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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, [...]
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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
Interview Excerpt #1 from Rev. David Murata
The following is an excerpt from the interview I did in Winnipeg with United Church minister Rev. David Nobu-tsune Murata. In this snippet, he relates some of his memories of his involvement in the Japanese-Canadian campaign for redress for internment … Continue reading
Interview Excerpt from Ariel Harper
The following is an excerpt from the interview I did with Ariel Harper, an artist, performer, and grassroots media producer. She talks a bit about her time living in Montreal and engaging in artistic work with people experiencing homelessness: AH: … Continue reading
Interview Excerpts from Elsie Dean
The following is an excerpt from the interview I did with Elsie Dean, a community and peace movement activist (and sometime Communist Party loyalist) in Vancouver, British Columbia, in which she talks a bit about her activities in the 1940s … Continue reading
Interview Excerpt from William Paterson
The following is an excerpt from the interview I did with William Paterson, a trade unionist in Calgary, Alberta, in which he talks a bit about his early years in England and then in Calgary: WP: At the age of … Continue reading