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Shree Mulay on the Founding of the South Asian Women's Community Centre
May 14th, 2012This ten-minute audio clip is of feminist activist Shree Mulay talking about the founding of the South Asian Women's Community Centre in Montreal in t[...]
Shree Mulay
May 14th, 2012I interviewed Shree Mulay in Montreal. She came to Canada from India in 1964 to do a PhD in Biochemistry and, later, to pursue a career as a scientist[...]
Project FaceBook Page
May 7th, 2012The Talking Radical project and its affiliated books, Gender and Sexuality: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists and Resisting the State:[...]
Interview Excerpt from John Friesen
May 7th, 2012The following is an excerpt from the interview I did with John Friesen, a long-time union activist with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in Winnip[...]
John Friesen
May 7th, 2012John Friesen is a long-time resident of Winnipeg and a labour activist. His father was a union activist on the railway and was active in the CCF and, [...]
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Shree Mulay on the Founding of the South Asian Women’s Community Centre
This ten-minute audio clip is of feminist activist Shree Mulay talking about the founding of the South Asian Women’s Community Centre in Montreal in the early 1980s. She talks about the initial consultation and planning, the vision for the centre, … Continue reading
Shree Mulay
I interviewed Shree Mulay in Montreal. She came to Canada from India in 1964 to do a PhD in Biochemistry and, later, to pursue a career as a scientist and academic. When we spoke, she was a Professor in the … Continue reading
Project FaceBook Page
The Talking Radical project and its affiliated books, Gender and Sexuality: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists and Resisting the State: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists, now have a FaceBook page. If you are on FaceBook, please … Continue reading
Interview Excerpt from John Friesen
The following is an excerpt from the interview I did with John Friesen, a long-time union activist with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in Winnipeg. He talks here about his participation in rank-and-file and shop steward organizing in his … Continue reading
John Friesen
John Friesen is a long-time resident of Winnipeg and a labour activist. His father was a union activist on the railway and was active in the CCF and, later, the NDP. During his interview he talked about memories of being … Continue reading
Madeleine Parent, Rest in Peace
The following is a post I first published on my personal blog on March 12, 2012, when I heard of the death of Madeleine Parent the night before at the age of 93. Her words are at the centre of … Continue reading
First Production Email!
Late last week, I received the first email of the production process from the publisher. This is definitely an exciting thing, even if it is still fairly preliminary and even though the need to invest significant energy at an unspecified … Continue reading