In episode #424 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jon McPhedran Waitzer and Andy Wei. They are members of an organization called Resource Movement. With chapters in Montreal and Toronto, Resource Movement brings together young people from across Canada who have wealth and/or class privilege to work towards the redistribution of wealth, land, and power. They talk about the politics of organizing wealthy people in support of social justice, and about the work of Resource Movement. F...
Jun 08, 2021•28 min
In episode #423 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Andrew Winchur. He is the director of the Parkdale Free School, a grassroots educational initiative for residents of the Parkdale neighbourhood in Toronto to share their knowledge and lived experience in a safe, inclusive, and anti-oppressive setting. They talk about popular education, radical pedagogy, and the Parkdale Free School. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/06/01/radio...
Jun 01, 2021•28 min
In episode #422 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Tara Ehrcke. She is a teacher in Victoria, BC, and throughout her career has been active in her union, the British Columbia Teachers Federation. Since 2018, her energies have been largely focused on the climate crisis. She talks about the climate crisis, the role that the labour movement can play in addressing it, and the Labour Climate Forum, a recent event that brought together more than 100 trade unionists concerned about climat...
May 25, 2021•28 min
In episode #421 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Catherine Frazee and Quin Lawrence. They were part of the upswell of opposition by disability activists to Bill C-7, which expanded the eligibility for medical assistance in dying in Canada. Frazee, Lawrence, and many other disabled people characterized Bill C-7 as not just ableist but also as a form of eugenics. In the week before the legislation passed, that opposition culminated in an action called the Disability Filibuster. The...
May 18, 2021•28 min
In episode #420 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kieran Hart, Sharmeen Khan, and Temóc Thania Vega. They are activists and organizers based in Toronto, as well as members of the editorial collective of Upping the Anti, a print publication that describes itself as "a journal of theory and action." They talk about the importance of ideas and radical theory to struggles for justice and liberation, about the challenges of grassroots media-making, and about Upping the Anti. For a more...
May 11, 2021•28 min
In episode #419 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny and Tai Jacob. Cloutier de Repentigny is a lawyer and will soon be an assistant professor of law and legal studies at Carleton University. He is also the co-chair of the board of JusticeTrans, an organization dedicated to ensuring access to justice for trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and Two Spirit people in the Canadian context. Tai Jacob is a scholar, a community organizer, and a public edu...
May 04, 2021•28 min
In episode #418 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Susie Goulding. She is a founder of the COVID Long Haulers Support Group Canada, a group for people with long COVID to support each other, advocate for themselves, and collaborate with researchers. She talks about long COVID and about the group's work, particularly its advocacy for recognition, research, and rehabilitation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/04/27/radio-long-cov...
Apr 27, 2021•28 min
In episode #417 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Irina Ceric. Along with being an instructor in criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC, Ceric has for decades been a social movement lawyer and has devoted much of her energy to radical legal support organizing. In recent years, her attention has also turned to research about such organizing. She talks about her own movement lawyering, about radical legal support organizing, and about what her research has foun...
Apr 20, 2021•28 min
In episode #416 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emma Cunningham of Environmental Action Now Ajax-Pickering. They recently won an important victory against an attempt to build a warehouse on Duffins Creek wetland, a protected wetland in the middle of Pickering. Groups in communities across Ontario are currently facing similar struggles, as pro-development municipal councils and the provincial government are making increasing use of Minister's Zoning Orders (MZOs) to push forward ...
Apr 13, 2021•28 min
In episode #415 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Kearie Daniel. She is a communications professional, a writer and podcaster, and an equity consultant. She is also a parent advocate and co-founder of the group Parents of Black Children. She talks about anti-Black racism in the school system and how Parents of Black Children is supporting parents and advocating for change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/04/06/radio-challengi...
Apr 06, 2021•28 min
In episode #414 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Reuben Roth, Katlyn Kotila, and Darius Garneau. Roth is a labour studies and sociology professor at Laurentian University, an instiution facing unprecedented crisis after recently filing for creditor protection. Kotila and Garneau are undergraduate students at Laurentian and members of Save Our Sudbury. Neigh interviews all three about the crisis, how it is being used to impose cuts and other forms of austerity, its implications fo...
Mar 30, 2021•28 min
In episode #413 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Jonny Sopotiuk and Zandi Dandizette. They are founding members of both the Vancouver Artists Labour Union Co-operative (VALU CO-OP), a workplace owned and run democratically by its workers, and of the Arts and Cultural Workers Union (ACWU). They talk about how this new model for artists and other cultural workers to organize themselves -- a worker co-op *and* a union -- may be the key to challenging precarious work and poverty in th...
Mar 23, 2021•28 min
In episode #412 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mary Kelly and Alex Bestos. Kelly is an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia and a national board member of Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP). Bestos works at a health research centre focused on substance use and is the international liaison for CSSDP. They talk about the current state of drug-related public policy in Canada and what the students and youth of CSSDP are doing to make it better...
Mar 16, 2021•28 min
In episode #411 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews William Carroll, James Rowe, and Emily Lowan of the University of Victoria. Carroll is a professor of sociology and Rowe an associate professor of environmental studies, and they are both involved in the Corporate Mapping Project, which brings together academic and community-based researchers to investigate the corporate power of fossil fuel industries in Canada. Rowe and Lowan, who is an undergraduate student in environmental stud...
Mar 09, 2021•28 min
In episode #410 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Samir Shaheen-Hussain. He is a pediatric emergency physician in Montreal and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He was also a central organizer in the #aHand2Hold campaign, which in 2018 won a victory against a specific aspect of medical colonialism in Quebec. In this episode, he talks about the campaign, about his new book, *Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against I...
