In episode #482 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Gladys Rowe, Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, and Liz Carlson-Manathara about the Stories of Decolonization film project. They talk about the role that story and film can play in larger processes of decolonization and about their many years of work on the project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/02/radio-story-and-film-as-tools-for-decolonization/
Aug 02, 2022•28 min
In episode #481 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh. They are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers who are challenging the exploitation and mistreatment that their members face using protest, mutual support, and collective direct action. They talk about how they directly confront the employers, landlords, immigration consultants, and other people who exploit them, and why that is such an ...
Jul 26, 2022•28 min
In episode #480 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sean Holman, a journalism professor at the University of Victoria and a principle investigator for the Climate Disaster Project. They talk about the shifts in journalism's social role in our current political moment, about the news media's response to the climate crisis so far, and about the new model for covering it that is being developed as part of the Climate Disaster Project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go...
Jul 19, 2022•28 min
In episode #479 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Beatriz Oliver and Aabir Dey of SeedChange, an organization based in Canada that supports farmers here and around the world in working for a more just, sustainable, and environmentally sound future. They talk about the food system as it exists today, the vision embedded in the work of SeedChange, and what they are doing to realize it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/12/rad...
Jul 12, 2022•28 min
In episode #478 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews James Barbeiro and Jen of Rent Strike Bargain, a province-wide campaign in British Columbia that is fighting for the right of tenants to collectively bargain with landlords, and that is also active in supporting the recent upsurge in local organizing by tenants. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/05/radio-fighting-for-collective-bargaining-rights-for-tenants/
Jul 05, 2022•28 min
In episode #477 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Steve September. Born into the struggle against South African apartheid -- his family fled the country when he was a child to avoid arrest as part of a government crackdown on African National Congress activists, and soon they were busily organizing a base for anti-apartheid activity in Canada -- September today is the chair of a group called the Anti-Racism Coalition (ARC) Vancouver. He talks about the work of ARC Vancouver and ab...
Jun 28, 2022•28 min
In episode #476 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Riley Nielson-Baker and Felix Vandergrift of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia, a grassroots, community-based policy process to address issues of gender-affirming care and access to health care for trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people in Nova Scotia. They talk about the process, the policy, and the work they have been doing to make it all happen. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here:
Jun 21, 2022•28 min
In episode #475 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jordan Westfall. He is co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply, an organization that aims to reduce the immense harms of the overdose crisis by pushing for an increase in people's access to a drug supply that is legal, regulated, and safe. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/14/radio-confronting-the-overdose-crisis-demanding-a-safe-supply/
Jun 14, 2022•28 min
In episode #474 of Talking Radical Radio, I interview Lisa Hari and Rosemary Brown. They are active with We're Together Ending Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group in Calgary. We talk about what poverty looks like in their city, about the group's evolution over the years, and about their work to bring people together to build shared understandings and collective action. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/07/radio-against-poverty-in-cal...
Jun 07, 2022•28 min
In episode #473 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd. They are active with the Toronto Workers' History Project, an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. They talk about the enthusiasm they have found in the community for working-class history, the many facets of the project's work, and the importance of history for social movements today. For a more detailed description of this episode,...
May 31, 2022•28 min
In episode #472 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Krista Wylie. She is a parent in Toronto and a co-founder of the Fix Our Schools campaign. They talk about the $16.8 billion repair backlog in Ontario schools and about Wylie's years of campaigning to get the provincial government to take seriously the impact that has on students, teachers, and other education workers, and to invest adequately in school repair and renewal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: h...
May 24, 2022•28 min
In episode #471 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sally Lane and Matthew Behrens. Lane is the mother of Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen who has been detained for more than five years in northeastern Syria in conditions akin to torture. Behrens is a long-time activist and a member of Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture. They talk about Jack's case and about the campaign to push the Canadian government to finally take action to bring him, and the 40+ other Canadian Muslims detained ...
May 17, 2022•28 min
In episode #470 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte. She is part of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik, a grassroots group in Saskatoon that has been working for many years on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/10/radio-long-years-of-grassroots-work-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/
May 10, 2022•28 min
In episode #469 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Nina Newington. She is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, a forest defence action whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to prevent the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. They talk about the practicalities of taking this kind of direct action, about the broader struggle to defend forests in Nova Scotia, and about the Last Hope Camp. For a ...
May 03, 2022•28 min
In episode #468 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson. They are teachers in British Columbia and members of the BC Teachers Federation, and they have been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. They talk about the BCTF Divest Now campaign and about their recent success in getting their union to pass a motion in favour of divestment. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/20...
Apr 26, 2022•28 min
In episode #467 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Angella MacEwen and Alex Silas. They are union and community activists in Ottawa, and members of Community Solidarity Ottawa, a coalition of unions, community organizations, and residents that came together during the recent convoy occupation of their city's downtown to give voice to grassroots opposition to the convoy, its far-right organizers, and its harmful tactics, while also demanding that governments do more to support worki...
