Thanks to British Columbia teachers Kim and Jillian of BCTF Divest Now for the interview just now about the campaign to push the BC Teachers Federation pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries! Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks.
Month: March 2022
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 …
Science fantasy. Spaceships and necromancers. Sequel to Gideon the Ninth. Because it is a sequel, I can’t say anything about the plot without spoiling the first book. I will say that I was a little hesitant to read this one because I thought there was no way that it could match the intricacy and sheer …
Thanks to Angella and Alex of Community Solidarity Ottawa, a new coalition of labour & community groups in Ottawa that formed in opposition to the recent far-right-driven occupation of the city’s downtown. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio!
Thank-you to abolitionist organizers Ellie and Abby for the interview just now! We talked about *Disarm, Defund, Dismantle*, a new collection about abolitionist organizing in Canad. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
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 …
A mixture of movement memoir and grounded theorizing about some key areas of reflection and debate in movements. The author is one of the three Black women who initially coined the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. She was already an experienced organizer at that point, having cut her teeth doing neighbourhood and city-wide organizing in the Bay Area …
Thanks to Rachel and Sakura for the interview just now about World Beyond War’s work in the Canadian context against war and militarism, both in general and in this moment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Listen for it in a few weeks on 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 …
Sci-fi novella. The next entry in the Vorkosigan saga, which I am slowly working my way through. The series largely follows Miles Vorkosigan, scion of a powerful house on a planet with a deeply engrained, quite feudal, very hierarchical, and intensely militarist social order that is, in all of these respects, gradually becoming looser, more …