Mar 02, 2021•28 min
In episode #409 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Ra'anaa Brown and Shana Calixte of Black Lives Matter - Sudbury. They talk about about what the struggle for Black lives looks like in northern Ontario and about their conference coming up on February 27 and 28, "Here to Stay Baby": A Northern Intersectional Caucus. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/02/23/radio-the-struggle-for-black-lives-in-northern-ontario/
Feb 23, 2021•28 min
In episode #408 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Daniel Sarah Karasik and Darrah Teitel of the Suppress the Virus Now Coalition, an Ontario-based coalition of community groups, labour organizations, and individuals. They talk about their concerns with how the Canadian federal government and the Ontario provincial government have responded to the pandemic so far, about what needs to be done differently, and about their coalition's plans to push for a #COVIDZero approach that would...
Feb 16, 2021•28 min
In episode #407 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Michelle Stein and Bill Noll. They are residents of the municipality of South Bruce, Ontario, near Lake Huron. And they are members of Protect Our Waterways - No Nuclear Waste, a group of residents who have come together in opposition to the proposal to put a high-level radioactive waste storage facility in their community. They talk about their concerns with the proposal and their campaign to stop it. For a more detailed descripti...
Feb 09, 2021•28 min
In episode #406 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sarah Edo of Nuance and pihêsiw of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network. They talk about the theme of this year's Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week campaign, "Youth Friendly Care: It's Your Right!", and about what it means to centre Black, Indigenous, racialized, and migrant youth in questions of sexual health and rights. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/02/02/ra...
Feb 02, 2021•28 min
In episode #405 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Nick Driedger, a long-time labour organizer from northern Alberta. Driedger has been part of a number of different unions, including the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Industrial Workers of the World, and he currently works for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. He is also a contributor at *Organizing Work*, a website with a grassroots focus committed to honest, strategic discussions about the nuts and bolts of or...
Jan 26, 2021•28 min
In episode #404 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Claire Bodkin and Sara Alavian. They are both physicians in Hamilton, Ontario, as well as members of an ad hoc group of health workers from different parts of Canada with an interest in prison abolitionist politics. They talk about what it means to think about prison abolition in the context of health care, and about the zine that the group will be releasing on February 1, *Caring for People Who Are Detained: A Handbook for Healthc...
Jan 19, 2021•29 min
In episode #403 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Maya Tali and Kota Kimura. They are members of Japanese Canadians for Social Justice, and they talk about the group's origins, its expansive vision of solidarity, and its involvement in struggles on the ground. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2021/01/12/radio-japanese-canadians-mobilizing-across-a-broad-range-of-social-justice-issues/
Jan 12, 2021•28 min
In episode #402 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Samantha Smith, Leslie Scott, and Robert Crooks. They are renters and current or former residents of the West Broadway neighbourhood in Winnipeg, and active members of the West Broadway Tenants Committee, a grassroots group of renters. They talk about the committee’s work organizing for tenant justice and building tenant power to oppose evictions, excessive rent increases, and abuse from landlords. For a more detailed description o...
Jan 05, 2021•28 min
In this rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that originally aired in June 2020, Scott Neigh interviews Souheil Benslimane. He describes himself as a father, a partner, and an illegalized and criminalized migrant living in Ottawa. Since his release from prison in 2018, Benslimane has been involved in the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP). He talks about his experiences of criminalization, about the anti-carceral work of CPEP, and about what he thinks needs to ...
Dec 29, 2020•28 min
In episode #401 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Taylor Maton. She is the conservation outreach coordinator with CPAWS Northern Alberta, a regional chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. In recent months, the main focus of her work has been the Defend Alberta Parks campaign, which is working to oppose a major provincial government initiative to close and delist provincial parks. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/202...
Dec 22, 2020•28 min
In episode #400 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler. Mugyenyi is a long-time activist across multiple movements and the director of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute. Engler is also a long-time activist and a writer, and he is a fellow at the CFPI. They talk about the CFPI's work to present a critical challenge to Canadian foreign policy across a broad spectrum of issues. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradi...
Dec 15, 2020•28 min
In episode #399 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Terry McDowell. He is a graphic designer in Winnipeg and a member of Strike Poster, a collective of designers and artists of all sorts committed to radical politics and to working in support of grassroots movements. They talk about the intersection of politics and design, and about the work of Strike Poster. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/12/08/radio-a-radical-design-collect...
Dec 08, 2020•28 min
In episode #398 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Laura Hamilton, a climate activist from Waterloo, Ontario. They talk about the journey that Hamilton and Divest Waterloo, the group that she co-founded, have taken from an initial approach to climate action focused on promoting divestment from fossil fuel industries to their current radical commitment to climate justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/12/01/radio-bringing-qu...
Dec 01, 2020•28 min
In episode #397 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Cam Scott, Irene Bindi, and Daniel Friesen. They are community organizers and members of Police-Free Schools Winnipeg, and they talk about the struggle to get police out of Winnipeg schools. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2020/11/24/radio-fighting-to-get-police-out-of-winnipeg-schools/
Nov 24, 2020•28 min
In episode #396 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Angela Marie MacDougall, Jennifer Johnstone, and Rhiannon Bennett. MacDougall is a Vancouver feminist who traces her ancestry to northern Sweden and to Western Africa, and the executive director of Battered Women's Support Services. Johnstone is a white settler feminist and the CEO of the Central City Foundation. They are co-founders and co-chairs of Feminists Deliver. Bennett is a Musqueam woman and the decolonization and accounta...
Nov 17, 2020•28 min
