[imc-okanagan] CKLN / CKUT Radio: Cabs and Capitalism in Toronto....

[Stefan Christoff]

CKLN / CKUT Radio: Cabs and Capitalism in Toronto....
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/7723.php

Listen to an interview with Ahmet Gulkan, a taxi driver in downtown Toronto, 
organizer with the Toronto Coalition of Concerned Taxi Drivers and regular 
contributor to Taxi Post, Toronto's monthly taxi newspaper.

Taxis are central to the North American urban economy and landscape, while 
drivers represent an economic and social underclass of majority immigrant 
labour. In this interview Ahmet addresses the social and economic struggle of 
taxi drivers in Toronto, who collectively represent the second largest income 
for the City of Toronto.

Within recent months the Toronto Coalition of Concerned Taxi Drivers, in 
coordination with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty [OCAP], have held a 
number of demonstrations and actions. Public actions have voiced the struggle 
of a majority immigrant drivers, against racial profiling at the hands of the 
Toronto police, who issue a disproportional amount of municipal tickets and 
fines to cabbies.

----> For more information on the Toronto Coalition of Concerned Taxi Drivers, 
visit Taxi Post online at: http://www.taxipost.ca

----> For more information on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty [OCAP] 
visit: http://www.ocap.ca

[This interview was conducted in a taxi in downtown Toronto by media activists, 
Mostafah Henaway & Stefan Christoff for CKUT Radio Montreal [http://ckut.ca] & 
CKLN Radio Toronto [http://ckln.fm]....]

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