Talking Radical Radio brings you grassroots voices from across Canada. It features in-depth interview with people involved in a wide range of activism, organizing, and other social change work, and gives them a chance to take a longer view as they talk about what they're doing, how they're doing it, and why they're doing it.
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A gleaner’s garland, abraxas bop. Eulogy for the hyacinth rainbow. Throttlebottom doo-dah at the flicker-flame's trial. Cattywampus yawp, ninnyhammer’s neigh. Elegiac dirge of the Anthropocene’s twilight, echoing through Shadow Gulch. Canceled event horizon. Extinction boogaloo, debacle bacchanal, hot mess hecatomb. The jitter-glitch shuffle fiasco at the last-gasp hosanna potluck. Warble.
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This episode is dedicated to Hector Alvarez, Johnny Ray Martin and David Morgan Produced, Written and Performed by Scott Pinkmountain Intro Concert Band 1, CD 23 by Dan Plonsey Crane Zelhart Written and performed by Katie Schmid Music by the Frontierville Saloon House Band Sunshine Lightyear Cohen Co-written by David Henson and Scott Pinkmountain P…
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Higgenbaum’s Mitvah is written and produced by Scott Pinkmountain. Music: soft crusade – vexed method Scott Pinkmountain – Guided Meditation 1 John Shiurba – live (for Matthew) Martyn Cawthorne of Gong Spa – Full Length Gong Bath with Paiste Gongs Juna Serita – electric bass Theme from Deep ThroatBy Scott Pinkmountain
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This episode is sponsored by the letter B. Higgenbaum’s Mitzvah is written and produced by Scott Pinkmountain. The music for “The Eleven Senses” is Trtre from the album Tee (For Big Band) by Scott Pinkmountain. F(ear) was composed by Matt Ingalls. “The Dark Room” features Kashyapa J. Fisher and Cynthia Furman and was both edited and scored with ori…
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This episode is sponsored by Prussian Pumpernut Fudge Doubt Scott Pinkmountain - Words and Music with: Lindsday Beamish - Words Jesse Gilbert - Words Anthony Lukens - Organ Justin Pinkerton - Drums Shecky Pinkmountain - SingingBy Scott Pinkmountain
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In episode #510 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Saima Desai, Dave Gray-Donald, and Sharmeen Khan. They are all long-time grassroots media-makers – mostly in projects towards the more activist and movement-grounded end of the sector. They talk about their work, about the current state of grassroots media in so-called Canada, and abou…
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Injured workers fighting for compensation and care
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In episode #509 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Eugene Lefrancois, Steve Mantis, and Janet Paterson. They are are injured workers living in Thunder Bay, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Lefrancois is the president of the Thunder Bay and District Injured Workers Support Group, while Mantis is that group's treasurer. And…
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A framework for a decolonial just transition
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In episode #508 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emily Eaton and Bronwen Tucker. They are two of the six co-authors of *The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada* (Between the Lines, 2023), which outlines a framework for working towards not only a just transition away from fossil fuels but an explicitly *decolonial*…
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Challenging mis- and disinformation about sexual health and rights
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In episode #507 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Victoria Romero, Emily Tang, and Matthew Johnson. Romero and Tang are university students and members of the National Youth Advisory Council for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights. Johnson is the director of education for MediaSmarts. They talk about issues of mis- and disinfo…
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From police-free schools to policing-free schools
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In episode #506 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Hailey Yasmeen Dash and Mae Mason of the Asilu Collective, which Dash described as "a grassroots abolitionist collective fighting and organizing for police-free schools, but also policing-free schools, and to eliminate policing culture, infrastructure, and practices in schools across …
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Infrastructure and support for climate justice organizing across Canada
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In episode #505 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jacqueline Lee-Tam and Sara Adams of the Climate Justice Organizing Hub. They talk about the origins of the Hub and about its work supporting grassroots organizers across so-called Canada.For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2023/01/24/ra…
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In episode #504 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Camila Fisher and Peter Zimmer of the Halifax Cycling Coalition. They talk about the challenges that cyclists face in Halifax and about the advocacy that the coalition is doing to make things better.For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/20…
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In episode #503 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Anishinaabe cartographer Steve DeRoy, a co-founder of the Indigenous Mapping Collective. They talk about the importance of mapping and about the collective's work to build Indigenous peoples' capacity to, as their website puts it, "map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize …
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Building visibility, equity, and impact for Asian Canadian artists
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In episode #502 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Shawn Tse, an artist, filmmaker, and organizer based in Edmonton, Alberta. They talk about the CanAsian Arts Network, a digitally-facilitated network of Asian Canadian artists, cultural workers, and organizations that aims to catalyze collaboration and build visibility, equity, impact…
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REBROADCAST: Immigrant workers confronting the people who exploit them
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The following is a rebroadcast of episode #481 of Talking Radical Radio, originally broadcast in July 2022. In it, Scott Neigh interviews Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh. They are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers who are challenging the exploitation and mistreatment that their memb…
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The hard, slow work of opposing poverty in an era of growing crisis
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In episode #501 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sandee Lovas and Silke Force. They are members of the Alliance Against Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group based in Kitchener-Waterloo, a city about an hour southwest of Toronto in southern Ontario. They speak about the impact of poverty on their lives and their community, and ab…
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In episode #500 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Aaron Devor, the Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria. They talk about the Transgender Archives at UVic, the largest archive in the world of material related to trans people, to research on trans issues, and to struggles by trans communities.For a more detailed d…
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Forcing Canadian companies to respect human rights
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In episode #499 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emily Dwyer and Aidan Gilchrist-Blackwood. Dwyer is the policy director at the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA), and Gilchirst-Blackwood is its network coordinator. The CNCA is a broad network of Canadian civil society organizations – including labour, human rights,…
