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Monday June 18, 2012
Out of a South African jail, former gangster aims at the music charts
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South African musician Larry Joe, as he leaves Douglas prison in December 2010. |
Larry Joe's songs of redemption
He was a troubled convict hoping for a music career when he met a restless music producer unsatisfied with his own.
Aron Turest-Swartz was a co-founder of the popular South African group Freshly Ground. And when he heard Larry sing, he dropped what he was doing and turned the jail cell into a recording studio.
When we last heard from them, Larry was about to be released and so was his first album. And we wanted to know where their story has gone since then.
Larry Joe joined us from Cape Town in South Africa and his producer and friend, Aron Turest-Swartz, was in studio with Rick.
Listen to Rick's chat with them
Listen to Corinne Smith's documentary about Larry Joe from March 2011
Hear the rest of this week's Dispatches program here
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Sunday June 10, 2012
Italy closed the sea to refugees
Eritrean refugees had originally cheered the sight of an Italian ship in the Mediterranean. They'd been adrift for four days. Little did they know that Italy would breach international law and dump them in Libya to face near-certain abuse. (Photo: Closed Sea)

But their delight is misplaced.
Italy is not there to welcome them, but to send them back where they came from.
In 2009, it defied the UN and illegally closed the Mediterranean to refugees.
The impact of that policy of pushback -- or refoulement, as it's known -- comes under scrutiny in a new film called Closed Sea.
It documents the astonishing story of Eritreans fleeing military repression at home, hoping to sail to Italy via Libya, and marooned by politics.
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Friday June 8, 2012
What's cooking in Egyptian politics
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Cooking show host Ghaila Mahmoud works in her modest kitchen at the studios of 25TV, a network formed in the wake of the Egyptian revolution in 2011. (Photo: courtesy 25TV) |
After next week's runoff election, they'll be looking at a new President. But there's another trendsetting personality emerging on TV.
And she's a cook, doing what she does best.
Though the bare-bones economy of her dishes, reflects the sclerotic economy confronting most Egyptians.
The CBC's middle East Correspondent, Derek Stoffel, is with her to suss the ingredients that make up her celebrity.
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Thursday May 31, 2012
Child "bomberitos" on Peru's most dangerous highway
Peru's Bomberitos to the rescue
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Bomberito means "little fireman" in Spanish. In the Andes Mountains of Peru groups of them use their homemade carretas to help stranded motorists and truckers along the highway. The tips they earn help support their families. Hevert (left) was a bomberito as a kid, helping rescue stranded motorists and victims of disasters. They get their carretas up the steep highway through the Andes by attaching ropes, or just their hands, to passing transport trucks. (Photos: Romi Burianova) The photo that started it (below). Filmmaker Quincy Perkins saw this picture of two Bomberitos -- kids on their own in the mountains of Peru who make their way to mountain accidents and disasters. Our Dispatches contributor went with him to the Amazon valley as he made a film about them (Photo/StefanSonntag) |
It was one of those dinner party stories that sticks in your head. A rumour about kids racing homemade carts high in the Andes, acting as first responders during accidents and disasters.
They have a catchy name. They're said to do dangerous work in a dangerous region.
But are they real? For Dispatches contributor Lori Chodos and a colleague, the voyage to find out was a story in itself.
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Categories: Americas, News Promo, Promo Box, The View from Here
Thursday May 24, 2012
Foreign slaves serving the U.S. military machine
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Sarah Stillman has won several awards for her investigation of America's "Invisible Army". (Photo by Alan Chin) |
Hear Rick's interview with Sarah
She is in Washington, D.C. Her story about foreign workers on American bases first appeared in The New Yorker.
Hear the rest of this week's Dispatches
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Friday May 18, 2012
Reporter caps Zimbabwe gig with 24 days in grotty jail
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New Zealand photographer Robin Hammond was imprisoned for 24 days by the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe, atfer photographing people fleeing the country. (Photo: Amnesty International) |
Tales of jail in Zimbabwe
Maybe not so good at police work. The New Zealand photographer found out first hand.
He was jailed for taking pictures of Zimbabweans fleeing the political violence of the Mugabe regime.
He might still be in there if the police had promptly patted him down and seized his cellphone.
They didn't.
Long story short, Robin Hammond was held for twenty-four days and only released last week. We caught up with him in Paris to hear more about conditions in Zimbabwe.
Listen to Rick's conversation with Robin
Hear the rest of this week's program.
Categories: News Promo
- June 2012
- Sun., 10 – Italy closed the sea to refugees
- Fri., 8 – What's cooking in Egyptian politics
- May 2012
- Sat., 12 – Brazil man makes musical treasure from trash
- Fri., 4 – What do China's twin crises mean?
