In episode #366 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Joan Kuyek. She has been involved for decades in struggles related to mining, including serving as the first national co-ordinator of MiningWatch Canada from 1999 to 2008. They talk about her lifetime of activism and organizing, and about her new book, *Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community from the Mining Industry*. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/04/14/trr-joan_k...
Apr 14, 2020•28 min
In episode #365 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Ryan Andersen. He is the lead organizer of the Calgary Alliance for the Common Good, a coalition that brings together around 30 faith groups, union locals, and community organizations representing about 35,000 people to organize, advocate, and mobilize for a more just and compassionate vision for their city. They talk about the organization, about its slow and steady approach to community organizing, and about the victories it has ...
Apr 07, 2020•28 min
In episode #364 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Justin Kong of the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter. They talk about organizing workers and building worker power in Chinese grocery stores and beyond, and about what that looks like now in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/03/31/trr-chinese_grocery_workers/
Mar 31, 2020•28 min
In episode #363 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sharon Fortney. She is the Curator of Indigenous Collections and Engagement at the Museum of Vancouver. She talks about the complicated colonial history of museums and about the Acts of Resistance exhibit, which features the massive banners designed by Indigenous artists and used in an aerial blockade of tanker traffic in the Burrard Inlet to oppose the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. For a more detailed descri...
Mar 24, 2020•28 min
In episode #362 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mayson Fulk. He works in manufacturing in London, Ontario, and is the trans liaison for District 6 of the United Steelworkers. He talks about what unions can do to stand up for transgender workers. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/03/17/trr-steel_trans_liaison/
Mar 17, 2020•28 min
In episode #361 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Vishan Charamis and Maud Nevoret. They are part of a collective that organizes a series of social justice-focused hip-hop workshops and shows in Montreal. They talk about their experiences with hip-hop and with struggles for social change, and about the Rap Battles for Social Justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/03/10/trr-rap_battles_social_justice/
Mar 10, 2020•28 min
In episode #360 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Simon Black, an assistant professor of Labour Studies at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario, who been active in the anti-poverty and labour movements since he was a teenager. He is also a founder of Labour Agains the Arms Trade. They talk about Canada's involvement in arms production and about Labour Against the Arms Trade's work within the labour movement to oppose the sale of Light Armoured Vehicles to Saudi Arabia. For ...
Mar 03, 2020•28 min
In episode #359 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kari Glynes Elliott, a board member of the Ottawa Transit Riders. They talk about the city's transit system, including its troubled light rail project, and about the group's advocacy to make public transit in Ottawa more affordable, accessible, and reliable. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/02/25/trr-ottawa_transit_riders/
Feb 25, 2020•28 min
In episode #358 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sheena Wilson, a professor of media, communications, and cultural studies at the University of Alberta. They talk about the political implications of energy systems, about Just Powers (an initiative focused on studying questions of climate justice), and about what movements can learn from her work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/02/18/trr-just_powers/
Feb 18, 2020•28 min
In episode #357 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Dave Bleakney of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. They talk about how CUPW is responding to the climate crisis, and about what the union has previously described as the "dismal failure" of the UN process in Madrid. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/02/11/trr-cupw_at_cop/
Feb 11, 2020•28 min
In episode #356 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Frédérique Chabot and Natalya Mason. They talk about this year's Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week campaign, about comprehensive sexuality education as both a health intervention and a justice intervention, and about the importance of pushing to have comprehensive sex-ed implemented broadly in our schools. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/02/04/trr-srhweek_2020/
Feb 04, 2020•28 min
In episode #355 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Scott Beaver and Chris Hunter. Beaver is the president of the St. Mary's River Association and Hunter is with the Atlantic Salmon Federation, and they talk about the NOPE Campaign -- that stands for No Open Pit Excavation -- against the proposed Cochrane Hill gold mine that would sit right next to the St. Mary's. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/01/28/trr-nope_campaign/
Jan 28, 2020•28 min
In episode #354 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Baj Mukhopadhyay, Mehak Sawhney, and Aadita Chaudhury. They talk about the wave of protests in India against the National Register of Citizens, the Citizenship Amendment Act, and the BJP government, and about the organizing happening in the Indian diaspora in Canada in solidarity with those protests. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/01/21/trr-diasporic_organizing/
Jan 21, 2020•28 min
In episode #353 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews L., Kaku Kenyi, and Andre Harriott about *Black in Post-Sec*, a new documentary film made by current students and recent graduates that examines the ways that Canadian universities are hostile places for Black students, and the strategies that they use to survive, to thrive, to resist, and to excel. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/01/14/trr-black_in_post-sec/
Jan 14, 2020•28 min
In episode #352 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Imtiaz Popat. He is a therapeutic counsellor in Vancouver, as well as the co-ordinator of the local chapter of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community and a central participant in the Two-Spirit and LGBT People of Colour Alliance and the Coalition Against Bigotry - Pacific. They talk about Popat's extensive work against oppression and bigotry, and the threads that link it all together. For a more detailed description of this episode, go her...
