In episode #192 of Talking Radical Radio (November 2, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Ardath Whynacht and Dee Morse. Both are on the board of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project (NSRAP), the only province-wide group fighting for queer and trans rights in Nova Scotia. They talk with me about NSRAP's work, about pinkwashing and the fight against it in Halifax, and about how NSRAP hopes to move forward from here with its commitment to political work centred on practical wins for the most marginal...
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #191 of Talking Radical Radio (October 26, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Dyna Tuytel and Barry Robinson. The two are staff lawyers in the Calgary office of Ecojustice, a Canada-wide environmental law charity that is committed to improving the environment through law. The organization as a whole has represented environmental organizations in many key struggles in the last two and a half decades, and Tuytel and Robinson in particular have mostly worked on cases seeking to challenge the...
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #190 of Talking Radical Radio (October 19, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Basia Sokal and Arlyn Doran. They are letter carriers and activists in the Winnipeg local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), and they talk about how they mobilized with other rank-and-file workers over the last year to act up and speak out at the depot where they work, as their union engaged in a very tough round of negotiations with Canada Post at the national level. For a more detailed description...
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #189 of Talking Radical Radio (October 12, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Helen Knott. She is a member of Prophet River First Nation, a mother, a writer, and a social worker, and she has been deeply involved at the grassroots level in the opposition to the Site C hydroelectric dam project. She speaks with me about the dam project, the land and people that it will harm, and the resistance that has taken place so far. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talk...
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #188 of Talking Radical Radio (October 5, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Sarah Hipworth and Luke Stewart about *Let Them Stay*, a new book that brings together the voices of U.S. soldiers who have sought sanctuary in Canada in opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- with a look at the history of the struggle to let them remain here. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/10/05/trr-let_them_stay/
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #187 of Talking Radical Radio (September 28, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Gabriel Allahdua, a migrant farmworker and one of the organizers of the month-long Harvesting Freedom caravan. As the caravan approaches Ottawa, where it will present its demands for justice for migrant farmworkers to the federal government, we look back at the journey, the issues, and the struggle. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/28/trr-harvesting_fre...
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #186 of Talking Radical Radio (September 21, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Rebecca Thomas. She is a Mi'kmaq woman, an activist, and a poet, and she is also the first Indigenous person to be the poet laureate of the Halifax Regional Municipality. Thomas speaks about poetry, activism, and the relationship between them, and performs her poems "Pennies" and "Redface." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/21/trr-rebecca_thomas/
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #185 of Talking Radical Radio (September 14, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Steve Stewart. He is the technical secretary for the Initiative for Democratic Education in the Americas, also known as the IDEA Network, which brings together organizations from across the hemisphere that are committed to defending and enhancing public education. He talks about the ongoing, hemisphere-wide threats to public education, and about the work of the IDEA Network to support struggles to defend it. F...
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #184 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Stefan Kipfer and Herman Rosenfeld. They are active with Free Transit Toronto, an activist network focused on a long-term vision of high quality and completely free public transit, as well as on supporting short-term organizing that seeks winnable immediate reforms that move in that direction. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/07/trr-free_transit_toronto/
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #183 of Talking Radical Radio (August 31, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Florence Stratton and Ed Lehman. They are both long-time peace and social justice activists, and they speak about the work of PeaceQuest Regina to build a culture of peace in high schools and in the community at large. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/31/trr-peacequest_regina/
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #182 of Talking Radical Radio (August 24, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Mary Shortall, Jim Dinn, and Sara Langer. They are all members of Common Front NL, a broad coalition that has formed to oppose the drastic austerity measures being implemented by the provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/24/trr-common_front_nl/
Mar 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #181 of Talking Radical Radio (August 17, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Rachel and Eric. They are members of End the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC), a group organizing in Kingston, Ontario -- the city with the highest density of federal correctional facilities of any community in Canada -- for the abolition of prisons. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/17/trr-kingston_epic/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #180 of Talking Radical Radio (August 10, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Laith Marouf and Kristiana Clemens. They are involved with the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), a new organization focused on advocacy in and for the community radio and television sectors, particularly with respect to access and equity for marginalized communities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/10/trr-cmac/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #179 of Talking Radical Radio (August 3, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with William Felepchuk and Brian McDougall. They are members of Stop Windmill: Student and Labour Allies for Akikodjiwan, a group that aims to bring predominantly non-Indigenous people together in support of Algonquin demands that a sacred site in the Ottawa river be protected from a proposed condominium development and returned to Algonquin ownership and stewardship. For a more detailed description of this episode, go...