In episode #221 of Talking Radical Radio (May 30, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Heather Jarvis, Alice, and Layla about the Safe Harbour Outreach Project (SHOP), an initiative supporting sex workers in Newfoundland and Labrador in their efforts to win full human and labour rights. For a more detailed description of the episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/05/30/trr-safe_harbour/
In episode #220 of Talking Radical Radio (May 23, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Skylee-Storm Hogan and Krista McCracken. Both work in the archives that are part of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, and they talk about both that work and the broader role that archives can play in struggles for social change. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/05/23/trr-archives_as_activism/
In episode #219 of Talking Radical Radio (May 16, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Monika Dutt and Jared Knoll. They talk about Upstream, an organization that is working to get ordinary people, health professionals, and governments thinking about how inequality, injustice, and other social factors shape our health, and to promote social policy that gets to the root causes of ill-health by addressing those factors. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2...
In episode #218 of Talking Radical Radio (May 9, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Stephen Harrison and Ashley Mollison of Victoria, British Columbia. Harrison has been documenting the increasing use of physical measures meant to displace poor and homeless people and Mollison is a community organizer in struggles against displacement. They talk about defensive architecture, about the increasingly aggressive displacement faced by poor and homeless people in downtown Victoria, and about some of what ...
In episode #217 of Talking Radical Radio (May 2, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Areum Kim and Amber Berson. They have been active in organizing participation in Canadian cities in the global Art and Feminism campaign. Art and Feminism is working, with particular reference to feminism and the arts, to challenge the huge gender gap among the people who contribute to Wikipedia and the skewed content that results from women being so significantly underrepresented. For a more detailed description of ...
This is a review of *Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism* by L.A. Kauffman. It was broadcast as part of the episode of the bookish show GET LIT on April 27, 2017, on 93.3 FM CFMU. For a written version of this review, go here: https://scottneigh.blogspot.com/2017/04/review-direct-action.html
In episode #216 of Talking Radical Radio (April 25, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Beth Alexander and Michelle Munk. They are teachers who are committed to raising questions of social justice, equity, and activism in their classrooms, and they speak about doing that hard work and about the Teaching for Justice Conference that they organized earlier in April. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/04/25/trr-teaching_for_justice/
In episode #215 of Talking Radical Radio (April 18, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Tammy and Alex about the work of the Hamilton Tenants Solidarity Network. Over the last year and a half, they have been bringing tenants together to fight for better living conditions in their buildings, and their goal is to build a movement of tenants that spans the entire city of Hamilton, Ontario -- including through the conference and tenants assembly they are holding later in April. For a more detailed descri...
In episode #214 of Talking Radical Radio (April 11, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jamie Kneen. He is the communications coordinator with MiningWatch Canada, an organization that supports communities in struggles, does research, and works to change policies and laws, all with the aim of challenging, reducing, and preventing the many harms caused around the world by the Canadian mining industry. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/04/11/trr-mini...
In episode #213 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Tings Chak. She is a migrant justice organizer, an artist, and a writer with training in architectural design. She talks about the graphic novel-style book *Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention*, which she wrote and illustrated. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/04/05/trr-undocumented/
In episode #212 of Talking Radical Radio (March 29, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Drew Moore and Tina Roberts-Jeffers. Moore is a teacher in Nova Scotia. Roberts-Jeffers is a mother of three small children. They talk about the unprecedent activity and engagement by both teachers and parents over the last couple of years in the face of an austerity-minded provincial government and in defence of a strong public education system. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talk...
In episode #211 of Talking Radical Radio (March 22, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jessica Chen and Jermaul Newell. They are students at York University in Toronto and are active with the campus chapter of the Fight for $15 and Fairness, which is working to raise the minimum wage, improve basic employment standards, and build solidarity between students and workers. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/03/22/trr-fight_for_15_york/
In episode #210 of Talking Radical Radio (March 15, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Bobbi Rose Koe and Chris Rider about the long collaboration between Indigenous nations and conservation groups to protect the Yukon's Peel watershed from industrial development. Along with a lengthy public information and advocacy campaign, in recent years Protect the Peel has also involved a court battle that will reach the Supreme Court of Canada on March 22. For a more detailed description of this episode, go h...
In episode #209 of Talking Radical Radio (March 8, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Julie Crooks. She is an independent curator, an instructor at the University of Toronto, and a co-founder of Black Artists' Networks Dialogue (BAND). She speaks about the recent photography exhibition No Justice, No Peace: From Ferguson to Toronto, and about photography as a tool for social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/03/08/trr-no_justice_no_peace/...
In episode #208 of Talking Radical Radio (March 1, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Delores Stevenson. Her niece, Nadine Machiskinic, died on January 10, 2015. Since that day, Stevenson and other members of the family have been pushing for a proper investigation and for some kind of justice -- in the last year, with the formal support of a coalition of groups and individuals called Justice for Nadine. Stevenson talks with me about Nadine, about the case, about the broader issue of missing and murd...
