Talking Radical Radio

Black youth opposing gentrification and empowering community

scott.neigh — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:22:30 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Kyturea Jones, Payton Ashe, and Donntayia Jones. They are members of the North End Community Action Committee, a Black youth-led community group in Halifax's North End that came together around concerns about the gentrification of their neighbourhood and that has become involved in a wide range of issues focused on empowering both Black youth and the communities they live in.

Defending social movements against digital threats

scott.neigh — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:37:19 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Dmitri Vitaliev. He is a co-founder and director of eQualit.ie, a non-profit based in Montreal that helps human rights organizations and social movements -- including some of the world's most prominent -- deal with increasingly crucial questions of online security and digital privacy.

Cockroach Zine: DIY feminist publishing

scott.neigh — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 13:56:28 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Meg Crane. She is a freelance writer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and she publishes a grassroots ecofeminist publication called Cockroach Zine.

When Crane was younger, she was someone who cared a lot about the suffering in the world but she felt powerless to do anything about it. Then, at a pivotal moment in her teens, she realized that you didn't need to be someone richer, or someone older, or someone more important to take action -- you, whoever you happened to be, could act, could make a difference in people's lives.

Canada 150 and the violation of an Algonquin Anishinaabe sacred site

scott.neigh — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:56:48 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Lynn Gehl and Lindsay Lambert. Gehl is an Algonquin woman who traces her roots to the Ottawa River Valley, though she herself lives in Peterborough, Ontario. She holds a PhD in Indigenous Studies, and is a writer and activist. Lindsay Lambert is a white settler man, a historian, and also a writer. Both have been involved in the fight against the ongoing colonial development of the Chaudiere Falls and the three associated islands -- a sacred site to the Algonquin Anishinaabe people that is, in the year of Canada 150, slated to be turned into condominiums.

Empowering girls and young women in Nova Scotia

scott.neigh — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:51:17 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, 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.

Public transit advocacy in a smaller city

scott.neigh — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:57:13 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, 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."

Engaging men in the fight against sexual violence

scott.neigh — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:25:41 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, 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.

Rebroadcast: Social movements and how they make, learn, and teach ideas

scott.neigh — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:24:03 +0000

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On this episode of Talking Radical Radio (which was originally broadcast and posted in the week of January 18, 2016), Scott Neigh speaks with Aziz Choudry, a long-time activist, a scholar of social movements, and the author of the new book Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements.

Connecting and radicalizing struggles across low-income communities

scott.neigh — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 13:44:37 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, 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.

Black workers building links, fighting back

scott.neigh — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:04:50 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, 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.

It is a truism but worth noting nonetheless: human institutions are always a product of the society in which they exist. Where the fabric of that society is woven through with particular kinds of injustices and oppressions, so too is the functioning of institutions within that society.

Grassroots learning and education beyond school

scott.neigh — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:47:43 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, 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.

The history of radical HIV/AIDS organizing in Canada

scott.neigh — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:47:54 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, 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.

Fighting poverty and more in northwest Toronto

scott.neigh — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:45:19 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, 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 much more.

Using film to challenge the dubious economics of tar sands and fracking

scott.neigh — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:43:36 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, 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.

Calendar pays tribute to political prisoners and histories of struggle for justice

scott.neigh — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:44:11 +0000

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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, 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.