Bianca Mugyenyi is a long-time activist in multiple movements and she is currently the director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute (CFPI). Yves Engler is also a long-time activist and writer, and he is a fellow at the CFPI. Scott Neigh interviews them about the organization’s work to present a critical challenge to Canadian foreign …
Month: December 2020
I alluded in a few places last week to the fact that a substantial piece of writing was rather rapidly coming together, and today I officially set Chapter 7 of my current book project aside as “done enough” for the time being – so, more polished than a raw first draft, but probably pretty different …
Just did another interview that will show up on Talking Radical Radio in the new year! I talked with Sam, Les, and Rob, tenants who are building power with their neighbours in Winnipeg’s West Broadway neighbourhood under the banner of the West Broadway Tenants Committee to fight rising rents, abusive labdlords, and evictions.
Just did a fascinating interview with Claire & Sara, physicians with prison abolitionist politics who are involved in creating a zine about how to reduce the harms from carceral systems in healthcare settings. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the new year!
Sci-fi. A bind-up of the first three novels in Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle, a series of very loosely interrelated novels and stories set in humanity’s space-faring future. She came back to this universe a number of times later as well, but the three novels in this book were written quite early in her career, …
Thanks to long-time labour organizer Nick Driedger for the conversation just now about the nuts and bolts of worker organizing and about his recent article “Common Organizing Mistakes” (https://organizing.work/2020/11/common-organizing-mistakes/). Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the new year!
Terry McDowell has been working as a graphic designer in Winnipeg for the last ten years. He is a member of Strike Poster, a 14-member closed collective of graphic designers and artists of all sorts committed to a range of radical left politics. Scott Neigh interviews him about the intersection of politics and design, and …
Literary fiction. Race, class, gender, and nonmonogamy. Follows a 23 year-old Black woman who begins the book as a low-level employee at a publisher in New York and who leads what you might describe as a sexually abundant but relationally poor life. The book begins as she starts dating a relatively well-off older white man …
Just finished my second Talking Radical Radio interview for the week! On Monday, I talked to Bianca and Yves of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute about their critical work challenging many aspects of this country’s foreign policy. Today, I interviewed Taylor of Defend Alberta Parks about the campaign to stop the Alberta government from removing …
Laura Hamilton is a climate activist who lives in Waterloo, Ontario. She began working on climate issues as a co-founder of Divest Waterloo, a group with an initial focus on encouraging divestment from fossil fuel industries. But as their understanding of the climate crisis deepened, the group came to realize that only an approach that …