Thanks to Leela, Laura, and Muna of Ontario Education Workers United for the interview just now about their organizing as grassroots education workers in Ontario, in the face of Tory cuts and the huge safety issues of the pandemic. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks!
Emma Cunningham is a resident of Pickering, Ontario, and a member of Environmental Action Now Ajax-Pickering (EANAP). Recently, EANAP won an important victory against an attempt to use a provincial Minister’s Zoning Order (MZO) to override planning and environmental processes and build a warehouse on the Duffins Creek wetland, a protected wetland the middle of …
Kearie Daniel is a communications and public relations professional who focuses on equity consulting, as well as a podcaster and blogger. She is also a parent advocate and co-founder of the group Parents of Black Children. Scott Neigh interviews her about anti-Black racism in the school system and about how Parents of Black Children is …
Thank-you to Daniel Sarah and Darrah of the Suppress the Virus Now Coalition for the interview just now about the fight for a strategy that would eliminate community spread of the virus in Ontario. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
Susan Campbell and Angie Lynch are both social workers who work for community legal clinics in Ontario. Scott Neigh interviews them about Just Recovery Ontario, a campaign pushing for a recovery from the pandemic that would fix the many injustices and shortfalls in our social safety net that COVID-19 has made so evident. By this point, most of us …
Kyle Vose works for a social service agency in Toronto and is the agency co-chair of the ODSP Action Coalition. In earlier years, he was also an ODSP (or Ontario Disability Support Program) recipient and served as the recipient co-chair of the coalition. And Andrea Hatala is its current recipient co-chair. Scott Neigh interviews them about ODSP, the …
Rachel Huot is a mom of three kids and a parent organizer in the west end of Toronto. She is part of a group called West End Parents for Public Education, which has been central to the emergence of the province-wide Ontario Parent Action Network. Scott Neigh interviews her about the cuts that the province’s …
Jacky Tuinstra Harrison is the general manager of CJRU 1280 AM, also called The Scope, a relatively new campus radio station affiliated with Ryerson University in Toronto. Barry Rooke is the executive director of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA), which represents about 110 not-for-profit radio stations of various sorts across the country, …
Recently, long-time anti-poverty organizer John Clarke stepped down from his position as a paid organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. He will remain an active member of OCAP as well as taking on new movement-related challenges. I just interviewed him about his long involvement in radical grassroots movements for Talking Radical Radio. Listen for it later …