Thanks to Susie of the COVID Long-Haulers Support Group Canada for speaking with me just now about long COVID and about the vital grassroots mutual support and advocacy that she and others with the condition are doing. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Daniel Sarah Karasik and Darrah Teitel are participants in a range of movements in Toronto, and they are speaking today as members of the Suppress the Virus Now Coalition, an Ontario-based coalition of community groups, labour organizations, and individuals. Scott Neigh interviews them about their concerns with how the federal government and the Ontario provincial …
Thank-you to Daniel Sarah and Darrah of the Suppress the Virus Now Coalition for the interview just now about the fight for a strategy that would eliminate community spread of the virus in Ontario. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
Thanks to Medeana and Wing of Support Our Students Alberta for the interview just now about their work in support of students and public education in Alberta! Listen for it in the next few weeks on Talking Radical Radio.
Thanks to Susan & Angie of Just Recovery Ontario for the interview about their campaign for a just & equitable recovery from COVID-19. They are pressuring governments to fix the major gaps in our social safety net revealed by the pandemic. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in October!
Christine Bro is the lead organizer with Local 2 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and she is based in Vancouver. Quentin Rowe-Codner is a sales associated at a private liquor store in Maple Ridge, BC. Scott Neigh interviews them about SEIU Local 2’s Unions Are Essential campaign, launched to support the unionization of essential and frontline workers during the …
Thank-you to Christine and Quentin for the interview just now about the Unions Are Essential campaign from SEIU Local 2 that is supporting workers during COVID, and about a recent successful organizing drive. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Sarah Jama is a young organizer in Hamilton, Ontario who has been involved in a wide range of different kinds of grassroots work – prominently including struggles against anti-Black racism, working for disability justice, and a whole range of other things. Scott Neigh interviews her about the trajectory of her organizing, particularly her work co-founding the Disability Justice Network …
Thank-you to Sarah Jama for the wide ranging interview just now! We talked about disability justice, mutual aid, police brutality, anti-Blackness, and her trajectory as an organizer. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!