Thank-you to the two members of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition for the interview just now! You’ll be able to hear about their work against anti-Black racism in the nation’s capital on Talking Radical Radio in September.
The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that was originally broadcast in January 2019. Cindy Blackstock is a member of the Gitksan First Nation, a social worker, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, and the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She …
Just finished talking with Alvin Finkel about the work of the Alberta Labour History Institute and its work to preserve and popularize histories of workers’ struggles in that province, and about his new book *Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy*. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in September! Originally posted to Scott’s author page on Facebook.
May Chiu is a lawyer based in Montreal who spends much of her time engaged in grassroots political work. Part of a network of activists and organizers dissatisfied with the ways in which Quebec’s left establishment handles issues of racism and colonization, she is also one of the founding members of a new group called …
Just finish the second of two Talking Radical Radio interviews for the week. On Tuesday, I interviewed Ramona Neckoway and Stephane McLachlan of Wa Ni Ska Tan, an alliance of Indigenous communities impacted by hydro projects in northern Manitoba and university-based researchers. And just now, I spoke with Tiffany Joseph of the Sḵx̱wu7mesh and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples about …
Marisa Vertrees is the organizing director for the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM), a network of almost 900 Catholic religious orders, dioceses, universities, lay organizations, and other insitutions in more than 90 countries. Agnes Richard is the co-ordinator of the new chapter of the GCCM in Canada. The GCCM’s mission is to engage Catholics in …
Kate Curtis is a high school teacher in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and one of the co-founders of an organization called the End Dress Codes Collective. Scott Neigh interviews her about the problems with school dress codes, and about the major policy change that happened this spring at the TDSB thanks to the …
Laura Cuthbert is an organizer who has a keen interest in history. She is a central part of Populous Map, a grassroots project that aims to preserve and share marginalized histories from communities large and small across British Columbia, in ways that respect autonomy, privacy, and reciprocity. Scott Neigh interviews her about those histories and …
This week has included two Talking Radical Radio interviews, both of which will likely be aired in August. On Monday, I talked with Mac Scott of the Movement Defence Committee – Toronto, a radical collective of lawyers and legal workers who have been supporting movements in Toronto and beyond for over a decade. And just now, I talked …
Marty Wexler is a social worker and one of the founding members of the Disability Rights Coalition of Nova Scotia, a cross-disability coalition of individuals and organizations. Claire McNeil is a lawyer. She has been involved in a number of cases challenging instances of institutionalization in Nova Scotia, and for many years has been an …