In episode #308 of Talking Radical Radio (February 19, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews John Clarke, an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) from its founding in 1990 until his retirement in late January. They talk about Clarke's long involvement in radical grassroots politics, particularly in OCAP, and about the challenges that social movements face today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/02/19/trr-john_clarke/
Feb 19, 2019•28 min
In episode #307 of Talking Radical Radio (February 12, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews Mike Reynolds of Everyday Girl Dad and Frédérique Chabot of Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights about this year's Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week. The campaign's theme is "sexual health at all ages," and they talk about sex-positive parenting and its connection to gender, sexual, and social justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/02/12...
Feb 12, 2019•28 min
In episode #306 of Talking Radical Radio (February 5, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews pediatric emergency physician and long-time grassroots activist Samir Shaheen-Hussain. They talk about the #aHand2Hold campaign, which won a victory against medical colonialism in Quebec in 2018. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/02/05/trr-hand_to_hold/
Feb 05, 2019•28 min
In episode #305 of Talking Radical Radio (January 29, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews community activist LaMeia Reddick and scholar Ted Rutland. They talk about the long histories of anti-Black racism in the policies and practices that have built the greater Halifax area and the equally long histories of survival and resistance by Black communities there, and about what those histories mean for today and for the future. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradica...
Jan 29, 2019•28 min
In episode #304 of Talking Radical Radio (January 22, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews Cindy Blackstock -- a member of the Gitksan First Nation, a social worker, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, and the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She is also the most visible face of the long-term effort to get the Canadian government to end the ongoing injustice in its treatment of First Nations children. They talk about the pervasive underfunding...
Jan 22, 2019•28 min
In episode #303 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Natalie Drolet. She is the executive director of the Migrant Workers' Centre BC (MWC), a non-profit organization that provides free legal assistance to migrant workers in British Columbia, and engages in public legal education and policy advocacy. They talk about the work of the MWC to challenge the injustices that migrant workers in Canada face under current immigration and labour policies. For a more detailed description of the e...
Jan 15, 2019•28 min
In episode #302 of Talking Radical Radio (January 8, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews Geraldine McManus. She is a Two-Spirit Dakota woman of the Bear Clan who is the driving force behind the Spirit of the Buffalo Camp, a prayer camp in rural Manitoba in opposition to Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands pipeline. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/01/08/trr-spirit_of_the_buffalo/
Jan 08, 2019•28 min
In episode #301 of Talking Radical Radio (January 1, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews Alison Clancey and Jessi Taylor of SWAN Vancouver, a sex worker support organization based among migrant and immigrant women who do indoor sex work. They talk about the organization, its advocacy work, and its efforts to create spaces for migrant and immigrant sex workers to tell their own stories about their lives. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/01/02/trr-s...
Jan 01, 2019•28 min
This is a rebroadcast of episode #279 of Talking Radical Radio (originally broadcast on July 17, 2018). In it, Scott Neigh interviews El Jones, a poet, educator, and organizer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and that city's former poet laureate. She is deeply involved in working for justice for prisoners through a combined prisoner-led radio show and community organization called Black Power Hour. They talk about the fight against the injustices of policing and prisons, and about the importance o...
Dec 25, 2018•28 min
In episode #300 of Talking Radical Radio (December 18, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Marilyn Keddy and Peter Puxley. They are long-time activists who are currently involved in the Campaign to Protect Offshore Nova Scotia. They talk about CPONS' work to defend the province's fisheries and communities from the dangers of offshore oil and gas development, and about the importance of holding a full public inquiry into the potential impacts of such development. For a more detailed description of this...
Dec 18, 2018•28 min
In episode #299 of Talking Radical Radio (December 11, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Tim McSorley, a former co-ordinator of the Voices-Voix coalition and a current member of its strategy group. They talk about the work of Voices to monitor and document the ways in which space for democratic dissent, debate, advocacy, meaningful participation, and protest has been systematically eroded, initially under the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, but more recently under Justin Tr...