Apr 19, 2022•28 min
In episode #466 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Manuel Salamanca Cardona. He is an activist with the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) and the Temporary Agency Workers Association (TAWA) in Montreal. They talk about the struggles faced by workers employed by temp agencies, and about the work of TAWA. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/04/12/radio-temp-agency-workers-getting-organized/
Apr 12, 2022•28 min
In episode #465 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Abby Stadnyk and Ellie Ade Kur. They speak about their own abolitionist politics and organizing, and about *Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada* (Between the Lines, 2022), a new book collection bringing together pieces by organizers and scholars writing in the context of the constellation of efforts to defund and abolish the police in Canada over the last two years. For a more detailed description of this episode, ...
Apr 05, 2022•28 min
In episode #464 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sakura Saunders and Rachel Small. They are, respectively, a board member and the Canada organizer for World Beyond War, a decentralized global network with the goal not just of opposing the war of the day but of abolishing the institution of war. They talk about the organization's work globally and in Canada, about their war abolitionist politics, and about what their members and supporters have been doing to demand peace in Ukrain...
Mar 29, 2022•28 min
In episode #463 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sarah Switzer, Andrea Vela Alarcón, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez, and Casey Burkholder. They all have long histories of involvement in a range of community-based work, and they are also researchers in academic and professional settings. They speak today about Beyond the Toolkit, a research project in which they worked with people involved in community facilitation, community arts, community-based participatory research, and related w...
Mar 22, 2022•28 min
In episode #462 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jesse Cardinal. She is a Métis woman who lives in Treaty 6 territory and the executive director of Keepers of the Water, an Indigenous-led organization with a mission of protecting the water in the Arctic drainage basin. She talks about the threat to the water posed by the Alberta tar sands and other resource extraction, and about the organization's work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradi...
Mar 15, 2022•28 min
In episode #461 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emma Clark and Hayley Bryant. They are grade 12 students at Western Canada High School in Calgary, Alberta. They talk about doing feminist organizing at their school as part of a group called the Committee on the Status of Women and Girls (CSWAG). For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/03/08/radio-feminist-organizing-by-high-school-students/
Mar 08, 2022•28 min
In episode #460 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews April Thomas. She is a land defender and member of the Secwépemc Nation, from the Canim Lake Band in the central interior of what is colonially known as British Columbia. She talks about the trajectory of her work defending the land, about grassroots opposition to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project, and about the ongoing court battle in the wake of the arrest of land defenders at the Secwépemc Unity Camp. For a...
Mar 01, 2022•28 min
In episode #459 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Hanen Nanaa. She is, among other things, the director of the BAM Collective. The acronym “BAM” stands for “Books Art Music,” and the group is a youth-led collective based in Ontario that seeks to empower equity-seeking groups through community engagement and the arts. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/02/22/radio-talking-politics-arts-and-social-justice-with-bipoc-youth/
Feb 22, 2022•28 min
In episode #458 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Brie Villeneuve and Piper Lockhart, both of whom are high school students in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are also core organizers of Manitoba Students for COVID Safety, a student-led group advocating for safer schools in light of inadequate action from the Manitoba provincial government to keep educators, staff, and students safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about the pandemic, about the problems with the Manitoba governmen...
Feb 15, 2022•28 min
In episode #457 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Martha Paynter and Frédérique Chabot. Paynter is a registered nurse, a researcher, an activist, and the founder of an organization called Wellness Within, which works for reproductive justice, health equity, and prison abolition. Chabot is the director of health promotion at Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, an organization that does public education, health promotion, and advocacy in Canada and globally. In the context o...
Feb 08, 2022•28 min
In episode #456 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews David Alton and William Turman, who are members of a multi-issue group in southern Ontario called GroundUp Waterloo Region. They talk about their commitment to what they call "messy activism" and about the group's work supporting other grassroots groups, filling community gaps, building grassroots infrastructure, and holding politicians to account. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here:
Feb 01, 2022•28 min
In episode #455 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Anna Badillo and David Heap. They are members of People for Peace, a local grassroots peace group in the city of London in southwestern Ontario. They talk about the group's two decades of action on a wide range of issues, and in particular about their work opposing the manufacture in a London plant of the light-armoured vehicles (LAVs) being sold to Saudi Arabia in the largest arms deal in Canadian history. For a more detailed desc...
Jan 25, 2022•28 min
In episode #454 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Joe Curnow, a professor in the faculty of education at the University of Manitoba, a long-time community organizer, and a member of the organizing and communications team for the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA). They talk about UMFA's recent strike, in which an organizing orientation allowed the union to accomplish quite a lot despite very challenging circumstances, and about the lessons it holds for other public ...
Jan 18, 2022•29 min
In episode #453 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews a member of Canadians for Peace and Justice in Kashmir, a group of Canadians -- some of whom have ties to the region, some of whom do not -- committed to working in this country towards a just peace in Kashmir. They talk about the history of the conflict and about the work of the CPJK. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/01/11/radio-working-in-canada-for-a-just-peace-in-kashmir/
Jan 11, 2022•28 min
