Talking Radical: Resources is a new collaboration from The Media Co-op and the Talking Radical project. In these short, monthly interviews, activists and organizers from across so-called Canada will connect you with ideas and with tools for learning related to struggles for justice and collective liberation. They will talk about how they themselves have learned, …
Shawna Dempsey is an artist and the co-executive director of Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA). Scott Neigh interviews her about feminism in the arts, and about MAWA’s decades of work. Dempsey is primarily a performance and video artist. She got her start as a university student in the 1980s, and was heavily influenced by …
Thank-you to Shawna Dempsey of https://mawa.ca for the interview just now about the organization’s three and a half decades of feminist work in Winnipeg’s arts scene and beyond. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the coming weeks!
The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio originally broadcast in December 2021. Breanne Lavallee-Heckert, Chantale Garand, and Kianna Durston are Métis people based in Winnipeg. They are also members of Red River Echoes, a collective of Métis people that is focused on grassroots organizing, land back, and the active reclamation …
Breanne Lavallee-Heckert, Chantale Garand, and Kianna Durston are Métis people based in Winnipeg. They are also members of Red River Echoes, a collective of Métis people that is focused on grassroots organizing, land back, and the active reclamation of Métis sovereignty in Winnipeg. Scott Neigh interviews them about their work. The group got its start …
Thank-you to Breanne, Chantale, and Kianna of Red River Echoes for the great interview just now about grassroots organizing among Métis people in Manitoba. Listen for it Talking Radical Radio soon!
Samantha Smith, Leslie Scott, and Robert Crooks are renters and current or former residents of the West Broadway neighbourhood in Winnipeg. They are also active members of the West Broadway Tenants Committee, a grassroots group of renters. Scott Neigh interviews them about the committee’s work organizing for tenant justice and building tenant power to oppose …
Just did another interview that will show up on Talking Radical Radio in the new year! I talked with Sam, Les, and Rob, tenants who are building power with their neighbours in Winnipeg’s West Broadway neighbourhood under the banner of the West Broadway Tenants Committee to fight rising rents, abusive labdlords, and evictions.
Terry McDowell has been working as a graphic designer in Winnipeg for the last ten years. He is a member of Strike Poster, a 14-member closed collective of graphic designers and artists of all sorts committed to a range of radical left politics. Scott Neigh interviews him about the intersection of politics and design, and …
Cam Scott, Daniel Friesen, and Irene Bindi are community organizers and members of Police-Free Schools Winnipeg. Scott Neigh speaks with them about the struggle to get police out of Winnipeg schools. In general, middle-class white people tend to experience police as a source of safety. But lots of people not in that category, particularly Black and Indigenous people, …