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Riley Nielson-Baker and Felix Vandergrift talk about the work of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia.
21 Jun, 2022 | 0:28:28 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Riley Nielson-Baker and Felix Vandergrift are part of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia, a grassroots, community-based policy process to address issues of gender-affirming care and access to health care for trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people in Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh interviews them about the process, the policy, and the work they have been doing to make it all happen. Both...
Nina Newington talks about the work of the Last Hope Camp.
03 May, 2022 | 0:28:07 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Nina Newington is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to block the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh interviews her about the practicalities of taking this kind of direct action, about the broader struggle to defend forests...
Vanessa Hartley talks about responding to environmental racism in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
28 Dec, 2021 | 0:28:21 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

[This is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio originally broadcast in July 2021.] Vanessa Hartley is 21 years old and an eighth generation Black Loyalist descendent. She is the chair of the South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED). And she is a resident of Shelburne, a town of about 1200 people on the southwest coast of Nova...
Vicky Levack talks about the work of the PADS Community Network.
02 Nov, 2021 | 0:27:57 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Vicky Levack is a human rights advocate based in Halifax whose work focuses on disability and on gender, with a particular interest in housing issues. These days, she is active with the PADS Community Network, a new grassroots formation in Halifax fighting – as their acronym summarizes – for permanent, accessible, dignified, and safer housing for all. Scott Neigh interviews...
Christopher Trider talks about the campaign to protect Owls Head Provincial Park in Nova Scotia.
21 Sep, 2021 | 0:28:14 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Christopher Trider is a landscape architect in Nova Scotia and a former provincial civil servant with experiencing in planning provincial parks. He is also a member of a grassroots group called Save Owls Head Provincial Park, which is doing its best to intervene in the fate of a small piece of land on Nova Scotia’s eastern shore, next to the...
John Sylliboy talks about the work of the Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance.
24 Aug, 2021 | 0:28:12 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

John Sylliboy is Mi’kmaq and he grew up as part of Esaksoni and Millbrook First Nations in Nova Scotia. He is also the acting executive director of the Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance, an organization that brings together Two-Spirit people in Wabanaki territory through a framework based on the Peace and Friendship Treaty, to engage in knowledge sharing, research, capacity building,...
Vanessa Hartley talks about responding to environmental racism in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
13 Jul, 2021 | 0:28:13 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Vanessa Hartley is 21 years old and an eighth generation Black Loyalist descendent. She is the chair of the South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED). And she is a resident of Shelburne, a town of about 1200 people on the southwest coast of Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh interviews her about the town, about environmental racism, and about the work of...
Wendie Wilson and Rachel Zellars talk about the African Nova Scotian Freedom School.
10 Nov, 2020 | 0:28:34 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Rachel Zellars is an African-American academic, lawyer, and community organizer who has lived in Canada for more than a decade and a half, and in Halifax for the last couple of years. Wendie Wilson is an African Nova Scotian teacher, artist, writer, and community advocate whose family has been in the province for at least eight generations. Scott Neigh interviews...
Shannon Hardy and Bridget Graham talk about the work of Abortion Support Services Atlantic.
13 Oct, 2020 | 0:28:03 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Shannon Hardy and Bridget Graham live in Halifax and work as doulas. They are also, respectively, the coordinator and the director of volunteers of Abortion Support Services Atlantic, a volunteer-run group that exists to provide support to people in Atlantic Canada who are trying to get an abortion. Scott Neigh interviews them about the barriers that people face in accessing...
29 min feature of Via Barcelonia plus 27 min of Western Canadian indie music mix
09 Sep, 2020 | 0:56:32 |
EN | Mae Wandinger | Indie Beat

