Peter Zimmer and Camila Fisher are avid cyclists and members of the Halifax Cycling Coalition, an organization committed to making their city safer and all-around better for cycling. Scott Neigh interviews them about the challenges that cyclists face in Halifax and about what the coalition is doing to make things better. Zimmer has been using …
Thanks to Camila and Peter of the Halifax Cycling Coalition for the interview just now about their advocacy, education, and community-building work. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in 2023!
Stacey Gomez lives in Halifax (aka Kjipuktuk) in Nova Scotia, within Mi’kmaqi, and she is a migrant justice organizer with No One Is Illegal – Halifax/Kjipuktuk. Scott Neigh interviews her about the group’s origins and about its work as the first grassroots effort in Atlantic Canada focused on organizing with migrant agricultural workers. No One …
Thanks to Stacey Gomez of No One Is Illegal – Halifax/Kjipuktuk for the interview just now about migrant justice organizing, particularly with migrant agricultural workers, in Nova Scotia. Listen for it in a few weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
Sakura Saunders is on the board of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and Lisa Cameron is on its organizing committee. They speak with me about the struggles faced by low-wage and precarious workers in the city, and about the work of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and the city’s Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign. …
Thank you to Lisa and Sakura of the Halifax Workers’ Action Centre for the interview just now! Listen to us talk about the centre’s work to support marginalized workers and to organize for change later in October on Talking Radical Radio. Originally posted to Scott’s author page on Facebook.
Liane Tessier is a former firefighter who fought a landmark human rights case related to workplace harassment and gender discrimination in Halifax. Judy Haiven is a retired professor from the business school at Saint Mary’s University who taught industrial relations. They are co-founders of Equity Watch, a grassroot group that aims to fight bullying, harassment, …
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.
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 …