Susie Goulding is a founder of the COVID Long Haulers Support Group Canada, a group for people with long COVID to support each other, advocate for themselves, and collaborate with researchers. Scott Neigh interviews her about long COVID and about the group’s work, particularly its advocacy for recognition, research, and rehabilitation. In the early months …
Thanks to Andrew of the Parkdale Free School for the interview just now about their grassroots, democratic, and justice-focused educational work in a working-class Toronto neighbourhood. Listen for it on @TalkingRadical Radio in a few weeks!
Irina Ceric is a lawyer and a criminology instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC. Since the 1990s, she has mainly used her legal expertise in social movement contexts and in doing radical legal support organizing. In the last few years, she has also done important research into how such organizing has happened in …
Thank-you to Q and Catherine of Disability Filibuster for the interview just now about their work against the ableism and eugenics of Bill C-7, and their vision for continuing the struggle in the wake of its passage. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Thanks to Susie of the COVID Long-Haulers Support Group Canada for speaking with me just now about long COVID and about the vital grassroots mutual support and advocacy that she and others with the condition are doing. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few 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 …
Thank-you to Pierre and Tai of JusticeTrans (http://justicetrans.org) for the great interview just now about their work around increasing access to justice for trans people in Canada. Listen for it in a few weeks on @TalkingRadical Radio!
On February 1, 2021, Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, announced that it was filing for creditor protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA). It faces the likelihood of massive program cuts and job losses. Reuben Roth is a labour studies and sociology professor at Laurentian. Katlyn Kotila and Darius Garneau are both fourth-year undergraduate …
Jonny Sopotiuk is a visual artist, a curator, and a community and labour organizer. Zandi Dandizette is a new media installation artist and an arts and culture worker. Both are founding members of the Vancouver Artists Labour Union Co-operative (VALU CO-OP), a workplace owned and run democratically by its workers, and of the Arts and …
Thank-you to Reuben, Katlyn, and Darius for speaking to me about the mobilizations in response to the financial fiasco at Laurentian University and to the moves to use its insolvency to impose a radical austerity agenda. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!