Thank-you to Saleh Waziruddin for the interview just now about the work of the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the next few weeks!
Month: September 2022
Shawna Dempsey is an artist and the co-executive director of Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA). Scott Neigh interviews her about feminism in the arts, and about MAWA’s decades of work. Dempsey is primarily a performance and video artist. She got her start as a university student in the 1980s, and was heavily influenced by …
Thanks to Stacey Gomez of No One Is Illegal – Halifax/Kjipuktuk for the interview just now about migrant justice organizing, particularly with migrant agricultural workers, in Nova Scotia. Listen for it in a few weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
David Spaner is a long-time writer based in Vancouver and the author of Solidarity: Canada’s Unknown Revolution of 1983 (Ronsdale Press, 2021). Scott Neigh interviews him about the book and about the uprising against a right-wing government in British Columbia that it documents. Despite happening well within living memory, being one of the largest grassroots …
Thanks to Jason Mogus for the interview just now about Salt Spring Solutions, a community group on Salt Spring Island in BC that is working to bring a justice-oriented vision of sustainability to their community. Listen for it in a few week on Talking Radical Radio!
Thank-you to Shawna Dempsey of https://mawa.ca for the interview just now about the organization’s three and a half decades of feminist work in Winnipeg’s arts scene and beyond. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the coming weeks!
Mark Nichols is an organizer with the Workers’ Action Network of Newfoundland and Labrador, which brings together workers in low-wage, precarious jobs to support each other and to fight collectively for decent work for all. Scott Neigh interviews him about what low-wage work looks like in Newfoundland and about the network. In the mid and …