Thanks to AJ Withers for the interview just now about their new book, *Fight to Win: Inside Poor People’s Organizing*, on the radical anti-poverty organizing of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Listen for it in the new year on Talking Radical Radio!
Fantasy. Set in Cairo in 1912. A bit steampunk, a bit noir mystery, and lots of magic drawn from folk traditions of Egyptian and other Islamic cultures. The premise is that in the late 19th century, djinn and other magical beings returned openly to the world in a way that was centred on Cairo. This …
Jen Gobby lives in Abenaki territory in rural Quebec and works as a postdoctoral researcher at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the founder of Research for the Front Lines, a new organization that fosters collaboration between climate and environmental justice movements in Canada and people in universities with the time and skills to do …
Robert Janes has worked in and around museums for more than 45 years, including as a chief curator and museum director, and he is the founder of the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice. Scott Neigh interviews him about the climate crisis, about the role he envisions museums playing in responding to it, and about …
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!
An intellectual biography of radical English writer and art critic John Berger. Examines his key work from the end of the Second World War to his death in 2017, in the context of at least the major features of his life, if not really the nitty-gritty details, and of the broader political and intellectual culture. …
Tonye Aganaba and Chantelle Spicer live in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people, in what is colonially known as Vancouver. They are active in the Defund 604 Network, a collective that organizes around police and prison abolition. Scott Neigh interviews them about that work. As most listeners will no doubt recall, …
Thanks to Natalie for the interview just now about the troubling rise in anti-trans politics in Canada, about Rainbow Ottawa Student Experience (which until recently was Rainbow Carleton), and about the group’s recent organizing against transphobia. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!
A collection of short pieces written (or in some cases co-written) by Mariame Kaba, an abolitionist organizer in the US. Over her many years of involvement, she has done an incredible amount of work that exemplifies that quintessential abolitionist synthesis of the radical and the practical. She has thought deeply about what she does (and …
Thanks to Jen and Molly for the interview just now about the work of Research for the Front Lines to mobilize research time and labour in the service of front line struggles for social and environmental justice! Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in December.