I’ve been thinking, this week, about how we, as Canadians, should be doing whatever we can to support grassroots struggles in the US. Contrary to what you might think based on the tide of popular sentiment at the moment, the bad things that ordinary people in so-called Canada are facing are, first and foremost, brought …
As I write, Los Angeles is burning. At this stage in the climate crisis, there is nothing new about hearing that fires, floods, storms, or other disasters clearly connected to the crisis are doing massive damage to people, places, ecosystems. The progression of such things is one terrible metric of how the crisis is getting …
[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 …
Kerri Claire Neil lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and she is the co-chair of the Social Justice Co-operative NL, an activist organization whose members work on a wide range of social, political, and environmental issues. Scott Neigh interviews her about their choice to be a co-operative, the many struggles they are involved in, and their …
Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah and Gaëlle Muderi are long-time residents of Ottawa who are involved in the Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation – Owusu-Akyeeah as a commissioner and Muderi as project coordaintor. The commission is a grassroots, nonpartisan initiative to listen to the voices of Ottawa residents in order to chronicle what happened in the …
Kate Turner is a climate justice organizer living on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory in Tiohti:áke, or Montreal. Chantal Pelletier is a retired speech and language pathologist living on unceded Anishnaabe land in Gatineau, Quebec. Both are active with the Decolonial Solidarity Campaign, a network of affinity groups across so-called Canada acting in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en …
Thanks to Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah and Gaëlle Muderi of the Ottawa People’s Commission for the interview just now about the ongoing grassroots community-based inquiry into last winter’s convoy occupation of Ottawa. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!
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!
And thanks to Kate and Chantal of the Decolonial Solidarity Campaign for the interview just now about their work in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en land defenders that is targeting RBC and its funding of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline. It will be on Talking Radical Radio the week following the interview that I did earlier …
David Spaner is a long-time writer based in Vancouver and the author of Solidarity: Canada’s Unknown Revolution of 1983 (Ronsdale Press, 2021). Scott Neigh interviews him about the book and about the uprising against a right-wing government in British Columbia that it documents. Despite happening well within living memory, being one of the largest grassroots …