In episode #102 of Talking Radical Radio (February 11, 2015), I speak with Helen Luu and Ann Fitzpatrick about the Right to Housing Coalition and its combined legal and community strategy to win a positive right to housing in the Canadian context. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/02/11/trr-right_to_housing/
In episode #101 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Jen Sung, Andy Holmes, and David Ng about Love Intersections. It is a community and online project based in Vancouver that emerged out of the complex dynamics of identity and oppression during last year's updating of a local school board's LGBTQ anti-discrimination policy, and that aims to go beyond that beginning and use storytelling to explore complex intersections of identity, power, solidarity, and love. For a more detailed description o...
In episode #100 of Talking Radical Radio (January 28, 2015), I speak with Gurpreet Singh. He puts out a magazine called Radical Desi, a monthly alternative print publication based in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/01/28/trr-radical_desi/
In episode #99 of Talking Radical Radio (January 21, 2015), I speak with Lynn Gehl. She is an Algonquin Anishnabe woman who has, over the years, been involved in a range of struggles for survival and for social change. One way of thinking about what brings together those diverse elements for her is that they flow from the act of centring Indigenous ways of knowing, and acting accordingly. She talks about this with me. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradica...
In episode #98 of Talking Radical Radio (January 14, 2015), I speak with Donald Pratt and Peter Gose. They are members of Justice for Hassan Diab, the support committee that has been working to defend a wrongfully accused Ottawa academic who has been struggling against a Kafkaesque legal nightmare since 2008. Diab was extradited to France in November, but he and his support committee continue to fight. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/01/14/...
In episode #97 of Talking Radical Radio (January 7, 2015), I speak with Zoë Dodd and Peter Leslie, who are harm reduction workers and active members of the world's first union specifically for such workers: the Toronto Harm Reduction Workers Union. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/01/07/trr-harm_reduction_workers/
In episode #96 of Talking Radical Radio (December 31, 2014), I talk with David Diamond and David Ng of Theatre for Living about using theatre as a tool for change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/12/31/trr-theatre_for_living/
In episode #95 of Talking Radical Radio (December 24, 2014), I talk with organizer Yolen Bollo-Kamara about her experience in Toronto with the wave of organizing that has been sweeping North America in opposition to police violence and anti-Black racism. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/12/24/trr-black_lives_matter_toronto/
In episode #94 of Talking Radical Radio (December 17, 2014), I talk with Chris Ramsaroop and Melisa LaRue about a collaboration between Justicia for Migrant Workers and the Windsor Workers Education Centre. They are in the early stages of bringing migrant workers and Canadian workers together to talk about their commonalities and their differences, and to build solidarity in the face of shared experiences of predatory employers and precarious work. For a more detailed description of this episode...
In episode #93 of Talking Radical Radio, I talk with Joël Pedneault of the Red Hand Coalition, one of the main province-wide formations opposing austerity measures in Quebec, about the trajectory of resistance to those measures in recent years -- from before and through the student strike that brought down a government, to the lull in the year that followed, and into the resurgence that has just begun as a new Liberal government seeks once again to impose austerity on the province. For a more de...
In episode #92 of Talking Radical Radio (December 3, 2014), I talk with community organizer Kanahus Manuel of the Secwepemc Nation, on whose territory the massive Mount Polley mining disaster took place this past August. She talks about the grassroots struggle in response to the tailings pond spill, and the larger multi-front struggle to defend the land and to assert, defend, and strengthen the many Indigenous nations on the west coast. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: h...
In episode #91 of Talking Radical Radio (November 26, 2014), I talk with Glen Michalchuk, the chair of Peace Alliance Winnipeg, a broad-based anti-war and peace organization, about the long-term challenge of opposing war and militarism in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/11/26/trr-peace_alliance_winnipeg/
In episode #90 of Talking Radical Radio, I talk with Robert Massoud about Beit Zatoun, a cultural centre and grassroots space in Toronto. It emerged from a project focused on supporting Palestine to become a multi-issue space, hub, and infrastructural node used by many grassroots initiatives focued on many different issues -- while still constantly returning to the importance of Palestinian struggle. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/11/19/tr...
In episode #89 of Talking Radical Radio (November 12, 2014), I talk with Martha Roberts. She is a midwife, an educator, and a community organizer, and was one of the founders of the Alliance for People's Health, a collective of health workers, grassroots organizers, and community members committed to understanding the links between health and social justice, and to building the struggle for health for all. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/11...
