Thanks to Serena Mah for the interview just now about the work of of ACT2endracism, a national coalition of people and groups challenging anti-Asian racism and racism more broadly in Canada. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the next few weeks!
Don McLean, Sue Carson, and Nancy Hurst are members of Hamilton 350, a group that engages in climate activism in the city of Hamilton on the west end of Lake Ontario, in loose affiliation with the North America-wide 350.org. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s new Conservation Watch project. Since Hamilton 350’s founding in …
Vivan Ly, Iris Parker, and Allie are organizing collective members of Autistic United Canada, a grassroots organization of autistic youth and adults with thousands of members across the country. Scott Neigh interviews them about autism and about the organization’s advocacy, mutual aid and peer support, and education work. Vivian is an autistic multiply disabled queer …
Thank-you to Ardath Whynacht for the great interview just now about prison abolitionist feminism in the context of responding to domestic homicide, and about her new book on the topic, *Insurgent Love*. Listen for it in the coming weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
Christopher Trider is a landscape architect in Nova Scotia and a former provincial civil servant with experiencing in planning provincial parks. He is also a member of a grassroots group called Save Owls Head Provincial Park, which is doing its best to intervene in the fate of a small piece of land on Nova Scotia’s …
James Ruston is a member of the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project (TPRP), a prisoner justice group with a long-term vision of prison abolition. He is currently living on day parole, as part of serving a life sentence. Scott Neigh interviews him about his experiences of the prison system and about the work of the TPRP. …
Thanks to Vivian, Iris, and Allie of Autistics United Canada for the interview just now about their grassroots mutual aid, education, and advocacy work fighting for disability justice. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Thanks to Christopher of Save Owls Head Provincial Park for the interview just now about the campaign to save a rare piece of relatively untouched, previously protected coastal land in Nova Scotia from development. Listen to it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks!
Peter Gilmer is a minister and an anti-poverty advocate. He is one of two staff at the Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry, a social justice ministry of the United Church of Canada in Saskatchewan. Scott Neigh interviews Gilmer about the ministry’s work for social justice and against poverty, and about its fifty-year history. Gilmer said, “I moved …
Laura McCoy and Leela Acharya are teachers in Toronto and members of Ontario Education Workers United, a grassroots group of education workers from across Ontario committed to fighting for a strong, equitable, public, safe K-to-12 education system. Scott Neigh interviews them about the impacts of the pandemic on education in Ontario, about the group, and …