Talking Radical Radio

In episode #202 of Talking Radical Radio (January 18, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Susan Brigham and Cassandra McDonald. They are involved in organizing the Girls 2017 Conference, which will be happening in early March at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They speak with me about the challenges faced by girls and young women today, about the history and organizing of the annual Girls Conference, and about the exciting things that will be happening at Girls 2017. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/01/18/trr-girls2017/

In episode #201 of Talking Radical Radio (January 11, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Mairi Anderson and Cam McMillan. They are members of Bus Riders of Saskatoon, an advocacy group made up of people who use public transit. They aim to make the transit system in their city "a viable transportation choice for all and a basic right of residency" and they talk about the group, the city, the transit system, and the work that they're doing to make it better. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/01/11/trr-bus_riders_saskatoon/

In episode #200 of Talking Radical Radio (January 4, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Danielle Aubry and Joe McGuire. Aubry is the CEO of Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse and McGuire is a sexual assault educator with that organization. They talk about their work to engage men in the long, multi-faceted struggle to end sexual violence. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/01/04/trr-man_enough/

In episode #199 of Talking Radical Radio (December 21, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Herb Varley and Ivan Drury. They are organizers with the Alliance Against Displacement, a British Columbia group that is bringing together struggles across multiple low-income and Indigenous communities in the province, with the aim of helping them become stronger, less isolated, more able to support each other, and more firmly grounded politically. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/12/21/trr-alliance_against_displacement/

In episode #198 of Talking Radical Radio (December 14, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Mark Brown about the work of the Canadian chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). The CBTU brings together Black workers from across the labour movement and across the country to fight against racism and all of the other forms of oppression with which it intersects, both within the labour movement and in the broader society. They talk about some of the history of organizing within the labour movement by Black workers, about the role and work of the CBTU, and about the important political challenges facing Black trade unionists today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/12/21/trr-cbtu/

In episode #197 of Talking Radical Radio (December 7, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter and Liam O'Neill Gordon. They are involved in the Calgary School of Informal Education (CSIE), a new initiative that is creating opportunities for people to share skills and knowledge of all sorts in an inclusive, accessible, and affordable grassroots community setting with an orientation towards justice. Jade and Liam speak about the philosophy, the goals, and the nuts-and-bolts work of the CSIE. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/12/07/trr_calgary_school_informal_ed/

In episode #196 of Talking Radical Radio (November 30, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Alexis Shotwell and Gary Kinsman. They are involved in the AIDS Activist History Project, an initiative that is recovering the stories of the radical organizing that happened in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s in response to the AIDS crisis. They speak with me about the project, about the important work done by the AIDS movement in the Canadian context, and about what we can learn from this important piece of history to inform the many struggles that we face today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/30/trr-aids_activist_history/

In episode #195 of Talking Radical Radio (November 23, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Dwight Gordon. He is a member of Jane Finch Action Against Poverty, a group based in northwest Toronto that is active on anti-poverty issues and more. He speaks about the community, about the group, and about the many issues in which the group and its members are involved. For more detailed information about the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/30/trr-jfaap/

In episode #194 of Talking Radical Radio (November 16, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with producer and director David Lavallee about his new documentary film, *To the Ends of the Earth*, which explores the impacts of unconventional fossil fuels. Lavallee talks about his filmmaking process, about the challenges and opportunities offered by filmmaking as a medium for addressing complex social issues, and about the threat posed by extreme energy sources like the tar sands and fracking. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/16/radio-using-film-to-challenge-the-dubious-economics-of-tar-sands-and-fracking/

In episode #193 of Talking Radical Radio (November 9, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Helen Hudson and Sara Falconer. They are members of the collective that produces the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. The interview also includes supplmental audio material from Herman Bell, a former member of the Black Panther Party, a currently incarcerated political prisoner, and also a member of the Certain Days collective. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/16/radio-certain-days-freedom-for-political-prisoners-calendar/

