Serena Mah is a media relations consultant and a former television journalist who lives in Edmonton, Alberta. Scott Neigh talks with her about anti-Asian racism, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Act2EndRacism coalition. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mah got a call from former Alberta MLA Theresa Woo-Paw, based in Calgary, about the …
Thank-you to Brandon of the Coalition for Dentalcare for the interview just now! He is a dentist and he talks about the coalition’s fight to make dental care a part of the public health care system in Canada. Listen for the interview in a few weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
Ardath Whynacht is an activist, writer, and scholar who lives in Mi’kmaq territory and teaches sociology at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. She is also the author of Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide (Fernwood Publishing, Nov 2021) which she describes as “a book about how we can think through abolition and defunding police …
Second interview of the day! Tonight I talked with Luisa and Stephen of Iron & Earth about organizing fossil fuel workers in support of renewable energy and about their new *Prosperous Transition Plan*. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!
Thanks to Serena Mah for the interview just now about the work of of ACT2endracism, a national coalition of people and groups challenging anti-Asian racism and racism more broadly in Canada. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the next few weeks!
Don McLean, Sue Carson, and Nancy Hurst are members of Hamilton 350, a group that engages in climate activism in the city of Hamilton on the west end of Lake Ontario, in loose affiliation with the North America-wide 350.org. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s new Conservation Watch project. Since Hamilton 350’s founding in …
Vivan Ly, Iris Parker, and Allie are organizing collective members of Autistic United Canada, a grassroots organization of autistic youth and adults with thousands of members across the country. Scott Neigh interviews them about autism and about the organization’s advocacy, mutual aid and peer support, and education work. Vivian is an autistic multiply disabled queer …
Thank-you to Ardath Whynacht for the great interview just now about prison abolitionist feminism in the context of responding to domestic homicide, and about her new book on the topic, *Insurgent Love*. Listen for it in the coming weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
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 …