Peter Gibbs is a co-director of the social movement capacity-building organization Organize BC. Scott Neigh talks with him about Organize BC’s use of training, coaching, and community-building to build the skills of organizers working for social and environmental justice in western Canada. Depending on the details of a given collective struggle, and on the community …
Sequel to Son of a Trickster. Jared’s coming-of-age journey continues, now in Vancouver and with a focus on holding tight to his sobriety while doing his best to refuse the supernatural side of the world that he stumbled into at the end of the first book. As with book one, the writing was great and …
Alyse Stuart is an organizer with the Canadian Federation of Students. Keith Dunne is the campaigns and communication coordinator with the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees. Both are active with the Fight for $15 and Fairness – Newfoundland and Labrador, and they speak with Scott Neigh about how that campaign is …
Just finished talking to Peter from Organize BC about the training, coaching, and community building they do to help build the capacity of progressive organizations and movements in western Canada. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
Estelle Davis is one of the co-founders of Taking What We Need, a grassroots solidarity fund created by and for trans women in Montreal. It provides material support to trans women in the face of the many exclusions, barriers, and costs that they experience. Scott Neigh interviews Davis about the limits of the politics of …
Last year or the year before, I stumbled across the fact that the rural southern Ontario township in which I lived until I was 18 had been the site of a major Black settlement in the mid-19th century. I had no idea, and I suspect the vast majority of people who live there have no …
David Lester is a Vancouver-based musician and graphic artist whose work has been woven through with radical politics since he started out in the 1970s. Musically, he is best known as half of the rock duo Mecca Normal, while graphically he has been involved for decades in the creation of everything from pamphlets to posters …
I’ve done two interviews for Talking Radical Radio this week. On Wednesday, I talked to Alyse and Keith of the Fight for $15 and Fairness minimum wage campaign in Newfoundland and Labrador. And just now I talked to Estelle, who is part of a group called Taking What We Need, a solidarity fund by and for trans …
A collection of essays by a white US American feminist. The collection begins from her own horrific experiences of gendered and sexual violence (about which she has previously published a memoir), and then moves into essays on what might be described as areas of complicity and of collectively experienced harm. Contains a number of quite …
Tammy Mast and Kenneth Aliu are residents of the Herongate neighbourhood in Ottawa and active members of the Herongate Tenant Coalition. Scott Neigh interviews them about the coalition’s ongoing work to fight mass evictions, chronic disrepair, rent increases, and gentrification in a neighbourhood containing one of the largest clusters in the country of rental housing …