Thanks to David Spaner the interview just now about Solidarity, his book about the massive 1983 social uprising in British Columbia against a regressive right-wing government. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in September!
Month: August 2022
Emma Norton is a climate activist based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in Mi’qmaki. She is the operations director at the ReCover Initiative and the Atlantic director with the Climate Emergency Unit. Scott Neigh interviews her about her work on climate issues, and about the crucial interconnection between practical measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and …
Thanks to Mark of the Workers’ Action Network NL for the interview just now about building a network of low-wage, precarious workers in Newfoundland and Labrador, to act in solidarity and fight for decent work for all! Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the coming weeks.
The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio originally broadcast in December 2021. Breanne Lavallee-Heckert, Chantale Garand, and Kianna Durston are Métis people based in Winnipeg. They are also members of Red River Echoes, a collective of Métis people that is focused on grassroots organizing, land back, and the active reclamation …
Thank-you to Betty and Emma of Climate Legacy for the interview just now! We talked about the climate crisis and about their work to inform and mobilize older adults to take action around the issue. Listen for it in a few weeks on Talking Radical Radio.
Kate Welsh and Dev Ramsawakh are co-creators of the CRIP Collective, a small group of Toronto-based disabled educators and artists who do anti-ableism, anti-oppression, and disability justice-related workshops, and various other kinds of community building with disabled people, using an intersectional approach. Scott Neigh talks with them about disability, ableism, and the collective’s use of …
For the next while, I am not going to write and post book reviews. I have written at least a little bit about at least a subset of the books I’ve read, at some points just for my own eyes and at others for public consumption in different ways, for more than 25 years. For …
Mili Roy and Angela Bischoff are involved, in different capacities, in the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign (OCEC), a broad, loose, non-partisan coalition of individuals and groups working hard to get Ontario to improve its response to the climate crisis. Scott Neigh interviews them about the crisis, about the campaign’s 12-point Climate Action Plan to address …
YA contemporary. Hani and Ishu are Bengali-Irish teens living in Dublin. They are among the only desi girls in their school, are very different people, and are not friends. But when Hani is trying to figure out how to stop her white Irish friends from their quite aggressive refusal to accept her identification as bi, …
By a professor of history and African American studies at Yale, this book examines the history of urban rebellions – often called ‘riots’ by official sources – in US cities from the mid-1960s to the present day. Though today we most often remember only the highly publicized uprisings in the largest cities in the mid-to-late …