Jan 07, 2020•28 min
This is a rebroadcast of episode #335 of Talking Radical Radio, which was originally broadcast in September 2019. In it, Scott Neigh interviews Tiffany Joseph. Her ancestry is of the W̱SÁNEĆ people on her mother's side and the Sḵx̱wu7mesh people on her father's side, and she currently lives in Tsartlip First Nation, a bit north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. She talks about her peoples' history and about her work revitalizing her language and culture, and restoring the land. For a more detaile...
Dec 31, 2019•28 min
In episode #351 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Doug Hewitt-White, Murray Lumley, and Scott Albrecht. They are board members at the organization Conscience Canada, and they talk about their work to extend the longstanding right to conscientious objection to military service to establish a right to conscientious objection to military taxation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/12/23/trr-conscience_canada/
Dec 23, 2019•28 min
In episode #350 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sandra Azocar. She is the executive director of Friends of Medicare, an advocacy organization that for the last four decades has been working to defend, improve, and expand the public health care system in Alberta. They talk about the importance of public health care, about some of that history, and about what Friends of Medicare faces today in an Alberta governed by the United Conservative Party under Jason Kenney. For a more deta...
Dec 17, 2019•28 min
In episode #349 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Lora McElhinney and Wendy Bariteau of Joint Effort, a four decade-old prison abolitionist group based in the lower mainland of British Columbia that is focused on solidarity work with women in prison. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/12/10/trr-joint_effort/
Dec 10, 2019•28 min
In episode #348 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Bryce Koch, a registered nurse in Winnipeg and a member of the board of directors of the Harm Reduction Nurses Association. They talk about the many ways that nurses are taking up harm reduction practices in their work, and about the association's advocacy for governmental and institutional policies that support harm reduction and the rights and dignity of people who use drugs. For a more detailed description of this episode, go he...
Dec 03, 2019•28 min
In episode #347 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Rachel Huot. She is a mom of three kids in the west end of Toronto and a parent organizer with West End Parents for Public Education and the Ontario Parent Action Netowork. They talk about the cuts that the Conservative government under Doug Ford is making to public education in Ontario, about fighting those cuts, and about the importance of solidarity among parents, students, teachers, and other education workers. For a more detai...
Nov 26, 2019•28 min
In episode #346 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Burcu Emeç. She is a performance artist and also the outreach and communications coordinator at articule, an artist-run centre in the Mile End neighbourhood of Montreal. They talk about articule's efforts to challenge oppressive systemic disparities through organizational change work within the centre and interventions into the larger arts scene. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/201...
Nov 19, 2019•28 min
In episode #345 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sheila Sampath. She is the editorial and art director of Shameless Magazine, a feminist magazine for teen girls and trans youth. They talk about feminist media, about Shameless, and about the Talking Back Feminist Media Conference. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/11/12/trr-talking_back/
Nov 12, 2019•28 min
In episode #344 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sakura Saunders and Lisa Cameron. Saunders is on the board of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and Lisa Cameron is on its organizing committee. They talk about the struggles faced by low-wage and precarious workers in the city, and about the work of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and the city's Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/11/05/trr-...
Nov 05, 2019•28 min
In episode #343 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jessi Taylor, a spokesperson for the campaign to Save Clinic 554. The clinic is a family medicine practice in New Brunswick that is one of the few places in the province where people can receive abortion services, trans care, and a range of specialized care for other marginalized populations. In early October, clinic staff announced that they would have to close the clinic. Taylor talks about barriers to certain kinds of care in Ne...
Oct 29, 2019•28 min
In episode #342 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Joe Curnow and Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land of the group Millennium For All. They talk about the new airport-like security checkpoints at the entrance of the Millennium Library in downtown Winnipeg, about how that relates to what public libraries are supposed to be, and about the community struggle against them. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/10/22/trr-millennium_for_all/
Oct 22, 2019•28 min
In episode #341 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Alicia-Marie and Faduma of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition. They talk about the coalition's work to bring Ottawa's diverse Black communities together and to oppose anti-Black racism in the city. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/10/15/trr-obdc/
Oct 15, 2019•28 min
In episode #340 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Rebecca Keetch and Tiffany Balducci. Keetch has been an autoworker in the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario, since 2006 -- a plant that GM has said they will close by the end of 2019. Balducci is the president of the Durham Region Labour Council. Both are involved in Green Jobs Oshawa, a joint labour-community campaign. They talk about their work to push for the government to take the plant into public hands and re-t...
Oct 08, 2019•28 min
In episode #339 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Karen Cocq of the Migrant Rights Network, a cross-Canada alliance of migrant worker, refugee, and immigrant organizations devoted to fighting against racism and for migrant justice. They talk about racism and xenophobia in Canada, both in general and in the context of the federal election, and about what the network is doing to counter them. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/10/...
Oct 01, 2019•28 min
In episode #338 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Maia Wikler. She works for Raven Trust, an organization whose mission is to fundraise to support First Nations in legal battles. They talk about the Pull Together campaign, a collaboration between Raven and the Sierra Club BC to raise money for the litigation by First Nations against the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. For a more detailed description, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/09/24/trr-pull_togeth...
Sep 24, 2019•28 min
