LaMeia Reddick is a community worker and consultant in Halifax. Ted Rutland is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University in Montreal and the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax (Univeristy of Toronto Press, 2018). Scott Neigh interviews them about about the long …
Natalie Drolet is the executive director and staff lawyer for the Migrant Workers’ Centre BC (MWC), a non-profit organization that provides free legal assistance to migrant workers in British Columbia, and engages in public legal education and policy advocacy. Scott Neigh interviews her about the work of the MWC to challenge the injustices that migrant …
This week has included two Talking Radical interviews — yesterday with paediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain (below), about last year’s #AHand2Hold campaign that won an important victory vs. medical colonialism and systemic racism in health care in Quebec; and today with LaMeia Reddick (top left) and Ted Rutland (top right) about histories and present realities of anti-Black citybuilding …
Alison Clancey is the executive director of SWAN Vancouver – that’s short for Supporting Women’s Alternatives Network – which is a sex worker support organization based among migrant and immigrant women who do indoor sex work. Jessi Taylor is the orgaization’s research programs manager. Scott Neigh interviews them about SWAN Vancouver’s advocacy work around everything …