(Originally published at The Media Co-op.) Emma Jackson is an organizer, trainer, and occasional writer based on Treaty 6 territory in Edmonton, Alberta. She first began organizing over a decade ago in the student fossil fuel divestment movement and has since become involved in climate, migrant justice, Indigenous rights, and Palestine solidarity organizing. Interviewing and …
Tara Ehrcke of Victoria, BC, was initially politicized as part of the global justice movement in the 1990s. As that movement faded after 9/11, she was peripherally involved in anti-war organizing, but put more of her energies into local political work. In the early 2000s, she became a teacher, and for a decade and a …
Thank-you to Montreal-based activist and musician Stefan Christoff for the interview just now about the international Musicians for Palestine campaign and his involvement in coordinating it. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Russell Lavis lives in Toronto and is an ultramarathon runner who uses his abilities to act in solidarity with the Palestinian people, most recently by raising money for the Help Gaza Breathe campaign. Michael Bueckart is based in Montreal and he is a scholar, an activist, and the vice-president of Canadians for Justice and Peace …