John Clarke was an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) from its founding in 1990 until his retirement in late January 2019. Though he intends to remain a very active member of the group, this still marks a significant transition for one of Ontario’s most visible militant grassroots organizations. Scott Neigh interviews Clarke …
Just finished an interview with Judy and Liane of the Halifax-based group Equity Watch, about their work against inequities and harassment in workplaces. Listen for it in a few weeks on Talking Radical Radio! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
Mike Reynolds is a father of two girls and an online content creator and community builder under the banners of Everday Girl Dad and the Sew Manly Podcast. Frédérique Chabot is a mother, also of two girls, and the director of health promotion at Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights. In the context of …
Samir Shaheen-Hussain is a pediatric emergency physician who practices in Montreal and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He has also been involved in grassroots social justice organizing around issues like Indigenous solidarity, migrant justice, and anti-police brutality for more than a decade and a half. …
LaMeia Reddick is a community worker and consultant in Halifax. Ted Rutland is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University in Montreal and the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax (Univeristy of Toronto Press, 2018). Scott Neigh interviews them about about the long …
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 is also the most visible face of the long-term effort to get the Canadian government to end the ongoing …
Natalie Drolet is the executive director and staff lawyer for the Migrant Workers’ Centre BC (MWC), a non-profit organization that provides free legal assistance to migrant workers in British Columbia, and engages in public legal education and policy advocacy. Scott Neigh interviews her about the work of the MWC to challenge the injustices that migrant …
Geraldine McManus is a Two-Spirit Dakota woman of the Bear Clan. She is the driving force behind the Spirit of the Buffalo Camp, a prayer camp in rural Manitoba on the US/Canada border that sits on top of where Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline runs. Scott Neigh interviews her about about her opposition to …
Alison Clancey is the executive director of SWAN Vancouver – that’s short for Supporting Women’s Alternatives Network – which is a sex worker support organization based among migrant and immigrant women who do indoor sex work. Jessi Taylor is the orgaization’s research programs manager. Scott Neigh interviews them about SWAN Vancouver’s advocacy work around everything …