James Ruston is a member of the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project (TPRP), a prisoner justice group with a long-term vision of prison abolition. He is currently living on day parole, as part of serving a life sentence. Scott Neigh interviews him about his experiences of the prison system and about the work of the TPRP. …
Middle grade contemporary. The protagonist, Hazel, is a 13 year-old girl, an older sister, and a daughter of a single mom. Hazel is deeply traumatized from the kayaking accident two years before that killed her other mom but spared her. Since then, she and her mom and her sister have been moving a lot, living …
Thanks to Vivian, Iris, and Allie of Autistics United Canada for the interview just now about their grassroots mutual aid, education, and advocacy work fighting for disability justice. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Thanks to Christopher of Save Owls Head Provincial Park for the interview just now about the campaign to save a rare piece of relatively untouched, previously protected coastal land in Nova Scotia from development. Listen to it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks!
Peter Gilmer is a minister and an anti-poverty advocate. He is one of two staff at the Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry, a social justice ministry of the United Church of Canada in Saskatchewan. Scott Neigh interviews Gilmer about the ministry’s work for social justice and against poverty, and about its fifty-year history. Gilmer said, “I moved …
Science fiction. Starts fifteen minutes into the future and extends for several decades, focusing on the climate crisis at a global scale. Begins with a powerful chapter describing in an embodied way one character’s experience of a devastating heat wave that ultimately kills 20 million people – made all the more gripping and disturbing by …
Laura McCoy and Leela Acharya are teachers in Toronto and members of Ontario Education Workers United, a grassroots group of education workers from across Ontario committed to fighting for a strong, equitable, public, safe K-to-12 education system. Scott Neigh interviews them about the impacts of the pandemic on education in Ontario, about the group, and …
Movement history. An interview-based and archival history of the emergence of the women’s liberation movement in the United States in the late 1960s. It particularly focuses on the ways in which women’s liberation came out of the experiences of women active in the civil rights movement and in the new left student movement earlier in …
In this book, prominent migrant justice organizer Harsha Walia writes migration and borders into our understanding of how power works at a global level. In a clear rejection of shallow liberal conceptualizations of the issue, it looks to root causes and to the many ways migration and its regulation are intertwined with capitalism, settler colonialism, …
Contemporary fantasy. The protagonist and her parents had lived in the US since she was a toddler, but now they have moved back to Malaysia and are living with her aunt and uncle. She just graduated, she has no job, she has no money, she’s closeted to her family, and she has started hearing voices…well, …