In episode #72 of Talking Radical Radio (July 16, 2014), Arabella Colombier and another member of Demilitarize McGill talk about the past and present of student organizing to get military research off the campus of McGill University in Montreal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/30/trr-demilitarize_mcgill/
In episode #71 of Talking Radical Radio (July 9, 2014), organizers Christine Bro and Doug Nesbitt talk about the "Justice for Janitors" campaign in Ottawa. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/09/trr-j4j_ottawa/
In episode #70 of Talking Radical Radio (July 2, 2014), Tanya Andrusieczko talks about her process of dreaming up the first feminist summer camp in Saskatoon, and then working to make it a reality this year. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/09/trr-feminist_summer_camp/
In episode #69 of Talking Radical Radio (June 25, 2014), organizer and author Dru Oja Jay talks about how the pressures to address important issues via funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can be a barrier to the kinds of organizing and collective empowerment that will be necessary to truly address those issues. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/09/trr-ngoization/
In episode #68 of Talking Radical Radio, Vanessa Gray talks about taking action against toxic colonialism. She is a 21 year-old university student from Aamjiwnaang First Nation in southwestern Ontario, located near the city of Sarnia and what is colloquially referred to as Chemical Valley. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/06/18/trr-aamjiwnaang/
In episode #66 of Talking Radical Radio (June 4, 2014), Ken Crush, Cathy Holtslander and Lyle Orchard talk about how residents have mobilized to oppose the plans by Fortune Minerals to build an ore processing plant on agricultural land between Langham and Dalmeny, Saskatchewan.
In episode #67 of Talking Radical Radio (June 11, 2014), Stefan Christoff talks about the work with multiple cultural and artistic forms by the Howl! Arts Collective in Montreal as part of broader movements for radical social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/06/18/trr-howl_arts/
In episode #65 of Talking Radical Radio (May 28, 2014), Jean Swanson and Phoenix talk about their work against the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/06/03/trr-vancouver_gentrification/
In episode #64 of Talking Radical Radio (May 21, 2014), organizer Jude Ashburn talks about several aspects of recent radical queer and trans organizing in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For a more detailed description of this show, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/05/21/trr-halifax_queer_trans/
In episode #63 of Talking Radical Radio (May 14, 2014), climate scientist Paul Beckwith talks about his research as well as about his efforts to push beyond the usual role expected of scientists and engage directly with the public on scientific questions related to cliamte change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/05/21/trr-paul_beckwith/
In episode #62 of Talking Radical Radio (May 7, 2014), we look at migrant justice organizing in Canada as an inspiring example of how struggles against injustices in the lives of individuals can be integrated into -- and, indeed, can be the basic building blocks for -- broader struggles for systemic change. Deepan Budlakoti talks about his own struggle against an injustice imposed by the Canadian state, and Syed Hussan talks about a number of other examples and about the question more broadly ba...
In episode #61 of Talking Radical Radio (April 30, 2014), Sonia Singh of the Toronto Workers Action Centre and Anthony Tambureno of the Peel Regional Labour Council talk about the province-wide campaign by community groups, workers centres, unions, faith organizations, and more that has worked for the last year to get the Ontario government to boost the minimum wage to a living wage of $14/hr. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/30/radio-the...
In episode #60 of Talking Radical Radio (April 23, 2014), co-directors Valerie Smith and Jarem Sawatsky talk about the work of the Canadian School of Peacebuilding to support students, professional peace workers, and ordinary people in developing skills and knowledge for the work of making the world more peaceful and just. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/23/trr-school_of_peacebuilding/
In episode #59 of Talking Radical Radio (April 16, 2014), Zoe Blunt talks about the multifaceted organizing work by the Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network (VIC FAN) against colonial, profit-driven development. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/23/trr-vic_fan/
In episode #58 of Talking Radical Radio (April 9, 2014), Parker Mah talks about *Being Chinese in Quebec*, a documentary film by Malcolm Guy and William Dere that explores "the younger generation of Sino-Quebecois and their struggles of identity, integration and building a life for themselves in this province," and how the long history of people of Chinese origin navigating exclusion and racism in Canada and Quebec plays out in the lives of young Chinese Quebeckers today. For a more detailed des...
