Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of the Pan-African News Wire, to Speak in Toronto Tonight, Sept. 13

Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, holding a leaflet at Cobo Conference Center in downtown Detroit. MECAWI won a federal court order related to its ability to distribute information on the foreclosure crisis. (Photo: Cheryl LaBash).
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PANW Editor, Abayomi Azikiwe, to Speak in Toronto Tonight

Abayomi Azikiwe, the Editor of the Pan-Afrikan News Wire, will speak in Toronto on Saturday, September 13th, 7:00 p.m., at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) - 252 Bloor Street West. Azikiwe will expose the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC's) bias against Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

Azikiwe has worked for many years as a broadcast journalist on five different radio stations in Detroit and Toronto. Azikiwe, an anti-imperialist, serves as the spokesperson for Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI). He has been a fierce critic of the imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a Pan-Afrikanist he has attempted to broaden the anti-war movement to include Afrika and Haiti in to the anti-war mix.

Azikiwe can be heard every Thursday at 9:30 p.m. on CKLN, 88.1 fm -Diasporic Music.

Check out the Pan-Afrikan News Wire @
http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/
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FYI

CKLN 881.1 fm
(http://www.ckln.fm)

Diasporic Music

Thursday 8 - 10pm

Hosts : Norman "Otis" Richmond , Dwayne Morgan

Diasporic Music is a show named after one of Norman (Otis) Richmond's mentors Archie Shepp. Richmond covers everything from Bessie Smith to Burning Spear, hip hop to be-bop and beyond. Spoken word artist Dwayne Morgan holds down the second week of each month. Abayomi Azikiwe the editor of the Pan African News Wire is heard each week at 9:30pm.

The great drummer who recently joined the ancestor Max Roach once said, "No one in Canada is doing what Norman is doing."

Saturday Morning Live
Saturday 10am - 1pm
Hosts: Norman (Otis) Richmond, Omme Rahemtullah, Farid Omar
Techs : Stuart Andrews, Ian Brown Jean Hodgkinson

Saturday Morning Live (SML) has been called "CKLN's flagship news program." Produced by Norman (Otis) Richmond, the show features author/activist Dr.Gerald Horne and Death Row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal weekly. The Group for Research and initiatives for the Liberation of Africa (GRILA) presents Pan- African News three times a month. Amber Kellen and Collen Bell present Social Justice News the last Saturday of the month. Also on the last Saturday the Freedom (Ciphers) present a youth point of view. Rackel Sanders handles the weekly community calendar.

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Abayomi Azikiwe, the Editor of the Pan-Afrikan News Wire, will speak in Toronto on Saturday, September 13th, 7:00 p.m., at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) - 252 Bloor Street West. Azikiwe will expose the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC’s) bias against Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

Azikiwe has worked for many years as a broadcast journalist on five different radio stations in Detroit and Toronto. Azikiwe, an anti-imperialist, serves as the spokesperson for Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI). He has been a fierce critic of the imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a Pan-Afrikanist he has attempted to broaden the anti–war movement to include Afrika and Haiti in to the anti-war mix.

Azikiwe can be heard every Thursday at 9:30 p.m. on CKLN, 88.1 fm - Diasporic Music.

Check out the Pan-Afrikan News Wire @ http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/

------------------------------------------------------------
FYI

CKLN 881.1 fm
(http://www.ckln.fm)

Diasporic Music

Thursday 8 - 10pm

Hosts : Norman "Otis" Richmond , Dwayne Morgan

Diasporic Music is a show named after one of Norman (Otis) Richmond’s mentors Archie Shepp. Richmond covers everything from Bessie Smith to Burning Spear, hip hop to be-bop and beyond. Spoken word artist Dwayne Morgan holds down the second week of each month. Abayomi Azikiwe the editor of the Pan African News Wire is heard each week at 9:30pm.The great drummer who recently joined the ancestor Max Roach once said, “No one in Canada is doing what Norman is doing.”

Saturday Morning Live
Saturday 10am - 1pm
Hosts: Norman (Otis) Richmond, Omme Rahemtullah, Farid Omar

Techs : Stuart Andrews, Ian Brown Jean Hodgkinson

Saturday Morning Live (SML) has been called "CKLN's flagship news program." Produced by Norman (Otis) Richmond, the show features author/activist Dr.Gerald Horne and Death Row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal weekly. The Group for Research and initiatives for the Liberation of Africa (GRILA) presents Pan- African News three times a month. Amber Kellen and Collen Bell present Social Justice News the last Saturday of the month. Also on the last Saturday the Freedom (Ciphers) present a youth point of view. Rackel Sanders handles the weekly community calendar.