Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson are teachers in British Columbia. As such, they are both members of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), and they have recently been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. Scott Neigh interview them about the BCTF Divest Now campaign and about their success in …
Thank-you to Craig, Holly, and David for the interview just now about the Toronto Workers’ History Project. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Alex Silas and Angella MacEwen live in Ottawa and are active in their unions and their communities. This includes as members of Community Solidarity Ottawa (CSO), a coalition of unions, community organizations, and residents that came together during the recent convoy occupation of downtown Ottawa to give voice to grassroots opposition to the convoy, its …
Thank-you to Darlene Sicotte of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik for speaking with me just now about the group’s 17 years of work in Saskatoon on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Thanks to Nina Newington for the interview just now. We talked about the Last Hope Camp, a forest defence camp in southwest Nova Scotia that is currently in its fifth month. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!
Manuel Salamanca Cardona is an activist with the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC), which organizes with immigrant and migrant workers in a wide range of contexts in Montreal. Scott Neigh interviews him specifically about the struggles of workers employed by temp agencies, and about the work of the IWC-affiliated Temporary Agency Workers Association, which fights for …
Ellie Ade Kur and Abby Stadnyk are grassroots organizers with abolitionist politics. They are also both involved in Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (Between the Lines, 2022), a new book collection bringing together pieces by organizers and scholars writing in the context of the constellation of efforts to defund and abolish the police …
Thanks to British Columbia teachers Kim and Jillian of BCTF Divest Now for the interview just now about the campaign to push the BC Teachers Federation pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries! Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks.
Sakura Saunders and Rachel Small are long-time organizers with experience in a range of movements. Both are active with World Beyond War, a decentralized global network with the goal not just of opposing the war of the day but of abolishing the institution of war. Scott Neigh interviews them about the organization’s work globally and …
Thanks to Angella and Alex of Community Solidarity Ottawa, a new coalition of labour & community groups in Ottawa that formed in opposition to the recent far-right-driven occupation of the city’s downtown. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio!