Thank-you to Irina Ceric for the great interview just now about her long history of work as a movement lawyer and about her research on legal support collectives in North American movements over the last few decades. Listen for it in April on Talking Radical Radio!
Thank-you to Kearie of Parents of Black Children for the interview just now about the group’s work supporting Black parents and kids, and advocating for measures to address anti-Black racism in schools. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
William Carroll, James Rowe, and Emily Lowan are all at the University of Victoria (UVic) in British Columbia. Carroll is a professor of sociology and Rowe is an associate professor of environmental studies, and they are both involved in the Corporate Mapping Project, which brings together academic and community-based researchers to investigate the corporate power …
Thank-you to Emma of EANAP – Environmental Action Now Ajax-Pickering for the interview just now about the struggle to defend a wetland from development in Pickering, Ontario! Listen for it in the coming weeks on Talking Radical Radio.
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 campaign, which won a victory against one aspect of medical colonialism in Quebec in 2018. Scott Neigh interviews him about his new book, …
Ra’anaa Brown and Shana Calixte are residents of Sudbury, Ontario. Brown is the co-president of Black Lives Matter – Sudbury, and Calixte is the group’s Director of Community Relations. Scott Neigh interviews them about what the struggle for Black lives looks like in northern Ontario and about their conference coming up on February 27 and …
Just finished the second of two interviews for this week. The one yesterday was with Emily, James, and Bill, and we talked about the Corporate Mapping Project, which researches the power of the fossil fuel industry in Canada, and about fossil fuel divestment activism at University of Victoria. Today, I spoke with Mary and Alex …
Daniel Sarah Karasik and Darrah Teitel are participants in a range of movements in Toronto, and they are speaking today as members of the Suppress the Virus Now Coalition, an Ontario-based coalition of community groups, labour organizations, and individuals. Scott Neigh interviews them about their concerns with how the federal government and the Ontario provincial …
Thank-you to Daniel Sarah and Darrah of the Suppress the Virus Now Coalition for the interview just now about the fight for a strategy that would eliminate community spread of the virus in Ontario. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
Sarah Edo works with a publication called Nuance. pihêsiw is part of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN). In the context of this year’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Week (SRH Week), Scott Neigh interviews them about what it means to centre Black, Indigenous, racialized, and migrant youth in questions of sexual health and rights. …