As I write, Los Angeles is burning. At this stage in the climate crisis, there is nothing new about hearing that fires, floods, storms, or other disasters clearly connected to the crisis are doing massive damage to people, places, ecosystems. The progression of such things is one terrible metric of how the crisis is getting …
Emily Eaton and Bronwen Tucker are two of the six co-authors of The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada (Between the Lines, 2023), which outlines a framework for working towards not only a just transition away from fossil fuels but an explicitly decolonial just transition. Scott Neigh interviews them about the intertwined …
Jacqueline Lee-Tam is the director of the Climate Justice Organizing Hub and Sara Adams is its anglophone coordinator. Scott Neigh interviews them about the work of the Hub providing supports to grassroots organizers across so-called Canada. The moments of social movement struggle that make mainstream headlines are just a tiny fraction of what movements actually …
Thanks to Bronwen Tucker and Emily Eaton for the interview just now about The End of this World (published by Between the Lines), a new book about the urgent struggle for a decolonial just transition. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
Thank-you to Jacqueline and Sara of the Climate Justice Organizing Hub for the interview just now about their work providing infrastructure and support for movements across so-called Canada. Listen for it on Talking Radical in the next few weeks!
Kate Turner is a climate justice organizer living on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory in Tiohti:áke, or Montreal. Chantal Pelletier is a retired speech and language pathologist living on unceded Anishnaabe land in Gatineau, Quebec. Both are active with the Decolonial Solidarity Campaign, a network of affinity groups across so-called Canada acting in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en …
Emma Norton is a climate activist based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in Mi’qmaki. She is the operations director at the ReCover Initiative and the Atlantic director with the Climate Emergency Unit. Scott Neigh interviews her about her work on climate issues, and about the crucial interconnection between practical measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and …
Thank-you to Betty and Emma of Climate Legacy for the interview just now! We talked about the climate crisis and about their work to inform and mobilize older adults to take action around the issue. Listen for it in a few weeks on Talking Radical Radio.
Mili Roy and Angela Bischoff are involved, in different capacities, in the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign (OCEC), a broad, loose, non-partisan coalition of individuals and groups working hard to get Ontario to improve its response to the climate crisis. Scott Neigh interviews them about the crisis, about the campaign’s 12-point Climate Action Plan to address …
Thank-you to Emma Norton of both the Climate Emergency Unit and the ReCover Initiative for the interview just now about the intertwined work of pushing forward practical and policy responses to the climate crisis in Atlantic Canada. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!