Category Archives: Audio Sample

This eight-minute audio clip features Sadeqa Siddiqui talking about her work and the work of other women active with the South Asian Women’s Community Centre in Montreal to create space for their organization, their experiences, and their politics in the … Continue reading →

This nine-minute audio clip features long-time labour and communtiy activist Lynn Jones talking about the racial segregation that was common in Nova Scotia into the 1950s and ’60s and the struggles against it in which she and the rest of … Continue reading →

This six and a half minute audio clip features Winnipeg gay rights activists Chris Vogel and Richard North. In it, they talk about both local and national grassroots media production in queer movements from the late ’70s to the early … Continue reading →

This five-minute audio clip features Roger Obonsawin talking about his time as the only staff person at the Native Friendship Centre in Red Lake (a town in northwestern Ontario) in the early 1970s. His work there involved trying to create … Continue reading →

This five and a half minute audio clip features Vancouver feminist Lee Lakeman talking about her experience in organizing a women’s movement conference that brought together 100 grassroots women from Woodstock, Ontario and the surrounding area in the early 1970s. … Continue reading →

This four-minute audio clip features Charles Roach, Toronto-based radical lawyer, talking briefly about some of his experiences of defending Black Panthers and other Black radicals who fled to Canada from the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

This nine-minute audio clip features Isabel Showler (who was interviewed with her husband Frank, though he does not appear in this clip) talking about her choice to take up left-wing pacifist politics in the late 1930s. She also discusses some … Continue reading →