- April 2012
- Thu., 26 – Yemen: A lesson in insecurity
- Thu., 12 – Peace without justice in Liberia
- March 2012
- Fri., 30 – 20 years ago, Bosnia war like bad dream
- Fri., 30 – Cape Town "car guards" offer "protection"
- Thu., 22 – The trials of Tweeting in China
- Wed., 21 – In Italy, a long drink of yesterday's wine
- Thu., 15 – China's painful healing, with bee-stings
- Thu., 15 – Rwandans find new uses for malaria nets
- Fri., 9 – Italy's crisis endangers its guilds
- Thu., 8 – Mexico's vigilante mayor
- Wed., 7 – Lanse kòd animate Jacmel Carnival
- Fri., 2 – Plus ça change, in Change Square
- February 2012
- Wed., 29 – A box full of light saves lives
- Tue., 28 – They die so we might know
- Mon., 27 – Oscar winner on Dispatches
- Thu., 23 – Young Senegalese "fed up" with regime
- Wed., 22 – A special court for post-trauma vets
- Mon., 13 – Syrian refugees' defiance and division
- Tue., 7 – Colombia's no-name dead
- January 2012
- Fri., 20 – Why was it Kandahar for Canada's troops?
- Fri., 13 – Dispatches on the Web
- Thu., 12 – Dispatches on the web
- Wed., 11 – Dutch pot cafes take heat
- Fri., 6 – Romania outreach for Roma kids a bust
- Tue., 3 – Kampala, 2011: some hope from a gay bar
- December 2011
- Thu., 29 – Deadly larceny over land in Haiti
- Sun., 18 – Fast food in the land of slow cooking
- Thu., 15 – Rio's Maracana makeover
- Wed., 14 – Mass marriage and divorce, Peruvian style
- Tue., 13 – The concrete issue of carbon emissions
- Thu., 8 – The road from Damascus -- to Libya
- Thu., 1 – Amsterdam "Santa's" helpers in blackface
- November 2011
- Wed., 30 – Guyana: jungle tourism and Jonestown
- Mon., 28 – Colombia Kidnap Radio hostage killed
- Fri., 25 – Santa, Peru buries death-squad victims
- Thu., 24 – Twins, a train and art in Brazil
- Mon., 21 – Kudos for correspondents
- Thu., 17 – Surviving is winning in Afghan politics
- Mon., 7 – Congo DIY: do it yourself or do without
- Fri., 4 – Rebel town overrun in Sudan's Blue Nile
- Thu., 3 – Chinese rebel writer tells his own story
- October 2011
- Thu., 13 – Bailing out the Greeks' devalued psyche
- Fri., 7 – 5 convicted in Argentina torture/murder
- September 2011
- Thu., 15 – Peace and death on Tripoli Street
- Thu., 8 – Asian carp approach Great Lakes
- Fri., 2 – Adrienne Arsenault on terrorism's future
- August 2011
- Fri., 26 – Berlin's anti-Nazi cleaning lady
- Thu., 18 – Sudan's Machine Gun Preacher
- Tue., 16 – Urumqi, China's underground 6 City
- Fri., 12 – The Redemption Of General Butt Naked
- Wed., 10 – For Haitian women, credit buys confidence
- Mon., 1 – U.S. Ramadan Road Trip
- July 2011
- Fri., 22 – From Yunnan: golf in the new China
- Wed., 13 – Nothing but mammals, baby...
- Mon., 11 – This Is Not America
- June 2011
- Wed., 29 – Guca, Serbia: brass bands and nationalism
- Fri., 17 – A Space Shuttle, a premier, and an ocean
- Mon., 13 – Jerusalem...covering the never-ending story
- May 2011
- Mon., 2 – War brides return to Britain on QM2
- April 2011
- Tue., 19 – Kampala...home of Gadhafi's fan club?
- Sat., 16 – Cairo...security file free-for-all
- Fri., 15 – Kampala...home of the Gadhafi Fan Club!
- Thu., 14 – Tokyo...in the shadow of Fukushima
- Mon., 11 – Dakar's wrestling sandbox millionaires
- Mon., 4 – Jordan's protests run deep
- March 2011
- Thu., 31 – Grand Forks, ND: misinformation on the menu
- Thu., 17 – Kabul... Ormiston on Afghanistanization
- Mon., 14 – Addis Ababa...renting the news of revolution
- Fri., 11 – Margaret Evans' Mideast overview
- Thu., 10 – China rolls back reforms
- Wed., 2 – Tunisians demand democracy now!
- February 2011
- Mon., 28 – Kabul's curbside cops
- Wed., 23 – Urumqi, China..underground music here
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