This week's episode of Talking Radical Radio ends the year with a rebroadcast of an episode originally broadcast in July 2017. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at the bold Reoccupation that went to the very heart of the Canadian settler colonial project -- Parliament Hill itself -- and used ceremony to challenge and unsettle Canada's 150th anniversary celebrations. Freddy Stoneypoint, Summer-Harmony Twenish, Trycia Bazinet, Hamda Deria, and Elsa Hoover were among the organizers of and particip...
Dec 26, 2017•29 min
In episode #250 of Talking Radical Radio (December 19, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Karen Ahmed and Zamir Khan. Each of them has a child whose name is identical to a name that appears on Canada's no-fly list, and who therefore face hassles and stigmatizing scrutiny every time they fly. Karen and Zamir are also core members of the group No Fly List Kids, which is pushing the government to make the changes necessary to stop the no-fly list system from unjustly interfering in so many lives. For a ...
Dec 19, 2017•28 min
In episode #249 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Samantha from the organization Courage. In recent years, the combining of movement and party politics have had a profound impact on the electoral landscapes in the US and the UK, and Courage is working to similarly push mainstream party politics to the left in Canada. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/12/12/trr-courage/
Dec 12, 2017•28 min
In episode #248 of Talking Radical Radio (December 5, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Jade Cooligan Pang. She is an undergraduate student taking Political Science and Human Rights at Carleton University in Ottawa, and she is one of the central organizers of Our Turn, a new national student-based initiative to work against sexual violence on college and university campuses. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/12/05/trr-our_turn/
Dec 05, 2017•28 min
In episode #247 of Talking Radical Radio (November 28, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Jasmine Thomas. She was a core participant in the Rooster Town Blockade at the Parker Wetlands in Winnipeg this past summer, which for two months successfully defended an ecologically sensitive site in the south end of the city from development. Though the occupation ended in September, the group continues to pursue both legal and political means to stop the development, while also fundraising to cover the costs...
Nov 28, 2017•28 min
In episode #246 of Talking Radical Radio (November 21, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Helen and Bill. Helen is a long-time anti-authoritarian organizer and a member of the collective that produces the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. Bill is a migrant justice organizer with the group Solidarity Across Borders. Both are based in Montreal. They talk about the 2018 Certain Days calendar's theme of "Awakening Resistance" and about what a range of movements in Canada can learn a...
Nov 21, 2017•28 min
In episode #245 of Talking Radical Radio (November 14, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Navjeet Sidhu and Scott MacDonald. They are board members of the Canadian Labour International Film Festival, an event that brings films about work, workers, and working-class struggle to cities and towns across the country every November. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/11/14/trr-labour_filmfest/
Nov 14, 2017•28 min
In episode #244 of Talking Radical Radio (November 7, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Kelly Morrissey and Emily Philpott about the work of the Ontario Muskrat Solidarity Committee. They are building support in Ontario and elsewhere in the country for the mostly-Indigenous land protectors in Labrador who oppose the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam project. For a more detailed description of the episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/11/07/trr-ontario_muskrat_solidarity/
Nov 07, 2017•28 min
In epoisode #243 of Talking Radical Radio (October 31, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Sang-Hun Mun and Hannah Alexander. They are members of Injured Workers Action for Justice, a group of injured workers who are pushing to change the workers' compensation system in Ontario so that it starts to actually meet the needs of injured workers, particularly when it comes to healthcare. For a more detailed description of the episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/31/trr-injured_workers_action...
Oct 31, 2017•28 min
In episode #242 of Talking Radical Radio (October 24, 2017), Scott Neigh interviews Lynne Gouliquer, Carmen Poulin, and Gary Kinsman. They are all members of the We Demand An Apology Network, which since 2015 has been putting pressure on the federal government to formally apologize and provide redress for the purge campaigns that targeted LGBTQ people in the public service and military in Canada over several decades, ruining thousands of careers and lives. For a more detailed description of this...
Oct 24, 2017•28 min
In episode #241 of Talking Radical Radio (October 17, 2017), you will hear about Omar Ben Ali's fight for immigration status in Canada, about a new campaign from the group Tadamon in support of that fight, and about how Omar's struggle relates to the broader Palestinian struggle. For a more detailed description of the episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/17/trr-omar_and_tadamon/
Oct 17, 2017•28 min
In episode #240 of Talking Radical Radio (October 10, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Brennain Lloyd. She is part of the Know Nuclear Waste project, which works to support individuals, groups, and communities as they respond to the dangers posed by the nuclear industry’s efforts to put high-level radioactive waste near where they live. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/10/trr-know_nuclear_waste/
Oct 10, 2017•28 min
In episode #239 of Talking Radical Radio (October 3, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Alexa Potashnik. She is the founder of Black Space Winnipeg, a group that works to create spaces that are unapologetically pro-Black and Afrocentric, while also acting in solidarity with other oppressed groups, and challenging anti-Black racism and building inclusivity across all sectors within Winnipeg. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/03/trr-black_space_...
Oct 03, 2017•28 min
In episode #238 of Talking Radical Radio (September 26, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Paul Gilbert and Margo Bok. They are involved in the BC Disability Caucus, a group whose work has spanned the range from online education and discussion to mobilizing people into the streets to get disability issues on the public agenda in British Columbia. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/09/26/trr-bc_disability_caucus/
Sep 26, 2017•28 min
In episode #237 of Talking Radical Radio (September 19, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Emily Spanton, Taylor Telford, and Rose McCormick. They are involved in Save Thundering Waters Forest, a campaign that has done everything from lobbying politicians to a week-long land occupation this past August in its efforts to save a wetland in Niagara Falls from being turned into luxury housing. For a more detailed description of this episode: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/09/19/trr-save_thundering_waters...
