Historical sf/f. Steampunk. In the late 19th century, idealistic (but somewhat misguided) socialists from Europe and formerly enslaved people from North America purchase territory in what is now the Congo from the brutal colonial regime of Belgium’s King Leopold II, and join forces with those already living there (some of whom have mysterious access to …
Month: April 2022
Just did an interview about a campaign to push the Canadian government to bring Jack Letts home from detention under terrible conditions in Syria. Thanks to Matthew Behrens and to Jack’s mother Sally Lane for speaking with me! Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio.
Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson are teachers in British Columbia. As such, they are both members of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), and they have recently been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. Scott Neigh interview them about the BCTF Divest Now campaign and about their success in …
A collection of pieces by organizers and scholars who have been part of the movement in Canada in the last two years to defund the police and work towards police and prison abolition. I interviewed one of the editors and one of the contributors recently, so check that out for more details: https://mediacoop.ca/node/119048. I won’t …
Thank-you to Craig, Holly, and David for the interview just now about the Toronto Workers’ History Project. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Alex Silas and Angella MacEwen live in Ottawa and are active in their unions and their communities. This includes as members of Community Solidarity Ottawa (CSO), a coalition of unions, community organizations, and residents that came together during the recent convoy occupation of downtown Ottawa to give voice to grassroots opposition to the convoy, its …
Thank-you to Darlene Sicotte of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik for speaking with me just now about the group’s 17 years of work in Saskatoon on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Cosy hopepunk-ish sci-fi, from one of the authors responsible for the recent popularization of that sort of book. It is, in fact, the fourth (and I believe final) instalment in the series that started with Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. This one is set at an interstellar truckstop of sorts, on a planet …
Thanks to Nina Newington for the interview just now. We talked about the Last Hope Camp, a forest defence camp in southwest Nova Scotia that is currently in its fifth month. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!
Manuel Salamanca Cardona is an activist with the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC), which organizes with immigrant and migrant workers in a wide range of contexts in Montreal. Scott Neigh interviews him specifically about the struggles of workers employed by temp agencies, and about the work of the IWC-affiliated Temporary Agency Workers Association, which fights for …