Dec 11, 2018•28 min
In episode #298 of Talking Radical Radio (December 4, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Terri Monture, a Mohawk woman from Six Nations of the Grand River who lives in Toronto. They talk about Indigenous Land Defence Across Borders, a project that is working from an Indigenous feminist perspective to engage in solidarity exchanges in which Indigenous people from North America and Palestinians visit each other's territories, learn about each other's struggles, and build relationships. For a more detai...
Dec 04, 2018•28 min
In episode #297 of Talking Radical Radio (November 27, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Alana Cattapan. She is an assistant professor of public policy at the University of Saskatchewan, and she is part of the organizing committee of Rise Up!, a digital archive of feminist activism in Canada between the 1970s and the 1990s. They talk about the importance of preserving social movement histories, about remembering Canadian feminist struggles, and about the work of Rise Up! For a more detailed descript...
Nov 27, 2018•28 min
In episode #296 of Talking Radical Radio (November 20, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Julius Arscott -- a public sector worker and an active member of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, currently serving as a member for the Toronto region on its executive board. Arscott is also a co-founder of the Workers Action Movement (WAM), which brings rank and file militants from different unions together to push for changes in direction in the movement. Neigh and Arscott speak about grassroots lef...
Nov 20, 2018•28 min
In episode #295 of Talking Radical Radio (November 13, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Isabelle Leblanc. She is a family physician in Montreal and the president of Médecins québécois pour le régime public (MQRP), which translates to Quebec Doctors for Medicare. They talk about the importance of the public health care system and about the work of MQRP to defend and improve it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/11/13/trr-mqrp/
Nov 13, 2018•28 min
In episode #294 of Talking Radical Radio (November 6, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Shira Taylor and Lauren Chang. Taylor is a graduate student in public health at University of Toronto, and the creator and director of Sex Education by Theatre (SExT). Lauren Chang is a cast member of SExT, and she sometimes raps under the name "Ms. G." They talk about their approach to sex ed, about theatre for social change, and about the ongoing work of SExT. For a more detailed description of this episode, go...
Nov 06, 2018•28 min
In episode #293 of Talking Radical Radio (October 30, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews long-time community organizer, independent journalist, and hockey fan Aaron Lakoff. They talk about Lakoff's new podcast, Changing On The Fly, which explores the intersections of hockey and social justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2018/10/30/trr-hockey_and_social_justice/
Oct 30, 2018•28 min
In episode #292 of Talking Radical Radio (October 23, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Luke Stewart. Back in 2010, Stewart was one of the many grassroots activists and organizers who took to the streets of Toronto in opposition to the G8 and G20 meetings being hosted that year by Canada. He was also one of the many people who directly experienced the now infamously bad behaviour on the part of the police during the protests. Neigh and Stewart talk about the summit protests and about Stewart's ongoi...
Oct 23, 2018•28 min
In episode #291 of Talking Radical Radio (October 16, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Dan Scratch and Renee Vaugeois. Scratch is a high school teacher in Edmonton with over a decade of experience of incorporating concern for social justice and human rights into his teaching practice. Vaugeois is the executive director of the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights. They talk about the RAD Educator Network, a new Alberta-based network of classroom teachers and other educators who are commit...
Oct 16, 2018•28 min
In episode #290 of Talking Radical Radio (October 9, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Patty Krawec and Karl Dockstader. Krawec is an Anishinaabe woman with roots in Lac Seul First Nation in northern Ontario. Dockstader is an Oneida man of the Bear Clan, and his family is from the Oneida Nation of the Thames. Both grew up and live in the Niagara Region of southern Ontario. They talk about the many shapes that grassroots work can take in urban Indigenous contexts, and particularly about the many ways...
Oct 09, 2018•28 min
In episode #289 of Talking Radical Radio (October 2, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Robyn Maynard. She is a Black feminist writer and long-time anti-authoritarian organizer who has been active in movements around racial profiling, police violence, migrant justice, sex worker rights, and harm reduction, mostly in Montreal. Since the publication of her book *Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present* (Fernwood Publishing, 2017), she has been doing launch events and ...
