Brendan Devlin and Shaden Abusaleh are university students and organizers with Communities Not Cuts Manitoba. Scott Neigh interviews them about the political situation in their province and about what it looks like to fight austerity during the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic – something that everyone across the country may well have to deal with soon. As …
Thank-you to Sarah Jama for the wide ranging interview just now! We talked about disability justice, mutual aid, police brutality, anti-Blackness, and her trajectory as an organizer. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!
Derek Blackadder went to his first union meeting in the 1970s, and since the 1980s has been involved in multiple ways in shaping how the labour movement has made use of digital communication techology. Scott Neigh interviews him about that long history of experimentation, debate, and action with online tools, and about what social movements can learn from …
Memoir. Place, desire, compulsion, shame, relationships ending and beginning, abuse, family history, faith. And especially place. The place that it is, especially, is Epping Forest, a 2400 hectare former royal forest in the UK that straddles the border between London and Essex. It is other places too, but particularly there. The author broods and reflects. …
Thank-you to Adriana and Miigam‘agan for talking with me about being part of Righting Relations: Adult Education for Social Change/Apaji-wla’matulinej, a women-led network of adult/popular educators coming together to strengthen our capacity to work for radical social change. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in June!
Ezra Morse is a software engineer and an engineering manager. Ray Woroniak has worked as a wilderness guide and an organic vegetable farmer, and currently is a stay-at-home parent. Both live in Qualicum Beach, a town of about 9000 people on the east coast of Vancouver Island, and they are the president and vice-president, respectively, …
nicole marie burton is a comics illustrator and the founder of the Ottawa-based independent publisher Ad Astra Comix. Her most recent project is a collaboration with University of Toronto historian Kassandra Luciuk, called Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life behind Barbed Wire, published by Between the Lines. Scott Neigh interviews burton about radical comics, about Ad Astra, and about Enemy Alien. …
Based on stories of the rogarou, a figure something like a werewolf that haunts Metis communities. Set in such a community on Georgian Bay in Ontario, following a woman whose husband suddenly disappeared almost a year ago. At the beginning of the book, she encounters someone who looks just like him but seems to be …
By Toronto-based writer and performer Kai Cheng Thom. Essays interspersed with poems. Smart. Thoughtful. Challenging. Names not just the violence of the mainstream but its more insidious correlates within communities that style themselves as being of marginalized belonging and/or of resistance. Less ornate in its writing than I for some reason (perhaps because the author …
Kyle Vose works for a social service agency in Toronto and is the agency co-chair of the ODSP Action Coalition. In earlier years, he was also an ODSP (or Ontario Disability Support Program) recipient and served as the recipient co-chair of the coalition. And Andrea Hatala is its current recipient co-chair. Scott Neigh interviews them about ODSP, the …