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Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh talk about the work of the Naujawan Support Network.
26 Jul, 2022 | 0:28:20 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers primarily based in Brampton, Ontario, who are challenging the exploitation and mistreatment that their members face using protest, mutual support, and collective direct action. Scott Neigh interviews them about how they directly confront the employers, landlords, immigration consultants, and...
Journalism professor Sean Holman talks about the Climate Disaster Project.
19 Jul, 2022 | 0:28:21 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Sean Holman is the Wayne Crookes professor of Environmental and Climate Journalism at the University of Victoria, in Lekwungen territory on Vancouver Island. Scott Neigh interviews him about the shifts in journalism’s social role in our current political moment, about the news media’s response to the climate crisis so far, and about the new model for covering it that is...
Beatriz Oliver and Aabir Dey talk about the work of SeedChange.
12 Jul, 2022 | 0:28:16 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Beatriz Oliver and Aabir Dey work for SeedChange, an organization based in Canada that supports farmers here and around the world in working for a more just, sustainable, and environmentally sound future. Scott Neigh interviews them about the food system as it exists today, the vision embedded in the work of SeedChange, and what they are doing to realize it....
About the work of Rent Strike Bargain to fight for collective bargaining for tenants in BC.
05 Jul, 2022 | 0:28:18 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

James Barbeiro is a chef who lives in Sinixt territory in Nelson, British Columbia. Jen works in the social service sector and lives in Secwepmc territory, in Kamloops, BC. Both are tenants and tenant organizers. Scott Neigh interviews them about Rent Strike Bargain, a province-wide campaign in BC that is fighting for the right of tenants to collectively bargain with...
Steve September talks about the work of the Anti-Racism Coalition Vancouver.
28 Jun, 2022 | 0:28:07 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Steve September was born into the struggle against South African apartheid, and today he is the chair of the Anti-Racism Coalition (ARC) Vancouver, a grassroots group working to end all forms of racial inequality through education, legislation, and social events. Scott Neigh interviews him about the work of ARC Vancouver and about the perspective he brings to anti-racist organizing based...
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...
Jordan Westfall talks about the work of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply.
14 Jun, 2022 | 0:28:12 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Talking Radical Radio Radio: Confronting the overdose crisis, demanding a safe supply By Scott Neigh on Tuesday, June 14, 2022 Jordan Westfall is co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply (CASS), an organization that aims to reduce the immense harms of the overdose crisis by pushing for an increase in people’s access to a drug supply that...
Lisa Hari and Rosemary Brown talk about the group We're Together Ending Poverty.
07 Jun, 2022 | 0:28:16 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Lisa Hari and Rosemary Brown are active in We’re Together Ending Poverty (WTEP), a grassroots anti-poverty group in Calgary. Scott Neigh interviews them about what poverty looks like in their city, about the group’s evolution over the years, and about their work to bring people together to build shared understandings and collective action. Over her career, Hari has engaged in...
Three of its members talk about the work of the Toronto Workers' History Project.
31 May, 2022 | 0:28:15 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd are active with the Toronto Workers’ History Project (TWHP), an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. Scott Neigh interviews them about the enthusiasm they have found in the community for working-class history, the many facets of the project’s work, and the importance of history for social...
Krista Wylie talks about the Fix Our Schools campaign.
24 May, 2022 | 0:28:12 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Krista Wylie is a mother of one current and one former student in public schools in Toronto, and she is a co-founder of the Fix Our Schools campaign. Scott Neigh interviews her about the $16.8 billion repair backlog in Ontario schools and about her years of campaigning to get the provincial government to take seriously the impact that has on...
Sally Lane talks about the case of her son, Jack Letts, detained in northeastern Syria for 5 years.
17 May, 2022 | 0:28:16 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Sally Lane is the mother of Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen who has been detained for more than five years in northeastern Syria in conditions akin to torture. Matthew Behrens is a long-time activist and a member of Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture. Scott Neigh interviews them about Jack’s case and about the campaign to push the Canadian government to...
Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte talks about the work of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik.
10 May, 2022 | 0:28:09 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte is part of a grassroots group called Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik, or Women Walking Together, that has been working for many years in Saskatoon on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Scott Neigh interviews her about what that work has involved. Okemaysim-Sicotte grew up in Beardy’s and Okemasis’ Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, north of Saskatoon. She...
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...
Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson talk about the BCTF Divest Now campaign.
26 Apr, 2022 | 0:28:15 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson are teachers in British Columbia. As such, they are both members of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), and they have recently been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. Scott Neigh interview them about the BCTF Divest Now campaign and about their success in getting the BCTF to pass...
Alex Silas and Angella MacEwen talk about Community Solidarity Ottawa.
19 Apr, 2022 | 0:28:09 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Alex Silas and Angella MacEwen live in Ottawa and are active in their unions and their communities. This includes as members of Community Solidarity Ottawa (CSO), a coalition of unions, community organizations, and residents that came together during the recent convoy occupation of downtown Ottawa to give voice to grassroots opposition to the convoy, its far-right organizers, and its harmful...
The Temporary Agency Workers Association is fighting for better conditions and labour rights.
12 Apr, 2022 | 0:28:21 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Manuel Salamanca Cardona is an activist with the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC), which organizes with immigrant and migrant workers in a wide range of contexts in Montreal. Scott Neigh interviews him specifically about the struggles of workers employed by temp agencies, and about the work of the IWC-affiliated Temporary Agency Workers Association, which fights for improved conditions and labour rights...
About a new book collection called *Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada*.
05 Apr, 2022 | 0:28:20 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Ellie Ade Kur and Abby Stadnyk are grassroots organizers with abolitionist politics. They are also both involved in Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (Between the Lines, 2022), a new book collection bringing together pieces by organizers and scholars writing in the context of the constellation of efforts to defund and abolish the police in Canada over the last...
Sakura Saunders and Rachel Small talk about the work in the Canadian context of World Beyond War.
29 Mar, 2022 | 0:28:21 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Sakura Saunders and Rachel Small are long-time organizers with experience in a range of movements. Both are active with World Beyond War, a decentralized global network with the goal not just of opposing the war of the day but of abolishing the institution of war. Scott Neigh interviews them about the organization’s work globally and in Canada, about their war...
Research to understand how COVID impacted community-based work, and to create supports.
22 Mar, 2022 | 0:27:59 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Sarah Switzer, Andrea Vela Alarcón, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez, and Casey Burkholder all have long histories of involvement in a range of grassroots, community-based work, and they are also researchers in academic and professional settings. Scott Neigh interviews them about Beyond the Toolkit, a research project in which they worked with people involved in community facilitation, community arts, community-based participatory research, and...
Jesse Cardinal talks about the work of Keepers of the Water.
15 Mar, 2022 | 0:28:08 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Jesse Cardinal is a Métis woman who lives in Treaty 6 territory and is the executive director of Keepers of the Water, an Indigenous organization with a mission of protecting the water in the Arctic drainage basin. Scott Neigh interviews her about the threat posed by the Alberta tar sands and other resource extraction, and about the organization’s work. Cardinal...
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