In episode #162 of Talking Radical Radio (April 6, 2016), I speak with Candida Hadley, Susanne Marshall, and Andrea Smith about the Halifax Motherhood Collective. They are working to develop grassroots feminist understandings of motherhood and to provide opportunities for mothers to come together, share their experiences, and imagine new ways for mothering (and for other aspects of the work of caring and social reproduction) to happen in our society. For a more detailed description of this episo...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #161 of Talking Radical Radio (March 30, 2016), I speak with Myeengun Henry, a band councillor for Chippewas of the Thames First Nation in southern Ontario. He talks about his nation's legal challenge to the Line 9 tar sands pipeline. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/03/30/trr-line_9_court_challenge/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #160 of Talking Radical Radio (March 23, 2016), I speak with Deb Cameron Fawkes and Deborah Littman about their involvement in the Metro Vancouver Alliance, a coalition of more than 50 community-based, faith-based, labour, and academic organizations in Vancouver that has been enacting campaigns around public transit, affordable housing, poverty, and social inclusion. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/03/23/trr-metro_vancouver_allia...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #159 of Talking Radical Radio (March 16, 2016), I speak with Reid Lodge and Mable Wheeler. They are members of Fredericton Gender Minorities, which aims to support trans people, to create spaces for mutual aid and support, and to engage in educational community outreach; and of TransAction NB, a smaller group with a more explicitly activist orientation that engages directly and politically with questions of government policy, barriers to health care and services, and more. For a more ...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #158 of Talking Radical Radio (March 9, 2016), I speak with Zohar Chamberlain Regev, Shabnam Mayet, and Wendy Goldsmith about the Women's Boat to Gaza, an initiative under the auspices of the international Freedom Flotilla Coalition that seeks to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip and highlight the contributions of women to all facets of struggle. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/03/23/trr-womens_boat_to_gaza/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #157 of Talking Radical Radio (March 2, 2016), I speak with Marietta Wildt and Nicole Holland. They are involved in Trade School Halifax, an initiative devoted to creating opportunities for free grassroots learning, skill-building, and knowledge-sharing. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/03/02/radio-grassroots-skill-building-and-knowledge-sharing-in-halifax/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #156 of Talking Radical Radio (February 24, 2016), I speak with Jamie Swift and Judi Wyatt. They are members of the Kingston, Ontario, group PeaceQuest, which first came together in 2012 to work against militarism and for a more peaceful and just society. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/02/24/trr-peacequest/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #155 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with James Favel, Jesse Leigh, and Larry Morrissette about the Bear Clan, an Indigenous approach to community safety and wellbeing in the north end of Winnipeg. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/02/17/trr-bear_clan/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #154 of Talking Radical Radio (February 10, 2016), I speak with Akua Benjamin and Rinaldo Walcott. They are prominent activists and scholars, and founders of the Anti-Black Racism Network in Toronto. They talk with me about anti-Black racism, about the struggle against carding and other aspects of the Anti-Black Racism Network's work, about histories of resistance in Toronto, and about an upcoming conference. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradi...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #153 of Talking Radical Radio (February 3, 2016), I speak with Helen Lenskyj and Liisa Schofield. They are members of Queer Trans Community Defence, a group of queer and trans people in Toronto's Downtown East neighbourhood organizing against a new LGBTQ-focused sports and recreation centre that they say contributes to the broader urgent threat that gentrification poses to their community. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/02/03/tr...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #152 of Talking Radical Radio (January 27, 2016), I speak with Deena Ladd and Winnie Mah. They are both active in the Fight for $15 and Fairness, an Ontario-wide initiative that is mobilizing low-wage workers to win an increase in the minimum wage while at the same time pushing the provincial government to address the complex web of other indignities facing low-wage, part-time, temporary, and precarious workers that a wage increase alone would not fix. For a more detailed description ...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #151 of Talking Radical Radio (January 20, 2016), I speak with Aziz Choudry, a long-time activist, a scholar of social movements, and the author of the new book *Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements*. He talks with me about his own involvement in activism and organizing, about his new book, and about the ways in which teaching, learning, research, and the production of new ideas are woven tightly through the everyday activities of social movements....
