Talking Radical Radio

In episode #62 of Talking Radical Radio (May 7, 2014), we look at migrant justice organizing in Canada as an inspiring example of how struggles against injustices in the lives of individuals can be integrated into -- and, indeed, can be the basic building blocks for -- broader struggles for systemic change. Deepan Budlakoti talks about his own struggle against an injustice imposed by the Canadian state, and Syed Hussan talks about a number of other examples and about the question more broadly based on his experience as an organizer with No One Is Illegal - Toronto. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/05/21/trr-migrant_justice_collective/

In episode #61 of Talking Radical Radio (April 30, 2014), Sonia Singh of the Toronto Workers Action Centre and Anthony Tambureno of the Peel Regional Labour Council talk about the province-wide campaign by community groups, workers centres, unions, faith organizations, and more that has worked for the last year to get the Ontario government to boost the minimum wage to a living wage of $14/hr. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/30/radio-the-fight-to-raise-the-minimum-wage-in-ontario/

In episode #60 of Talking Radical Radio (April 23, 2014), co-directors Valerie Smith and Jarem Sawatsky talk about the work of the Canadian School of Peacebuilding to support students, professional peace workers, and ordinary people in developing skills and knowledge for the work of making the world more peaceful and just. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/23/trr-school_of_peacebuilding/

In episode #59 of Talking Radical Radio (April 16, 2014), Zoe Blunt talks about the multifaceted organizing work by the Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network (VIC FAN) against colonial, profit-driven development. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/23/trr-vic_fan/

In episode #58 of Talking Radical Radio (April 9, 2014), Parker Mah talks about *Being Chinese in Quebec*, a documentary film by Malcolm Guy and William Dere that explores "the younger generation of Sino-Quebecois and their struggles of identity, integration and building a life for themselves in this province," and how the long history of people of Chinese origin navigating exclusion and racism in Canada and Quebec plays out in the lives of young Chinese Quebeckers today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/23/trr-being-chinese-in-quebec/

In episode #57 of Talking Radical Radio (April 2, 2014), Donald Altman talks about the work that he and other members of the grassroots Alliance for Affordable Co-operative Housing (AACH) have done to defend the ability of non-profit housing co-operatives (and other forms of not-for-profit housing) to offer rent-geared-to-income units and to try to prevent a significant erosion of Canada's already vastly inadequate social housing stock. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/04/23/trr-affordable_co-op_housing/

In episode #56 of Talking Radical Radio (Marc 26, 2014), Anna Willats and Sean Lee-Popham talk about the Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund, which is an attempt to address the lack of grassroots funding infrastructure for movement-related groups, projects, and organizations in Ontario. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-groundswell_fund/

In episode #55 of Talking Radical Radio (March 19, 2014), Roger Annis talks about the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group and their commitment to the idea that thinking deeply about how capitalism works must be central to challenging the harm it does to workers and the harm it does to the planet. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-vancouver_ecosocialist/

In episode #54 of Talking Radical Radio (March 12, 2014), Saira Chhibber talks about Local 1281 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), and about a long but recently ended lockout experienced by some of their members. For a more detailed but description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-cupe_1281/

In episode #53 of Talking Radical Radio, Caitlin Craven and Josee Oliphant talk about the organizing that went into winning a unanimous city council vote in Hamilton, Ontario, that declared it the second 'sanctuary city' in Canada. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/03/26/trr-hamilton_sanctuary_city/

In episode #52 of Talking Radical Radio, Lyn Adamson, Dewan Afzal, and Rita Bijons talk about Climatefast, a group that uses fasting as a form of witness to call people to action on climate change, with the vision of contributing to a broader movement. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/02/26/trr-climatefast/

Episode #51 of Talking Radical Radio (February 12, 2014) is the second of two based on an interview with Miles Howe. Howe is an editor and a journalist with the Halifax local of The Media Co-op, a co-operatively organized grassroots media network with locals and working groups in cities across the country. Over the last year, Howe has provided truly excellent coverage of the struggle against hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and against colonization in New Brunswick, which has been lead by people from the Elsipogtog First Nation and quite broadly supported in the area. This week's episode features the portion of our conversation in which Howe stepped back a bit from that immediate struggle, which has occupied so much of his atteniton in the last year, and used that experience as a basis for reflecting on what it means to engage in grassroots journalism, how it differs from mainstream journalism, and what he hopes that such work can accomplish. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http:/

In both this episode of Talking Radical Radio -- episode #50, from February 5, 2013 -- and the following one, I will be speaking with Miles Howe. Howe is an editor and a journalist with the Halifax local of The Media Co-op, a co-operatively organized grassroots media network with locals and working groups in cities across the country. Over the last year, Howe has provided truly excellent coverage of the struggle against hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and against colonization in New Brunswick, which has been lead by people from the Elsipogtog First Nation and quite broadly supported in the area. In this episode, Howe talks about some of the historical background, about the lead-up and events that initiated the current phase of struggle in New Brunswick, and about some of the key moments of conflict and crisis that he observed and participated in, as community members and allies attempted to prevent a surveying company from engaging in seismic testing as a prelude to fracking. For a more detailed descripti

In episode #49 of Talking Radical Radio (January 29, 2014), Paul Tsuma and Aimee Louw talk about Accessibilize Montreal, a new grassroots group working to challenge and change the many ways their city is currently inaccessible and ableist. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/02/09/trr-accessibilize_montreal/

In episode #47 of Talking Radical Radio (January 15, 2014), Jennifer West and Catherine Abreu talk about their work with a provincial coalition that opposes hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Nova Scotia. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/22/trr-nofra/

In episode #48 of Talking Radical Radio (January 22, 2014), Syvlia McFadden and Carla Bergman talk about their work with The Purple Thistle Centre, a youth-run community centre for arts and activism in Vancouver. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/22/trr-purple_thistle/

In episode #46 of Talking Radical Radio (January 8, 2014), Scott Price talks about his work with the Oral History Centre at the University of Winnipeg and with Local 832 of the United Food and Commercial Workers unearthing histories of working-class (including working-class feminist) struggles. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/08/trr-oh_labour_feminism_manitob/

In episode #45 of Talking Radical Radio (January 1, 2014), Audrey Huntley of the No More Silence network and Krysta Williams of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network speak about organizing against the violence experienced by indigenous women and about a new project in which they are partnered that will contribute to building that movement. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/08/trr-huntley_and_williams/

In episode #44 Talking Radical Radio (December 25, 2013), lead organizer Scott Jackson of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) District 78, talks about how his union, historically based in large manufacturing workplaces, has responded to changing times by refocusing its organizing energies on smaller and non-traditional workplaces. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/01/08/trr-iamaw_district_78/

In episode #43 of Talking Radical Radio (December 18, 2013), environmental activist Kevin O'Reilly talks about his work on mining and resource extraction issues in the Northwest Territories. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2013/12/18/trr-alternatives_north_mining/