Thank-you to Doug, Murray, and Scott of Conscience Canada for the interview just now about their work to enable conscientious objection to military taxation and for a broader peace agenda. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in December or early January!
Rachel Huot is a mom of three kids and a parent organizer in the west end of Toronto. She is part of a group called West End Parents for Public Education, which has been central to the emergence of the province-wide Ontario Parent Action Network. Scott Neigh interviews her about the cuts that the province’s …
A big thank-you to Lora and Wendy for the interview just now. They are part of Joint Effort, a grassroots feminist prison abolition group that has existed in Vancouver for almost 40 years. Listen for the interview on Talking Radical Radio in December or early January!
Burcu Emeç is a performance artist and the outreach and communications coordinator at articule, an artist-run centre in Montreal. Scott Neigh interviews her about articule’s efforts to challenge oppressive systemic disparities through organizational change work within the centre and interventions into the larger arts scene. Articule is an artist-run centre in the Mile End neighbourhood …
Sheila Sampath is the editorial and art director of Shameless Magazine, a feminist magazine for teen girls and trans youth. Sampath is also an artist, activist, writer, and co-founder of a social justice art and design space called The Public Studio. Scott Neigh interviews her about feminist media, Shameless, and the Talking Back Feminist Media …
Sakura Saunders is on the board of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and Lisa Cameron is on its organizing committee. They speak with me about the struggles faced by low-wage and precarious workers in the city, and about the work of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and the city’s Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign. …
Two interviews this week! Yesterday, I talked with Burcu Emeç of Articule, an artist-run centre in Montreal. We spoke about the centre’s long history and its commitment to anti-oppression politics in its work and in its ongoing process of organizational change. And today I spoke with Sheila Sampath of Shameless magazine about the upcoming Talking Back Feminist Media …
Jessi Taylor is a member of Reproductive Justice New Brunswick and a spokesperson for the campaign to Save Clinic 554. The clinic is a family medicine practice in New Brunswick that is one of the few places in the province where people can receive abortion services, trans care, and a range of specialized care for …
Joe Curnow is an assistant professor of education at University of Manitoba. Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land is an assistant professor of criminal justice at University of Winnipeg. Both are actively involved in Millennium For All, a group organizing against the forced bag searches and metal detector scans instituted in February as conditions of entry to the Millennium …
Alicia-Marie and Faduma are community activists and co-founders of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s work to bring Ottawa’s Black communities together and to oppose anti-Black racism in the city. The group came together in 2016, broadly informed by Black Lives Matter – not necessarily with any particular connection, …