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #178 of Talking Radical Radio (July 27, 2016), I speak with Adam Cormier and Lliam Hildebrand. They are co-founders of Iron and Earth, an organization of and for workers in the Alberta oilsands who are pushing for greater support for the development of renewable energy resources and for a sustainable energy future for Canada. They talk with me about working in the oil and gas sector, about climate change, about the work of Iron and Earth, and about why they and many other oilsands wor...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #177 of Talking Radical Radio (July 20, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Tameera Mohamed. Last year, she and some of her friends became frustrated with the narrow and limited scope of mainstream (including mainstream feminist) politics focused on the body. In response, they founded the collective Our Resilient Bodies to bring a radical, intersectional, feminist lens to bear and to expand the range of conversations and actions happening related to body positivity (broadly understood) in ...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #176 of Talking Radical Radio (July 13, 2016), I speak with Kimbra Yohannes and Daniel Tseghay. They are members of We Welcome African Refugees, a new organization working to challenge the marginalization of refugees from African countries in public conversation and public policy in Canada, and to implement a new model of community organizing. They speak with me about the experiences of refugees from Eritrea and other African countries, about the marginalization of African refugees wi...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #175 of Talking Radical Radio (July 6, 2016), I speak with York University labour historian Craig Heron about his multiple award-winning book *Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers' City* (Between the Lines, 2015), and about what movements today can gain from paying attention to the past. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/07/06/trr-lunchbucket_lives/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #174 of Talking Radical Radio (June 29, 2016), I speak with Jessica Barry and Nicole Collins. They are members of Smash Patriarchy: An Action Team (or SPAAT), a feminist group that has been part of a broader resurgence in feminist action over the last year in St. John's, Newfoundland. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/29/radio-smashing-the-patriarchy-in-newfoundland/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #173 of Talking Radical Radio (June 22, 2016), I speak with Edith Machattie and Jen Kuhl of the BC Health Coalition. They talk with me about the coalition's work to defend and improve public healthcare, including their intervention in opposition to the legal challenge that could be the single gravest threat that the system currently faces. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/22/trr-bc_health_coalition/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #172 of Talking Radical Radio (June 15, 2016), I speak with Sofia Soriano and David Camfield. They are members of a new group called Solidarity Winnipeg, which aims to build grassroots momentum in the face of the newly intensified austerity agenda in the province of Manitoba. They speak with me about the peculiar political context of their province, about the work of Solidarity Winnipeg so far, and about the ongoing experiment of becoming a new kind of grassroots, multi-issue, non-sec...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #171 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Wendy Pederson about her work with the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative, a group that is organizing tenants in single-room occupancy (or SRO) hotels in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/08/trr-dtes_sro_collaborative/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #170 of Talking Radical Radio (June 1, 2016), I speak with Bianca Mugyenyi and Martin Lukacs about being part of the team of people who has been working hard to turn the inspiring words of the Leap Manifesto into grassroots political power on the ground. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/01/trr-leap_manifesto/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #169 of Talking Radical Radio (May 25, 2016), I speak with Su Deranger and Robyn Pitawanakwat about the Colonialism No More camp taking place outside of the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) building in Regina, Saskatchewan. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/05/25/radio-colonialism-no-more/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #168 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Andrew Cash. He was a member of Parliament from 2011 to 2015, and he is a co-founder of the Urban Worker Project. He talks with me about his own experiences of precarious work in the arts and culture sector, about the importance of doing more to protect and support workers in a radically changed world of work, and about the Urban Worker Project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/05/18/trr...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #167 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Jackie McVicar. She is a member of the Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), which brings together groups and individuals from across the Maritimes who are interested in working in solidarity with the peoples of Latin and Central America. She alks with me about ARSN, about Canadian complicity in global injustice (particularly when it comes to extractive industries), and about the challenges of international solidarity. For a more deta...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #166 of Talking Radical Radio (May 4, 2016), I speak with Erin Crickett, the public education coordinator at the Sexual Assault Centre Hamilton and Area (SACHA). She devised the #IBelieveSurvivors and #WeBelieveSurvivors hashtag campaign that took off across Canada on the day of the verdict from the first trial of Jian Ghomeshi, and she talks with me about supporting survivors and challenging rape culture. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #165 of Talking Radical Radio (April 27, 2016), I speak with Evelyn Encalada of Justice for Migrant Workers and multiple award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee. They talk about the experiences and struggles of migrant agricultural workers in Canada, and about the new feature-length documentary *Migrant Dreams*. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/27/trr-migrant_dreams/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #164 of Talking Radical Radio (April 20, 2016), I speak with Ann Divine and Pastor Lennett Anderson about the racial profiling that Black people and other racialized people often experience in stores -- both in general, and about the specific case of Andrella David -- and what one community is doing to try to make things different. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/20/trr-consumer_racial_profiling/
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #163 of Talking Radical Radio (April 13, 2016), I speak with Sarah Sultani and Katia Stuart-Gagnon. They are members of the organizing collective that is bringing the World Social Forum – the largest gathering of civil society and social movements on the planet – to Montreal from August 9 to 14, 2016. They speak with me about the WSF and about the process of bringing it to Montreal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/13/trr-wsf_2...
Feb 28, 2017•28 min
