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Talking Radical Radio
by Scott Neigh
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.
Episodes
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The future of grassroots media in Canada
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...
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Injured workers fighting for compensation and care
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…
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A framework for a decolonial just transition
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...
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Challenging mis- and disinformation about sexual health and rights
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...
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From police-free schools to policing-free schools
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...
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Infrastructure and support for climate justice organizing across Canada
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...
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Advocacy for cyclists in Halifax
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…
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Decolonizing and Indigenizing the map
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,...
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Building visibility, equity, and impact for Asian Canadian artists
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…
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REBROADCAST: Immigrant workers confronting the people who exploit them
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...
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The hard, slow work of opposing poverty in an era of growing crisis
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…
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Preserving trans histories
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...
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Forcing Canadian companies to respect human rights
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...
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A legal challenge to keep Ontario students safe from COVID-19
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…
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Working for a multi-issue "revolution of care" in Newfoundland
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....
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Mobilizing musicians around the world in support of Palestine
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...
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Seeking healing, justice, and change in the wake of the convoy occupation
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...
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Settlers building decolonial solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en
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...
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Ongoing Wet'suwet'en resistance to the CGL pipeline
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…
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Anti-racism in smaller cities and towns
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...
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Migrant worker organizing in Nova Scotia
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...
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Bringing sustainability and justice together in a small community
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...
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Feminism in the arts
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...
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Older adults and the fight for climate action
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...
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British Columbia's general strike that almost was
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…
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Low-wage workers organizing in Newfoundland
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…
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Practical climate action in Atlantic Canada
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...
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REBROADCAST: Grassroots organizing by Métis people in Winnipeg
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…
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Anti-ableism and disaility justice education
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…
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A broad coalition pushing for climate action in Ontario
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…
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Story and film as tools for decolonization
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...
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Immigrant workers confronting the people who exploit them
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...
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Climate disaster stories as a catalyst for change
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...
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Advancing a vision of ecological farming and farmers' rights
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…
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Fighting for collective bargaining rights for tenants
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…
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A veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle talks about anti-racism today
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...
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A grassroots re-imagining of gender-affirming care
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…
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Confronting the overdose crisis, demanding a safe supply
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...
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Against poverty in Calgary
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...
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Preserving and popularizing the history of working-class Toronto
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…
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Pushing Ontario to fix its massive school repair backlog
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…
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Challenging government abandonment of citizens detained abroad
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...
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Long years of grassroots work for missing and murdered Indigenous women
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…
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Defending the forest in southwest Nova Scotia
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...
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Union members pushing their pension plan to divest from fossil fuels
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...
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Ottawa residents against the convoy, and for solidarity and social justice
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...
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Temp agency workers getting organized
In episode #466 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Manuel Salamanca Cardona. He is an activist with the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) and the Temporary Agency Workers Association (TAWA) in Montreal. They talk about the struggles faced by workers employed by temp agencies, and about...
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Dispatches from the movement for police abolition in Canada
In episode #465 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interview Abby Stadnyk and Ellie Ade Kur. They speak about their own abolitionist politics and organizing, and about *Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada* (Between the Lines, 2022), a new book collection bringing together...
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Demanding a just peace in Ukraine and the abolition of all war
In episode #464 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sakura Saunders and Rachel Small. They are, respectively, a board member and the Canada organizer for World Beyond War, a decentralized global network with the goal not just of opposing the war of the day but of abolishing the...
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How grassroots community-based initiatives changed due to COVID-19
In episode #463 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Sarah Switzer, Andrea Vela Alarcón, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernandez, and Casey Burkholder. They all have long histories of involvement in a range of community-based work, and they are also researchers in academic and professional…
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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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