Ardath Whynacht is an activist, writer, and scholar who lives in Mi’kmaq territory and teaches sociology at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. She is also the author of Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide (Fernwood Publishing, Nov 2021) which she describes as “a book about how we can think through abolition and defunding police …
Month: October 2021
YA contemporary. Traces the experiences of two young women (and their respective best friends) at a massive music festival, and their trajectory from strangers to much more. Sweet and funny, and it certainly provides the kind of emotional journey that one reads this sort of book to have, so I’m sure it will have many …
Second interview of the day! Tonight I talked with Luisa and Stephen of Iron & Earth about organizing fossil fuel workers in support of renewable energy and about their new *Prosperous Transition Plan*. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!
Thanks to Serena Mah for the interview just now about the work of of ACT2endracism, a national coalition of people and groups challenging anti-Asian racism and racism more broadly in Canada. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the next few weeks!
Don McLean, Sue Carson, and Nancy Hurst are members of Hamilton 350, a group that engages in climate activism in the city of Hamilton on the west end of Lake Ontario, in loose affiliation with the North America-wide 350.org. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s new Conservation Watch project. Since Hamilton 350’s founding in …