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #150 of Talking Radical Radio (January 13, 2016), I speak with Letizia Waddington and Scott Neufeld. They are members of Streams of Justice, a small, highly active, multi-issue social justice group in Vancouver with roots in the Christian faith. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/01/13/radio-seeds-of-a-radical-christian-left/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #149 of Talking Radical Radio (January 6, 2016), I speak with Andrew Nellis. He is involved in the Street Labourers of Windsor (SLOW), a union for panhandlers, buskers, scrappers, security guards, and anyone else who makes all or part of their income by working on the street. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/01/06/trr-street_labourers_of_windsor/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #148 of Talking Radical Radio (December 30, 2015), I speak with Kaely Cormack and Hayley Muir. They have been involved in Calgary's music scene in one way or another for quite some time, in the last few years as members of a punk band, and they are also co-founders of Femme Wave: A Feminist Arts Festival. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/12/30/trr-femme_wave/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #147 of Talking Radical Radio (December 23, 2015), I speak with Cicely-Belle Blain. She is a fourth year student at the University of British Columbia, and she was one of the organizers behind a recent event on that campus that was part of the current wave of activity by Black students and their allies at universities across North America. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/12/23/radio-organizing-against-racism-and-anti-blackness-on...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #146 of Talking Radical Radio (December 16, 2015), I speak with Sean Howard and Sandra Barr. They are members of Friends of Green Cove, a group that formed to protect land in a national park on Cape Breton Island from the threat posed by "Mother Canada" -- a proposed war memorial that many critics see as unnecessary, tacky, and very poorly located. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/12/16/trr-friends_of_green_cove/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #145 of Talking Radical Radio (December 9, 2015), I speak with Tzazná Miranda Leal. She is a long-time organizer with migrant workers, and she has been centrally involved in the recent founding of this country's first-ever national coalition of migrant worker organizations: the Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/12/09/trr-migrant_worker_coalition/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #144 of Talking Radical Radio (December 2, 2015), I speak with Lenard Monkman. He is part of a collective of Indigenous youth in Winnipeg who recently started publishing a new magazine called Red Rising. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/12/02/trr-red_rising_magazine/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #143 of Talking Radical Radio (November 25, 2015), I speak with Sarah St. John and Omar Chu. They are organizers with the Vancouver-based migrant justice group Sanctuary Health, which began as an effort to respond to cuts to health care for refugees but quickly extended its mandate to include challenging all manner of barriers that migrants face in accessing services and resources. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/25/radio-dism...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #142 of Talking Radical Radio (November 18, 2015), I speak with Émilie Joly. She is a community orgnizer with FRAPRU, or Le Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain, and she talks with me about their long history of research, writing, and street-level mobilization around issues of concern to low-income tenants. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/18/radio-the-long-fight-in-quebec-for-adequate-affordable-housing-for-all/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #141 of Talking Radical Radio (November 11, 2015), I speak with Stefan Christoff. He is both a long-time organizer in a range of grassroots movements in Montreal as well as a musician, mostly a pianist. He sees strong connections between the movements in which he is active and music, including music that does not carry its politics in words, and today he explains those connections. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/11/trr-christ...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #140 of Talking Radical Radio (November 4, 2015), I speak with Datejie Green and Chris Webb. They are members of the Ali Mustafa Memorial Collective, which works to commemorate the life of Toronto grassroots journalist and radical organizer Ali Mustafa while supporting young people in carrying forward similar work today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/04/trr-remembering_ali_mustafa/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #139 of Talking Radical Radio (October 28, 2015), I speak with Clayton Thomas-Muller. He is the campaign director of the Global Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign, a member of the Puktawagan Cree First Nation, and the "stop it at the source" campaigner for 350.org. He is also one of the organizers putting together an action that will use civil disobedience to bring a strong message to incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau -- yes, the one elected by a campaign whose co-chair had to quit be...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #138 of Talking Radical Radio (October 21, 2015), I speak with Candyce Paul. She is a member of the Committee for Future Generations, a group that formed in northern Saskatchewan to oppose efforts to locate a radioactive waste storage facility in the region. Earlier this year, they won that battle, and they have moved their focus to the impacts of existing uranium mines and of the many mining exploration claims blanketing (and disrupting) the area. For a more detailed description of t...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #137 of Talking Radical Radio (October 14, 2015), I speak with Wendy Goldsmith and Dru Oja Jay. They work at Friends of Public Services, a very new organization that is mobilizing people during the election campaign to fight against cuts, the threat of privatization, and attacks on home delivery at Canada Post, and is developing a longer-term vision to defend and enhance public services more generally. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #136 of Talking Radical Radio (October 7, 2015), I speak with Alicia Owen and Sheryl Jarvis. They are moms with lived experience and a critical analysis of the child welfare system. They are also members of Community Action for Families, a group focused on providing direct support to moms navigating the system and on challenging the harm that it does to families. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/10/21/trr-community_action_for_fami...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #135 of Talking Radical Radio (September 30, 2015), I speak with Dr. Baj Mukhopadhyay. He is a physician and a core activist in the Canadian chapter of the People's Health Movement. They mobilize around a health justice perspective, and work to bring that sort of analysis to bear in a range of social movement struggles, including fights against extractive industries and organizing that responds to the harms caused by colonialism. For a more detailed description of this episode, go her...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #134 of Talking Radical Radio (September 23, 2015), I speak with Steve Baird. He is a member of the Education Across Borders collective, which has been fighting for the last several years in Montreal to win unimpeded access to basic education in Quebec for children without immigration status in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/23/radio-fighting-for-access-to-education-for-undocumented-migrants-in-montreal/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #133 of Talking Radical Radio (September 16, 2015), I speak with Mia Sopapilla and Jordan House. They are education workers, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and organizers of the Working For Each Other, Working For Ourselves summit, a gathering for radical worker-organizers in Toronto. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/16/trr-working_for_each_other/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
