CKUT's Tuesday Morning After hosted Montreal musicians Ariane Morin (saxophone) & Yoni Kaston (accordian) of Ihtimanska for a live in-studio performance. The duo describe Ihtimanska as "a sweet conversation between saxophone and accordion that shares folk melodies from the regions of Turkey, Bulgaria and Macedonia with a personnal touch of creativity."

Despite the early hour, Ariane & Yoni played beautiful music in the studio, including two songs - "Sedi Donka" & "Suleyman Aga" - from their upcoming self-titled album.

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Speech connecting current Canadian anti-refugee policy with racism & anti-semitism of "None is Too Many" government policy during WWII.

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With 60 million displaced people around the world this year, we are at the most severe refugee crisis since World War Two. Borders continue to wage their deadly violence. There is no doubt that the Conservative Harper government has blood on its hands, with its explicit anti-refugee, anti-migrant legislation and discourse of the last decade.

Political parties across the spectrum are making claims about Canada’s 'humanitarian legacy.' But let’s look at how Canada positioned itself while the Nazi genocide unfolded in Europe during WWII.
From 1933-1948, Canada accepted only 5,000 Jewish refugees, the lowest of ANY Western nation. The Liberal prime minister at this time, Mackenzie King, was clear about what he thought about Jewish refugees coming to Canada. He said, 'We must seek to keep this part of the Continent free from unrest and from too great an intermixture of foreign strains of blood.' He didn’t want to create 'an internal problem in an effort to meet an international one.' Mackenzie King warned that allowing in Jewish refugees would cause riots and threaten the unity of Canada. Policies to keep out refugees backed up this rhetoric, and when one immigration official was asked how many Jews should be permitted into Canada, he responded, 'None is too many.'

The situation was very different when Canada needed migrants for cheap, exploited, dangerous labor at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. At this time, Jews and other migrants and refugees from around the world were allowed in as part of Canada’s industrialization and colonization of Indigenous lands.
So when politicians wax and wane about Canada’s legacy, let’s remember that it has always been defined by the parameters of racism and colonialism and the interests of capitalism.

The history of None is Too Many is now rhyming with the bigoted couplets of Stephen Harper and his accomplices, who have done all they can to drum up anti-Arab and Islamophobic rhetoric; who have no problem using conditions of slavery in the Temporary Foreign Worker programs, while denying status, deporting, and jailing refugees – 87,317, in fact, jailed over the last 9 years, including 807 children per year. As Jews, along with all diasporic peoples, we can build across difference, share our resources, and replace dehumanization with a solidarity that is compassionate, fierce, and far-reaching. Alan, Ghalib, and Rehanna should be here. So too should anyone courageously resisting, crossing artificial borders, seeking safety.

We say with all our heart, with all our soul, infused with the strength of the Eibishter, none is NEVER too many! No human being is illegal. CANADA IS ILLEGAL.

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Eléonore Biezunski & Zoe Aqua - Lebedik & Bughici Freylekhs @ KlezKanada cabaret

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Originally aired on radio613. Full interview with Temim Fruchter: radio613.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/te…-the-shondes/

Music by Brave Old World ("Wailing World")
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Temim Fruchter reflects on Tisha B'Av, Zionism, and creating temples in time

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X-Clan - Grand Verbalizer, What Time Is it?
Bush Babies - Get On Down
KRS-One - The Mind
Eternia ft. Rage & Rah Digga - The BBQ
DShade ft. The Narcicyst & Omar Offendum - They Want It All
Beastie Boys - Right Right Now Now
Invincible - Emperor's Clothes
Tiffany AJ Paynter - Goddamn
Ian Kamau - Becoming
J Ross Perreli ft. Akil the MC - Legacy
Black Eyed Peas ft. De La Soul & Mos Def - On My Own
One Self - Fear the Labour
K'Naan ft. Chali2na & Mos Def - America
Dragon Fli Empire - Headphones Dub

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