Talking Radical Radio

In episode #241 of Talking Radical Radio (October 17, 2017), you will hear about Omar Ben Ali's fight for immigration status in Canada, about a new campaign from the group Tadamon in support of that fight, and about how Omar's struggle relates to the broader Palestinian struggle. For a more detailed description of the episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/17/trr-omar_and_tadamon/

In episode #240 of Talking Radical Radio (October 10, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Brennain Lloyd. She is part of the Know Nuclear Waste project, which works to support individuals, groups, and communities as they respond to the dangers posed by the nuclear industry’s efforts to put high-level radioactive waste near where they live. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/10/trr-know_nuclear_waste/

In episode #239 of Talking Radical Radio (October 3, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Alexa Potashnik. She is the founder of Black Space Winnipeg, a group that works to create spaces that are unapologetically pro-Black and Afrocentric, while also acting in solidarity with other oppressed groups, and challenging anti-Black racism and building inclusivity across all sectors within Winnipeg. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/10/03/trr-black_space_winnipeg/

In episode #238 of Talking Radical Radio (September 26, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Paul Gilbert and Margo Bok. They are involved in the BC Disability Caucus, a group whose work has spanned the range from online education and discussion to mobilizing people into the streets to get disability issues on the public agenda in British Columbia. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/09/26/trr-bc_disability_caucus/

In episode #237 of Talking Radical Radio (September 19, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Emily Spanton, Taylor Telford, and Rose McCormick. They are involved in Save Thundering Waters Forest, a campaign that has done everything from lobbying politicians to a week-long land occupation this past August in its efforts to save a wetland in Niagara Falls from being turned into luxury housing. For a more detailed description of this episode: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/09/19/trr-save_thundering_waters/

In episode #236 of Talking Radical Radio (September 12, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Mirtha Rivera and Emily Eaton. Both were active with the Regina Access Without Fear campaign, which demanded that the city of Regina adopt a policy enabling all residents to access city services without fear of repercussions related to their immigration status – an initiative that required rather a different approach than similar campaigns have often taken in larger cities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/09/12/trr-regina_access_wo_fear/

In episode #235 of Talking Radical Radio (September 5, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Michele Decottignie and Olivia Marie Golosky. Both are involved in the performing arts in Calgary, Alberta. Discrimination and inequities pushed them both from their involvement in mainstream contexts in the arts sector. Both have taken up the radical theatre practice of “theatre of the oppressed.” And both are now, through Stage Left Productions and through the Calgary Congress for Equity and Diversity in the Arts (or CCEDA), turning their energies towards pushing for greater equity and for decolonization in the arts at the local, provincial, and national levels. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/09/05/trr-stage_left/

In episode #234 of Talking Radical Radio (August 29, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Lynne Courchene-Allard and Jean-Paul Allard. They are parents in Ottawa, Ontario, who have taken up the fight against racist logos, mascots, and team names, most recently by filing a human rights complaint against the Ontario Ministry of Education seeking a ban on such logos in the province’s schools. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/29/trr-racist_logos/

In episode #233 of Talking Radical Radio (August 22, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jean Swanson and Aiden Sisler. Swanson, who has been a participant in struggles for social justice in Vancouver for decades, is running for a seat on city council. She’s doing so at the urging of a network of mostly young activists and organizers, including Sisler. Their goal is to mobilize grassroots movement energies to pry open space in the municipal political landscape to start addressing fundamental social injustices like homelessness and poverty. For a more detailed description of this episode, see here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/22/trr-swanson_campaign/

In episode #232 of Talking Radical Radio (August 15, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Lama El-Hanan, Rachele Gottardi, and Maverick Smith. They are involved in the Toronto Research Action and Community Exchange (TRACX), an initiative to connect students interested in doing grassroots social justice-focused research with community organizations who need research done. They also organize an annual symposium, which this year will focus on the research needed to support efforts to counter the rise of the alt-right. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/15/trr-tracx/ ‎

In episode #231 of Talking Radical Radio (August 8, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Dorian Jesse Fraser. Fraser is part of the Queer Between the Covers collective, which maintains a distro of hard-to-find queer and trans print media and organizes an annual book and zine fair in Montreal – one of the largest queer book fairs in North America. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/08/trr-qbtc/

In episode #230 of Talking Radical Radio (August 1, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Julia Smith and Sean Carleton of the Graphic History Collective. They talk about the group's decade of work with comics as a means to tell histories of marginalized people and of struggles for justice, and about their current Remember Resist Redraw poster project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/08/01/trr-remember_resist_redraw/ ‎

In episode #229 of Talking Radical Radio (July 25, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Cory Weir and Mike Mutimer. They are rank-and-file auto workers in Oshawa, Ontario, and they are among the founding members of the Unifor Solidarity Network, a new network of rank-and-file workers within Canada's largest private sector union. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/25/radio-a-new-rank…ate-sector-union/ ‎

Episode #228 of Talking Radical Radio (July 18, 2017) offers a behind-the-scenes look at the bold Reoccupation that went to the very heart of the Canadian settler colonial project -- Parliament Hill itself -- and used ceremony to challenge and unsettle Canada's 150th anniversary celebrations. Freddy Stoneypoint, Summer-Harmony Twenish, Trycia Bazinet, Hamda Deria, and Elsa Hoover were among the organizers of and participants in the Reoccupation ceremony, and they talk about their experiences on the Hill and their understanding of the ongoing work of unsettling Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/18/trr-canada_day_reoccupation/

In episode #227 of Talking Radical Radio (July 11, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Teghan Barton of the Hillside Music Festival, happening from July 14 to 16 in Guelph, Ontario. They talk about the relationship between music and struggles for social justice and about this year's decision by the festival to highlite music of protest and resistance at a moment that calls for as much of both of those things as we can muster. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/11/trr-hillside/ ‎

In episode #226 of Talking Radical Radio (July 4, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Holly Andersen and Rudy Reimer. They live on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia and are part of a growing group of residents opposing the expansion of the nearby storage facility, or "tank farm," that marks the BC terminus of the widely opposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/04/trr-burnaby_mountain_residents/

In episode #225 of Talking Radical Radio (June 27, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Sandeep Prasad and Frédérique Chabot. They work for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, an organization that is active on a wide range of issues connected to sexuality, gender, and reproduction, both in Canada and globally. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/27/trr-action_canada/

In episode #224 of Talking Radical Radio (June 20, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Jennifer Hefler-Elson. She is a member of the Labrador Land Protectors, a grassroots group opposed to the hydroelectric dam megaproject being built at Muskrat Falls. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/20/trr-labrador_land_protectors/

In episode #223 of Talking Radical Radio (June 13, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Rabea Murtaza. She is a member of East Enders Against Racism, a neighbourhood-based anti-racism group in Toronto that came together in the wake of a blatant white supremacist incident after last November's presidential election in the US. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/14/trr-east_enders_against_racism/

In episode #222 of Talking Radical Radio (June 6, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with JoAnn Jaffe and Peter Garden. They are fighting back against the massive wave of cuts to social programs and privatization initiated earlier this year by the provincial government in Saskwatchewan. They belong to Stop the Cuts, a group working to support the many individual fightbacks against individual cuts and to help them come together into a broader movement. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/06/06/trr-stop_the_cuts/