Macdonald Scott is a legal worker at the firm Carranza LLP, where he speicalizes in immigration law. He is also an active member of the Toronto-based Movement Defence Committee, a collective of lawyers and legal workers affiliated with the Law Union of Ontario focused on providing legal support for protestors targeted by the police. Scott …
Month: August 2019
Thank-you to the two members of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition for the interview just now! You’ll be able to hear about their work against anti-Black racism in the nation’s capital on Talking Radical Radio in September.
The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that was originally broadcast in January 2019. Cindy Blackstock is a member of the Gitksan First Nation, a social worker, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, and the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She …
Written to be used while introducing undergraduate students to social theory. Unlike many books used in such contexts, it is about the furthest thing you could imagine from a compendium of chapters organized around “theory X says Y” and “theory A says B.” Instead, it focuses more on introducing the reader to theoretical thinking as …
Just finished talking with Alvin Finkel about the work of the Alberta Labour History Institute and its work to preserve and popularize histories of workers’ struggles in that province, and about his new book *Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy*. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in September! Originally posted to Scott’s author page on Facebook.
May Chiu is a lawyer based in Montreal who spends much of her time engaged in grassroots political work. Part of a network of activists and organizers dissatisfied with the ways in which Quebec’s left establishment handles issues of racism and colonization, she is also one of the founding members of a new group called …
Just finish the second of two Talking Radical Radio interviews for the week. On Tuesday, I interviewed Ramona Neckoway and Stephane McLachlan of Wa Ni Ska Tan, an alliance of Indigenous communities impacted by hydro projects in northern Manitoba and university-based researchers. And just now, I spoke with Tiffany Joseph of the Sḵx̱wu7mesh and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples about …
This book has its origins in an online essay by Nora Samaran called “The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture” that went viral when it was first published, and also I think in a direct follow-up that circulated quite widely called “On Gaslighting.” These two essays are included and also augmented by a few …
Three weeks before the deadline that I set at the beginning of the year, and five weeks after my most optimistic interim guess at when I might actually be able to finish it, I have a complete done-enough-for-now draft of Chapter 4 of my main current book project. Yay! Won’t be able to start Chapter …
A chunky sci-fi graphic novel. Picked it up after hearing several people describe it as similar in feel to Becky Chambers’ novel The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, in that both are space-based gang-of-misfits found-family stories. The trippy graphics don’t necessarily work by the laws of physics but they certainly work for the …