In episode #88 of Talking Radical Radio (November 5, 2014), I talk with Rosalind Hampton of Community-University Talks about their work to centre the the many different experiences, needs, and strengths of Black communities in creating dialogue and collaboration among Black students, scholars, and communities in Montreal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here:http://talkingradical.ca/2014/11/05/trr-c_uni_t/
In episode of Talking Radical Radio, TJ Travis talks about The Bloomfield House, an unfunded, grassroots, and highly successful revitalization and community empowerment project inspired by the Occupy movement that is making a major impact in the marginalized Sandwich Town neighbourhood of Windsor, Ontario. For a more detailed description of this episode, look here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/10/29/trr-bloomfield_house/
In episode #86 of Talking Radical Radio (October 22, 2014), Beth Dollaga talks about the work of the Mining Justice Alliance, a Vancouver-based coalition with a global analysis that works to oppose the harms caused by Canadian extractive industries. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/10/22/trr-mining_justice_alliance/
In episode #85 of Talking Radical Radio (October 15, 2014), Ingrid Waldron and Lorne Julien talk about the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health -- or ENRICH -- Project, which aims to understand the health impacts of environemtnal racism on African Nova Scotian and Mi'qmak communities, and to support their struggles against it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/10/22/trr-enrich_project/
In episode #84 of Talking Radical Radio (October 8, 2014), Teresa Maillie and Kevin Allen talk about their efforts to unearth the histories of queer lives and struggles in Calgary, and why that history matters for the future. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/10/22/trr-calgary_gay_history_project/
In episode #83 of Talking Radical Radio (October 1, 2014), Kathleen Pye talks about the rapid formation and growth of the group Reproductive Justice New Brunswick, and their success in putting access to abortion on the agenda in the province's recent provincial election in a way that has not happened in many years, if ever. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/10/22/trr-repro_justice_nb/
In episode #82 of Talking Radical Radio (September 24, 2014), anti-poverty organizer and sociologist Lesley Wood talks about her new book, *Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing* from Between The Lines Books. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/trr-protest_policing/
In episode #81 of Talking Radical Radio (September 17, 2014), Cathy Edwards, the executive director of Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS), talks about the work her organization is doing to bring about a new era for community media in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/trr-cactus/
In episode #80 of Talking Radical Radio (September 10, 2014), Hugh Lampkin talks about efforts in Vancouver among users of illicit drugs to mobilize in the service of social justice and harm reduction. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/trr-vandu/
In episode #79 of Talking Radical Radio (September 3, 2014), Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven talk about their work in Halifax to understand the role of radical imagination in struggles for social justice, and to use that understanding to support movements in the city. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/radio-exploring-the-radical-imagination-in-halifax/
In episode #78 of Talking Radical Radio (August 27, 2014), organizers Tiffany Balducci and Jim Freeman talk about We Are Oshawa, a new organization working on multiple social justice issues in a small Ontario city. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/27/trr-we_are_oshawa/
In episode #77 of Talking Radical Radio (August 20, 2014), climate justice organizers Aurore Fauret and Lily Schwarzbaum talk about "La marche des Peuples pour la Terre Mère," a month-long walk across Quebec that connected urban radicals with activists in communities under threat from proposed tar sands pipelines. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/20/trr-marche_terre_mere/
In episode #76 of Talking Radical Radio (August 13, 2014), organizers Sakura Saunders and Greg Macdougall talk about the Peoples' Social Forum. It will be the first pan-Canadian/Quebec/Indigenous convergence of movements and communities-in-struggle to draw people from across the northern half of Turtle Island, and it is happening in Ottawa from August 21 to 24, 2014. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/13/radio-the-peoples-social-forum-a-pan...
In episode #75 of Talking Radical Radio (August 6, 2014), Samira Kanji and Azeezah Kanji talk about the work of the Noor Cultural Centre in support of a vision of social justice grounded in Islamic teachings. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/06/trr-noor_cultural_centre/
In episode #74 of Talking Radical Radio (July 30, 2014), Jana-Rae Yerxa and Damien Lee talk about the work of the Biskaabiiyang Collective in the face of both longstanding and recently intensified racism and settler colonialism in Thunder Bay. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/30/trr-tbay_racism_settler_colonialism/
In episode #73 of Talking Radical Radio (July 23, 2014), Carol Wodak and Noel Somerville talk about the Seniors Action and Liason Team, or SALT, a grassroots group of older adults in Edmonton that organizes around seniors' issues and around social justice issues more broadly. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/30/trr-salt_edmonton/
