Emma Clark and Hayley Bryant are grade 12 students at Western Canada High School in Calgary, Alberta. Scott Neigh interviews them about the feminist organizing they do as members of a group at their school called the Committee on the Status of Women and Girls (CSWAG). The experiences of high school among young women and …
April Thomas is a land defender and member of the Secwépemc Nation, from the Canim Lake Band in the central interior of what is colonially known as British Columbia. Scott Neigh interviews her about the trajectory of her work defending the land, about grassroots opposition to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project, and …
Thank-you to Sarah, Andrea, Rubén, and Casey for the interview just now about https://beyondthetoolkit.com, a project that investigated how community-based grassroots work adapted to the constraints of the pandemic. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
Hanen Nanaa works in research and policy development in the federal political context and as an outreach coordinator for the Syrian Canadian Foundation, but today Scott Neigh interviews her in her role as director of the BAM Collective. The acronym “BAM” stands for “Books Art Music,” and the group is a youth-led collective based in …
Thank-you to Hailey and Emma of the Committee on the Status of Women and Girls (https://cswag.ca) for the interview just now about feminist organizing as students at a Calgary high school. Listen for it soon Talking Radical Radio!
Brie Villeneuve is a Grade 12 student at Grant Park High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Piper Lockhart is a Grade 11 student at Collège Louis-Riel, a French-language high school in Winnipeg. Both are core organizers with Manitoba Students for COVID Safety, a student-led group advocating for safer schools in light of inadequate action from the …
Thank-you to grassroots Secwépemc land defender April Thomas for speaking with me just now about opposition to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project and about the charges she and others are currently fighting. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
Martha Paynter and Frédérique Chabot have each spent a lot of years doing a lot of different kinds of grassroots political work related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Scott Neigh interviews them about why such work is important, and about why in Canada today it is vital that it centre prison abolition, migrant …
Literary fiction. Follows three women in three different generations of the same family – a riot grrrl-esque musician whom we first meet on her rise to renown in the ’90s, her mother (a hippie), and her paternal grandmother (who migrated to Canada as a young woman). Traces their respective journeys with partners, family, work, sexuality, …
Had back-to-back interviews earlier this afternoon. Thanks to high school students Brie and Piper of MB Students for COVID Safety for talking with me about COVID-19 in Manitoba and about student organizing for better measures to ensure safe schools. And thank-you to Jesse from Keepers of the Water for speaking with me about Indigenous-led efforts …