Just finished my third and final interview of the week. On Tuesday, I talked with Sharon Fortney, Curator of Indigenous Collections and Engagement at the Museum of Vancouver, about a show they have going on called Acts of Resistance. Still a bit uncertain about when and how I’ll use that interview — I will be …
Just finished talking with Alvin Finkel about the work of the Alberta Labour History Institute and its work to preserve and popularize histories of workers’ struggles in that province, and about his new book *Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy*. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in September! Originally posted to Scott’s author page on Facebook.
Three weeks before the deadline that I set at the beginning of the year, and five weeks after my most optimistic interim guess at when I might actually be able to finish it, I have a complete done-enough-for-now draft of Chapter 4 of my main current book project. Yay! Won’t be able to start Chapter …
This week has included two Talking Radical Radio interviews, both of which will likely be aired in August. On Monday, I talked with Mac Scott of the Movement Defence Committee – Toronto, a radical collective of lawyers and legal workers who have been supporting movements in Toronto and beyond for over a decade. And just now, I talked …
Just finished speaking with Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe Lynn Gehl about the long history of sex discrimination in the Indian Act and the current “6(1) All the Way” campaign to get the feds to eliminate it. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
A big thank-you to Garth Mullins of Crackdown for the interview just now for Talking Radical Radio, about the drug war in Canada, grassroots organizing against it, and his new podcast covering it. Listen for the episode in a few weeks! (And if you haven’t listened to Crackdown yet, you really should — it is …
Did two Talking Radical interviews this week. Yesterday, I talked with Jill of the Friends of Northumberland Strait about the struggle to protect the ecosystem and fishery that lies between Nova Scotia and PEI from pulp mill effluent. And just now, I had a really powerful and generous interview with Rachel and Hirut of the Third Eye …
Done a first draft of Chapter 3 of my current main book project. Two weeks earlier than I was aiming for, even. Yay! Also: Onwards! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
This afternoon’s interview, which should have been my third of the week, has been postponed, but I’m still very excited about the two I did on Monday and Tuesday. I talked with Rowan of Bar None Winnipeg about their prison rideshare project and about prison abolition politics more generally. And I talked with Carol and …
Just finished talking to Peter from Organize BC about the training, coaching, and community building they do to help build the capacity of progressive organizations and movements in western Canada. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.