In episode #57 of Talking Radical Radio (April 2, 2014), Donald Altman talks about the work that he and other members of the grassroots Alliance for Affordable Co-operative Housing (AACH) have done to defend the ability of non-profit housing co-operatives (and other forms of not-for-profit housing) to offer rent-geared-to-income units and to try to prevent a significant erosion of Canada's already vastly inadequate social housing stock. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: h...
In episode #56 of Talking Radical Radio (Marc 26, 2014), Anna Willats and Sean Lee-Popham talk about the Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund, which is an attempt to address the lack of grassroots funding infrastructure for movement-related groups, projects, and organizations in Ontario. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-groundswell_fund/
In episode #55 of Talking Radical Radio (March 19, 2014), Roger Annis talks about the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group and their commitment to the idea that thinking deeply about how capitalism works must be central to challenging the harm it does to workers and the harm it does to the planet. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-vancouver_ecosocialist/
In episode #54 of Talking Radical Radio (March 12, 2014), Saira Chhibber talks about Local 1281 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), and about a long but recently ended lockout experienced by some of their members. For a more detailed but description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-cupe_1281/
In episode #53 of Talking Radical Radio, Caitlin Craven and Josee Oliphant talk about the organizing that went into winning a unanimous city council vote in Hamilton, Ontario, that declared it the second 'sanctuary city' in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-hamilton_sanctuary_city/
In episode #52 of Talking Radical Radio, Lyn Adamson, Dewan Afzal, and Rita Bijons talk about Climatefast, a group that uses fasting as a form of witness to call people to action on climate change, with the vision of contributing to a broader movement. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/02/26/trr-climatefast/
Episode #51 of Talking Radical Radio (February 12, 2014) is the second of two based on an interview with Miles Howe. Howe is an editor and a journalist with the Halifax local of The Media Co-op, a co-operatively organized grassroots media network with locals and working groups in cities across the country. Over the last year, Howe has provided truly excellent coverage of the struggle against hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and against colonization in New Brunswick, which has been lead by peop...
In both this episode of Talking Radical Radio -- episode #50, from February 5, 2013 -- and the following one, I will be speaking with Miles Howe. Howe is an editor and a journalist with the Halifax local of The Media Co-op, a co-operatively organized grassroots media network with locals and working groups in cities across the country. Over the last year, Howe has provided truly excellent coverage of the struggle against hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and against colonization in New Brunswick...
In episode #49 of Talking Radical Radio (January 29, 2014), Paul Tsuma and Aimee Louw talk about Accessibilize Montreal, a new grassroots group working to challenge and change the many ways their city is currently inaccessible and ableist. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/02/09/trr-accessibilize_montreal/
In episode #47 of Talking Radical Radio (January 15, 2014), Jennifer West and Catherine Abreu talk about their work with a provincial coalition that opposes hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Nova Scotia. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/22/trr-nofra/
In episode #48 of Talking Radical Radio (January 22, 2014), Syvlia McFadden and Carla Bergman talk about their work with The Purple Thistle Centre, a youth-run community centre for arts and activism in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/22/trr-purple_thistle/
In episode #46 of Talking Radical Radio (January 8, 2014), Scott Price talks about his work with the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg and with Local 832 of the United Food and Commercial Workers unearthing histories of working-class (including working-class feminist) struggles. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/08/trr-oh_labour_feminism_manitob/
In episode #45 of Talking Radical Radio (January 1, 2014), Audrey Huntley of the No More Silence network and Krysta Williams of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network speak about organizing against the violence experienced by indigenous women and about a new project in which they are partnered that will contribute to building that movement. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/08/trr-huntley_and_williams/
In episode #44 Talking Radical Radio (December 25, 2013), lead organizer Scott Jackson of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) District 78, talks about how his union, historically based in large manufacturing workplaces, has responded to changing times by refocusing its organizing energies on smaller and non-traditional workplaces. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/08/trr-iamaw_district_78/
In episode #43 of Talking Radical Radio (December 18, 2013), environmental activist Kevin O'Reilly talks about his work on mining and resource extraction issues in the Northwest Territories. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/12/18/trr-alternatives_north_mining/
