(Originally published at The Media Co-op!) For people who value things like social justice and the common good, the world is a pretty grim place right now. Many of us are feeling the need to do something, to get active, to make change. And it is not unusual to encounter generic exhortations telling us to …
Don McLean, Sue Carson, and Nancy Hurst are members of Hamilton 350, a group that engages in climate activism in the city of Hamilton on the west end of Lake Ontario, in loose affiliation with the North America-wide 350.org. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s new Conservation Watch project. Since Hamilton 350’s founding in …
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!