Talking Radical Radio

In episode #182 of Talking Radical Radio (August 24, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Mary Shortall, Jim Dinn, and Sara Langer. They are all members of Common Front NL, a broad coalition that has formed to oppose the drastic austerity measures being implemented by the provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador. For a more detailed description of the episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/24/trr-common_front_nl/

In episode #181 of Talking Radical Radio (August 17, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Rachel and Eric. They are members of End the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC), a group organizing in Kingston, Ontario -- the city with the highest density of federal correctional facilities of any community in Canada -- for the abolition of prisons. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/17/trr-kingston_epic/

In episode #180 of Talking Radical Radio (August 10, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Laith Marouf and Kristiana Clemens. They are involved with the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), a new organization focused on advocacy in and for the community radio and television sectors, particularly with respect to access and equity for marginalized communities. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/10/trr-cmac/

In episode #179 of Talking Radical Radio (August 3, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with William Felepchuk and Brian McDougall. They are members of Stop Windmill: Student and Labour Allies for Akikodjiwan, a group that aims to bring predominantly non-Indigenous people together in support of Algonquin demands that a sacred site in the Ottawa river be protected from a proposed condominium development and returned to Algonquin ownership and stewardship. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/08/03/radio-settler-solidarity-against-colonial-urban-development/

In episode #178 of Talking Radical Radio (July 27, 2016), I speak with Adam Cormier and Lliam Hildebrand. They are co-founders of Iron and Earth, an organization of and for workers in the Alberta oilsands who are pushing for greater support for the development of renewable energy resources and for a sustainable energy future for Canada. They talk with me about working in the oil and gas sector, about climate change, about the work of Iron and Earth, and about why they and many other oilsands workers are beginning to push for a just transition to a sustainable energy economy. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/07/27/trr-oil_and_earth/

In episode #177 of Talking Radical Radio (July 20, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Tameera Mohamed. Last year, she and some of her friends became frustrated with the narrow and limited scope of mainstream (including mainstream feminist) politics focused on the body. In response, they founded the collective Our Resilient Bodies to bring a radical, intersectional, feminist lens to bear and to expand the range of conversations and actions happening related to body positivity (broadly understood) in the Halifax community. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/07/20/trr-our_resilient_bodies/

In episode #176 of Talking Radical Radio (July 13, 2016), I speak with Kimbra Yohannes and Daniel Tseghay. They are members of We Welcome African Refugees, a new organization working to challenge the marginalization of refugees from African countries in public conversation and public policy in Canada, and to implement a new model of community organizing. They speak with me about the experiences of refugees from Eritrea and other African countries, about the marginalization of African refugees within popular discourse and government policy in Canada, and about the new grassroots model that We Welcome African Refugees is using to challenge this marginalization. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/07/13/trr-we_welcome_african_refugees/

In episode #175 of Talking Radical Radio (July 6, 2016), I speak with York University labour historian Craig Heron about his multiple award-winning book *Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers' City* (Between the Lines, 2015), and about what movements today can gain from paying attention to the past. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/07/06/trr-lunchbucket_lives/

In episode #174 of Talking Radical Radio (June 29, 2016), I speak with Jessica Barry and Nicole Collins. They are members of Smash Patriarchy: An Action Team (or SPAAT), a feminist group that has been part of a broader resurgence in feminist action over the last year in St. John's, Newfoundland. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/29/radio-smashing-the-patriarchy-in-newfoundland/

In episode #173 of Talking Radical Radio (June 22, 2016), I speak with Edith Machattie and Jen Kuhl of the BC Health Coalition. They talk with me about the coalition's work to defend and improve public healthcare, including their intervention in opposition to the legal challenge that could be the single gravest threat that the system currently faces. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/22/trr-bc_health_coalition/

In episode #172 of Talking Radical Radio (June 15, 2016), I speak with Sofia Soriano and David Camfield. They are members of a new group called Solidarity Winnipeg, which aims to build grassroots momentum in the face of the newly intensified austerity agenda in the province of Manitoba. They speak with me about the peculiar political context of their province, about the work of Solidarity Winnipeg so far, and about the ongoing experiment of becoming a new kind of grassroots, multi-issue, non-sectarian radical formation. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/15/trr-solidarity_winnipeg/

In episode #171 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Wendy Pederson about her work with the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative, a group that is organizing tenants in single-room occupancy (or SRO) hotels in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/08/trr-dtes_sro_collaborative/

In episode #170 of Talking Radical Radio (June 1, 2016), I speak with Bianca Mugyenyi and Martin Lukacs about being part of the team of people who has been working hard to turn the inspiring words of the Leap Manifesto into grassroots political power on the ground. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/06/01/trr-leap_manifesto/

In episode #169 of Talking Radical Radio (May 25, 2016), I speak with Su Deranger and Robyn Pitawanakwat about the Colonialism No More camp taking place outside of the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) building in Regina, Saskatchewan. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/05/25/radio-colonialism-no-more/

In episode #168 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Andrew Cash. He was a member of Parliament from 2011 to 2015, and he is a co-founder of the Urban Worker Project. He talks with me about his own experiences of precarious work in the arts and culture sector, about the importance of doing more to protect and support workers in a radically changed world of work, and about the Urban Worker Project. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/05/18/trr-urban_worker_project/

In episode #167 of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Jackie McVicar. She is a member of the Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), which brings together groups and individuals from across the Maritimes who are interested in working in solidarity with the peoples of Latin and Central America. She alks with me about ARSN, about Canadian complicity in global injustice (particularly when it comes to extractive industries), and about the challenges of international solidarity. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/05/11/trr-atlantic_regional_solidarity_network/

In episode #166 of Talking Radical Radio (May 4, 2016), I speak with Erin Crickett, the public education coordinator at the Sexual Assault Centre Hamilton and Area (SACHA). She devised the #IBelieveSurvivors and #WeBelieveSurvivors hashtag campaign that took off across Canada on the day of the verdict from the first trial of Jian Ghomeshi, and she talks with me about supporting survivors and challenging rape culture. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/05/04/trr_webelievesurvivors/

In episode #165 of Talking Radical Radio (April 27, 2016), I speak with Evelyn Encalada of Justice for Migrant Workers and multiple award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee. They talk about the experiences and struggles of migrant agricultural workers in Canada, and about the new feature-length documentary *Migrant Dreams*. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/27/trr-migrant_dreams/

In episode #164 of Talking Radical Radio (April 20, 2016), I speak with Ann Divine and Pastor Lennett Anderson about the racial profiling that Black people and other racialized people often experience in stores -- both in general, and about the specific case of Andrella David -- and what one community is doing to try to make things different. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/20/trr-consumer_racial_profiling/

In episode #163 of Talking Radical Radio (April 13, 2016), I speak with Sarah Sultani and Katia Stuart-Gagnon. They are members of the organizing collective that is bringing the World Social Forum – the largest gathering of civil society and social movements on the planet – to Montreal from August 9 to 14, 2016. They speak with me about the WSF and about the process of bringing it to Montreal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/13/trr-wsf_2016_montreal/