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A legal challenge to keep Ontario students safe from COVID-19
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In episode #498 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Heather Hanwell, Kate Laing, and "Hannah". They are members of Ontario School Safety, a group of Ontario residents, mostly parents, who are committed to ensuring that the province's schools are safe enough for students, teachers, and other education workers, in the context of the ongo…
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Working for a multi-issue "revolution of care" in Newfoundland
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In episode #497 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kerri Claire Neil. She is an activist in St. John's, Newfoundland, and the co-chair of the Social Justice Co-operative NL, an activist organization whose members work on a wide range of social, political, and environmental issues. They talk about why the group is a co-operative, the m…
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Mobilizing musicians around the world in support of Palestine
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In episode #496 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Stefan Christoff, a musician and long-time activist based in Tiohti:áke, or Montreal. Christoff is the co-ordinator of Musicians for Palestine, a network of musicians from around the world committed to speaking up in support of Palestinian human rights. He talks about the work involve…
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Seeking healing, justice, and change in the wake of the convoy occupation
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In episode #495 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah and Gaëlle Muderi. They are involved in the Ottawa People's Commission on the Convoy Occupation, Owusu-Akyeeah as a commissioner and Muderi as project coordinator. The commission is a grassroots, nonpartisan initiative to listen to the voices of Ottawa residents i…
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Settlers building decolonial solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en
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In episode #494 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kate Turner and Chantal Pelletier. They are part of the Decolonial Solidarity Campaign, a network of affinity groups across so-called Canada acting in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en people's struggle against the Coastal Gas Link pipeline by targeting the Royal Bank of Canada, one of…
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Ongoing Wet'suwet'en resistance to the CGL pipeline
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In episode #493 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jennifer Wickham. She is a Cas Yikh (Grizzly Bear House) member in the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en people, and the media co-ordinator for the Gidimt'en Checkpoint. She talks about her people's ongoing fight against the Coastal Gas Link (CGL) pipeline.For a more detailed descrip…
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In episode #492 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Saleh Waziruddin, an anti-racist activist in St. Catharines, Ontario and an executive committee member of the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association. They talk about doing locally-focused grassroots anti-racism work in a place like Niagara -- comprised of smaller cities, towns, and ru…
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In episode #491 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Stacey Gomez, a migrant justice organizer with No One Is Illegal - Halifax/Kjipuktuk. They talk about the group's work as the first grassroots effort in Atlantic Canada to organize with migrant agricultural workers.(Observant listeners may have noticed that the number of this week's e…
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Bringing sustainability and justice together in a small community
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In episode #490 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews long-time climate campaigner Jason Mogus. They speak not about his climate work but about his involvement in Salt Spring Solutions, a community group on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia that is working to tackle the island's housing crisis, in the face of opposition that is larg…
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In episode #489 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Shawna Dempsey. She is a performance and video artist, and also the co-executive director of Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA), a feminist artist-run centre in Winnipeg. She talks about feminism in the arts and about MAWA's decades of work.For a more detailed description of thi…
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Older adults and the fight for climate action
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In episode #488 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Betty Plewes and Emma Bider. Plewes is a co-founder and steering committee member of Climate Legacy, a group of retired people working together to engage and mobilize other older adults in action to address the climate crisis. Bider is the group's communications coordinator.For a more…
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British Columbia's general strike that almost was
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In episode #487 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews long-time Vancouver writer David Spaner. He recently published a new book, *Solidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983* (Ronsdale Press, 2021). The resistance that it documents -- to a right-wing provincial government in British Columbia -- was one of the largest grassroots upris…
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Low-wage workers organizing in Newfoundland
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In episode #486 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mark Nichols. He is an organizer with the Workers' Action Network of Newfoundland and Labrador, which brings together workers in low-wage, precarious jobs to support each other and to fight collectively for decent work for all.For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: h…
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Practical climate action in Atlantic Canada
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In episode #485 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Emma Norton, a climate activist based in Nova Scotia. They talk about her work as the operations director at the ReCover Initaitive and the Atlantic director with the Climate Emergency Unit, and about the crucial interconnection between practical measures to reduce greenhouse gas emis…
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REBROADCAST: Grassroots organizing by Métis people in Winnipeg
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The following is a rebroadcast of episode #434 of Talking Radical Radio, originally broadcast in December 2021. In it, Scott Neigh interviews Breanne Lavallee-Heckert, Chantale Garand, and Kianna Durston. They are Métis people based in Winnipeg and members of Red River Echoes, a collective of Métis people that is focused on grassroots organizing, l…
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Anti-ableism and disaility justice education
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In episode #484 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Dev Ramsawakh and Kate Welsh. They are co-creators of the CRIP Collective, a small group of Toronto-based disabled educators and artists who do anti-ableism, anti-oppression, and disability justice-related workshops, and various other kinds of community building with disabled people, …
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A broad coalition pushing for climate action in Ontario
