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 …
Steve DeRoy is a cartographer and a co-founder of the Indigenous Mapping Collective. Scott Neigh interviews him about the importance of mapping and about the collective’s work to build Indigenous peoples’ capacity to, as their website puts it, “map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize place and space.” Colonization is, to a great extent, …
And thanks to Kate and Chantal of the Decolonial Solidarity Campaign for the interview just now about their work in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en land defenders that is targeting RBC and its funding of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline. It will be on Talking Radical Radio the week following the interview that I did earlier …
Thank-you to Jennifer Wickham of the Gidimt’en Checkpoint for the interview just now about the ongoing Wet’suwet’en struggle against the Coastal Gaslink pipeline. Listen for it in the next few weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio originally broadcast in December 2021. Breanne Lavallee-Heckert, Chantale Garand, and Kianna Durston are Métis people based in Winnipeg. They are also members of Red River Echoes, a collective of Métis people that is focused on grassroots organizing, land back, and the active reclamation …
Middle grade/YA. Contemporary fantasy, I suppose. Follows a teen Lipan Apache girl on not-quite-our-Earth and a cottonmouth snake animal person in the world of animal people that is a sort of reflection of Earth, an alternate dimension with which it was once wholly joined but which is now only connected through a small number of …
Thank-you to Darlene Sicotte of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik for speaking with me just now about the group’s 17 years of work in Saskatoon on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
April Thomas is a land defender and member of the Secwépemc Nation, from the Canim Lake Band in the central interior of what is colonially known as British Columbia. Scott Neigh interviews her about the trajectory of her work defending the land, about grassroots opposition to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project, and …
Breanne Lavallee-Heckert, Chantale Garand, and Kianna Durston are Métis people based in Winnipeg. They are also members of Red River Echoes, a collective of Métis people that is focused on grassroots organizing, land back, and the active reclamation of Métis sovereignty in Winnipeg. Scott Neigh interviews them about their work. The group got its start …
Essays. A lot of memoir – which I wasn’t expecting, for some reason, but certainly didn’t mind. The author is Cowlitz, a Coast Salish people from the northwest of what is currently the United States. She grew up in a coal-mining family in Appalachia, and then for much of the period covered in the book …