Every community, every workplace, and every individual life in Canada owes some of their current shape to long histories of struggle by ordinary people. And the lives we live tomorrow, next year, and in seven generations will be shaped by the struggles going on today.
Talking Radical is a multifaceted project grounded in grassroots voices from across Canada and aimed at people who think movements matter. It is, at the moment, two books of history-from-below based on oral history interviews with long-time activists and organizers from a wide range of social movements and communities-in-struggle in the Canadian context, and it is a weekly radio show that features in-depth interviews with people engaged in many different kinds of social change work across Canada today.
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The Books — In Gender and Sexuality: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists and Resisting the State: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists (Fernwood Publishing, 2012), the focus on the words of participants themselves provides an entry into history that is accessible and engaging, while generous use of historical context and challenging ideas allow readers to see these single lives a![]() |