29 minute feature (includes interview and songs) of Via Barcelonia, a bicoastal duo consisting of Andrew Allen, a Gold selling singer-songwriter from BC and Taylor McKnight, a percussionist and vocalist from NS, who have just released a brand new single and video today, plus tracks by Ocie Elliott, The Carbons, The Lunas, Mandy McMillan, The Wild Romantics, Bombargo, Carmanah and...
About the NOPE Campaign, which opposed the proposed Cochrane Hill gold mine.
28 Jan, 2020 | 0:28:06 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Scott Beaver is the president of the St. Mary's River Association. Chris Hunter is a past president of that organization and he is currently the program director for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island with the Atlantic Salmon Federation. Scott Neigh interviews them about the NOPE Campaign – it stands for No Open Pit Excavation – against the proposed Cochrane...
Sakura Saunders and Lisa Cameron talk about the Halifax Workers Action Centre.
05 Nov, 2019 | 0:28:07 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Sakura Saunders is on the board of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and Lisa Cameron is on its organizing committee. They speak with me about the struggles faced by low-wage and precarious workers in the city, and about the work of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and the city's Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign. While unions in Canada continue...
Marty Wexler and Claire McNeil talk about the Disability Rights Coalition of Nova Scotia.
16 Jul, 2019 | 0:27:59 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Marty Wexler is a social worker and one of the founding members of the Disability Rights Coalition of Nova Scotia, a cross-disability coalition of individuals and organizations. Claire McNeil is a lawyer. She has been involved in a number of cases challenging instances of institutionalization in Nova Scotia, and for many years has been an advisor to the coalition. Scott...
Jill Graham-Scanlan talks about the work of the Friends of the Northumberland Strait.
07 May, 2019 | 0:28:14 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Jill Graham-Scanlan is a lifelong resident of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, a lawyer, and the president of the Friends of the Northumberland Strait. Scott Neigh interviews her about the group's work to oppose a plan that would see effluent from the Northern Pulp mill piped into the strait, putting ecosystems, fisheries, and communities at risk. The Northumberland Strait is that...
An interview with the co-founders of Equity Watch, a group that fights workplace discrimination.
26 Feb, 2019 | 0:28:00 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Liane Tessier is a former firefighter who fought a landmark human rights case related to workplace harassment and gender discrimination in Halifax. Judy Haiven is a retired professor from the business school at Saint Mary's University who taught industrial relations. They are co-founders of Equity Watch, a grassroot group that aims to fight bullying, harassment, and discrimination in workplaces by...
An interview about histories of anti-Black city building in Halifax and Black community resistance.
29 Jan, 2019 | 0:28:12 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

LaMeia Reddick is a community worker and consultant in Halifax. Ted Rutland is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University in Montreal and the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax (Univeristy of Toronto Press, 2018). Scott Neigh interviews them about about the long histories of anti-Black racism in...
Marilyn Keddy and Peter Puxley talk about the work of the Campaign to Protect Offshore Nova Scotia.
18 Dec, 2018 | 0:28:05 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Marilyn Keddy is a social worker and a long-time activist who lives in an active lobster fishing cove near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Peter Puxley is also a long-time activist, and has worked as an economist and a journalist. Scott Neigh interviews them about the work of the Campaign to Protect Offshore Nova Scotia (CPONS), an initiative to defend the province's...
Poet El Jones talks about the fight for prisoner justice in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
17 Jul, 2018 | 0:28:13 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

El Jones is a poet, educator, and organizer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is the city's former poet laureate. She is deeply involved in working for justice for prisoners through a combined prisoner-led radio show and community organization called Black Power Hour. Scott Neigh interviews her about the fight against the injustices of policing and prisons, and about the...
An interview about workplace racism, precarious work, and the struggles of Black cleaning workers.
29 May, 2018 | 0:27:51 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Taylor MacLean is a cleaning worker who lives in Halifax. Darius Mirshahi is an organizer with SEIU Local 2 in the same city, in particular with their Justice for Janitors campaign. Scott Neigh interviews them about anti-Black racism in the workplace, about precarious work, about an injustice faced by MacLean and a number of other Black cleaning workers, and about...
Dorene Bernard and Rebecca Moore talk about grassroot Mi'kmaq resistance to the Alton Gas project.
20 Mar, 2018 | 0:27:59 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Dorene Bernard is a Mi'kmaq woman of the Otter Clan from Sipekne'katik and a residential school survivor, and she describes herself as a grassroots grandmother, a water walker, and a water protector. Rebecca Moore is a Mi'kmaq woman from Pictou Landing First Nation and a water protector. Scott Neigh interviews them about the treaty camp and other grassroots Mi'kmaq resistance...
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