L., Kaku Kenyi, and Andre Harriott are all current students or recent graduates of post-secondary educational institutions in Toronto. Scott Neigh speaks with them about Black in Post-Sec, a new documentary film about the experiences of Black students in Canadian universities. Profound anti-Blackness is built into the heart of this country’s mainstream insitutions. Black people …
Imtiaz Popat is a therapeutic counsellor in Vancouver. He is also the coordinator of the local chapter of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community, and he has played a central role in the Two-Spirit and LGBT People of Colour Alliance and the Coalition Against Bigotry – Pacific. Scott Neigh interviews him about his extensive work against oppression …
This is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that was originally broadcast in September 2019. Tiffany Joseph‘s ancestry is of the Saanich people on her mother’s side and the Squamish people on her father’s side, and she currently lives in Tsartlip First Nation, a bit north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Scott …
Doug Hewitt-White is a retired civil servant and the current chair of the board of Conscience Canada. Murray Lumley is a retired teacher and Scott Albrecht is a bookkeeper, and both are members of the organization’s board. Scott Neigh interviews them about Conscience Canada and about their work to extend the longstanding right to conscientious …
Sandra Azocar is the executive director of Friends of Medicare, an advocacy organization that for the last four decades has been working to defend, improve, and expand the public health care system in Alberta. Scott Neigh interviews her the importance of public health care, about some of that history, and about what Friends of Medicare …
Just finished an interview with Scott and Kris of NOPE, a campaign working to stop a proposal for a massive new gold mine in Nova Scotia. It’ll be on Talking Radical Radio in the new year!
Just finished an interview for Talking Radical Radio with Kiyu, Ledna, and Andre about Black in Post-Sec: The Documentary, a new film about the experiences of Black students in Toronto’s universities. Listen for it in the new year!
Lora McElhinney and Wendy Bariteau are members of Joint Effort, a four decade-old prison abolitionist group based in the lower mainland of British Columbia that is focused on solidarity work with women in prison. McElhinney is a long-time activist and organier and has been involved in the group for almost 20 years. Bariteau will be …
Just finished a wide-ranging interview with Imtiaz Popat from the Vancouver chapter of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community, the 2sqtilgbipoc Alliance, and the Coalition Against Bigotry – Pacific about the multifaceted intersectional anti-oppression and anti-bigotry work of these organizations. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon, likely early in January!
Bryce Koch is a registered nurse based in Winnipeg. He is the founder of Project Safe Audience, a harm reduction initiative based in the city’s after-hours music scene, and he is on the board of directors of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association. Scott Neigh interviews him about the many ways that nurses are taking up …