In episode #207 of Talking Radical Radio (February 22, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Walter Tull, a long-time militant anti-fascist who is currently based in Toronto. Tull speaks about the wave of anti-fascist activity that peaked in the 1980s and 1990s, about his current involvement in Antifa International and the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund, and about the need in our current moment for reinvigorated militant anti-fascism on the streets. For a more detailed description of this epis...
In episode #206 of Talking Radical Radio (February 15, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Kyturea Jones, Payton Ashe, and Donntayia Jones. They talk about the work of the North End Community Action Committee, a Black youth-led community group in Halifax's North End that came together around concerns about the gentrification of their neighbourhood and that has become involved in a wide range of issues focused on empowering both Black youth and the communities they live in. For a more detailed descrip...
In episode #205 of Talking Radical Radio (February 8, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Dmitri Vitaliev. He is a co-founder and director of eQualit.ie, a non-profit based in Montreal that helps human rights organizations and social movements -- including some of the world's most prominent -- deal with increasingly crucial questions of online security and digital privacy. He talks about his own history of contributions to human rights work as an IT professional, about the work of eQualit.ie, about t...
In episode #204 of Talking Radical Radio (February 1, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Meg Crane. She is a freelance writer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and she publishes a grassroots ecofeminist publication called Cockroach Zine. Crane talks about the trajectory of the zine, the work of publishing it, and the politics informing it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/02/01/radio-cockroach-zine-diy-feminist-publishing/
In episode #203 of Talking Radical Radio (January 25, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Lynn Gehl and Lindsay Lambert. Gehl is an Algonquin woman who holds a PhD in Indigenous Studies, and is a writer and activist. Lindsay Lambert is a white settler man, a historian, and also a writer. Both have been involved in the fight against the ongoing colonial development of the Chaudiere Falls and the three associated islands -- a sacred site to the Algonquin Anishinaabe people that is, in the year of Canad...
In episode #202 of Talking Radical Radio (January 18, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Susan Brigham and Cassandra McDonald. They are involved in organizing the Girls 2017 Conference, which will be happening in early March at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They speak with me about the challenges faced by girls and young women today, about the history and organizing of the annual Girls Conference, and about the exciting things that will be happening at Girls 2017. For a mor...
In episode #201 of Talking Radical Radio (January 11, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Mairi Anderson and Cam McMillan. They are members of Bus Riders of Saskatoon, an advocacy group made up of people who use public transit. They aim to make the transit system in their city "a viable transportation choice for all and a basic right of residency" and they talk about the group, the city, the transit system, and the work that they're doing to make it better. For a more detailed description of this epi...
In episode #200 of Talking Radical Radio (January 4, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Danielle Aubry and Joe McGuire. Aubry is the CEO of Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse and McGuire is a sexual assault educator with that organization. They talk about their work to engage men in the long, multi-faceted struggle to end sexual violence. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/01/04/trr-man_enough/
In episode #199 of Talking Radical Radio (December 21, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Herb Varley and Ivan Drury. They are organizers with the Alliance Against Displacement, a British Columbia group that is bringing together struggles across multiple low-income and Indigenous communities in the province, with the aim of helping them become stronger, less isolated, more able to support each other, and more firmly grounded politically. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http...
In episode #198 of Talking Radical Radio (December 14, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Mark Brown about the work of the Canadian chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). The CBTU brings together Black workers from across the labour movement and across the country to fight against racism and all of the other forms of oppression with which it intersects, both within the labour movement and in the broader society. They talk about some of the history of organizing within the labour m...
In episode #197 of Talking Radical Radio (December 7, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter and Liam O'Neill Gordon. They are involved in the Calgary School of Informal Education (CSIE), a new initiative that is creating opportunities for people to share skills and knowledge of all sorts in an inclusive, accessible, and affordable grassroots community setting with an orientation towards justice. Jade and Liam speak about the philosophy, the goals, and the nuts-and-bolts work o...
In episode #196 of Talking Radical Radio (November 30, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Alexis Shotwell and Gary Kinsman. They are involved in the AIDS Activist History Project, an initiative that is recovering the stories of the radical organizing that happened in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s in response to the AIDS crisis. They speak with me about the project, about the important work done by the AIDS movement in the Canadian context, and about what we can learn from this important piece of his...
In episode #195 of Talking Radical Radio (November 23, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Dwight Gordon. He is a member of Jane Finch Action Against Poverty, a group based in northwest Toronto that is active on anti-poverty issues and more. He speaks about the community, about the group, and about the many issues in which the group and its members are involved. For more detailed information about the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/30/trr-jfaap/
In episode #194 of Talking Radical Radio (November 16, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with producer and director David Lavallee about his new documentary film, *To the Ends of the Earth*, which explores the impacts of unconventional fossil fuels. Lavallee talks about his filmmaking process, about the challenges and opportunities offered by filmmaking as a medium for addressing complex social issues, and about the threat posed by extreme energy sources like the tar sands and fracking. For a more detai...
In episode #193 of Talking Radical Radio (November 9, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Helen Hudson and Sara Falconer. They are members of the collective that produces the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. The interview also includes supplmental audio material from Herman Bell, a former member of the Black Panther Party, a currently incarcerated political prisoner, and also a member of the Certain Days collective. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http...
