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!
Thank-you to abolitionist organizers Ellie and Abby for the interview just now! We talked about *Disarm, Defund, Dismantle*, a new collection about abolitionist organizing in Canad. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
Sarah Switzer, Andrea Vela Alarcón, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez, and Casey Burkholder all have long histories of involvement in a range of grassroots, community-based work, and they are also researchers in academic and professional settings. Scott Neigh interviews them about Beyond the Toolkit, a research project in which they worked with people involved in community facilitation, community …
A mixture of movement memoir and grounded theorizing about some key areas of reflection and debate in movements. The author is one of the three Black women who initially coined the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. She was already an experienced organizer at that point, having cut her teeth doing neighbourhood and city-wide organizing in the Bay Area …
Thanks to Rachel and Sakura for the interview just now about World Beyond War’s work in the Canadian context against war and militarism, both in general and in this moment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Listen for it in a few weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
Jesse Cardinal is a Métis woman who lives in Treaty 6 territory and is the executive director of Keepers of the Water, an Indigenous organization with a mission of protecting the water in the Arctic drainage basin. Scott Neigh interviews her about the threat posed by the Alberta tar sands and other resource extraction, and …
Sci-fi novella. The next entry in the Vorkosigan saga, which I am slowly working my way through. The series largely follows Miles Vorkosigan, scion of a powerful house on a planet with a deeply engrained, quite feudal, very hierarchical, and intensely militarist social order that is, in all of these respects, gradually becoming looser, more …
Thank-you to Manuel from the Immigrant Workers Centre for the interview just now about the Temporary Agency Workers Association and the struggles of temp agency workers in Montreal! Listen for it in the coming weeks on Talking Radical Radio.
Emma Clark and Hayley Bryant are grade 12 students at Western Canada High School in Calgary, Alberta. Scott Neigh interviews them about the feminist organizing they do as members of a group at their school called the Committee on the Status of Women and Girls (CSWAG). The experiences of high school among young women and …
Sci-fi short stories, plus three essays about the genre. Translated from Chinese. The stories cover a real range of kinds of science fiction and kinds of writing, so it is hard to make any general statements about the book, and the introduction by the editor/translator quite rightly warns against reductive Orientalist readings of their Chinese-ness. …