This week we rewind an episode originally aired on October 16, 2016.

GUESTS:
Sudz Sutherland, writer / director /executive producer

Yves Engler, Montreal-based activist and author.

MUSIC: Fugees, dead prez, Gil Scott-Heron, Charenee Wade, Esther Phillips, Fiona, Super Cat, the Drifters, Rick James, Mighty Gabby

SUDZ SUTHERLAND, WRITER / DIRECTOR / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Sudz Sutherland (Writer/Director) works on both sides of the fence as a freelance writer and director for TV dramas and feature films. Sudz's latest feature film, Home Again, won the prestigious PAFF‐BAFTA Festival Choice Award in Los Angeles and was recently nominated for Best Direction from the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC). Home Again is the follow up to his multiple award winning and Genie nominated debut feature film Love, Sex and Eating the Bones. Sudz is developing two new feature films, Operation Red Dog and Colour Blind. He is currently in pre-production on 'Shoot the Messenger,' his first Dramatic series co-created with writer/producer Jennifer Holness airing on the CBC.

Sudz directed The Phantoms, which won an International Kids Emmy. He also won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction for the TV movie as well as garnering a Director's Guild of Canada Best Direction nomination. The Dream Street Pictures project aired in Fall 2012 on CBC.

Sudz also co-created his first television series, the half-hour comedy She's The Mayor with Jennifer Holness and Min Sook Lee. He also wrote and directed several episodes. The show received numerous critical nods and is distributed by BBC WorldWide.

Previous to this, Sudz was involved with the feature film Toronto Stories, an anthology in conjunction with three other directors and was invited to TIFF for September 2008.

Sudz also co-wrote and directed the dramatic miniseries Guns for CBC based on four families caught up in illegal gun trafficking. Starring Colm Feore and Elisha Cuthbert, Guns won five Gemini Awards including Best Writing and Directing for Sudz.

Sudz also wrote and directed the triple Gemini award-winning (Best Direction, Best Supporting Actress, Best Television Movie) Doomstown, an MOW for CTV/Sarrazin-Couture.

Sudz's episodic television directing work includes: Syfy Network's Haven CW's Reign, Beauty and the Beast, CBC's Cracked, numerous Murdoch Mysteries, Heartland and Wild Roses.

He directed the pilot and second episode of Da Kink in my Hair for Global, Degrassi: The Next Generation for CTV, The Famous Jett Jackson for Disney, Drop the Beat for CBC, Skin Deep III for Life Network, Tell It Like It Is for W Network, Brand New Life for NFB/YTV and Canadian Geographic for Kids for TVO.

Sudz's powerful half-hour dramatic debut, My Father's Hands screened at The Toronto International Film Festival. It won the $20,000 HBO Short Film Award at the Acapulco Black Film festival, and in Canada it went on to win prizes at the Yorkton Film Festival (four awards including best drama, script, direction and best actor). The film was also nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Short. In addition, Sudz co-directed the National Film Board's documentary film, Speakers for the Dead

YVES ENGLER

Former Vice President of the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler is a Montrà à 'Ã'©al-based activist and author. He has published eight books: Canada in Africa - 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation, The Ugly Canadian - Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy, Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping - The Truth May Hurt, Stop Signs - Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay (with Bianca Mugyenyi), The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy (Shortlisted for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non Fiction in the Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards), Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical and (with Anthony Fenton) Canada in Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid and his latest work A Propaganda System: How Canada's government, corporations, media and academia sell war and exploitation.

Yves was born in Vancouver, where he grew up playing hockey. He was a peewee teammate of NHL star Mike Ribeiro at Huron Hochelaga in Montrà à 'Ã'©al before playing in the B.C. Junior League. After being suspended from Concordia University, he turned to research and writing, but he's still a fan of the great Canadian sport. To contact Yves email Yvesengler (at) hotmail.com.

MUSIC

Fugees, dead prez, Gil Scott-Heron, Charenee Wade, Esther Phillips, Fiona, Super Cat, the Drifters, Rick James, Mighty Gabby

GUESTS:
Sudz Sutherland, writer / director /executive producer

Yves Engler, Montrà ©al-based activist and author.

