Thanks to Shana and Ra’anaa of Black Lives Matter – Sudbury for the interview just now about the struggle for Black lives and racial justice in northern Ontario. Listen for it on Talking RadicalRadio in February!
Nick Driedger lives in northern Alberta and has been involved in organizing workers for almost 20 years. He has been part of a number of different unions, including the Candian Union of Postal Workers and the Industrial Workers of the World, and he currently works for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. He is also …
Thanks to Samir Shaheen-Hussain — physician, long-time activist, and author of *Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada* — for the interview just now about the book, about medical colonialism, and about the struggle against it. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in February!
Claire Bodkin and Sara Alavian are both physicians in Hamilton, Ontario. They are also part of an ad hoc group of health workers from different parts of Canada with an interest in prison abolitionist politics. Scott Neigh interviews them about what it means to think about prison abolition in the context of health care, and …
Thank-you to Sarah of Nuance and pihêsiw of The Native Youth Sexual Health Network for the interview just now about sexual and reproductive health and rights centering Black and Indigenous youth, and SRH Week 2021! Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the coming weeks.
First Talking Radical Radio interview of 2021! Just spoke to Michelle and Bill, who are part of a group in South Bruce, Ontario, trying to stop a high-level radioactive waste storage facility from being put in their community. Listen for it in a few weeks!
Maya Adachi and Kota Kimura are members of the Toronto-based Japanese Canadians for Social Justice. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s origins, its expansive vision of solidarity, and its involvement in struggles on the ground. In 2018, famous Japanese-Canadian poet and novelist Joy Kogawa brought together a number of people that she knew in …
Samantha Smith, Leslie Scott, and Robert Crooks are renters and current or former residents of the West Broadway neighbourhood in Winnipeg. They are also active members of the West Broadway Tenants Committee, a grassroots group of renters. Scott Neigh interviews them about the committee’s work organizing for tenant justice and building tenant power to oppose …
[The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that originally aired in June 2020.] Souheil Benslimane describes himself as a father, a partner, and an illegalized and criminalized migrant who lives on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin territory (also known as Ottawa). Since his release from prison in 2018, he has been …
[EDIT: Later in the day this episode was released, it was announced that this campaign had in fact won a major victory! Check out this media release for more details.] Taylor Maton is the conservation outreach coordinator with CPAWS Northern Alberta, a regional chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. In recent months, the …