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!
Riley Nielson-Baker and Felix Vandergrift are part of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia, a grassroots, community-based policy process to address issues of gender-affirming care and access to health care for trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people in Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh interviews them about the process, the policy, and the work they have been doing to …
Thank-you to Riley and Felix of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia for the interview just now about the grassroots, community-based effort to overhaul gender-affirming health care in their province. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio at some point in June!
Nina Newington is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to block the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh interviews her about the practicalities of taking this kind of direct action, about the …
This is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio originally broadcast in July 2021. Vanessa Hartley is 21 years old and an eighth generation Black Loyalist descendent. She is the chair of the South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED). And she is a resident of Shelburne, a town of about 1200 people on …
Christopher Trider is a landscape architect in Nova Scotia and a former provincial civil servant with experiencing in planning provincial parks. He is also a member of a grassroots group called Save Owls Head Provincial Park, which is doing its best to intervene in the fate of a small piece of land on Nova Scotia’s …
Thanks to Christopher of Save Owls Head Provincial Park for the interview just now about the campaign to save a rare piece of relatively untouched, previously protected coastal land in Nova Scotia from development. Listen to it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks!
Vanessa Hartley is 21 years old and an eighth generation Black Loyalist descendent. She is the chair of the South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED). And she is a resident of Shelburne, a town of about 1200 people on the southwest coast of Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh interviews her about the town, about environmental racism, …
Thanks to Vanessa of SEED South End Environmental Injustice Society for the interview just now about the fight against environmental racism and social injustice in Shelbourne, Nova Scotia. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!