In this episode, we talk to Brenda McPhail, the Director of Privacy, Technology & Surveillance Project at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Franz Voltaire, an award-winning Haitian human rights activist & academic, and the founder of the Human Rights Film Festival in Montréal. Privacy, as we've come to learn, is not about keeping secrets: it's about social and political control. We want to know what 'tech for the people' looks like, and how we can stay connected without the eavesdropping, snitching, and behavioural mapping of our lives. In this digital reboot of social justice, we ask our listeners to think-twice about the systemic consequences of unethical software. Join RUDE as we navigate along the many twists & turns of the new tech frontier.

In this episode, RUDE connects with DESMOND COLE, reknown journalist and anti-black racism activist from Toronto and SUNIL GURMUKH, counsel at the Ontario Human Rights Commission who focuses on racial profiling. The episode delves into the messy world of smart cities and the effects of uninhibited surveillance in our public spaces. It explores the role of democracy and its changing nature in a tech-dominated reality. We question our guests and listeners about the consequences of this surveillance on individual well-being, community cohesion, and trust. And then, we get concrete and aim to figure out what we can all do about it. Come find out and join the RUDE community.

This episode looks at allyship... is it even a thing? Social justice work comes with its big wins, but it’s also a helluva lot of gruelling, isolating, and exhausting work. RUDE sprouted from the collective struggle for a more just and inclusive world. Together, we host topical, re-energizing, forward-thinking conversations. And we want you to be part of it! Because it’s time to push back. feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…786/sounds.rss

We touched base with Dmitri, founder of eQualit.ie to bring you this short clapback on the dark web.

This episode analyzes the future of activism and wonders what we can learn from past movements. Social justice work comes with its big wins, but it’s also a helluva lot of gruelling, isolating, and exhausting work. RUDE sprouted from the collective struggle for a more just and inclusive world. Together, we host topical, re-energizing, forward-thinking conversations. And we want you to be part of it! Because it’s time to push back. feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundclo…786/sounds.rss

This episode does a deep dive on labels. What does it mean to own a label, whether it's been ascribed to you by someone else or you've applied it to yourself? Join us and our guest, Kama La Mackerel, as we talk identity and politics. Social justice work comes with its big wins, but it’s also a helluva lot of gruelling, isolating, and exhausting work. RUDE sprouted from the collective struggle for a more just and inclusive world. Together, we host topical, re-energizing, forward-thinking conversations. And we want you to be part of it! Because it’s time to push back. http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:447201786/sounds.rss

This episode analyzes the intersections between the legalization of cannabis at the federal level in Canada and the historically racist discrimination of Black and Indigenous people who use and/or sell cannabis. Social justice work comes with its big wins, but it’s also a helluva lot of gruelling, isolating, and exhausting work. RUDE sprouted from the collective struggle for a more just and inclusive world. Together, we host topical, re-energizing, forward-thinking conversations. And we want you to be part of it! Because it’s time to push back. http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:447201786/sounds.rss

In our first "Clapback" we ask Snoop Dogg to comment on the overcriminalization of Black and Indigenous youth who have used or sold Cannabis, a substance that will soon be legal across Canada. Check out the footage of us asking him about this at C2 Montréal in front of 500+ people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uf8jXLX9MM Social justice work comes with its big wins, but it’s also a helluva lot of gruelling, isolating, and exhausting work. RUDE sprouted from the collective struggle for a more just and inclusive world. Together, we host topical, re-energizing, forward-thinking conversations. And we want you to be part of it! Because it’s time to push back.

Do conversations about social justice leave you feeling exhausted? Tired of being the odd one out? Of being that person who cares about making our society more just and inclusive? Meet RUDE, a "seriously fun" podcast community! We host topical, re-energizing, forward-thinking conversations. It's time to push back.