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!
Cosy hopepunk-ish sci-fi, from one of the authors responsible for the recent popularization of that sort of book. It is, in fact, the fourth (and I believe final) instalment in the series that started with Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. This one is set at an interstellar truckstop of sorts, on a planet …
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 …
Prehistory. A massive book that looks at what is known and what can be reasonably guessed about the trajectory of human existence in the distant past, written by an anthropologist and an archaeologist. It is a bold new synthesis woven in part from straightforward reporting of empirical evidence long-known in specialist circles but rarely disseminated …
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 …
Science fantasy. Spaceships and necromancers. Sequel to Gideon the Ninth. Because it is a sequel, I can’t say anything about the plot without spoiling the first book. I will say that I was a little hesitant to read this one because I thought there was no way that it could match the intricacy and sheer …