Talking Radical Radio: Climate Justice Organizing With an Anti-Colonial Focus

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, organizer Teresa Diewart talks about her involvement in Rising Tide Vancouver/Coast Salish Territories, a new climate justice group that emphasizes the intertwined character anti-colonial struggle and work against climate change.

Rising Tide is a network of autonomous, local groups that has a presence in communities across North America and around the world. They define their approach as “climate justice,” which refuses to see as separate the social justice and environmental aspects of climate change, as well as emphasizing movement-building and direct action. The group in Vancouver is a new addition to the network. Their work reflects a conviction that work against climate change must centre indigenous peoples and opposition to colonization. They prioritize working with the nations and communities that are on the frontlines of struggle against the oppressive impacts and industries at the heart of climate change.

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To learn more about Rising Tide Vancouver/Coast Salish Territories, click here.

Talking Radical Radio brings you grassroots voices from across Canada through in-depth interviews that concentrate not on current events or the crisis of the moment, but on giving people involved in a broad range of social change work a chance to take a longer view as they talk about what they do, how they do it, and why they do it. To learn more about the show in general, click here.

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Talking Radical Radio is brought to you by Scott Neigh, a writer, media producer, and activist based in Sudbury, Ontario, and the author of two books examining Canadian history through the stories of activists.

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