In episode #395 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Rachel Zellars and Wendie Wilson. Zellars is an African-American academic, lawyer, and community organizer who has lived in Canada for more than a decade and a half, and in Halifax for the last couple of years. Wilson is an African Nova Scotian teacher, artist, writer, and community advocate whose family has been in the province for at least eight generations. They talk about the African Nova Scotian Freedom School that they were p...
Nov 10, 2020•29 min
In episode #394 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Renae Watchman, Michael Truscello, and Leah Hamilton. They are faculty at Mount Royal University, a small undergraduate institution in Calgary, and members of the Mount Royal Anti-Racism Coalition. They talk about what racism looks like in the academy, and about what it means to oppose it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/11/03/radio-fighting-racism-at-an-alberta-university/
Nov 03, 2020•28 min
In episode #393 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Michael Kwag, the director of knowledge exchange and policy development at the Community-Based Research Centre. They talk about the CBRC's use of research, community-level interventions, and advocacy to promote the health of gay, bi, trans, Two-Spirit, and queer men. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/10/27/radio-community-based-research-and-advocacy-supporting-gay-and-bi-mens-h...
Oct 27, 2020•28 min
In episode #392 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Medeana Moussa and Wing Li. They are the executive director and director of communications for Support Our Students Alberta, a grassroots, nonpartisan network focused on standing up for the rights of students to an accessible and equitable public education system. They talk about the importance of public education, the dangers of charter schools and privatization, how the school system in Alberta has been responding to COVID-19, an...
Oct 20, 2020•28 min
In episode #391 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Shannon Hardy and Bridget Graham. They are the coordinator and director of volunteers, respectively, of Abortion Support Services Atlantic, a grassroots mutual aid group that supports people in Atlantic Canada in the face of barriers to accessing abortion services. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/10/13/radio-grassroots-abortion-support-in-atlantic-canada/
Oct 13, 2020•28 min
In episode #390 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Susan Campbell and Angie Lynch. They are social workers and community organizers who work for community legal clinics in Ontario, and they talk about Just Recovery Ontario, a campaign that is pushing for a recovery from the pandemic that would fix the many injustices and shortfalls in our social safety net that COVID-19 has made so evident. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/10/...
Oct 06, 2020•28 min
In episode #389 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Carole Tootill and Joshua Wright, residents of British Columbia who are heavily involved in forest protection activism. They speak about the Fairy Creek blockades, a direct action that is protecting some of the last big-tree, old-growth forest on Vancouver Island from clear-cut logging. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/09/29/radio-direct-action-in-defence-of-old-growth-forest/...
Sep 29, 2020•28 min
In episode #388 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Tamara Lorincz and Brent Patterson. Lorincz is a long-time peace and justice activist and a member of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. Patterson has also been involved in peace and social justice issues for many years, and is the executive director of Peace Brigades International - Canada. They talk about the campaign to oppose the federal government's plan to spend $19 billion on a new fleet of fighter jets. For a more detailed ...
Sep 22, 2020•28 min
In episode #387 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews France Trépanier and Chris Creighton-Kelly. Trépanier is an artist and curator of Kanien’kehá:ka and French ancestry. Creighton-Kelly is also an artist, and is of Anglo-Indian descent. They are the directors of Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires, a project that has been working to shift Canada's arts system in decolonial and anti-racist directions. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/...
Sep 15, 2020•28 min
In episode #386 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Christine Bro and Quentin Rowe-Codner. Bro is the lead organizer for Service Employees International Union Local 2, and is based in Vancouver. Rowe-Codner is a sales associated at a private liquor store in Maple Ridge, BC. They talk about SEIU Local 2's Unions Are Essential campaign, launched to support the unionization of essential and frontline workers during the pandemic, and about the recent successful organizing drive at Rowe-...
Sep 08, 2020•28 min
In episode #385 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sharon Gregson. She works with the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and is the provincial spokesperson for British Columbia's $10aDay child care campaign. They talk about the importance of high-quality, affordable, accessible, public child care, and about both the gains the campaign in BC has made so far and what it has left to win. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/09/0...
Sep 01, 2020•28 min
In episode #384 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews activist and academic Shahrzad Mojab. She was involved in the recent publication of *Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow*, a translation of a powerful poem by Iranian poet Saeed Yousef that remembers the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s. They talk about the book, the history it remembers, and the importance of grassroots remembrance of state violence, particularly through literature, art, and poetry. For a m...
Aug 25, 2020•28 min
In this rebroadcast of episode #346 of Talking Radical Radio (originally broadcast in March 2020), 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 san...
Aug 18, 2020•28 min
In epsiode #383 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Cole Rockarts of Free Transit Edmonton. They talk about the importance of public transit and about the growing effort to make it public, accessible, high quality, and free. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/08/11/radio-the-growing-movement-for-free-public-transit/
Aug 11, 2020•28 min
In episode #382 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sidrah Ahmad-Chan and Niya Abdullahi about Rivers of Hope, an organization based in Toronto whose "mission is to dismantle Islamophobia, racism, and all related forms of oppression" in order "to create a safer and more equitable world for us all." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/08/04/radio-opposing-islamophobia-in-all-of-its-intersections/
Aug 04, 2020•28 min
In episode #381 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Max ZB about Bricks and Glitter, a Toronto-based "community arts festival, celebrating Two-Spirit, trans and queer talent, ingenuity, caring, anger, and abundance." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/07/28/radio-bricks-and-glitter-radical-queer-music-arts-politics/
Jul 28, 2020•28 min
In episode #380 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Gillian Müller and Tony Tran. Both work in Canada's TV and film industry, and both are involved in BIPOC TV & Film, a grassroots organization of Black, Indigenous, and people of colour from all sectors of the industry that is dedicated to increasing BIPOC representation both behind and in front of the camera. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/07/21/radio-anti-racism-in-cana...
