Talking Radical Radio

In episode #82 of Talking Radical Radio (September 24, 2014), anti-poverty organizer and sociologist Lesley Wood talks about her new book, *Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing* from Between The Lines Books. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/trr-protest_policing/

In episode #81 of Talking Radical Radio (September 17, 2014), Cathy Edwards, the executive director of Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS), talks about the work her organization is doing to bring about a new era for community media in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/trr-cactus/

In episode #80 of Talking Radical Radio (September 10, 2014), Hugh Lampkin talks about efforts in Vancouver among users of illicit drugs to mobilize in the service of social justice and harm reduction. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/trr-vandu/

In episode #79 of Talking Radical Radio (September 3, 2014), Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven talk about their work in Halifax to understand the role of radical imagination in struggles for social justice, and to use that understanding to support movements in the city. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/09/24/radio-exploring-the-radical-imagination-in-halifax/

In episode #78 of Talking Radical Radio (August 27, 2014), organizers Tiffany Balducci and Jim Freeman talk about We Are Oshawa, a new organization working on multiple social justice issues in a small Ontario city. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/27/trr-we_are_oshawa/

In episode #77 of Talking Radical Radio (August 20, 2014), climate justice organizers Aurore Fauret and Lily Schwarzbaum talk about "La marche des Peuples pour la Terre Mère," a month-long walk across Quebec that connected urban radicals with activists in communities under threat from proposed tar sands pipelines. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/20/trr-marche_terre_mere/

In episode #76 of Talking Radical Radio (August 13, 2014), organizers Sakura Saunders and Greg Macdougall talk about the Peoples' Social Forum. It will be the first pan-Canadian/Quebec/Indigenous convergence of movements and communities-in-struggle to draw people from across the northern half of Turtle Island, and it is happening in Ottawa from August 21 to 24, 2014. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/13/radio-the-peoples-social-forum-a-pan-canadianquebecindigenous-movement-convergence/

In episode #75 of Talking Radical Radio (August 6, 2014), Samira Kanji and Azeezah Kanji talk about the work of the Noor Cultural Centre in support of a vision of social justice grounded in Islamic teachings. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/08/06/trr-noor_cultural_centre/

In episode #74 of Talking Radical Radio (July 30, 2014), Jana-Rae Yerxa and Damien Lee talk about the work of the Biskaabiiyang Collective in the face of both longstanding and recently intensified racism and settler colonialism in Thunder Bay. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/30/trr-tbay_racism_settler_colonialism/

In episode #73 of Talking Radical Radio (July 23, 2014), Carol Wodak and Noel Somerville talk about the Seniors Action and Liason Team, or SALT, a grassroots group of older adults in Edmonton that organizes around seniors' issues and around social justice issues more broadly. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/30/trr-salt_edmonton/

In episode #72 of Talking Radical Radio (July 16, 2014), Arabella Colombier and another member of Demilitarize McGill talk about the past and present of student organizing to get military research off the campus of McGill University in Montreal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/30/trr-demilitarize_mcgill/

In episode #71 of Talking Radical Radio (July 9, 2014), organizers Christine Bro and Doug Nesbitt talk about the "Justice for Janitors" campaign in Ottawa. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/09/trr-j4j_ottawa/

In episode #70 of Talking Radical Radio (July 2, 2014), Tanya Andrusieczko talks about her process of dreaming up the first feminist summer camp in Saskatoon, and then working to make it a reality this year. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/09/trr-feminist_summer_camp/

In episode #69 of Talking Radical Radio (June 25, 2014), organizer and author Dru Oja Jay talks about how the pressures to address important issues via funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can be a barrier to the kinds of organizing and collective empowerment that will be necessary to truly address those issues. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/09/trr-ngoization/

In episode #68 of Talking Radical Radio, Vanessa Gray talks about taking action against toxic colonialism. She is a 21 year-old university student from Aamjiwnaang First Nation in southwestern Ontario, located near the city of Sarnia and what is colloquially referred to as Chemical Valley. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/06/18/trr-aamjiwnaang/

In episode #66 of Talking Radical Radio (June 4, 2014), Ken Crush, Cathy Holtslander and Lyle Orchard talk about how residents have mobilized to oppose the plans by Fortune Minerals to build an ore processing plant on agricultural land between Langham and Dalmeny, Saskatchewan.

In episode #67 of Talking Radical Radio (June 11, 2014), Stefan Christoff talks about the work with multiple cultural and artistic forms by the Howl! Arts Collective in Montreal as part of broader movements for radical social change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/06/18/trr-howl_arts/

In episode #65 of Talking Radical Radio (May 28, 2014), Jean Swanson and Phoenix talk about their work against the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/06/03/trr-vancouver_gentrification/

In episode #64 of Talking Radical Radio (May 21, 2014), organizer Jude Ashburn talks about several aspects of recent radical queer and trans organizing in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For a more detailed description of this show, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/05/21/trr-halifax_queer_trans/

In episode #63 of Talking Radical Radio (May 14, 2014), climate scientist Paul Beckwith talks about his research as well as about his efforts to push beyond the usual role expected of scientists and engage directly with the public on scientific questions related to cliamte change. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/05/21/trr-paul_beckwith/