Essays that use memoir in a mode the author describes as “fictionalized nonfiction” (20) to explore migration, (non)belonging, becoming, and the hypocrisies, indignities, and violence of white-supremacist, colonial, multi-cultural Canada. The author was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, grew up in Edmonton, has lived in and travelled to many parts of Canada, and for many …
Sandra Azocar is the executive director of Friends of Medicare, an advocacy organization that for the last four decades has been working to defend, improve, and expand the public health care system in Alberta. Scott Neigh interviews her the importance of public health care, about some of that history, and about what Friends of Medicare …
[James C. Scott. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985.] A classic from a political scientist of anarchist proclivities doing what amounts to anthropology and studying the fine-grained class relations in a peasant village in Malaysia in the late ’70s and early ’80s, in the …
Just finished an interview with Scott and Kris of NOPE, a campaign working to stop a proposal for a massive new gold mine in Nova Scotia. It’ll be on Talking Radical Radio in the new year!
Just finished an interview for Talking Radical Radio with Kiyu, Ledna, and Andre about Black in Post-Sec: The Documentary, a new film about the experiences of Black students in Toronto’s universities. Listen for it in the new year!
Third book in the series started by the charming gang-of-misfits-in-a-small-spaceship novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. As was true of #2, this is not exactly a sequel but rather another story set in the same universe. In this case, it is mainly set among the fleet of massive ships that set out …
Lora McElhinney and Wendy Bariteau are members of Joint Effort, a four decade-old prison abolitionist group based in the lower mainland of British Columbia that is focused on solidarity work with women in prison. McElhinney is a long-time activist and organier and has been involved in the group for almost 20 years. Bariteau will be …
Just finished a wide-ranging interview with Imtiaz Popat from the Vancouver chapter of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community, the 2sqtilgbipoc Alliance, and the Coalition Against Bigotry – Pacific about the multifaceted intersectional anti-oppression and anti-bigotry work of these organizations. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon, likely early in January!
Bryce Koch is a registered nurse based in Winnipeg. He is the founder of Project Safe Audience, a harm reduction initiative based in the city’s after-hours music scene, and he is on the board of directors of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association. Scott Neigh interviews him about the many ways that nurses are taking up …
Thank-you to Doug, Murray, and Scott of Conscience Canada for the interview just now about their work to enable conscientious objection to military taxation and for a broader peace agenda. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in December or early January!