Jul 21, 2020•28 min
In episode #379 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews organic vegetable farmer Brent Preston. He is the president of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario, one of the member organizations of a new Canada-wide coalition called Farmers for Climate Solutions, which is pushing for changes in policy that will make the country's agricultural sector part of the solution to climate change. They talk about the relationship between agriculture and the climate crisis, and about the work ...
Jul 14, 2020•28 min
In episode #378 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Fazeela Jiwa of Fernwood Publishing and David Bush of Between the Lines. Both organizations are independent Canadian publishers that specialize in social justice-focused, critical, and radical titles. They talk about their own work, about the impacts of COVID-19 on the publishing industry, and about the Radical Publishers Alliance, a new organization of around 30 publishers from around the world with left-leaning politics who have ...
Jul 07, 2020•28 min
In episode #377 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Souheil Benslimane, who describes himself as a father, a partner, and an illegalized and criminalized migrant living in Ottawa. Since his release from prison in 2018, he has been involved in the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP). Benslimane talks about his experiences of criminalization, about the anti-carceral work of CPEP, and about what he thinks needs to be happening in this critical moment to advance an a...
Jun 30, 2020•28 min
In episode #376 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Adriana Salazar and Miigam'agan. They are members of the national steering committee of Righting Relations, a pan-Canadian, women-led network of adult educators who work with marginalized communities towards radical social change. They talk about their respective grassroots work in their own communities and about the role of Righting Relations in supporting and enhancing that work. For a more detailed description of this episode, g...
Jun 23, 2020•28 min
In episode #375 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sarah Jama, a young organizer based in Hamilton, Ontario. She has been involved in a wide range of different kinds of grassroots work – prominently including struggles against anti-Black racism, working for disability justice, and a whole range of other things. They talk about the trajectory of her organizing, particularly her work co-founding the Disability Justice Network of Ontario, and her involvement right now in both a large-...
Jun 16, 2020•28 min
In episode #374 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Shaden Abusaleh and Brendan Devlin, who are university students and organizers with Communities Not Cuts Manitoba. They talk about the political situation in their province and about what it looks like to fight austerity during the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic – something that everyone across the country may well have to deal with soon. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical...
Jun 09, 2020•28 min
In episode #373 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Derek Blackadder. He is a long-time trade unionist who has been centrally involved in shaping how unions have taken up new digital tools over the decades, a veteran digital campaigner for workers' rights, and the "web work" columnist for independent labour magazine Our Times. They talk about that history of experimentation, debate, and action with online tools, and about what social movements can learn from it today, as they scramb...
Jun 02, 2020•28 min
In episode #372 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Ezra Morse and Ray Woroniak. They are residents of Qualicum Beach, a town of about 9000 people on the east coast of Vancouver Island, and they are the president and vice-president, respectively, of the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society. They talk about their work to oppose the development of an ecologically sensitive wetland. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/05/26/radio-pro...
May 26, 2020•28 min
In episode #371 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews nicole marie burton. She is a comics illustrator and the founder of Ottawa-based independent publisher Ad Astra Comix. They talk about political comics, about Ad Astra, and about burton's latest project, *Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life behind Barbed Wire* (written by Kassandra Luciuk and published by Between the Lines). For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/05/19/radio-sharing-g...
May 19, 2020•28 min
In episode #370 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kyle Vose and Andrea Hatala. They are the co-chairs of the ODSP Action Coalition, a group that brings together social services agencies and recipients of disability benefits in Ontario. They talk about ODSP, the challenges faced by recipients, and the actions taken by the coalition over the years to fight for improvements in the system aimed at enabling disabled people in Ontario to live with greater dignity. For a more detailed de...
May 12, 2020•28 min
In episode #369 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Will George. He is a grassroots member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, located in and around what is now called "Vancouver", that will be impacted by the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. They talk about the pipeline and about George's ongoing grassroots work to oppose it. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/05/05/radio-grassroots-indigenous-resistance-to-the-tran...
May 05, 2020•28 min
In episode #368 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Hector Balderos Campos and Natalia Sudeyko of the Dignidad Migrante Society, a Vancouver-based non-profit organization of migrant agricultural workers that is devoted to workers helping workers stand up for their rights. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/04/28/trr-dignidad_migrante/
Apr 28, 2020•28 min
In episode #367 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Robyn Beckett of the Decent Work and Health Network, a group of health care workers, public health workers, and community members advocating for better employment standards in Ontario using a health lens. They talk about the relationship between work and health, about the network, and about the impacts of COVID-19. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2020/04/21/trr-decent_work_health/
Apr 21, 2020•28 min