MUSIC: Fugees, dead prez, Gil Scott-Heron, Charenee Wade, Esther Phillips, Fiona, Super Cat, the Drifters, Rick James, Mighty Gabby

SUDZ SUTHERLAND, WRITER / DIRECTOR / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Sudz Sutherland (Writer/Director) works on both sides of the fence as a freelance writer and director for TV dramas and feature films. Sudz's latest feature film, Home Again, won the prestigious PAFF‐BAFTA Festival Choice Award in Los Angeles and was recently nominated for Best Direction from the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC). Home Again is the follow up to his multiple award winning and Genie nominated debut feature film Love, Sex and Eating the Bones. Sudz is developing two new feature films, Operation Red Dog and Colour Blind. He is currently in pre-production on 'Shoot the Messenger,' his first Dramatic series co-created with writer/producer Jennifer Holness airing on the CBC.

Sudz directed The Phantoms, which won an International Kids Emmy. He also won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction for the TV movie as well as garnering a Director's Guild of Canada Best Direction nomination. The Dream Street Pictures project aired in Fall 2012 on CBC.

Sudz also co-created his first television series, the half-hour comedy She's The Mayor with Jennifer Holness and Min Sook Lee. He also wrote and directed several episodes. The show received numerous critical nods and is distributed by BBC WorldWide.

Previous to this, Sudz was involved with the feature film Toronto Stories, an anthology in conjunction with three other directors and was invited to TIFF for September 2008.

Sudz also co-wrote and directed the dramatic miniseries Guns for CBC based on four families caught up in illegal gun trafficking. Starring Colm Feore and Elisha Cuthbert, Guns won five Gemini Awards including Best Writing and Directing for Sudz.

Sudz also wrote and directed the triple Gemini award-winning (Best Direction, Best Supporting Actress, Best Television Movie) Doomstown, an MOW for CTV/Sarrazin-Couture.

Sudz's episodic television directing work includes: Syfy Network's Haven CW's Reign, Beauty and the Beast, CBC's Cracked, numerous Murdoch Mysteries, Heartland and Wild Roses.

He directed the pilot and second episode of Da Kink in my Hair for Global, Degrassi: The Next Generation for CTV, The Famous Jett Jackson for Disney, Drop the Beat for CBC, Skin Deep III for Life Network, Tell It Like It Is for W Network, Brand New Life for NFB/YTV and Canadian Geographic for Kids for TVO.

Sudz's powerful half-hour dramatic debut, My Father's Hands screened at The Toronto International Film Festival. It won the $20,000 HBO Short Film Award at the Acapulco Black Film festival, and in Canada it went on to win prizes at the Yorkton Film Festival (four awards including best drama, script, direction and best actor). The film was also nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Short. In addition, Sudz co-directed the National Film Board's documentary film, Speakers for the Dead

YVES ENGLER

Former Vice President of the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler is a Montrà ©al-based activist and author. He has published eight books: Canada in Africa - 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation, The Ugly Canadian - Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy, Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping - The Truth May Hurt, Stop Signs - Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay (with Bianca Mugyenyi), The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy (Shortlisted for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non Fiction in the Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards), Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical and (with Anthony Fenton) Canada in Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid and his latest work A Propaganda System: How Canada's government, corporations, media and academia sell war and exploitation.

Yves was born in Vancouver, where he grew up playing hockey. He was a peewee teammate of NHL star Mike Ribeiro at Huron Hochelaga in Montrà ©al before playing in the B.C. Junior League. After being suspended from Concordia University, he turned to research and writing, but he's still a fan of the great Canadian sport. To contact Yves email Yvesengler (at) hotmail.com.

MUSIC

Fugees, dead prez, Gil Scott-Heron, Charenee Wade, Esther Phillips, Fiona, Super Cat, the Drifters, Rick James, Mighty Gabby

This week on Africa Live- our guest will be:

- Omali Yeshitela will report from the frontline of the Ferguson Rebellion. He will discuss the Washington D.C. November 1st & 2nd - Black Is Back Coalition - National Mobilization - Peace Through Revolution. Yeshitela is founder and chairman of the African People's Socialist Party and the African Socialist International.

- Ezili Danto will discuss - The Quiet Genocide in Haiti. Danto is the founder of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network.

