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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, [...]
Category Archives: Participant Bio
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
Rev. David Nobu-tsune Murata
Reverend David Murata was born in Japan in the late 1950s and moved to the downtown eastside of Vancouver with his family in 1968, where “the blunt head of racism” was his first push towards politicization. He followed in the … Continue reading
Don Weitz
Don Weitz was born into a wealthy white Jewish family in 1930. He grew up in the northeastern United States. As a young man, his family had him incarcerated in an asylum for fifteen months, where we was tagged with … Continue reading
Ariel Harper
Ariel Harper was born in Maryland in 1955 to a librarian activist mother, and has lived for much of her adult life in Quebec and Nova Scotia. As a folk singer and an artist, she has been heavily involved in … Continue reading
Elsie Dean
Elsie Dean was born in 1924 into a poor white family in northern Saskatchewan, where she lived on a subsistence farm with her parents and seven siblings. Her mother was staunchly political and fought without shame for relief payments for … Continue reading
Doreen Spence
Doreen Spence, a woman of the Cree nation, was born in 1937 in northern Alberta, near the Good Fish Lake Reserve. Raised primarily by her grandparents, she moved to Calgary at eighteen after winning a scholarship to attend a small … Continue reading
Madeleine Parent
Madeleine Parent was born into a white middle-class francophone family in Montreal in 1918. She became active in Canada’s first student movement in a struggle for bursaries at McGill University in the years before the Second World War. During the … Continue reading