Monday's guest was Tiphaine Dickson, a Montreal lawyer who has defended accused before UN Rwanda Tribunal and has represented Slobodan Milosevic. She was continuing an account from the previous week's show, informing listeners that a Rwanda witness who had written a letter complaining of harrassment by UN investigators has gone missing. Dickson said Belgian authorities now say they have found a body they suspect may be the missing witness.

Featured Guest(s):
Tiphaine Dickson,

'Save Tookie Williams' was the theme of the 1st half-hour, reviewing the issues and new facts concerning Stanley "Tookie" Williams, facing execution Dec. 13, '05 (Tookie was executed by the State of California on that date).

Tiphaine Dickson, who practices international criminal law and has acted for accused before the ICTY and ICTR, was interviewed in the 2nd half-hour about the Milosevic case and the strange disappearence of a Rwandan witness in Europe.

Featured Guest(s):
Dave Zirin and Robin Philpot,

Links:
EdgeOfSports.com