Talking Radical Radio

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 episode is quite a bit higher than last week's -- over the weekend, I discovered two errors in numbering from back in 2019 that meant there had been 17 more episodes than I was counting. I have now gone through all of the SoundCloud posts since that time and fixed them!) For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/10/11/radio-migrant-worker-organizing-in-nova-scotia/

In episode #473 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 largely framed in environmental terms. They also talk about what relevance the struggle on Salt Spring Island has for the broader environmental and climate movements, and about how crucial it is that those movements bring questions of justice into the core of their work. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/10/04/radio-bringing-sustainability-and-justice-together-in-a-small-community/

In episode #472 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 this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/27/radio-feminism-in-the-arts/

In episode #471 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 detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/20/radio-older-adults-and-the-fight-for-climate-action/

In episode #470 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 uprisings in Canadian history and came within a hairsbreadth of becoming a general strike, but it is little remembered today. For a more detailed description, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/13/radio-british-columbias-general-strike-that-almost-was/

In episode #469 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: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/09/06/radio-low-wage-workers-organizing-in-newfoundland/

In episode #468 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 emissions and grassroots political work aimed at policy change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/30/radio-practical-climate-action-in-atlantic-canada/

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, land back, and the active reclamation of Métis sovereignty in Winnipeg. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/23/rebroadcast-grassroots-organizing-by-metis-people-in-winnipeg/

In episode #467 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, using an intersectional approach. They talk about disability, ableism, and the collective's use of education as a tool for change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/16/radio-anti-ableism-and-disability-justice-education/

In episode #466 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, about the campaign's 12-point Climate Action Plan to address it, and about the strengths and weaknesses of working in a broad coalition. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/09/radio-a-broad-coalition-pushing-for-climate-action-in-ontario/

In episode #465 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 description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/08/02/radio-story-and-film-as-tools-for-decolonization/

In episode #464 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. They talk about how they directly confront the employers, landlords, immigration consultants, and other people who exploit them, and why that is such an important part of workers building power and winning victories. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/26/radio-immigrant-workers-confronting-the-people-who-exploit-them/

In episode #463 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 about the new model for covering it that is being developed as part of the Climate Disaster Project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/19/radio-climate-disaster-stories-as-a-catalyst-for-change/

In episode #462 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 SeedChange, and what they are doing to realize it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/12/radio-advancing-a-vision-of-ecological-farming-and-farmers-rights/

In episode #461 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 description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/07/05/radio-fighting-for-collective-bargaining-rights-for-tenants/

In episode #460 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 in Canada -- September today is the chair of a group called the Anti-Racism Coalition (ARC) Vancouver. He talks about the work of ARC Vancouver and about the perspective he brings to that work based on his earlier involvement in opposing apartheid. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/28/radio-a-veteran-of-the-anti-apartheid-struggle-talks-about-anti-racism-today/

In episode #459 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, the policy, and the work they have been doing to make it all happen. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here:

In episode #458 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 detailed description of the episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/14/radio-confronting-the-overdose-crisis-demanding-a-safe-supply/

In episode #457 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 understandings and collective action. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/06/07/radio-against-poverty-in-calgary/

In episode #456 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 history, the many facets of the project's work, and the importance of history for social movements today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: https://talkingradical.ca/2022/05/31/radio-preserving-and-popularizing-the-history-of-working-class-toronto/