James Ruston is a member of the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project (TPRP), a prisoner justice group with a long-term vision of prison abolition. He is currently living on day parole, as part of serving a life sentence. Scott Neigh interviews him about his experiences of the prison system and about the work of the TPRP. …
Thanks to Vivian, Iris, and Allie of Autistics United Canada for the interview just now about their grassroots mutual aid, education, and advocacy work fighting for disability justice. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
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!
Peter Gilmer is a minister and an anti-poverty advocate. He is one of two staff at the Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry, a social justice ministry of the United Church of Canada in Saskatchewan. Scott Neigh interviews Gilmer about the ministry’s work for social justice and against poverty, and about its fifty-year history. Gilmer said, “I moved …
Laura McCoy and Leela Acharya are teachers in Toronto and members of Ontario Education Workers United, a grassroots group of education workers from across Ontario committed to fighting for a strong, equitable, public, safe K-to-12 education system. Scott Neigh interviews them about the impacts of the pandemic on education in Ontario, about the group, and …
John Sylliboy is Mi’kmaq and he grew up as part of Esaksoni and Millbrook First Nations in Nova Scotia. He is also the acting executive director of the Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance, an organization of Two-Spirit people on the east coast that has been making space, reclaiming culture, producing knowledge, and speaking up for more …
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!
The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that was originally broadcast in the first week of March 2021. Samir Shaheen-Hussain is a pediatric emergency physician who practices in Montreal and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He also played a central role in the #aHand2Hold …
Kevin Skerrett and Nancy Parker are active in Make Revera Public, a campaign pushing the federal government to transform Revera, which is a major provider of long-term care in Canada, from a for-profit corporation into a public sector entity and a fully integrated element of our public health care system. This campaign is happening in …
Thanks to Peter of the Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry for the interview just now! Listen for our conversation about their long years of work for economic and social justice in Saskatchewan on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks.