Just finished a wide-ranging interview with Imtiaz Popat from the Vancouver chapter of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community, the 2sqtilgbipoc Alliance, and the Coalition Against Bigotry – Pacific about the multifaceted intersectional anti-oppression and anti-bigotry work of these organizations. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon, likely early in January!
Bryce Koch is a registered nurse based in Winnipeg. He is the founder of Project Safe Audience, a harm reduction initiative based in the city’s after-hours music scene, and he is on the board of directors of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association. Scott Neigh interviews him about the many ways that nurses are taking up …
Thank-you to Doug, Murray, and Scott of Conscience Canada for the interview just now about their work to enable conscientious objection to military taxation and for a broader peace agenda. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in December or early January!
Rachel Huot is a mom of three kids and a parent organizer in the west end of Toronto. She is part of a group called West End Parents for Public Education, which has been central to the emergence of the province-wide Ontario Parent Action Network. Scott Neigh interviews her about the cuts that the province’s …
A big thank-you to Lora and Wendy for the interview just now. They are part of Joint Effort, a grassroots feminist prison abolition group that has existed in Vancouver for almost 40 years. Listen for the interview on Talking Radical Radio in December or early January!
Sheila Sampath is the editorial and art director of Shameless Magazine, a feminist magazine for teen girls and trans youth. Sampath is also an artist, activist, writer, and co-founder of a social justice art and design space called The Public Studio. Scott Neigh interviews her about feminist media, Shameless, and the Talking Back Feminist Media …
Two interviews this week! Yesterday, I talked with Burcu Emeç of Articule, an artist-run centre in Montreal. We spoke about the centre’s long history and its commitment to anti-oppression politics in its work and in its ongoing process of organizational change. And today I spoke with Sheila Sampath of Shameless magazine about the upcoming Talking Back Feminist Media …
Joe Curnow is an assistant professor of education at University of Manitoba. Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land is an assistant professor of criminal justice at University of Winnipeg. Both are actively involved in Millennium For All, a group organizing against the forced bag searches and metal detector scans instituted in February as conditions of entry to the Millennium …
Alicia-Marie and Faduma are community activists and co-founders of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s work to bring Ottawa’s Black communities together and to oppose anti-Black racism in the city. The group came together in 2016, broadly informed by Black Lives Matter – not necessarily with any particular connection, …
Rebecca Keetch has been an autoworker at the General Motors (GM) assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario since 2006. GM has said they will close the plant by the end of the year. Tiffany Balducci is the president of the Durham Region Labour Council. Both are involved in Green Jobs Oshawa, a joint labour-community campaign involving …