Dev Ramsawakh is a disabled, transmasculine, and diasporic Indo-Caribbean multidisciplinary storyteller, producer, and educator. Their written, audio, and video work focuses on their intersecting identities, on community, and on deconstructing colonial systems, and it has appeared in a wide range of outlets, venues, and events, both grassroots and mainstream. They are also a co-founder of …
[Originally published on The Media Co-op.] Nina Newington is an organizer based in rural Nova Scotia. In recent years, her grassroots work has focused on protecting forests in the province. Newington says that her political consciousness “really emerged from being a queer kid in England in the 1970s” and not knowing that there was anyone …
Stefan Christoff is an organizer, musician, and broadcaster based in Tiohtià:ke, also known as Montreal. Across his decades of activism and organizing, he has been part of supporting lots of different struggles resisting systemic violence and oppression, including colonial systems here on Turtle Island (North America) and around the world. That has involved solidarity work …
Thank-you to Steve, Janet, and Eugene of the Thunder Bay Injured Workers Support Group for the interview just now about their activities around the many systemic issues faced by injured workers in Ontario. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in February!
Thank-you to Sharmeen Khan, Saima Desai, and Dave Gray-Donald for the interview just now about the state and future of grassroots media in so-called Canada. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
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!
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!
Thanks to Steve DeRoy of the Indigenous Mapping Collective for the interview just now about working to build capacity in Indigenous communities to use digital mapping tools to map their lands, share their stories, & decolonize place and space. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in January!
Thank-you to Shawn Tse for the interview just now about the CanAsian Arts Network, a new network of Asian Canadian artists and organizations working to improve visibility, connection, representation, and impact in the arts sector. Listen to it on Talking Radical Radio in the new year!