Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny is a lawyer and will soon be an assistant professor of law and legal studies at Carleton University. He is also the co-chair of the board of JusticeTrans, an organization dedicated to ensuring access to justice for trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and Two Spirit people in the Canadian context. Tai Jacob …
Irina Ceric is a lawyer and a criminology instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC. Since the 1990s, she has mainly used her legal expertise in social movement contexts and in doing radical legal support organizing. In the last few years, she has also done important research into how such organizing has happened in …
Thank-you to Pierre and Tai of JusticeTrans (http://justicetrans.org) for the great interview just now about their work around increasing access to justice for trans people in Canada. Listen for it in a few weeks on @TalkingRadical Radio!
Thank-you to Irina Ceric for the great interview just now about her long history of work as a movement lawyer and about her research on legal support collectives in North American movements over the last few decades. Listen for it in April on Talking Radical Radio!
Maia Wikler lives in Vancouver and works as the Digital Communications Coordinator for Raven Trust, an organization whose mission is to fundraise to support First Nations in legal battles. Scott Neigh interviews her about the Pull Together campaign, a collaboration between Raven and the Sierra Club BC to raise money for the litigation by First …
Just closed out the week with an interview for Talking Radical Radio with Maia from Pull Together, a campaign raising funds to support the legal challenges by First Nations to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. Listen for it in a couple of weeks! Originally posted to Scott’s author page on Facebook.
Macdonald Scott is a legal worker at the firm Carranza LLP, where he speicalizes in immigration law. He is also an active member of the Toronto-based Movement Defence Committee, a collective of lawyers and legal workers affiliated with the Law Union of Ontario focused on providing legal support for protestors targeted by the police. Scott …