This is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that was originally broadcast in September 2019. Tiffany Joseph‘s ancestry is of the Saanich people on her mother’s side and the Squamish people on her father’s side, and she currently lives in Tsartlip First Nation, a bit north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Scott …
Month: December 2019
It is early winter in an Ojibwe community in northern Ontario, and all of the external infrastructure – electricity, internet, phone – goes out, all at once. Though all of these systems are relatively recent and precarious this far north, it soon becomes clear that this was not some random, localized blip but something general …
Doug Hewitt-White is a retired civil servant and the current chair of the board of Conscience Canada. Murray Lumley is a retired teacher and Scott Albrecht is a bookkeeper, and both are members of the organization’s board. Scott Neigh interviews them about Conscience Canada and about their work to extend the longstanding right to conscientious …
Essays that use memoir in a mode the author describes as “fictionalized nonfiction” (20) to explore migration, (non)belonging, becoming, and the hypocrisies, indignities, and violence of white-supremacist, colonial, multi-cultural Canada. The author was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, grew up in Edmonton, has lived in and travelled to many parts of Canada, and for many …
Sandra Azocar is the executive director of Friends of Medicare, an advocacy organization that for the last four decades has been working to defend, improve, and expand the public health care system in Alberta. Scott Neigh interviews her the importance of public health care, about some of that history, and about what Friends of Medicare …
[James C. Scott. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985.] A classic from a political scientist of anarchist proclivities doing what amounts to anthropology and studying the fine-grained class relations in a peasant village in Malaysia in the late ’70s and early ’80s, in the …
Just finished an interview with Scott and Kris of NOPE, a campaign working to stop a proposal for a massive new gold mine in Nova Scotia. It’ll be on Talking Radical Radio in the new year!
Just finished an interview for Talking Radical Radio with Kiyu, Ledna, and Andre about Black in Post-Sec: The Documentary, a new film about the experiences of Black students in Toronto’s universities. Listen for it in the new year!
Third book in the series started by the charming gang-of-misfits-in-a-small-spaceship novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. As was true of #2, this is not exactly a sequel but rather another story set in the same universe. In this case, it is mainly set among the fleet of massive ships that set out …
Lora McElhinney and Wendy Bariteau are members of Joint Effort, a four decade-old prison abolitionist group based in the lower mainland of British Columbia that is focused on solidarity work with women in prison. McElhinney is a long-time activist and organier and has been involved in the group for almost 20 years. Bariteau will be …