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In episode #483 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Mili Roy and Angela Bischoff. They are involved, in different capacities, in the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign, a broad, loose, non-partisan coalition of individuals and groups working hard to get Ontario to improve its response to the climate crisis. They talk about the crisis, …
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Story and film as tools for decolonization
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In episode #482 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Gladys Rowe, Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, and Liz Carlson-Manathara about the Stories of Decolonization film project. They talk about the role that story and film can play in larger processes of decolonization and about their many years of work on the project.For a more detailed descripti…
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Immigrant workers confronting the people who exploit them
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In episode #481 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh. They are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers who are challenging the exploitation and mistreatment that their members face using protest, mutual support, and collective direct action. The…
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Climate disaster stories as a catalyst for change
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In episode #480 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sean Holman, a journalism professor at the University of Victoria and a principle investigator for the Climate Disaster Project. They talk about the shifts in journalism's social role in our current political moment, about the news media's response to the climate crisis so far, and ab…
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Advancing a vision of ecological farming and farmers' rights
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In episode #479 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Beatriz Oliver and Aabir Dey of SeedChange, an organization based in Canada that supports farmers here and around the world in working for a more just, sustainable, and environmentally sound future. They talk about the food system as it exists today, the vision embedded in the work of…
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Fighting for collective bargaining rights for tenants
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In episode #478 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews James Barbeiro and Jen of Rent Strike Bargain, a province-wide campaign in British Columbia that is fighting for the right of tenants to collectively bargain with landlords, and that is also active in supporting the recent upsurge in local organizing by tenants.For a more detailed des…
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A veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle talks about anti-racism today
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In episode #477 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Steve September. Born into the struggle against South African apartheid -- his family fled the country when he was a child to avoid arrest as part of a government crackdown on African National Congress activists, and soon they were busily organizing a base for anti-apartheid activity …
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A grassroots re-imagining of gender-affirming care
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In episode #476 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Riley Nielson-Baker and Felix Vandergrift of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia, a grassroots, community-based policy process to address issues of gender-affirming care and access to health care for trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people in Nova Scotia. They talk about the process,…
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Confronting the overdose crisis, demanding a safe supply
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In episode #475 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jordan Westfall. He is co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply, an organization that aims to reduce the immense harms of the overdose crisis by pushing for an increase in people's access to a drug supply that is legal, regulated, and safe.For a more detail…
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In episode #474 of Talking Radical Radio, I interview Lisa Hari and Rosemary Brown. They are active with We're Together Ending Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group in Calgary. We talk about what poverty looks like in their city, about the group's evolution over the years, and about their work to bring people together to build shared understandi…
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Preserving and popularizing the history of working-class Toronto
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In episode #473 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd. They are active with the Toronto Workers' History Project, an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. They talk about the enthusiasm they have found in the community for working-class hist…
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Pushing Ontario to fix its massive school repair backlog
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In episode #472 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Krista Wylie. She is a parent in Toronto and a co-founder of the Fix Our Schools campaign. They talk about the $16.8 billion repair backlog in Ontario schools and about Wylie's years of campaigning to get the provincial government to take seriously the impact that has on students, tea…
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Challenging government abandonment of citizens detained abroad
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In episode #471 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sally Lane and Matthew Behrens. Lane is the mother of Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen who has been detained for more than five years in northeastern Syria in conditions akin to torture. Behrens is a long-time activist and a member of Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture. They talk abou…
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Long years of grassroots work for missing and murdered Indigenous women
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In episode #470 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte. She is part of Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik, a grassroots group in Saskatoon that has been working for many years on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/…
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Defending the forest in southwest Nova Scotia
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In episode #469 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Nina Newington. She is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, a forest defence action whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to prevent the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. They talk about the …
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Union members pushing their pension plan to divest from fossil fuels
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In episode #468 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson. They are teachers in British Columbia and members of the BC Teachers Federation, and they have been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. They talk about the BCTF Divest Now campaign and about their recent success i…
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Ottawa residents against the convoy, and for solidarity and social justice
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In episode #467 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Angella MacEwen and Alex Silas. They are union and community activists in Ottawa, and members of Community Solidarity Ottawa, a coalition of unions, community organizations, and residents that came together during the recent convoy occupation of their city's downtown to give voice to …
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