Oct 02, 2018•28 min
In episode #288 of Talking Radical Radio (September 25, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews long-time organizers Amanda Wilson and Dan Sawyer of the Punch Up Collective. In recent years, Wilson and Sawyer have found that many people they talk to want ways to get together with others to work for social change, but in our disconnected, fragmented, neoliberal age have few options to do so. They believe that one possibility that could work for almost anyone is to get together with a handful of other peopl...
Sep 25, 2018•28 min
In episode #287 of Talking Radical Radio (September 18, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Indygo Arscott. Arscott is a grade eleven student attending an arts-focused high school in Toronto. They are gender nonbinary. They are Ojibwe, of the Marten Clan. And they are one of the instigators of the We The Students Do Not Consent day of action, happening on September 21st (or, for those for whom that is a PA day, on September 20th). On that day, students from schools across the province are invited to w...
Sep 18, 2018•28 min
In episode #286 of Talking Radical Radio (September 11, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Farrah Khan and Shannon Giannitsopoulou. They are Toronto-based feminists and co-founders of the grassroots organization Femifesto. They talk about Femifesto's work to transform rape culture to consent culture, particularly Use the Right Words: Media Reporting on Sexual Violence in Canada, a free guide for journalists that provides language and frameworks to report on sexual violence in ways that do not normali...
Sep 11, 2018•28 min
In episode #285 of Talking Radical Radio (September 4, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Annelies Cooper, Gita Madan, Craig Fortier, and Robyn Letson. All of them are involved, in one way or another, in grassroots activism and organizing, and they all also play softball in a league that seeks to bring the values of movements fighting for justice and liberation to the world of recreational sports. They talk about the barriers and problems faced by many people in mainstream recreational sports culture...
Sep 04, 2018•28 min
In episode #284 of Talking Radical Radio (August 28, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Evan Balgord, the executive director of a new organization called the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. They engage in investigative journalism focused on white supremacist, white nationalist, far right, violently misogynist, anti-Muslim, or otherwise overtly hateful groups. They aim to supply information in a strategic way to anti-racist community groups, media, and law enforcement as part of multi-pronged campaigns to...
Aug 28, 2018•28 min
In episode #283 of Talking Radical Radio (August 21, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Amara Possian and Jodie Tonita. Both of them have connections, of various sorts, with social change work oriented towards building movements in both Canada and the United States. Both have experience with grassroots organizing on the ground, and both are now involved in contributing to movements in ways that are a step or two back from the frontlines and instead focus more on strategic thinking, long-term work, an...
Aug 21, 2018•28 min
This week's episode of Talking Radical Radio is a re-broadcast of episode #257, which was originally broadcast in February 2018. In it, Scott Neigh speaks with Joyce Fossella and Val Joseph. Fossella is from the Lillooet Nation. Joseph is from the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation. Both work as part of the Warriors Against Violence Society, an organization in Vancouver that responds to gender-based violence using a holistic approach that is grounded in Indigenous cultures and in the context of the ongoing re...
Aug 14, 2018•28 min
In episode #282 of Talking Radical Radio (August 7, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews Ralph Jean-Paul of Winnipeg and Travis Ross of Montreal about the Canada-Haiti Information Project, founded almost a decade and a half ago as the Canada-Haiti Action Network. They talk about events in Haiti, about Canada's complicity in injustice there, and about the past and present of action in Canada in solidarity with popular struggles in Haiti. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://t...
Aug 07, 2018•28 min
In episode #281 of Talking Radical Radio (July 31, 2018), Scott Neigh interviews filmmaker and community activist Kai Reimer-Watts. Reimer-Watts' first feature-length documentary is *Beyond Crisis*, "a meditative call to action that explores what it means to be living in this new era of climate change, as told by over fifty diverse voices from across Canada, the U.S. and beyond." They talk about climate change, about the film, and about building the kinds of collective responses to climate chang...
Jul 31, 2018•28 min
