Vicky Levack is a human rights advocate based in Halifax whose work focuses on disability and on gender, with a particular interest in housing issues. These days, she is active with the PADS Community Network, a new grassroots formation in Halifax fighting – as their acronym summarizes – for permanent, accessible, dignified, and safer housing …
Historical scholarship. A sweeping history of the long sixteenth century, from the first voyage of Columbus in 1492 to the establishment of the first permanent English-speaking settlement in North America in 1607. Though it was really in the seventeenth century that it became clear that all of these interlinked phenomena would become the defining features …
Thank-you to Tonye and Chantelle of the Defund 604 Network for the great interview just now about abolitionist organizing in Vancouver. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Luisa Da Silva is a geoscientist who has worked in the fossil fuel industry in Alberta and in mining. She is currently the executive director of an organization called Iron and Earth, which according to their website is “a worker-led not-for-profit with a mission to empower fossil fuel industry and Indigenous workers to build and …
Thank-you to Laurel of the group Trainsparence for talking with me just now about the unsuccessful struggle to oppose a public-private partnership building rail infrastructure in west Montreal and the current fight against the same in the east of the city. Listen in a few weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
Serena Mah is a media relations consultant and a former television journalist who lives in Edmonton, Alberta. Scott Neigh talks with her about anti-Asian racism, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Act2EndRacism coalition. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mah got a call from former Alberta MLA Theresa Woo-Paw, based in Calgary, about the …
Thank-you to Brandon of the Coalition for Dentalcare for the interview just now! He is a dentist and he talks about the coalition’s fight to make dental care a part of the public health care system in Canada. Listen for the interview in a few weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
Ardath Whynacht is an activist, writer, and scholar who lives in Mi’kmaq territory and teaches sociology at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. She is also the author of Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide (Fernwood Publishing, Nov 2021) which she describes as “a book about how we can think through abolition and defunding police …
Second interview of the day! Tonight I talked with Luisa and Stephen of Iron & Earth about organizing fossil fuel workers in support of renewable energy and about their new *Prosperous Transition Plan*. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!