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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[...]
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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, [...]
Category Archives: Audio Sample
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
Don Weitz on His Experience of Psychiatric Incarceration
This six minute audio clip features anti-psychiatry activist Don Weitz talking about his brutal experiences of psychiatric incarceration in an asylum in the northeastern United States in the early 1950s — experiences which, later in life, contributed to his politicization … Continue reading
Doreen Spence on Resisting the Sterilization of an Indigenous Girl
Take a listen to this four and a half minute clip of Cree elder Doreen Spence’s memories of working as a nurse at a hospital in northern Alberta in the 1950s and standing up to the hospital administration against the … Continue reading
Madeleine Parent on Organizing Textile Workers in the 1940s
Take a listen to this ten minute audio clip of Madeleine Parent talking about organizing textile workers in Montreal in the 1940s in the lead-up to the climactic 1946 strike that is the focus of her chapter in the Gender … Continue reading