In episode #132 of Talking Radical Radio (September 9, 2015), I speak with Christi Belcourt. She is a Metis artist and a member of the Onaman Collective, a small group of artists who work to catalyze the learning of Indigenous languages and traditional knowledge. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/16/trr_onaman_collective/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #131 of Talking Radical Radio (September 2, 2015), I speak with Cikiah Thomas. He is a longtime activist and the current chair of the Global African Congress, and he speaks with me about efforts to win reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and slavery itself -- particularly efforts taking place in the Canadian context. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/02/trr-reparations_for_slavery/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #130 of Talking Radical Radio (August 26, 2015), I speak with Andy Villanueva and Kerin Bethel-John. They are members of Project Slut, a collective of young women who set out to abolish the dress code in their high school and won, and who now have their sights set on transforming school dress codes across the entire Toronto District School Board. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/26/radio-project-slut-young-women-challenging-rap...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #129 of Talking Radical Radio (August 19, 2015), I speak with Hillary Lindsay and Omri Haiven. They speak with me about a project called the Tatamagouche Summer Free School, which brings together activists at the end of August each year to learn from each other and to recharge for a new season of involvement in struggles for social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/19/trr-tatamagouche_free_school/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #128 of Talking Radical Radio (August 12, 2015), I speak with Monique Woroniak and Liz Carlson. They are two participants in a small group of women from Winnipeg who have taken seriously the admonition that white settler folks must work with other white settler folks in pushing anti-racist and decolonizing politics. To that end they have, in tight consultation with diversely located Indigenous people in Winnipeg, produced a website to allow settlers who are questioning the received wi...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #127 of Talking Radical Radio (August 5, 2015), I speak with Irene Lanzinger. She is the president of the British Columbia Federation of Labour, which is spearheading the BC version of the Fight for $15 campaign to raise the minimum wage that is sweeping across North America. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/05/radio-fighting-for-a-15hr-minimum-wage-in-british-columbia/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #126 of Talking Radical Radio (July 29, 2015), I speak with Bonnie Heilman and Peter Garden. They are members of the Treaty 6 Justice Collective, a group that is attempting to address the urgent need in our communities for infrastructure to support organizing and activism. They began from a decade-old independent bookstore in Saksatoon, Saskatchewan, called Turning the Tide, and from that beginning they have launched an exciting new experiment called The Stand Community Organizing Cen...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #125 of Talking Radical Radio (July 22, 2015), I speak with Kyle Buott. He is the president of the Halifax-Dartmouth and District Labour Council and a member of Solidarity Halifax. He talks with me about a recent gathering: 14 anti-austerity and anti-capitalist groups from across the country were hosted by Solidarity Halifax at a Congress of the Radical Left, to discuss building relationships and possibilities for pluralist, non-sectarian collaboration in the struggle for transformati...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #124 of Talking Radical Radio (July 15, 2015), I speak with Aimee Louw and Charli Lessard. They are involved with the ACSEXE+ project, an initiative based in Montreal that works to create opportunities for disabled people to talk, share, and learn about sexuality and the wide spectrum of issues with which it intersects. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/15/radio-acsexe-talking-disability-and-sexuality-in-montreal/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #123 of Talking Radical Radio (July 8, 2015), I speak with Robyn Pitawanakwat and Andrew Loewen. They are members of Voices for Justice and Police Accountability, a group that formed this past January after a number of high-profile incidents involving police mistreatment of Indigenous people in Regina, Saskatchewan. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/08/trr-regina_policing/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #122 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Dr. Hasan Sheikh. He is a member of Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care, a group of physicians that has been mobilizing in response to the Conservative government's cruel 2012 cuts to health care for refugees. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/01/radio-physicians-mobilizing-in-defense-of-health-care-for-refugees/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #121 of Talking Radical Radio (June 24, 2015), I speak with Kim Holmes-Younger and Pam Rocker about the Human RITES Conference, a recent event in Calgary which brought together people from a variety of denominations and faiths to discuss the histories of LGBTQ people being excluded from and marginalized within organized religions, and also the important work happening in many faith contexts to move towards a diffent, more inclusive future. For a more detailed description of this episo...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #120 of Talking Radical Radio (June 17, 2015), I speak with Kevin Skerrett. He is a trade unionist and a member of the local Ottawa-based anti-austerity formation Solidarity Against Austerity. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/06/17/trr-solidarity_against_austerity/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #119 of Talking Radical Radio (June 10, 2015), I speak with Eddie Gardner of the Stó:lõ Nation and Dawn Morrison of the Secwepemc Nation about the recent Wild Salmon Caravan. In mid-May, it travelled from Prince George to Vancouver, building unity, relationships and strength among the peoples whose territories it passed through, in defence of wild salmon, water and Indigenous sovereignty. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/06/10/trr...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #118 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Chris Dixon. He is an author and a long-time activist. He speaks with me about his new book, *Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements* (UC Press, 2014), and about a new strand of radical politics emerging today in the midst of social movements and communities-in-struggle across North America. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/06/03/trr-another_politics/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Sandra Banfield and Mark Currie of the Save Bedford's Waterfront Society. They are committed to saving the natural shoreline in their community of Bedford, Nova Scotia, in the face of the powerful pressures of for-profit development.