In episode #192 of Talking Radical Radio (November 2, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Ardath Whynacht and Dee Morse. Both are on the board of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project (NSRAP), the only province-wide group fighting for queer and trans rights in Nova Scotia. They talk with me about NSRAP's work, about pinkwashing and the fight against it in Halifax, and about how NSRAP hopes to move forward from here with its commitment to political work centred on practical wins for the most marginal queer, trans, and two-spirit people in Nova Scotia. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/11/02/trr-nsrap_anti_pinkwashing/

In episode #191 of Talking Radical Radio (October 26, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Dyna Tuytel and Barry Robinson. The two are staff lawyers in the Calgary office of Ecojustice, a Canada-wide environmental law charity that is committed to improving the environment through law. The organization as a whole has represented environmental organizations in many key struggles in the last two and a half decades, and Tuytel and Robinson in particular have mostly worked on cases seeking to challenge the many harms caused by the oil and gas industry, tar sands and pipelines. They speak with me about the work of Ecojustice as a whole, about some of their own work, and about the broad outlines of what the law can and cannot be expected to accomplish when it comes to defending the earth.

In episode #190 of Talking Radical Radio (October 19, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Basia Sokal and Arlyn Doran. They are letter carriers and activists in the Winnipeg local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), and they talk about how they mobilized with other rank-and-file workers over the last year to act up and speak out at the depot where they work, as their union engaged in a very tough round of negotiations with Canada Post at the national level. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/10/19/trr-cupw_shopfloor/

In episode #189 of Talking Radical Radio (October 12, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Helen Knott. She is a member of Prophet River First Nation, a mother, a writer, and a social worker, and she has been deeply involved at the grassroots level in the opposition to the Site C hydroelectric dam project. She speaks with me about the dam project, the land and people that it will harm, and the resistance that has taken place so far. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/10/12/trr-site_c/

In episode #188 of Talking Radical Radio (October 5, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Sarah Hipworth and Luke Stewart about *Let Them Stay*, a new book that brings together the voices of U.S. soldiers who have sought sanctuary in Canada in opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- with a look at the history of the struggle to let them remain here. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/10/05/trr-let_them_stay/

In episode #187 of Talking Radical Radio (September 28, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Gabriel Allahdua, a migrant farmworker and one of the organizers of the month-long Harvesting Freedom caravan. As the caravan approaches Ottawa, where it will present its demands for justice for migrant farmworkers to the federal government, we look back at the journey, the issues, and the struggle. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/28/trr-harvesting_freedom/

In episode #186 of Talking Radical Radio (September 21, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Rebecca Thomas. She is a Mi'kmaq woman, an activist, and a poet, and she is also the first Indigenous person to be the poet laureate of the Halifax Regional Municipality. Thomas speaks about poetry, activism, and the relationship between them, and performs her poems "Pennies" and "Redface." For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/21/trr-rebecca_thomas/

In episode #185 of Talking Radical Radio (September 14, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Steve Stewart. He is the technical secretary for the Initiative for Democratic Education in the Americas, also known as the IDEA Network, which brings together organizations from across the hemisphere that are committed to defending and enhancing public education. He talks about the ongoing, hemisphere-wide threats to public education, and about the work of the IDEA Network to support struggles to defend it. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/14/ttr-idea_network/

In episode #184 of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Stefan Kipfer and Herman Rosenfeld. They are active with Free Transit Toronto, an activist network focused on a long-term vision of high quality and completely free public transit, as well as on supporting short-term organizing that seeks winnable immediate reforms that move in that direction. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/09/07/trr-free_transit_toronto/

In episode #183 of Talking Radical Radio (August 31, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Florence Stratton and Ed Lehman. They are both long-time peace and social justice activists, and they speak about the work of PeaceQuest Regina to build a culture of peace in high schools and in the community at large. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/31/trr-peacequest_regina/