Talking Radical Radio

In episode #142 of Talking Radical Radio (November 18, 2015), I speak with Émilie Joly. She is a community orgnizer with FRAPRU, or Le Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain, and she talks with me about their long history of research, writing, and street-level mobilization around issues of concern to low-income tenants. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/18/radio-the-long-fight-in-quebec-for-adequate-affordable-housing-for-all/

In episode #141 of Talking Radical Radio (November 11, 2015), I speak with Stefan Christoff. He is both a long-time organizer in a range of grassroots movements in Montreal as well as a musician, mostly a pianist. He sees strong connections between the movements in which he is active and music, including music that does not carry its politics in words, and today he explains those connections. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/11/trr-christoff_music/

In episode #140 of Talking Radical Radio (November 4, 2015), I speak with Datejie Green and Chris Webb. They are members of the Ali Mustafa Memorial Collective, which works to commemorate the life of Toronto grassroots journalist and radical organizer Ali Mustafa while supporting young people in carrying forward similar work today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/04/trr-remembering_ali_mustafa/

In episode #139 of Talking Radical Radio (October 28, 2015), I speak with Clayton Thomas-Muller. He is the campaign director of the Global Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign, a member of the Puktawagan Cree First Nation, and the "stop it at the source" campaigner for 350.org. He is also one of the organizers putting together an action that will use civil disobedience to bring a strong message to incoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau -- yes, the one elected by a campaign whose co-chair had to quit because of ties to the fossil fuel industry -- that Canada must act on questions of climate justice. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/11/04/trr-climate_welcome/

In episode #138 of Talking Radical Radio (October 21, 2015), I speak with Candyce Paul. She is a member of the Committee for Future Generations, a group that formed in northern Saskatchewan to oppose efforts to locate a radioactive waste storage facility in the region. Earlier this year, they won that battle, and they have moved their focus to the impacts of existing uranium mines and of the many mining exploration claims blanketing (and disrupting) the area. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/10/21/trr-ctte_for_future_generations/

In episode #137 of Talking Radical Radio (October 14, 2015), I speak with Wendy Goldsmith and Dru Oja Jay. They work at Friends of Public Services, a very new organization that is mobilizing people during the election campaign to fight against cuts, the threat of privatization, and attacks on home delivery at Canada Post, and is developing a longer-term vision to defend and enhance public services more generally. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/10/21/trr-friends_of_public_services/

In episode #136 of Talking Radical Radio (October 7, 2015), I speak with Alicia Owen and Sheryl Jarvis. They are moms with lived experience and a critical analysis of the child welfare system. They are also members of Community Action for Families, a group focused on providing direct support to moms navigating the system and on challenging the harm that it does to families. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/10/21/trr-community_action_for_families/

In episode #135 of Talking Radical Radio (September 30, 2015), I speak with Dr. Baj Mukhopadhyay. He is a physician and a core activist in the Canadian chapter of the People's Health Movement. They mobilize around a health justice perspective, and work to bring that sort of analysis to bear in a range of social movement struggles, including fights against extractive industries and organizing that responds to the harms caused by colonialism. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/30/trr-peoples_health_movement/

In episode #134 of Talking Radical Radio (September 23, 2015), I speak with Steve Baird. He is a member of the Education Across Borders collective, which has been fighting for the last several years in Montreal to win unimpeded access to basic education in Quebec for children without immigration status in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/23/radio-fighting-for-access-to-education-for-undocumented-migrants-in-montreal/

In episode #133 of Talking Radical Radio (September 16, 2015), I speak with Mia Sopapilla and Jordan House. They are education workers, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and organizers of the Working For Each Other, Working For Ourselves summit, a gathering for radical worker-organizers in Toronto. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/16/trr-working_for_each_other/

In episode #132 of Talking Radical Radio (September 9, 2015), I speak with Christi Belcourt. She is a Metis artist and a member of the Onaman Collective, a small group of artists who work to catalyze the learning of Indigenous languages and traditional knowledge. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/16/trr_onaman_collective/

In episode #131 of Talking Radical Radio (September 2, 2015), I speak with Cikiah Thomas. He is a longtime activist and the current chair of the Global African Congress, and he speaks with me about efforts to win reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and slavery itself -- particularly efforts taking place in the Canadian context. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/09/02/trr-reparations_for_slavery/

In episode #130 of Talking Radical Radio (August 26, 2015), I speak with Andy Villanueva and Kerin Bethel-John. They are members of Project Slut, a collective of young women who set out to abolish the dress code in their high school and won, and who now have their sights set on transforming school dress codes across the entire Toronto District School Board. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/26/radio-project-slut-young-women-challenging-rape-culture-slut-shaming-and-high-school-dress-codes/

In episode #129 of Talking Radical Radio (August 19, 2015), I speak with Hillary Lindsay and Omri Haiven. They speak with me about a project called the Tatamagouche Summer Free School, which brings together activists at the end of August each year to learn from each other and to recharge for a new season of involvement in struggles for social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/19/trr-tatamagouche_free_school/

In episode #128 of Talking Radical Radio (August 12, 2015), I speak with Monique Woroniak and Liz Carlson. They are two participants in a small group of women from Winnipeg who have taken seriously the admonition that white settler folks must work with other white settler folks in pushing anti-racist and decolonizing politics. To that end they have, in tight consultation with diversely located Indigenous people in Winnipeg, produced a website to allow settlers who are questioning the received wisdom about Canada to educate ourselves with respect to the country's colonial present and past. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/19/radio-a-new-grassroots-resource-for-settlers-to-learn-about-canadas-colonial-present-and-past/

In episode #127 of Talking Radical Radio (August 5, 2015), I speak with Irene Lanzinger. She is the president of the British Columbia Federation of Labour, which is spearheading the BC version of the Fight for $15 campaign to raise the minimum wage that is sweeping across North America. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/08/05/radio-fighting-for-a-15hr-minimum-wage-in-british-columbia/

In episode #126 of Talking Radical Radio (July 29, 2015), I speak with Bonnie Heilman and Peter Garden. They are members of the Treaty 6 Justice Collective, a group that is attempting to address the urgent need in our communities for infrastructure to support organizing and activism. They began from a decade-old independent bookstore in Saksatoon, Saskatchewan, called Turning the Tide, and from that beginning they have launched an exciting new experiment called The Stand Community Organizing Centre. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/29/radio-from-bookstore-to-community-organizing-space-activist-infrastructure/

In episode #125 of Talking Radical Radio (July 22, 2015), I speak with Kyle Buott. He is the president of the Halifax-Dartmouth and District Labour Council and a member of Solidarity Halifax. He talks with me about a recent gathering: 14 anti-austerity and anti-capitalist groups from across the country were hosted by Solidarity Halifax at a Congress of the Radical Left, to discuss building relationships and possibilities for pluralist, non-sectarian collaboration in the struggle for transformative social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/29/radio-not-yet-canadas-syriza-but-a-small-step-in-that-direction/

In episode #124 of Talking Radical Radio (July 15, 2015), I speak with Aimee Louw and Charli Lessard. They are involved with the ACSEXE+ project, an initiative based in Montreal that works to create opportunities for disabled people to talk, share, and learn about sexuality and the wide spectrum of issues with which it intersects. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/15/radio-acsexe-talking-disability-and-sexuality-in-montreal/

In episode #123 of Talking Radical Radio (July 8, 2015), I speak with Robyn Pitawanakwat and Andrew Loewen. They are members of Voices for Justice and Police Accountability, a group that formed this past January after a number of high-profile incidents involving police mistreatment of Indigenous people in Regina, Saskatchewan. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2015/07/08/trr-regina_policing/