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 …
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!
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 …