Rama DelaRosa has been a musician and an activist for many years. She lives on Salt Spring Island, just off Vancouver Island, and she is the director of the Resistance Rising Choir, based in Victoria. Scott Neigh interviews her about music, about movements, and about what Resistance Rising brings to struggles for social change. DelaRosa’s …
Emma Lim is 18 years old and is a high school student in London, Ontario. Rebecca Hamilton is 17 years old and also a high school student, and she lives in Vancouver, BC. They are organizers with Climate Strike Canada at both the local and national levels. Scott Neigh interviews them about what they are …
Just finished the second of two Talking Radical Radio interviews for the week. Yesterday, I spoke to Kate of End Dress Codes about their work in Toronto against discriminatory dress codes in public schools — part of a recent victory that resulted in a major policy change by Canada’s largest school board. And today I talked with Marty and …
Kaeden Seburn is a Bachelor of Social Work student at Carleton University and a community organizer and advocate. Jay Burns is a high school student currently finishing Grade 12. Both are active members of SAEFTY Ottawa, a group run by and for trans and gender-diverse youth. Scott Neigh interviews them about SAEFTY and about the …
Just finished an interview with Marisa of the Global Catholic Climate Movement and Agnes of the GCCM’s new Canadian chapter. We talked climate change, faith, and social change. Listen for it on Talking RadicalRadio later in the summer! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
Baj Mukhopadhyay is a physician who is based in Montreal and practices mainly in remote and Indigenous communities in northern Quebec. He also writes about and is active in grassroots politics related to struggles around resource extraction, migrant justice, and health. Bilal Mamdani is an organizer with a long history of involvement in land defence, …
Garth Mullins is an activist and organizer who has been part of many different movements, as well as a freelance journalist and an award-winning broadcaster. He has been a drug user for most of his adult life – primarily heroin in his younger years and methadone today – and he is currently a drug user …
Lynn Gehl is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe, an advocate, and a writer based in Peterborough, Ontario. Through her own decades-long court battle as well as her involvement in political mobilizations, she is a long-time participant in the fight against sex discrimination in the federal Indian Act. Scott Neigh interviews her about the history of that struggle …
Hana Shafi, also known as Frizz Kid, is an artist, a poet, a freelance writer, and a feminist. She is also the author of It Begins With The Body (Book*Hug Press, 2018), a book of poetry and illustrations. Scott Neigh interviews her about her work and her politics. As anyone who has been paying attention …
Just finished speaking with Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe Lynn Gehl about the long history of sex discrimination in the Indian Act and the current “6(1) All the Way” campaign to get the feds to eliminate it. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.