Annnnd that’s a wrap. Posting and promo labour still have to happen when they have to happen, of course, but the one remaining original episode of Talking Radical Radio for 2020 and the first for 2021 are in the can, and the last interview of the year happened on Friday. So I’m off until January …
Just finished my final Talking Radical Radio interview of 2020. I spoke with Kota and Maya of Japanese Canadians for Social Justice. Listen for it in January!
Bianca Mugyenyi is a long-time activist in multiple movements and she is currently the director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute (CFPI). Yves Engler is also a long-time activist and writer, and he is a fellow at the CFPI. Scott Neigh interviews them about the organization’s work to present a critical challenge to Canadian foreign …
Just did another interview that will show up on Talking Radical Radio in the new year! I talked with Sam, Les, and Rob, tenants who are building power with their neighbours in Winnipeg’s West Broadway neighbourhood under the banner of the West Broadway Tenants Committee to fight rising rents, abusive labdlords, and evictions.
Just did a fascinating interview with Claire & Sara, physicians with prison abolitionist politics who are involved in creating a zine about how to reduce the harms from carceral systems in healthcare settings. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the new year!
Thanks to long-time labour organizer Nick Driedger for the conversation just now about the nuts and bolts of worker organizing and about his recent article “Common Organizing Mistakes” (https://organizing.work/2020/11/common-organizing-mistakes/). Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the new year!
Terry McDowell has been working as a graphic designer in Winnipeg for the last ten years. He is a member of Strike Poster, a 14-member closed collective of graphic designers and artists of all sorts committed to a range of radical left politics. Scott Neigh interviews him about the intersection of politics and design, and …
Just finished my second Talking Radical Radio interview for the week! On Monday, I talked to Bianca and Yves of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute about their critical work challenging many aspects of this country’s foreign policy. Today, I interviewed Taylor of Defend Alberta Parks about the campaign to stop the Alberta government from removing …
Laura Hamilton is a climate activist who lives in Waterloo, Ontario. She began working on climate issues as a co-founder of Divest Waterloo, a group with an initial focus on encouraging divestment from fossil fuel industries. But as their understanding of the climate crisis deepened, the group came to realize that only an approach that …
Cam Scott, Daniel Friesen, and Irene Bindi are community organizers and members of Police-Free Schools Winnipeg. Scott Neigh speaks with them about the struggle to get police out of Winnipeg schools. In general, middle-class white people tend to experience police as a source of safety. But lots of people not in that category, particularly Black and Indigenous people, …