Sep 19, 2017•28 min
In episode #236 of Talking Radical Radio (September 12, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Mirtha Rivera and Emily Eaton. Both were active with the Regina Access Without Fear campaign, which demanded that the city of Regina adopt a policy enabling all residents to access city services without fear of repercussions related to their immigration status – an initiative that required rather a different approach than similar campaigns have often taken in larger cities. For a more detailed description of t...
Sep 12, 2017•28 min
In episode #235 of Talking Radical Radio (September 5, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Michele Decottignie and Olivia Marie Golosky. Both are involved in the performing arts in Calgary, Alberta. Discrimination and inequities pushed them both from their involvement in mainstream contexts in the arts sector. Both have taken up the radical theatre practice of “theatre of the oppressed.” And both are now, through Stage Left Productions and through the Calgary Congress for Equity and Diversity in the ...
Sep 05, 2017•28 min
In episode #234 of Talking Radical Radio (August 29, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Lynne Courchene-Allard and Jean-Paul Allard. They are parents in Ottawa, Ontario, who have taken up the fight against racist logos, mascots, and team names, most recently by filing a human rights complaint against the Ontario Ministry of Education seeking a ban on such logos in the province’s schools. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/29/trr-racist_logos/
Aug 29, 2017•28 min
In episode #233 of Talking Radical Radio (August 22, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jean Swanson and Aiden Sisler. Swanson, who has been a participant in struggles for social justice in Vancouver for decades, is running for a seat on city council. She’s doing so at the urging of a network of mostly young activists and organizers, including Sisler. Their goal is to mobilize grassroots movement energies to pry open space in the municipal political landscape to start addressing fundamental social i...
Aug 22, 2017•28 min
In episode #232 of Talking Radical Radio (August 15, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Lama El-Hanan, Rachele Gottardi, and Maverick Smith. They are involved in the Toronto Research Action and Community Exchange (TRACX), an initiative to connect students interested in doing grassroots social justice-focused research with community organizations who need research done. They also organize an annual symposium, which this year will focus on the research needed to support efforts to counter the rise of ...
Aug 15, 2017•28 min
In episode #231 of Talking Radical Radio (August 8, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Dorian Jesse Fraser. Fraser is part of the Queer Between the Covers collective, which maintains a distro of hard-to-find queer and trans print media and organizes an annual book and zine fair in Montreal – one of the largest queer book fairs in North America. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/08/trr-qbtc/
Aug 08, 2017•28 min
In episode #230 of Talking Radical Radio (August 1, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Julia Smith and Sean Carleton of the Graphic History Collective. They talk about the group's decade of work with comics as a means to tell histories of marginalized people and of struggles for justice, and about their current Remember Resist Redraw poster project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/01/trr-remember_resist_redraw/
Aug 01, 2017•28 min
In episode #229 of Talking Radical Radio (July 25, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Cory Weir and Mike Mutimer. They are rank-and-file auto workers in Oshawa, Ontario, and they are among the founding members of the Unifor Solidarity Network, a new network of rank-and-file workers within Canada's largest private sector union. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/25/radio-a-new-rank…ate-sector-union/
Jul 25, 2017•28 min
Episode #228 of Talking Radical Radio (July 18, 2017) offers a behind-the-scenes look at the bold Reoccupation that went to the very heart of the Canadian settler colonial project -- Parliament Hill itself -- and used ceremony to challenge and unsettle Canada's 150th anniversary celebrations. Freddy Stoneypoint, Summer-Harmony Twenish, Trycia Bazinet, Hamda Deria, and Elsa Hoover were among the organizers of and participants in the Reoccupation ceremony, and they talk about their experiences on ...
Jul 18, 2017•28 min
In episode #227 of Talking Radical Radio (July 11, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Teghan Barton of the Hillside Music Festival, happening from July 14 to 16 in Guelph, Ontario. They talk about the relationship between music and struggles for social justice and about this year's decision by the festival to highlite music of protest and resistance at a moment that calls for as much of both of those things as we can muster. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingrad...
Jul 11, 2017•28 min
In episode #226 of Talking Radical Radio (July 4, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Holly Andersen and Rudy Reimer. They live on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia and are part of a growing group of residents opposing the expansion of the nearby storage facility, or "tank farm," that marks the BC terminus of the widely opposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/04/trr-burnaby_mountain_resident...
Jul 04, 2017•28 min
In episode #225 of Talking Radical Radio (June 27, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Sandeep Prasad and Frédérique Chabot. They work for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, an organization that is active on a wide range of issues connected to sexuality, gender, and reproduction, both in Canada and globally. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/27/trr-action_canada/
Jun 27, 2017•28 min
In episode #224 of Talking Radical Radio (June 20, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jennifer Hefler-Elson. She is a member of the Labrador Land Protectors, a grassroots group opposed to the hydroelectric dam megaproject being built at Muskrat Falls. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/20/trr-labrador_land_protectors/
Jun 20, 2017•28 min
In episode #223 of Talking Radical Radio (June 13, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Rabea Murtaza. She is a member of East Enders Against Racism, a neighbourhood-based anti-racism group in Toronto that came together in the wake of a blatant white supremacist incident after last November's presidential election in the US. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/14/trr-east_enders_against_racism/
Jun 13, 2017•28 min
In episode #222 of Talking Radical Radio (June 6, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with JoAnn Jaffe and Peter Garden. They are fighting back against the massive wave of cuts to social programs and privatization initiated earlier this year by the provincial government in Saskwatchewan. They belong to Stop the Cuts, a group working to support the many individual fightbacks against individual cuts and to help them come together into a broader movement. For a more detailed description of the episode, go he...
Jun 06, 2017•27 min