- Malaya Davis will report on the August 4th 2014 police murder of John Crawford III,in Beavercreek, OH. Crawford, a 22 year old unarmed African father was killed for carrying a toy rifle in Walmart. Davis is the Northeast Ohio Regional Organizer for the Ohio Student Association

- John Thomas - on the Annual Health Expo and Weightlifting Competition, which will take place on October 25th in St. Petersburg, Florida. Thomas is the manager of the All People's TyRon Lewis Community Gym.

- Penny Hess - on the trending topic: white privilege. Hess is the chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee.

Haitians Need National Sovereignty Most of All
Framing Haiti as a charity case is insulting and wrong, said Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. "The kind of support we need is to denounce the repression that has been imposed on the people of Haiti" since the U.S.-backed coup of 2004. Haiti doesn't need handouts, said Labossiere; it needs solidarity in the struggle to resist the foreign "conspiracy to rob the country of its resources."

Black Folk in Dark Times
Black academics and activists gathered at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, for a "Workshop on Sovereignty, Citizenship and Freedom." Organized by Dr. Jemima Pierre, an anthropologist, and historian Dr. Peter Hudson, the event was titled "Black Folk in Dark Times." Author and community organizer Kevin Alexander Gray, from Columbia, South Carolina, looks forward to Barack Obama's exit from the White House, in two years. Under the First Black President, "we bought into this idea of endless war, and we bought into the idea of star chambers where people are denied due process," said Gray, author of Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics.
Dr. Christina Sharpe, a professor of English at Tufts University, spoke of "ways of seeing and imagining responses to terror in the varied and various ways that our Black lives are lived under occupation." She is author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects.
Dr. Maboula Soumahoro, an English professor born in France to Ivory Coast parents, told the gathering that "Afropea, Black Europe, is in the making." "In my view," she said, "Arabs and Muslims, sub-Saharan Africans, Afro-descended people born in France, people from the Caribbean Asians of all kinds, Roma communities and all people of color are all Black" in France. Soumahoro is editor of the acclaimed essay collection, Constructing Black France: A Transatlantic Dialogue

Mumia: A Half-Century of Civil Wrongs
"For the Black bourgeoisie," the 50 years since passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act "has been a rush of opportunity and entre into doors once closed to them," said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation's best known political prisoner, in a report for Prison Radio. However, "for the Black poor and working class," mass incarceration has made "civil rights as ancient and distant as Reconstruction."

U.S. Guilty in Haiti Cholera Epidemic
The United States "is as responsible, if not more," than the United Nations for the cholera outbreak in Haiti, since "it's because of the military occupation that we have cholera," says Dr. Jemima Pierre, professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville.

Crimea Deserves Self-Determination
Dr. John Quigley, professor of international law at Ohio State University says Crimean "sentiment for separation" from Ukraine "has been very strong for a very long time" and the referendum on secession was not taken "under the gun" of Russia.

U.S. Billions for Ukrainian Fascists, Cuts for Hungry American Children
Washington is offering $10 billion in loan guarantees to the partly-fascist government of Ukraine, while cutting $8 billion in food stamp benefits to Americans, said Sara Flounders, of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC).

Mumia: Police Still Spreading Anti-MOVE Propaganda
The Fraternal Order of Police has orchestrated a renewed campaign of hatred and disinformation against the MOVE organization in order to prevent imprisoned members from winning parole, said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation's best-known political prisoner.

Monteiro Supporters Blast Temple University and Molefi Asante
Hundreds of community, student and labor activists demanded reinstatement with tenure for Dr. Anthony Monteiro, an associate professor in the African American Studies Department.

Interview with Ayuko Babu, executive director and founder of the Pan African Film and Arts Festival. Information on the festival is available at paff.org. Discussion on the film Django Unchained continues with human rights attorney Ezili Danto of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network.

Visit Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali on Facebook.

Musical salute to the Vibrations, a quintet from Los Angeles, CA. The Temptations Walk dance steps were adapted from The Vibrations "sloop" dance. Vibration Ricky Owens replaced Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations for a brief moment.

Dr. Gerald Horne, author of 'Fighting in Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii' and 'Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. before Emancipation' discusses the change of leadership in China, Japan and the Koreas and its impact on Africa and the Caribbean. Dr. Horne will also cover Mali, Algeria and Pakistan.

Human rights attorney Ezili Danto of Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network will discuss Haiti three years after the earthquake, the role women played in the Haitian Revolution and the way forward. Visit Ezili Danto online.

Visit Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali on Facebook.