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #116 of Talking Radical Radio (May 20, 2015), I speak with Ria Heynen, Jo Wood and Matthew Behrens. They are long-time peace and social justice activists in eastern Ontario, and they talk with me about an action taking place on May 27 in Ottawa to protest CANSEC, Canada's largest trade show for weapons systems and technologies of repression. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/05/20/trr-anti-cansec/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #115 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Joey Hartman, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council. She talks about the history of women in the labour movement and about the importance of people who are active in movements and communities learning, talking about, and doing grassroots historical work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/05/13/trr-women_labour_history/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #114 of Talking Radical Radio (May 6, 2015), I speak with Folami Jones, Matthew Byard, and Ben Sichel about the Working While Black in Nova Scotia project. It is a response to anti-Black racism in workplaces in the province, and it is organized around a website where people may anonymously share their experiences. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/05/06/radio-working-while-black-in-nova-scotia/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #113 of Talking Radical Radio (April 29, 2015), I speak with Rebecca Rose and Susan Wolfe of Friends of the Khyber about their efforts to preserve an important community and grassroots space in downtown Halifax, the historic Khyber Building. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/04/29/trr-friends_of_the_khyber/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #112 of Talking Radical Radio (April 22, 2015), I speak with Bhaskar Sunkara and Eden Haythornthwaite about one set of practices through which ideas for transformative social change get circulated – radical publishing (as with Sunkara's *Jacobin* magazine) done in relation with radical reading groups (as with Haythornthwaite's group in small-town British Columbia). For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/04/22/radio-ideas-on-the-move-rad...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #111 of Talking Radical Radio (April 15, 2015), I speak with Anna Liu and Patricia Chong. They are both long-time labour activists and members of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (ACLA), a network of Asian-Canadian labour and community activists with chapters in Ontario and British Columbia. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/04/15/radio-pro-worker-anti-racist-the-asian-canadian-labour-alliance/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #110 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with La Tanya Grant. She is the chair of Justice for Jermaine Carby, a committee that came together in the aftermath of the killing of her cousin by police in Brampton, Ontario, in September of 2014. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/04/08/trr-justice_for_jermaine_carby/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #109 of Talking Radical Radio (April 1, 2015), I speak with Wendy Goldsmith and David Heap of Londoners for Door to Door -- a group of residents of London, Ontario, who have been mounting an impressive grassroots, community-based campaign against the proposal by Canada Post to cut home delivery in their city and across the country. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/04/01/radio-grassroots-community-mobilization-against-the-canada-po...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #108 of Talking Radical Radio (March 25, 2015), I speak with Don Montgrand and Candyce Paul. They are grassroots Dene people living in northern Saskatchewan, and they talk with me about the Northern Dene Trappers Alliance and its efforts to defend the land and to defend the Dene people in the face of companies and governments pushing predatory resource extraction. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/03/25/trr-northern_dene_trappers/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
On episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Daniel Tseghay and Daniel Wexel about the Transportation not Deportation campaign. It aims, in the wake of a particularly tragic case, to make public transit in the Vancouver area a place of safety and sanctuary for people regardless of their immigration status. And recently, they won a significant victory on the road to that goal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/03/18/trr-transportation_not...
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
On episode #106 of Talking Radical Radio (March 11, 2015), I speak with Lorraine Hewlett, Shannon Moore, and Courtney Howard about their work with Fracking Action North, a coalition that is pushing for a moratorium on the extraction of oil and natural gas by horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," in the Northwest Territories.
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #105 of Talking Radical Radio (March 4, 2015), I speak with Kaitlyn Gibson and Ian McDonald. Both are undergraduate students at the University of Manitoba, as well as organizers in the campus' new Student Action Network, an organization that is at the centre of the fightback against administration attempts to make major cuts. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/03/04/trr-uofm_san/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #104 of Talking Radical Radio (February 25, 2015), I speak with Craig Langston and Tim Louis about the HandyDART Riders' Alliance, a two year-old organization that is mobilizing the riders of Vancouver's paratransit service in the face of declining service levels that are leaving more and more people stuck in their homes. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/02/25/trr-handydart_riders_alliance/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #103 of Talking Radical Radio (February 18, 2015), I speak with Étienne Lepage about UPop Montreal, a "popular university" that aims to create community-based spaces for ordinary people to engage in critical learning and dialogue about the world. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/02/18/trr-upop_montreal/
Feb 27, 2017•28 min
