Lisa Hari and Rosemary Brown are active in We’re Together Ending Poverty (WTEP), a grassroots anti-poverty group in Calgary. Scott Neigh interviews them about what poverty looks like in their city, about the group’s evolution over the years, and about their work to bring people together to build shared understandings and collective action. Over her …
Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd are active with the Toronto Workers’ History Project (TWHP), an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. Scott Neigh interviews them about the enthusiasm they have found in the community for working-class history, the many facets of the project’s work, and the …
Thank-you to Riley and Felix of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia for the interview just now about the grassroots, community-based effort to overhaul gender-affirming health care in their province. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio at some point in June!
Krista Wylie is a mother of one current and one former student in public schools in Toronto, and she is a co-founder of the Fix Our Schools campaign. Scott Neigh interviews her about the $16.8 billion repair backlog in Ontario schools and about her years of campaigning to get the provincial government to take seriously …
Thanks to Rosemary and Lisa of We’re Together Ending Poverty for the interview just now about the group’s 14 years of grassroots, intersectional anti-poverty work in Calgary. Listen for it in the coming weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
Sally Lane is the mother of Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen who has been detained for more than five years in northeastern Syria in conditions akin to torture. Matthew Behrens is a long-time activist and a member of Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture. Scott Neigh interviews them about Jack’s case and about the campaign to …
Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte is part of a grassroots group called Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik, or Women Walking Together, that has been working for many years in Saskatoon on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Scott Neigh interviews her about what that work has involved. Okemaysim-Sicotte grew up in Beardy’s and Okemasis’ Cree Nation in …
Thanks to Krista of Fix Our Schools for the interview just now about the campaign to push the Ontario government to address the $16.8 billion infrastructure deficit in the province’s schools, and their take on the current provincial election. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio!
Nina Newington is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to block the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh interviews her about the practicalities of taking this kind of direct action, about the …
Just did an interview about a campaign to push the Canadian government to bring Jack Letts home from detention under terrible conditions in Syria. Thanks to Matthew Behrens and to Jack’s mother Sally Lane for speaking with me! Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio.